Coming Event
June 8th, 2018: Monika Bullette’s “Collage Medley”
Friday – 6:30 pm to 11:00 pm
ONE NIGHT ONLY!!!
BULLETTE’S COLLAGE MEDLEY – a Performance Exhibit by Monika Bullette. Come view representational and abstract analog collages and witness 3 short performances inspired by them. Three ~15 minute performances at 6:30, 7:30, and 8:30PM with guest appearances. Free admission includes the All-Ages Make Your Own Collage station!
Additional musical ambiance by DJ Madame Duchamp.
www.bullette.net for all the details
*Exhibit will be on view June 8th from 7:30-11 during The Buzz Ware CoffeeHouse open mic night.
Past Shows
April 6th, 2018: Elisabeth Bard’s “Colors of Japan”
…Texture, color and the patina of old buildings stimulate the senses and lead her to create environmental tapestries and dreamlike scenes to envelop the viewer…
Elisabeth has long been fascinated in the passage of time, space and environment and its impact upon the viewer; and in the possibilities of getting the viewer to think and feel about more than what immediately hits the eye. She wants to envelop the viewer in the image, wrap them into its environment and have them leave with a different view of their world…”
March 2nd, 2018: Cory Gladfelter’s “An Anthem for Overthinkers”
The Collages of Cory Gladfelter – are “Taking far-out further by way of poetically-morphed images set to challenge the intellectual norm.”
November 3rd, 2017: Rick Phillip’s “The Red Geranium”
Hailing from Susquehanna Valley in PA, Rick now calls Claymont, DE his home. In the mid-nineties, Phillips changed his career path as an illustrator in the fast-paced world of advertising to that of fine artist. He combined his ability to paint quick and bold with his interest and fascination of Impressionist painters,..using his knowledge of light and color to create atmosphere you can almost touch and smell. Rick currently teaches at the DE College of Art & Design and the Darley Arts Center.
October 6th, 2017: Beth Trepper’s “Obscura”
Recent Photographs
What is revealed and what is implied? What is tangible and what is merely suggested? Beth Trepper’s new collection of sepia photographic images, “Obscura”, challenges the viewer to go beyond the obvious and enter a world of ambiguity in which diaphanous fabrics and natural relics dance playfully with the human form. Trepper’s provocative images embrace a vintage, fin-de-siecle appearance and are mounted on tin ceiling plates.
June 2nd 2017: Marjorie Roberts
Marjorie grew up on Long Island, NY, and eventually made her way to Pittsburgh then Philadelphia. It wasn’t long before she was vacationing in Arden and, in the early 1950s, decided to make it her home. Marjorie studied extensively under Tom Bostelle. She taught at the Academy of Lifelong Learning at the University of DE, and still paints regularly with her original group at their Hockessin location. Marjorie paints mostly from her imagination in an ad hoc, in-the-moment fashion. The joy in her expression through painting is thus revealed.
April 7th 2017: Jane Koester’s “Intimate Flora”
In her Intimate Flora series, photographer Jane Koester takes an abstract approach to explore the deepest essence of flowers. Set aside your perceptions and experience the beauty of flowers from a different and distinct perspective.
March 3rd 2017: Jill Althouse-Wood’s – ‘Alterpieces’
With live music by RAS/RoundAngleSound
“In Oct.2015, Jill and her husband traveled to Florence, Italy, where they saw stunning examples of religious art, including gilded altarpieces of the early Renaissance. Upon returning home, Althouse-Wood started a series of abstract paintings that represent her own spirit’s journey.. The mixed media paintings are an exploration of styles and materials, including gold leaf; with the commonality of the forest subject acting as the matrix of this series.”
February 3rd 2017: Allan Kleban’s – The First and Last Gasp of the Freaky Camera
This Loop at the Buzz features one of its own, Allan Kleban. His interestingly rendered digital photographs resulted from a happy accident that turned beautiful landscapes, still lifes and portraits into dreamy, illuminating, psychedelic photos that tell a strange story that may or may not have been there.
