Join us at the  opening reception for “Immersed” at the Gray Gallery at 222 Harvey Street this Friday, May 6th from 6-8 pm. It is a juried exhibition of work by artist-mothers. Hope to see you there!

The Gray Gallery, in the Germantown section of Philadelphia, is proud to present the exhibition, Immersed, featuring the work of seven artists, Nancy Sophy, Teresa Shields, Anuradha Bhat, Karen Misher, Carrie Cook, Kimberly Stemler and Stephanie Steiner. This juried exhibition will celebrate the often overlooked and undervalued work of women who attempt to balance the responsibilities of being both an artist and a mother. The content, subject, materials, technique and process of the work deal both directly or indirectly with what it means to be a mother. The goal of this exhibition is to identify and gather a community of working artists who are also mothers.
Works included in Immersed range from jewelry and mixed media to oil and watercolor paintings. Misher’s Sunny Days demonstrates that “Jewelry’s nature as a wearable art form allows for deeply personal expression. The wearer develops an intimacy with the work itself, exchanging a certain sense of energy with the object.” Stemler’s paintings show her captivation with “the earth’s linear quality, the moment of place where the horizon is created by our view of land and all of the lines that gather in between. I chisel away at the natural world, patching together bits and pieces, composing and rebuilding the landscape.”

The juror, Jill Pederson, is an Assistant Professor of Art History at Arcadia University (and fellow mother). Dr. Pederson received her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 2008; she focuses on European art with an emphasis on Italian painting, sculpture, and graphic work from the fourteenth through seventeenth centuries.