Past Events

2010

POP: Up Next
July 10 through July 31
ARTIST’S RECEPTION: Saturday, July 17th, 6-8 PM
The Chestnut Hill Gallery, located in the heart of historic Chestnut Hill, is thrilled to present a summer exhibit featuring two NYC standouts and two rising stars in the Philadelphia area.

Steve Ladner was one of the top fashion photographers and studio owners in New York City in the 70's, 80's and into the 90's. He has photographed fashion, beauty and lifestyle for top magazines such as Harper's Bazaar, GQ, Town & Country, Esquire, French Vogue, The New York Times, and cosmetic ad campaigns for Revlon, Chanel, Almay, Avon, and others. He also spent 7 years living and working as a fashion photographer in Paris , France . Steve has recently relocated to Philadelphia where he continues to photograph portraits and lifestyles for private and corporate clients, and magazine editorials, both in Philly and NYC. Steve was early on inspired to create digital artwork beyond his commissioned photo assignments. Recently, Steve has begun painting, combining photography and paint in a personal and unique way. It is an organic out-growth of what inspired and informed his photography in the beginning: beauty, color, geometry, imagination, and the unknown. The Chestnut Hill Gallery is proud to represent this body of work.

Gwendolyn Chambers, an award-winning School of Visual Arts graduate, who lives in NYC began her current body of work in 2002 shortly after the purchase of her first car - a 1973 Dodge Dart. Her layered style incorporates symbols or images that tie into the history of the car, location or personality of the person to whom it belongs. The cars take on transcendental personality – levitating and driving away.

Rounding out the exhibit are two local favorites: Anne Buckwalter and Lila Duey – truly the finest of the Tyler BFA program and very popular in the Philadelphia area.

June 8th through June 26th
Emerging Artists Exhibition
The exhibit features John L. Harris, a Philadelphia native who attends the Art Institute of Chicago, Greg Biche who is a student at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and Lara Cantu-Hertzler, a recent PAFA graduate and long-time resident of Chestnut Hill. The three artists will be exhibiting works in a variety of media, from oil paintings on various surfaces to innovative prints and digital work.
An opening reception will be held on the evening of June 12th from 6 to 8 PM. Wine and hors d’oeuvres will be served. Join us in supporting the works of local emerging artists!

Join the Chestnut Hill Gallery this Saturday
May 8th 6 - 8 P.M. for an artists' reception celebrating four distinct artists who share a lush palette and a talent for finding the light and shade in every scene from the exotic Italian countryside to the familiar streets of Chestnut Hill
Kathy Busillo
Gail Bessette
Ed Letven
James Williams

JOHN LEAR: The Final Drawings

The Chestnut Hill Gallery is proud to exhibit the last works of the late John Lear (1910-2008). An internationally recognized Philadelphia native, Lear leaves behind a stunning collection of original pencil drawings and watercolors, comprised of mostly figurative studies. Only a handful of these affordable treasures remain. Stop in today to take a look!

April 6 - 24: Philip Cohn: Recent Paintings

The Chestnut Hill Gallery is proud to announce an exhibition of the new paintings of Philip Cohn. A Philadelphia native, Cohn has been painting his hometown for over fifty years. He also paints landscapes of Europe, where he has traveled extensively, and cites Italian, French and Dutch painting traditions as a major influence on his painting style and subject matter. Cohn ’s work also revolves around the human condition, depicting people engaged in everyday activities. A reception will be held on the evening of April 10th from 6 to 8 PM. Please come join us in celebrating the works of this Philadelphia legend!

Read more from the April 1st Chestnut Hill Local: Nature-inspired painter, 86, exhibits at Hill Gallery
March 2-20: American Color Print Society Exhibition. Chestnut Hill Gallery welcomes the American Color Print Society for its third annual exhibit. The ACPS, founded in Philadelphia in 1939, was established to promote the exhibition of original colored prints. There will be an opening reception at the gallery on Saturday, March 6th, from 6 til 8 PM. Come by and help support local artists!
February 6-20: The New Prints of Marta Sanchez and Daniel Brewer. Please join us in celebrating the innovative works on paper of local printmakers Daniel Brewer and Marta Sanchez. An artists' reception will be held on Saturday, February 13th, from 6 til 8 PM. As always, wine and appetizers will be served, and the artists will be available to meet and discuss their work.

February 2 - 5, 2010
PAINT FOR HAITI: An Art Sale Benefiting Doctors Without Borders

In light of the recent tragedy in Haiti, Chestnut Hill Gallery will host a fundraising art sale to support medical aid and disaster relief. Thirty percent of the proceeds on all art sold will be donated to Doctors Without Borders, an organization that is giving tremendous help to the citizens of Haiti and is working to accommodate the immense number of people awaiting surgery and treatment.