Allan was born and raised in Arden and in addition to being an Ardenite, is a musician writer, actor, and former school psychologist. He’s been a semi-active photographer since the 1970’s.
December 2nd 2016: Arden’s Artisans
Come check out Arden’s artisans at the Buzz! featuring: DoubleSpiral Chocolate, Ricardo Lebeis, Mary Mosaic Lebeis, Barbara Henry, Jennifer & Charlotte Curley, Hugh Phibbs, Hunter Clarke-Fields, Rachel Kantner, Nora the Bean, Maureen Collins and more! All unique handmade items, just in time for the Holidays.
November 1st 2016: Cynthia Bonnes’ – “Meditation”
Cynthia Bonnes resides in Claymont, Delaware with her husband Gabriel, Golden Lab Olivia, 2 cats, and the world’s greatest neighbors. A graduate of Concord High School and Wilmington University with a Business Degree in Organizational Management, she is currently employed by AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals managing Federal Government Contracting and Reporting. She joined the Brandywine Photo Collective in spring of 2016 to continue to grow as a fine art photographer and support others in their growth.
Inspiration can be sparked by a perfect sunset, a bloom of a rose, the colors of the leaves before they drop, even a less than perfect overcast gloomy day. At times it can be an emotion felt from a hard day or a perfect morning, a tragic event, or an unforgettable vacation. Inspiration is following personal truth. Passion will translate itself into a photo and back out to the observer.
Photography is meditation, in the moment. Present and aware, finding beauty and experiencing everything in a much deeper sense. It’s stopping time by capturing an image to share an experience, emotion, vision. Seeing the world through a lens, and sharing the world as seen through the lens.
October 7th 2016: Gus Fink & Emi Boz
“Gus Fink is a self-taught artist, who has been living off his art now for over 17 years. Toymaker, licensor of apparel, video game creator, and much more! Emi Boz is also a self-taught artist who alongside Gus, creates toys, fashion and other such art. She loves the spooky cute and bringing creepy fun to kids of all ages! .. ”
June 3rd 2016: “Francis Galton Goes to the Zoo”, illustrations by Monika Bullette. Art Show and Book Signing
May 6th 2016: Kathleen Buckalew, A Moment In Time, an iphone photography exhibit
Friday – 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Our lives are made up of moments of time, most of them rather ordinary and unremarkable. With varying degrees of success, we strive to record through photographs, the major moments, the most “important” ones, like birthdays, graduations, or weddings. It’s the ordinary moments, those that make up our daily lives that often go unrecorded, but are so often remembered: that autumn light when you walked the dog one evening, the colors on the trees when you drove home from work one day, the first signs of a budding spring when you got up early and went out to get the newspaper. If we are at all awake and conscious, we notice these things. It is what makes us feel fully alive, to notice the wonders that surround us.
As a photographer, my goal is to record those moments. And that is what I would like to show you in this exhibit of “A Moment in Time,” a series of iphone photographs. Please join me at the Buzz Ware Village Center in Arden for an opening reception on Friday, May 6, 2016, from 6-8:30 pm. The exhibit will also be open for viewing the following Friday, May 13, from 7:30-11 pm, while the Coffeehouse is happening. The Coffeehouse that evening is featuring Ken Rosenberg’s Amazing Variety Hour.
Kathleen Buckalew is a professional photographer in Wilmington, DE. Previously, she was a staff photographer at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and the photographer at Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, DE. She teaches photography at the Delaware Art Museum, Delaware College of Art and Design, and Cecil College in MD.
For more information, you can contact the photographer, Kathleen Buckalew, at [email protected].
April 1st 2016: Richard Ortolano, Fractals – Exploring the Imagination
My art is an exploratory process leading my imagination in many directions. Rarely do I set out to produce works about a specific subject. The results may be colorful swirling designs; bold shapes; delicate pastels; rigid patterns; or organic designs simulating natural objects, but always welcoming and seeking other’s interpretations.
