Summer Shows Opening

Bethann Parker: Viriditas

Parker’s paintings embody a life lived in nature and the resulting spiritual connection from what she calls “a position of awe.” Parker’s home in northeastern Pennsylvania along the Appalachian Mountain range is surrounded by stunning vistas and a wind gap view where a mountain notch was carved by a river now dry. A two minute walk from her home, trilobite fossils embedded in shale lie about her feet. Not one to simply revel in the glories of her environment, Parker and her family are active participants, living off the land as much as possible through sustainable permaculture, growing their own food, composting, beekeeping, and hunting.

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Henry Murphy: The Sunbird

All of Murphy’s diminutive landscapes and detailed takes on phenomena that grab his attention begin with keen observation but are ultimately highly subjective transformations of reality. His outdoor scenes morph into abstraction and mystery using small gestures as a kind of “scaffolding to form a painting,” according to the artist.

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Bethann Parker (b. 1984, lives and works in Saylorsburg, PA) received a Certificate and BFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and a Certificate of Fine Art from the Barnes Foundation. Parker has had solo exhibitions at Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; Cabin Contemporary, Pottsville, PA; and the Pennsylvania Academy of Arts, Philadelphia, PA. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Uffner & Liu, New York, NY; Fleisher/Ollman, Philadelphia, PA; Lehigh University Art Gallery, Bethlehem, PA; Ruffed Grouse Gallery, Narrowsburg, NY; Soft Machine Gallery, Allentown, PA; Art at King Oaks, Newtown, PA; Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; Anna Zorina Gallery, virtual exhibition; and the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA. Parker is in the Fellowship Collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She has been the recipient of the Kittredge Fund, the Freeman's Exhibition Award, the Louis S. Fine Opening reception, June 4, 6–8pm

Henry Murphy (b. 1995, lives and works in Philadelphia) received his Certificate and BFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He has had a solo exhibition, Paintings for the Bird Above My Head at Stellar Highway, Brooklyn, NY. Murphy has been included in numerous group exhibitions at venues including Steven Harvey Fine Arts Projects, New York, NY; Francis Cook Gallery, Great Diamond Island, ME; Hampstead Art Society, London, UK; Fleisher/Ollman, Facture Presents, Procession Gallery, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Cerulean, and the Plastic Club, all in Philadelphia, PA; Art at King Oaks, Newtown, PA; and Ruffed Grouse Gallery, Narrowsburg, NY, among others. He received numerous awards while a student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts such as a Von Hess Memorial Travel Scholarship for European Travel, Rose and Nathan Robinson Prize In Memory of Wharton Esherick, and the Charles Toppan Prize in Drawing.