The art sale will be held from Tuesday, February 2nd through Friday, February 5th and will feature many reasonably priced works of local painters. A fundraising reception will be held on the evening of Wednesday, February 3rd from 6 until 8 PM. Hors d’oeuvres will be provided courtesy of Michele Haines, executive chef of the Spring Mill Café in Conshohocken. Please come and support medical relief in Haiti!

January 31, 2010:
Please join the Chestnut Hill Gallery on Sunday, January 31, from 5 - 8 p.m. for a silent auction to benefit EMIR (Every Murder is Real). EMIR is a Philadelphia-based non-profit organization that was established to promote awareness about domestic violence. Visit EMIR's website here

The silent auction promises to be great fun! Donations include gift certificates to local restaurants, a health spa, many big, beautiful gift baskets, framed art work, autographed books, jewelry, tickets to local events and much more. The Gallery will give 10 percent donation to EMIR for any artwork sold that evening.

Wine and soda and appetizers will be bountiful, plus 200 mini-pastries donated by a local chef!

2009

November 3-21: Gary Kresge and Bob Arnosky
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 14th, 5:30 PM - 8 PM

November 28 - December 19: Richard Yeager and Neal Hughes
"Masters of the Brush"
Join the Gallery for an artists' reception celebrating the lush and luminous landscapes of award-winning artists Neal Hughes and Richard Yeager, Saturday, December 5th, 6 - 8 p.m.

New to the Gallery: Look for an exciting new collection of Cuban paintings to be exhibited in our space this fall. Landscapes, street scenes, abstract works, and still life pieces from a variety of Cuban painters will be shown beginning in September.

The Chestnut Hill Gallery will be participating in the Main Street Fair on Saturday, September 26th. The fair takes place on the grounds of the Chestnut Hill Hospital at 8835 Germantown Avenue. Stop by to see new paintings and meet some of the gallery artists.

October 13-31: Serendipity 3: Award-winning Artist Exhibit
Libby Calamia, exhibiting lithographs, Constance Cone, exhibiting pastels, and Kitty Caparella, exhibiting encaustic paintings
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 17th, 5:30 PM - 8 PM

Chestnut Hill Gallery welcomes Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno, Beatrice Hawley Award winner, July 12th at 2:00 P.M. for a reading/signing from the newly published anthology Beloved on the Earth: 150 Poems of Grief and Gratitude (which includes poetry from Kathleen as well as acclaimed poets Mary Oliver, Wendell Berry and Denise Levertov) as well as from her award-winning Slamming Open the Door as part of the Chestnut Hill Book Fair.

Slamming Open the Door was favorably reviewed in the New York Times Book Review, is #17 on all poetry books sold and it just went into it's 2nd printing. The Chestnut Hill Local did a feature article on her recently. Read it here.
eyePhone Photographic Works by Daniel Husted
June 2nd to june 20th
Reception June 13th 5:30 to 8:00
The Iphone has been a platform for Dan to instantaneously capture what he sees in an ever changing world of objects and society’s ways…using one focal length and one format. Rather than carrying a phone in his pocket, Dan likes to think of it as a camera that happens to include a phone.
Join us for a very special Afternoon Reading, Signing and Reception*
for Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno's "Slamming Open the Door"

Reviewed in the The New York Times 4/12/09

Sunday, April 26, 2009 2:00 P.M.

RSVP to ssheeder@yahoo.com

*A portion of the proceeds from this afternoon's event will benefit the Leidy Sheeder Bonanno Memorial Scholarship at the Reading Hospital School of Nursing and Health Science

Spring Forward with the Chestnut Hill Gallery: 4/1 through 4/18

Susannah Hart Thomer, Madeline Kelly, Dori Spector, and Helene Halstuch.

American Color Print Society Exhibition: 3/10 through 3/21
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 14th, 5:30-8 PM.
Wine and appetizers will be served.

The American Color Print Society formed in 1939 in Philadelphia to instigate the revolution of color printmaking. The ACPS introduced color and encouraged experimentation with traditional methods like lithography, etching, monotype printing, and intaglio. The Chestnut Hill Gallery is proud to represent the ACPS in our second annual exhibition. Join us as we celebrate the art of printmaking.

Tyler School of Art Student Exhibition: 2/21 through 2/28
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 21st, 5:30-8 PM.
Wine and appetizers will be served.

Temple University's Tyler School of Art is one of the most prestigious art schools in the country. Come support local emerging artists by joining us for our second Tyler School of Art student exhibition and art sale. Work by senior painters and recent BFA graduates will be shown.

2008

Chestnut Hill Gallery Holiday Celebration featuring figuratives and landscapes of John Lear (many affordable framed & unframed pieces available) and new work by Gallery artists.