March 4th 2016: Trina Gardner, Mostly Paper
Trina Gardner’s work is inspired and influenced by 60’s pop icon Larry Rivers. Her compositions are mainly realistic with distorted perspective. She has led Collage and Transfer workshops across the country and designs logos. In addition to collage, Trina works with oils and pastels and has painted a 28 foot mural for the American Helicopter Museum in West Chester, PA. Her work can be seen locally at the Howard Pyle Studio.
“Mostly Paper” is an exhibit of collages using paper and paint by Trina Gardner, Trustee of the National Collage Society Inc.
June 5th 2015: Elisabeth Bard
Elisabeth Bard’s ‘Yosemite in December — Details of the Park‘.
Come join me for this showcase if Yosemite Park and enjoy the wonderful atmosphere of the park and the Arden Art Community!
Texture, color and the patina of the woodlands stimulate my senses and lead me to create environmental tapestries that envelope the viewer.
I have long been fascinated by the passage of time, space, environment and their impact upon the viewer; in the possibilities of getting the viewer to think and feel about more than what immediately hits their eye; I want to envelope the viewer in the image, wrap them into its environment and leave them with a different view of the world and what they can find in it.
Bernadette Donohue: “Texture, color and the patina of the woodlands stimulate her senses and lead her to create environmental tapestries that envelop the viewer.”
May 1st 2015: Melissa Borko Tevere
Primarily a landscapes and portrait painter, Tevere graduated from Temple University’s Tyler School of Art with her BFA in painting. While in her junior year, she was the recipient of a prestigious fellowship to attend Yale University’s Summer School of Music and Art. Through her exploration of color, light, shadow and movement, her work captures the “feel” of a person or a place, rather than an exact likeness or reproduction. Philadelphia Inquirer art critic Victoria Donahue has called her work “enticingly wistful”.
Tevere is also a published author, the art editor of Philadelphia Stories and the founder of MamaCita. She recently had her second book published, “Extraordinary Gifts: Remarkable Women from the Delaware Valley.” Her first book, “Forgotten Philadelphia: Art and Writing Inspired by Philadelphia Heritage Sites” was published in 2013.
April 3rd 2015: Beth Trepper
March 6th 2015: Joseph Patrick Crouse
Jody has been painting for over 20 years. Being self-taught, he’s learned to just let come out what comes out. He believes there is an artist in all of us that just wants to be shown.
February 6th 2015: Jane Koester
Through “painting with light”, Jane Koester has experienced a whole new approach to creating with a camera. It’s the combination of challenge and mystery that attracts her: What to highlight or hide? What shapes to follow? How to fascinate the eye with an unexpected source of light?
It’s a complex process – scoping out a scene in daylight, then coming back in the dark to “paint” it with a portable LED panel, capturing the subject shot by shot by shot. Working with anywhere from 10 to 40 or more “captures,” she then layers them together to create the final image.
Already an accomplished photojournalist and travel photographer, Jane took up this approach in 2010. She had always envied painters’ ability to create their own version of what they see. Light painting allows her to add a range of movement, dimension, depth, and imagination to her work, bringing out the subtleties of a still life or the fairytale aura of a woodland scene.
December 2014: Ellen Durkan
Ellen Durkan is a native of Wilmington, DE and an award-winning artist and metalsmith/blacksmith sculptor. Her work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions, galleries, museums and fashion shows. Her body of work includes large-scale drawings, jewelry, forged steel dresses and blacksmithed objects. She is a part-time professor at DE College of Art and Design, but has her own forge where she spends the bulk of her time hammering out her neo-medieval metal creations. Ellen Durkan is a local artist & blacksmith who will be exhibiting her large detailed drawings alongside her wearable forged fashion.
November 2014: Danny Schweers
Photographs of Danny N. Schweers are displayed in detail instead of the 600-pixel-wide JPGs he sends out each week to subscribers & found on his PhotoPrayer.com websites. Since he photographs whatever attracts his attention, it would be difficult to say his work explores any particular theme. Words often accompany his work, sometimes as a primary element. Danny has taught digital photography at the Delaware Art Museum since 2010. He is past president of the Texas Photographic Society, & is currently a member of the Brandywine Photo Collective.
Photo: Hot pink flipflops on a boat dock on Oswego Lake, New York, 2013.