Fundraising Auction Items from local Lansdowne Artists.
“Atlantic Mackerel Sky”
Rick Prigg
Acrylic Painting, 10” x 5.5” (frame 21” x 17”)
A graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Rick started his career at Beyer Stained Glass. He later joined Willet Hauser Architectural Glass, the largest stained glass studio in the US, where he served as General Manager. During his tenure, he successfully managed $23 million of stained glass projects. After leaving Willet in 2011 Rick opened Sycamore Studios. He is a member of the Stained Glass Association of America and has served on the board of directors of the American Glass Guild.
“Melting Daisy Planter”
Zach Ozma
Wheel formed glazed planter. Daisy motif on red clay. Drainage hole in base.
5.25 x 5.25 x 3.75 inches
Zach Ozma is an interdisciplinary artist and writer. He is the author of Etiquette In The Arts (Spiral Editions), BLACK DOG DRINKING FROM AN OUTDOOR POOL (Sibling Rivalry Press), and with Ellis Martin co-edited WE BOTH LAUGHED IN PLEASURE: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan (a 2020 Lambda Literary Award winner. Nightboat Books). He has exhibited at Zach’s Crab Shack, Root Division, 1122 Gallery, and, among others. Raised by folk musicians in Seattle and the Santa Cruz mountains, he came of age as an artist in Oakland at California College of the Arts and in the East Bay experimental poetry scene. Ozma holds a BFA from CCA in Community Arts.
https://www.zachozma.com/
“Christine”
Thelma McCarthy
Etching/aquatint
Thelma McCarthy tells stories. Whether it’s a family history or just a beautiful memory, McCarthy renders it – in pieces. The artist and art teacher, who works out of her Lansdowne home, makes tiles and paints them for customers who want to bring color and life to their walls. Thelma was education at the Fleischer Art Memorial, Villanova University, Philadelphia Academy of the Fine Arts, the University of Pennsylvania, the Barnes Foundation, and has studied with printer Janet Mustin, potter Byron Gray, Adelaide Sproul at the New York Printing Workshop, and Constance Jacobs at the Bennington College Printing Workshop.
“Chùa Giác Lâm Buddhist Temple” (From the Series “Houses of Lansdowne”)
Erica Harney
Watercolor/pencil/ink on paper. Handpainted in Lansdowne, PA
Erica Harney (s/h) was born in New York in 1984 and is a fine artist, curator, scenic painter and educator based in Greater Philadelphia since 2011. She holds a BFA in Drawing and Painting from Alfred University (’06) and an MFA in Drawing and Painting from the Pennsylvania State University (’10). She has also studied at the Santa Reparata International School of Art in Florence, Italy and has been an artist-in-residence at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT, Weir Farm Art Center in Connecticut, ArtScape Gibraltar Point in Toronto, and the Palazzo Rinaldi Artists’ Residence in Italy. Since 2016 her studio has been based in Lansdowne, PA, just outside of West Philadelphia, and she became a member of the Lansdowne Arts Board in 2020.
“Pearl”
(From the Series “Houses of Lansdowne”)
Erica Harney
Watercolor/pencil/ink on paper. Handpainted in Lansdowne, PA
Erica Harney (s/h) was born in New York in 1984 and is a fine artist, curator, scenic painter and educator based in Greater Philadelphia since 2011. She holds a BFA in Drawing and Painting from Alfred University (’06) and an MFA in Drawing and Painting from the Pennsylvania State University (’10). She has also studied at the Santa Reparata International School of Art in Florence, Italy and has been an artist-in-residence at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT, Weir Farm Art Center in Connecticut, ArtScape Gibraltar Point in Toronto, and the Palazzo Rinaldi Artists’ Residence in Italy. Since 2016 her studio has been based in Lansdowne, PA, just outside of West Philadelphia, and she became a member of the Lansdowne Arts Board in 2020.
“Mourning ”
John Kovach
Forged and welded steel rod mounted one inch above white matting, 34” x 24”
A retired sociology professor in the Philadelphia, PA area, John Kovach began working with metal in 2006, while taking continuing education classes at University of the Arts in Philadelphia with sculptors Barry Parker, Alex Gartelmann, and Joe Mooney. Kovach has exhibited pieces at juried exhibitions and has several permanent public art installations in the Philadelphia area. He believes that, ideally, art should engage some magic. In his work, Kovach mindfully confronts basic elements of steel, aluminum and stone and finds within them, their antithesis—warmth and weightless, non-static figurative motion and “dance”.