Pennsylvania Art Shows- “Jesse Krimes: Elegy Quilts” at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia

 Art, Art Shows by Location, Artists, Collage, Fiber Arts, Mixed Media, Painting / Painters, Pennsylvania Art Shows, Philadelphia
Oct 282026
 

Jesse Krimes, “Riverside”, 2026, Antique quilts, used clothing collected from incarcerated people, assorted textiles

“Red Eagle”, 2020, Antique quilt, used clothing collected from incarcerated people, assorted textiles

“Red Eagle”, detail

While the quilts in Jesse Krimes‘s exhibition Elegy Quilts at The Fabric Workshop and Museum are beautifully crafted works, it is how he builds on the ideas and personal items of the incarcerated people he worked with that make them so poignant.

The exhibition also includes the recent quilt Riverside, (pictured at the top of this post), a newly commissioned work inspired by Krimes’s workshops with young adults from Mural Arts Philadelphia’s Restorative Justice program. A mural of the piece was also created, located at 990 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia.

From the museum about the exhibition:

Presented in partnership with Mural Arts Philadelphia, this exhibition features selections from Jesse Krimes’s Elegy Quilt series (2020–present), a body of work that renders the personal effects of the U.S. carceral system through portraits of domestic spaces. Drawing on his own experience with incarceration, Krimes gathers donated clothing and textile fragments from currently and formerly incarcerated individuals and reconstitutes them into intricately patterned quilts that meditate on memory, loss, alienation, and comfort. Continuing in the spirit of American quilting traditions, the works situate these narratives within broader histories of communal making and resilience.

To produce the works on view, Krimes invited incarcerated collaborators to describe a memory of home. He then prompted them to choose a representative animal figure as a symbolic stand in for the incarcerated person. The quilts, titled after U.S. prisons and jails, become tactile archives grappling with estrangement, yearning, and the complexities of release and reintegration. Through this process, Krimes reframes everyday materials into narratives of dignity and connection, prompting critical reflection on the psychological and material costs of incarceration.

Marion, pictured below, also has an affecting story behind it.

“Marion”, 2022, Antique quilt, used clothing collected from incarcerated people, assorted textiles

From the museum:

Krimes utilizes the names of American penitentiaries-here the Federal Correctional Institution in Marion, Illinois-as titles for his quilts to convey the immense scale of mass incarceration in the United States. The quilts themselves, however, depict personal relationships to home, memory, and safety.

When Krimes asked his collaborator for Marion, who is currently incarcerated, where he last felt most comfortable, the individual described the woods behind his house where he would meditate. The resulting quilt is a portrait in absentia: rather than depicting the figure in contemplative repose, Krimes presents an empty chair and discarded boots as the material traces of the “sitter.” A brightly patterned crane curves around the chair like a guardian figure suggestive of freedom and flight.

The crane’s vivid yellow coloring and the rich purple of the towering trees create a distinction between the peaceful natural setting and this animal avatar. As with the other works in the Elegy Quilt series, Marion offers a vision of individual longing, softness, and vulnerability in resistance to the severe discomfort and violent anonymity produced by the carceral system.

This exhibition is on view until 11/1/26.

Artist Birthdays- Roy Lichtenstein

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Oct 272026
 

Roy Lichtenstein, “Live Ammo (Blang)”, 1962 Oil and Magna on two canvas panels

Roy Lichtenstein was born today, October 27th, in 1923. His painting Live Ammo (Blang) is part of The Broad’s permanent collection.

From the museum:

Live Ammo (Blang) is an early example of Lichtenstein’s use of comic book imagery, part of an artistic strategy employing images and themes from popular culture that came to define his career. At the time it was painted, the United States was experiencing multiple wars: the spectral uncertainty of the Cold War and the nostalgia for valor from World War II coming into conflict with the twisted realities of the escalating war in Vietnam. Taking images directly from comics such as G.l. Combat, All American Men of War, and Our Fighting Forces, Lichtenstein willfully exaggerated wartime heroics to their breaking point, using caricature to test and render absurd the clean lines between hero and villain. The message was social but also insular to the world of painting, for Lichtenstein detected these macho postures in the American triumphalism of abstract expressionism. Additionally, Live Ammo (Blang) caricatures the spontaneity and “action” of this approach to art.

The Whitney museum’s current exhibition of his work, Roy Lichtenstein: Like New, is getting great reviews and is on view at the museum until 5/10/27.

Flashback- Georgia Art Shows- John Kelly Fitzpatrick at the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta

 Art, Art Shows by Location, Artists, Augusta, Georgia, Painting / Painters
Oct 232026
 

John Kelly Fitzpatrick “Autumn in the Hills, Wetumpka, Alabama, 1936, Oil on canvas

John Kelly Fitzpatrick‘s oil painting Autumn in the Hills, Wetumpka, Alabama from 1936 is part of The Morris Museum of Art‘s permanent collection. It was on view in 2021.

The museum, located in Augusta, is free on Sundays and this Sunday (10/25) they are also hosting their annual free event, Artrageous! Family Sunday: Boo Bash, which includes trick-or-treating in the galleries, decorating pumpkins, and fairy-tale story time.