Saturday, December 13th, 2008 5:30 - 8:00 P.M. (Exhibit continues through December).

Exhibition: Pennsylvania Impressionism:
Joseph Skrapits and John Stinger
September 23rd - October 11th

Reception:
Saturday, September 27th 5:30 - 8 PM

We are excited to exhibit the recent works of local painters Joseph Skrapits and John Stinger. Both artists are masters of Pennsylvania impressionism, and each brings a unique angle to a traditional style and medium. The rich landscapes of Stinger and Skrapits are resplendent with a brilliant use of light and color. Scenes from the Lehigh Valley and Bucks County will be exhibited, as well as other familiar views of rural Pennsylvania. Wine and appetizers will be served at the reception.

An Evening to Delight Ones Senses
Photography Exhibit Featuring the French Cuisine of Michele Haines
Reception: Friday, September 12th 7 - 10 PM

The Chestnut Hill Gallery presents the photography of Michele Haines and Katrina Mojzesz. French fare will be served courtesy of Michele, the executive chef at the Spring Mill Café in Conshohocken. Visitors will be treated to an array of French delicacies, as well as viewing photography from the artists’ travels. The exhibition will run from September 2nd until September 13th. This show will also include paintings of France by several Chestnut Hill Gallery artists.

Water Colorist Exhibit
The ACPS is a non-profit invitational members organization which was established in 1939 for the purposes of exhibiting the color print. The ACPS collections have been exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art as well as the National Gallery of Art in D.C. Noted members of ACPS included Benton Spruance, John Taylor Arms, Sam Maitin, and Abraham Hankins. The Chestnut Hill Gallery exhibit will feature all original fine art prints and hand-pulled lithographs. There will be a range of prices and sizes. Stop by the week before the reception to preview and reserve your favorite. Stay posted for more information.
Home and Garden Television (HGTV) films at Chestnut Hill Gallery for Home Renovation Program

Gallery Owner, Joe Borrelli and
"Save My Bath" host Lytel Young

HGTV's producer heard good things about the Chestnut Hill Gallery we were told when they called to ask us if they could film at the Gallery for an upcoming segment of "Save My Bath," a home renovation show... click here for additional photos and link to Times Herald feature

2007

Coming October 13th: "Sideways: a Poets and Artists Collaboration" - The Chestnut Hill Gallery is thrilled to be hosting this collaboration of established poets and artists who will work together in a cooperative, creative effort which will culminate in a poetry reading, reception and one-week show.

SideWays will run from October 13 – October 20. The public is invited to the opening reception at 6-10 p.m. on Saturday, October 13. The artists will be introduced and the poets will read from their works at 7 p.m. The show includes paintings, photographs, sculpture and poems which have been written responsively to these works. Each poet was paired with an artist and wrote responsively to four of his or her works. In so doing, the artist found new ways of looking at his own work, the poet found compelling images for his imaginative use, and we hope the audience will find not only two distinct works of art, but a third, in the complex relationship between the two. Click here for the entire press release.
November 17th - December 8th - Holiday Exhibition & Sale
Join us for a Holiday show featuring new works by Helene Halstuch, Ed Letven, Alex Forbes and Sandra Hoffman. Opening Reception will be Saturday, November 17th.

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Philadelphia Open Studio Tours coming to Chestnut Hill Gallery!
The Chestnut Hill Gallery is proud to be hosting 9 local artists from the Northwest Artists Collective as part of the Philadelphia Open Studio Tours (POST) the weekend of October 27 and 28th from Noon to 6:00 P.M. Artists participating include Eleanor Day, Julie Zahn, Helene Halstuch, Elena Aldrete, Debs Bleicher, Cynthia Back, Ilene Speiwak, Bobbi Rosen and Karen Kappe Nugent. Don't miss this opportunity to see some exciting and new works by these local favorites.

The Northwest Artists Collective was formed In 2005, after visual artists living in Germantown, Mt.Airy and Chestnut Hill recognized the need to support the vibrant creativity of practicing artists in their community. These artists will be showing as a group at various venues throughout the area during the month of October in conjunction with the eighth annual Philadelphia Open Studio Tours which will take place in the Northwest area during the weekend of October 27th and 28th. In this city-wide event, more than 280 professional visual artists in 20 neighborhoods will open their studios to the public to show and sell artwork. For more information go to http://www.philaopenstudios.com
November 3rd through November 10th - Tyler Student Exhibition
Chestnut Hill Gallery is proud to present the Tyler School of Art Student Exhibition and Sale featuring the diverse works of over 15 Tyler Seniors. Join us for the opening reception on Saturday, November 3rd and pick up an affordable and unique piece of art from the next emerging Philadelphia talent.