Join the community of creative individuals at The Studios @ The Delaware Contemporary! Our 26 artist studio spaces are a place where proactivity, public engagement, diversity of ideas, perspectives, and artistic practice are honored, respected, and achieved.
OPEN STUDIOS
5 - 9 PM
First Fridays during the Fall, Spring, and Summer Seasons
September 6, 2024
December 6, 2024
February 7, 2025
June 6, 2025
With her own original visual language Allman proclaims, defines, and affirms one's place in the universe, with unheralded artistic talent that stands as a unique contribution to art history. For Allman, experimentation over the years has brought perfection, resulting in an unmitigated blend of raw imagination as intrinsic as breathing. She continues to hold a place in the canon of abstract expression.
Hugh Atkins is a visual artist whose lyrical work yields compositions typically forming mélanges of human forms, landscape, and intricate borders.
With a studio practice rooted in low toxicity and low waste, Bary works mostly with natural pigments, watercolors, and dyes. Bary creates handmade watercolors and pastels by grinding and mixing raw earth pigments and medium with a glass muller. Repurposing material, like fabric from old bedsheets, is an important part of Bary’s process. Using materials with a lived history gives the fabric a second purpose and gives memory a place. Personal experience is embedded into Bary’s paintings; they are flowing abstractions that focus on fleeting time and the fluidity of life.
Stephanie Boateng is a multimedia artist working with large-scale, three-dimensional portraits. Her unique style incorporates many unconventional artistic materials to expand the canvas with bright color, pattern, and texture.
Jennifer Borders is a visual artist whose sculpture and drawing is installation-based and often participatory. She uses history, personal family stories, and current events to prompt viewers into inquiry.
“My painting is about space. I am interested in open spaces in nature, as well as spaces within and without us. It comes to me as an unoccupied empty space with a sense of freedom and possibilities. In my paintings I want to explore this intrinsic quality of space; its expanse, its unspecified dimensions, and the intangible presence within it.”
“The familiar space above the horizon line provides conditions that empower my vision. The powerful brevity of Minimalism and the lasting voices of the Abstract Expressionists motivate me to treat the pure instance of looking out not as an act of passive observance but as a call to action.”
Caroline Coolidge Brown is a mixed-media printmaker and visual journaler who collects inspiration from her travels far and near. Her playful work combines traditional printmaking processes (etching, monotype, lino and wood block) with collage and paint. “Mixed media printmaking allows me to push expected boundaries of “what is a print?” or “what is a painting?” For me, it's all about the layers - of color, shape and meaning.”
Chen paints primarily with oil on canvas. "Painting is personal. The slow act of seeing takes time and hands and grace. I’m striving to express simple truths before me, to paint the emotion as well as the subject itself.”
Found
Diane Hulse is an abstract, mixed media artist whose work includes painting, drawing, and objects. With a background in science and the fine arts, she explores internal and external landscapes, as found in the psychological terrain of self and the beauty of our embattled Earth. Intensely curious about almost everything, she studies nature, architecture, poetry, spiritualism, and psychology. Just as curiosity is a pillar of her art, so is imagination. A pink ocean or a monster perched on a beach ball are not farfetched for her. In fact, Hulse often pretends that she can miniaturize herself and walk through her paintings. She agrees with Picasso, who said that it is essential for artists to keep alive the child inside of all of us.
The Ladies' Art House is a collective dedicated to creating space to thrive on the exchange of ideas and resources within a creative community. Each of our practices become stronger when we avoid isolation and combine our varied strengths or share responsibility. In founding this collective, we seek to hold anti-discriminatory space for women and people with lived experience of misogyny.
Founder: Painter Jen Hintz Eggers
Founding Members: Installation artist Kristina Ellura and painter Rebecca Howell
“Through my work I seek to embrace the observer in an emotive state - even if momentarily. For example, with awe as one apparently peers down at oceans from above the clouds, or, through another piece feels the force and sounds of breaking waves. The music of mathematics in nature, seen in the spirals of a sunflower or the golden ratio, is often designed into my hand-built ceramics. If my piece can conjure the silent dusky beauty of the sky as the moon rises on a summer eve – then I’ve done well.”
Ancient Heavens, by Rich Lopez
www.ecceceramics.com
Lucente is an artist and educator currently living in Delaware. She recently completed a public art commission that includes 28 glass windows for the above-ground Arthur Kill train station in Staten Island, New York. Commissioning agency: MTA Art and Design; glass fabrication by Franz Mayer of Munich.
Ken’s work documents the public and private aspects of the American scene in the tradition of Bellows, Hopper, Bishop, Marsh and Sloan. Sometimes tempered with fantasy, the artist takes mundane, everyday events such as eating and shopping and translates them into a joyful with light and irony. Figures move and turn in space through a world flood with light and activity. A full, rich palette is used to enhance his environment full of movement and change. The viewer floats above a scene that vignettes itself into separate worlds that are woven together by mark making, textures and ligh passages. These pieces establish their own mythology, a baroque burlesque of modern urban life in America.
With her use of bold colors and messages of motivation, Sa-Kreea strives for everyone to embrace the joy color brings to our world. From canvas to clothing, Sa-Kreea builds a beautiful bond of art, mental health and fashion .
Oldach emerges from the rich heritage of representational art in the Delaware Valley, creating work grounded in her reverence for nature. Whether modeling, carving, working three dimensionally or in combined mixed media and found objects, the goals remain the same, to capture felt realities and reflections of the natural world.
Through self-portraits based on staged photographs, Peters explores the multifaceted nature of identity.
self-portrait, orange, 2016
https://www.instagram.com/lauren.e.peters/
www.laurenepeters.com
Lisa Marie Patzer utilizes a range of technologies to create work for galleries and commercial spaces. Her conceptual interests include the production of culture and 21st century modes of communication. Trained as a new media digital artist, Patzer creates site-specific installations, illuminated art panels, and works on paper.
https://lisamariepatzer.com
@lmpatzerstudio
Image Title: Seashore Algorithmic Landscape, digital print on paper 2023
“My colorful abstract paintings express my appreciation of natural shapes and geometric forms.”
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$6 Children under 13
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