Pennsylvania Art Shows- “Tending to Clouds” at Paradigm Gallery in Philadelphia

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Sep 242026
 

Works by Catalina Escallón Rosselli at Paradigm

Artwork by Richie Wilde López

Artwork by Margaux McAllister

Like clouds drifting across the sky, the hands of Catalina Escallón Rosselli, Richie Wilde López, and Margaux McAllister move patiently and methodically while creating work in their chosen mediums. Several of the beautiful resulting pieces are featured in Tending to Clouds, a fiber arts exhibition curated by Jessica Aguilar, on view at Paradigm Gallery + Studio until 9/27/26.

From the gallery:

Celebrating the expansive medium of hand-crafted textiles, Aguilar brings together three artists who transform simple materials like thread, wool, and banana leaves into dreamscape compositions, grand ensembles, and embellished tapestries. Each artist engages in a personal definition of ritual while embracing repetitions in everyday tasks: tending to gardens, sustaining a home, and, of course, art-making. Each artist follows while not knowing the final results, but maintaining a strong belief in the possibilities. Embroidery artist Catalina Escallón Rosselli builds abstract colorscapes with her delicate threadwork on paper and photographs, evoking soft, beaded veils floating in space. Weaver Richie Wilde López arranges tree fibers, wool, and natural dyes to tell impactful stories in their texture and layering. Tufter Margaux McAllister adorns spiritual symbols on her ceremonial masks, veiling ethereal beings that preside over fantastical plant forms. Each of these transformations requires time and purposeful labor, a habit which these artists channel back into their art, driven by the urge to work basic material to the point of metamorphosis. Fiber is an inherently relational medium, as we all have reference points for textiles in the home: blankets, kitchen towels, upholstery; all the softer places against the hard doors and walls. In the fog of our busy lives, these artists have found meditation and convalescence through fiberwork. As they encourage the material into new form, they demonstrate the impact of slow and meaningful craft in this contemporary landscape.

Pennsylvania Murals- Jim Houser in Philadelphia

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Aug 202026
 

Philadelphia artist Jim Houser created this mural, Wide Open, in 2019 for Mural Arts Philadelphia.

From Mural Arts:

Wide Open by artist Jim Houser features a design that speaks directly to the artist’s view of Philadelphia. Located in the Northern Liberties neighborhood, the mural’s themes include the concept of brotherly love, family and friends, a love of skateboarding and music, and the complex interaction of danger and beauty. The struggle of loss, hope and pride in where one lives intertwine in this striking mural.

His mixed media paintings, seen below, were also recently on view at Philadelphia’s Paradigm Gallery.

Work by Jim Houser at Paradigm Gallery in May of this year

You can find his most recent work on Instagram.

Pennsylvania Art Shows- Hyland Mather and Shaun Kardinal at Paradigm in Philadelphia

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Jun 252026
 

Shaun Kardinal “I II”, Woven paper ephemera and artist’s tape

Sculptures by Hyland Mather from the “Modus Volito” series

Framed images of work by Hyland Mather and Shaun Kardinal (sculptures by Hyland Mather on the left)

Sculptures by Hyland Mather

Discarded objects are transformed into new creations in works by Hyland Mather and Shaun Kardinal, currently on view in the two person exhibition, Form / Field, at Paradigm Gallery.

From the gallery:

This exhibition presents work from two distinct practices that converge through a shared sensitivity to line, structure, and process. Mather and Kardinal each explore how form emerges through accumulation, repetition, and material response, approaches that move between precision and drift, construction and discovery.

For his third major presentation with Paradigm Gallery, Mather presents works from several ongoing series, including Linea Pictura paintings, suspended “gravity works” (Onus Suspenda), and sculptural and assemblage-based works such as Modus Volito and Novus Inventa. Spanning painting, sculpture, and installation, the work explores line, structure, and found materials through processes of gathering, repetition, and thoughtful intervention. Across these works, line operates as both drawing and structure, with string extending into space, holding weight, or tracing paths across painted surfaces, allowing form to emerge through tension, balance, and material response.

In his debut Paradigm collection, Kardinal presents his woven paper quilts created from cut and punctured ephemera, along with a series of embroidered book pages and painted postcards, creating new forms from the smallest gestures. Kardinal’s work builds from repeating parts, embroidered marks, and modular systems that gather into larger compositions. These works often embrace landscape at a distance, horizons, city grids, or atmospheric depth, while remaining grounded in pattern and accumulation. Form, in this context, is built incrementally from repeated elements. In both practices, thread-like fiber elements and linear systems act as connective tissue, binding parts into larger wholes, or tracing form across space and surface. The “field” operates here as both a physical and conceptual space: a landscape, a surface of construction, and an invisible network of forces. Across both practices, it is within this field that form takes shape, held in a state of partnership between control and chance, repetition and variation, presence and possibility.

This exhibition closes 6/28/26.