 

Artist Birthdays- Robert Rauschenberg

 Art, Artists, Mixed Media, Painting / Painters, Printmaking
Oct 222026
 

Robert Rauschenberg, “Estate”, 1963, Oil and screenprinted inks on canvas

Happy Birthday to Robert Rauschenberg, who was born today, October 22nd, in 1925. Pictured above is his 1963 work, Estate, currently on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

From the museum about this work:

Robert Rauschenberg was among the first American artists to combine found images using the silkscreen process, a technique in which a design is imposed on a specially prepared fine-mesh screen (with the blank areas coated with an impermeable substance) and then transferred onto paper or canvas by pushing paint or ink through the screen. Beginning in the early 1960s, the artist applied newspaper photographs, art reproductions, and his own snapshots to canvas, thereby exploiting the wealth of mass media source material, from the banal and personal to the monumental and public. Estate presents complex combinations of such disparate images as the Statue of Liberty, Michelangelo’s painting Last Judgment, a 1962 rocket launch, and a glass of water. It draws its power from the tension between photography and painting. Seemingly spontaneous splashes of paint recall the vocabulary of Abstract Expressionism while unifying this incongruent inventory of images.

Pennsylvania Art Shows- “Out of Place: The Windgate Arts Residency Program in Wood 2026” at Museum for Art in Wood in Philadelphia

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Oct 212026
 

Mark Tan, “Labor of Liberty”

Mark Tan, “Labor of Liberty”

Joyce Lin, “Coat Tree” (left), and Niv Tishbi ,”I witness” (far right)

It’s the last week to see the incredible wood creations in Out of Place, on view at the Museum for Art in Wood. The exhibition consists of work by the participants of this year’s Windgate Wood Arts Residency Program (WARP-Wood), a two-month arts residency program.

Exhibition text by Daniel Fountain:

What does it mean to be out of place?

The phrase carries multiple meanings, describing both a social condition and a material state. Most often, it refers to the feeling of not belonging; the unease of inhabiting an unfamiliar environment, the discomfort of being an outsider, or of not quite fitting in. Yet out of place can also be understood literally. Within artistic practice, a tool may be misplaced, a familiar material may resist expectation, or a form may shift unexpectedly during making. Rather than mistakes to be corrected, these moments of displacement and material resistance become productive interruptions, creating space for experimentation and allowing accident, contingency, and imperfection to shape new possibilities.

Out of Place brings together the work of six international artists who participated in the 2026 Windgate Arts Residency Program (WARP) in Wood: Adam Atkinson (Austin, TX), Joyce Lin (Bellaire, TX), Liza Stout (Phoenix, AZ), Mark Tan (Tempe, AZ), Niv Tishbi (Tel Aviv, Israel), and Anders Nienstaedt (Minneapolis, MN). Working across sculpture, installation, jewelry, furniture, photography, and other material-led practices, these artists explore both the social and material dimensions of being out of place. Through shifts in scale, unexpected relationships between bodies and objects, and subtle disruptions of the familiar, their works reveal the uncanny within everyday life. Addressing themes of home, displacement, identity, and the body, the exhibition resists fixed categories, inviting viewers to question assumptions about belonging and to consider how context shapes what – and who – we understand to be out of place…

More work from the exhibition below.

Niv Tishbi, “Interval”

Joyce Lin, “Red Oak Roast”

Adam Atkinson, “What You Wear”

Liza Stout, “Three Sisters Brushes”

The exhibition will close on 10/25/26.

Song of the Day- Protomartyr- “Sounds We Cannot Hear”

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Oct 192026
 

Protomartyr- Sounds We Cannot Hear

This song is from Protomartyr‘s recently released album, Hotel Usona.

The band is currently on tour and will be playing at The Regent in Los Angeles on Thursday, 10/22/26, with Accessory (Jason Balla from Dehd).

Flashback- Delaware Art Shows- Rolando Corpus at The Grand Opera House in Wilmington

 Art, Art Shows by Location, Artists, Delaware, Painting / Painters, Wilmington
Oct 162026
 

Delaware artist Rolando Corpus‘s oil paintings were on view at The Grand Opera House in Wilmington for last month’s Art Loop. Several Wilmington locations were featured in the paintings including the Van Buren Street Bridge, Delaware Art Museum, and the fountain in Brandywine Park.

Delaware Art Shows- Larissa Ranbom at The Delaware Contemporary

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Oct 162026
 

Larissa Ranbom‘s small works, on view at The Delaware Contemporary for We Can Use The Rain, encourage a closer look. The embroidered paintings are also a reminder to take time to look more closely at the natural world around us.

From the museum:

We Can Use The Rain is an exploration of growth through the year, from the redbuds in early spring through the vibrance of summer to the geometry of autumn milkweed pods and cacti grown indoors in the winter. It’s not only carefully tended garden flowers that are sustained by rain, but also the honeysuckle and dogwood that otherwise thrive with little attention. While they may not be mobile, they still change rapidly, taking the spotlight for a while and then fading to be supplanted by the next to bloom.

The flora (and fungus) on display were found in and around Wilmington – whether in a meticulously curated botanical garden or greenhouse, greeting passersby from a front yard, in an out of the way spot in a park, or growing enthusiastically in a neglected patch by the highway. The viewer is encouraged to consider how what grows around us reflects the communities we cultivate. Stitch by stitch, these works closely examine plant life, remembering that no matter where we are, we can all use the rain.

This exhibition is on view until 10/31/26.

Philadelphia Street Art- Union Transfer Murals

 Art, Artists, Painting / Painters, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Public Art, Street Art
Oct 152026
 

These murals were created in 2020 on the Union Transfer building in Philadelphia by NYC artists John “Crash” Matos, Chris “Daze” Ellis and Lady Pink and Philly-based artists and muralists Adam Crawford and Andréa Grasso.

More details on the project can be found on the Mural Arts website.

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