My work can be found at Penn Medicine at Radnor in their permanent collection. Open daily.
Penn Medicine Radnor
145 King of Prussia Road
Radnor, PA 19087
Opening Reception: Thursday June 27th, 6-8pm
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 10am-6pm & selected Sundays: 12-5pm
AHA Fine Art is pleased to present City, Country, People: a diverse exhibition featuring cityscapes, seascapes, landscapes, street scenes and the characters who inhabit them. Featured artists are Queen Andrea, Vincent Arcilesi, Rasoul Akhmatov, John Breiner, Constance Culpepper, Karl Helmholz, Gwyneth Leech, Roger Nelson, Nola Romano, Clio Smith, Mel Smothers, and Natalie Steigman-Gall. On view from June 20th to July 20th, 2024 at 501 W 23rd St. (lower level of Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, NY) - this exhibition speaks to our yearning to find some balance between city and country life.
As Author Edmund White notes, “The observer is a prince who, wearing a disguise, takes pleasure everywhere”. The pleasures found in observation are key components of the work included in City, Country, People. Composed of paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, collage, and mixed media works, artists on view interpret and capture the far-reaching energy, tranquility and incandescent nature of the built and natural environments from the urban to the rural. The role that we take inhabiting and exploring the environments around us serve as a central theme of the exhibition.
Painted from his rooftop on Bowery Street, aka New York City’s iconic “the Bowery” - once home to many renowned and instrumental artists of the 20th and 21st centuries - Roger Nelson’s cityscape, Sunrise combines radiant and vibrant light entering the city and highlighting the Lower East Side's geometric and cylindrical architecture. The calm of the day’s beginning juxtaposes with the rising energy of the city itself, eliciting the frenetic spirit just emerging from the streets below.
In Hit me Now Bro’s on the Slip Stream, for the Playah Smokin’ the Weed, Karl Helmhoz combines art historical periods such as Abstraction, Surrealism, Fauvism and Expressionism, with street art and handwritten text. The composition includes text that reads, “...it’s been a minute since I’ve been in New York. Tall buildings and every thang., but that’s... Surrounded by steel, expensive stores, take out, E-Bikes, ...obsessed with tech...!” Helmhoz depicts a New York City dweller cavalierly smoking, poking fun at the hipster, while referencing the heat of the pavement, New York City bustle, the chess hustlers in Washington Square Park, and the murmurs and colorful sounds of people on stoops and street corners, conjuring the grit and vibrancy of the city while evoking the syncopated rhythms and lifestyles of the village’s iconic Beat poets.
Meanwhile, using color as her vehicle to explore nature, Clio Smith blends pastels, incandescent orange and yellows with bright kelly green and muted browns in Bodega Bay, California. With a nod to Impressionism, Smith’s plein air paintings take the viewer back and forth between tranquility and anticipation. The dried and stiff weeds sway against lush grass, evoking placid and tempestuous waters and the sensory textures of aromatic salt air and the mossy cushions present within the Earth’s bucolic landscapes. The jarring effects of encountering steaming urban potholes to languishing in the mesmerizing sunsets that beam down wide and narrow city sidewalks bring the contrasts of city life into high relief. Meanwhile the hazy pale afternoons of open fields recall times spent out in the open scenes of nature. Artworks on view actively invite the viewer to embark on a journey to interpret their own personal meanings found throughout City, County and People.
For more information and visuals, please contact Francesca Arcilesi, Norma Homberg and the AHA team at info@ahafineart.com.
3rd Street Gallery presents Past & Present, a group exhibition of current and former artists of the gallery. Culpepper’s collage, Seaweed, will appear in the show. The gallery is located at 610 South 3rd Street in Philadelphia, PA. To schedule a gallery visit, outside of opening hours, email the gallery to request a visit by appointment.
Gallery Hours
Friday 4:00 - 7:30PM
Saturday 1:00 - 5:00PM
Sunday 12:00 - 4:00PM
Established in 1978, 3rd Street Gallery is the oldest artist-run cooperative in Philadelphia, PA.
The Muse Invitational Exhibition will be on view at the Muse Gallery in Philadelphia from February 1-26, 2023. My work will be included in this show.
Gallery is open Wednesday through Sunday, noon to 5pm.
Culpepper’s painting, Over the River and Through the Wood, at the Philadelphia International Airport (PHL), August 2022.
Join The Center For Emerging Visual Arts (CFEVA) for their Annual ART PARTY benefit, celebrating the vibrancy of the art network in Philadelphia and CFEVA’s work for more than 40 years, helping to expand and support that network. The night will celebrate the artistic community of Philadelphia, as well as the importance of a sustainable, healthy environment, and feature artwork for sale by local artists, including Constance Culpepper. Buy tickets here!
This event will also kick off Art In The Open (AiO), happening along the Schuylkill River Trail on May 20 - 22, 2022. AiO brings 25 artists to the riverbank to explore in contemporary plein-air style, the intersection of our natural and built environments.
My paintings and collages are on view from January 2022 though January 2024 at the The Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia, curated by The Center for Emerging Visual Artists.
This National Women’s Caucus for Art (WCA) exhibition highlights artistic works that address this moment of 2022. How did we arrive here and what do we envision moving forward? How do our identities and expressions intersect with such factors as environment, culture, time, and location. The artwork on display will address these themes, as well as the historic precedents set by political activism, personal transformation and social engagement. Juror for this show is Dr. Maura Reilly.
Bridgeport Art Center, 4th floor Gallery - 1200 West 35th Street, Chicago, IL
January 21st to February 25th, 2022
Opening Reception Jan 21st 7 to 10 PM
The National Association of Women Artists (NAWA) presents New Dimensions, an online exhibition featured on the NAWA website. An online reception will be held on January 20, 2022 from 5 - 6PM. My painting, Ballroom, will be included in the show.
The National Association of Women Artists (NAWA), the oldest women’s fine art organization in the country, is a community of professional women artists that strives to support its members and women artists at large through exhibitions, programs and education.
Hygge /ˈh(y)o͞oɡə,ˈho͝oɡə/ (noun)
a quality of coziness and comfortable conviviality that engenders a feeling of contentment or well-being
As we settle into Autumn, we pull back to what makes us most comfortable: curling up with our favorite quilt by a crackling fireplace, watching the shimmering heat rise from a radiator while snow slowly falls outside our window, spending more of our time in the domestic spaces where we feel most secure and comfortable. It is that feeling of familiarity, of comfort, of home that Hyggeexplores.
The artists of Hygge, Daniel Clark, Constance Culpepper, Kathleen Eastwood-Riaño, Don Miller, Amy Orr, Colin Pezzano, Ahmed Salvador, and Joe Sasarak all explore themes of home: its contents, its structure, and how it reflects upon our own identities. While each of the included artists use these ideas as launching points to deeper conversations of identity, memory, and value systems, their work is all undeniably full of hygge.
Hygge, presented by InLiquid Art + Design, is on view at the Park Towne Place Apartment Residencies until February 13th, 2022, with an opening reception scheduled for Wednesday, November 17th from 6 - 8PM.
Visit Culpepper’s studio on April 18th, 2021 from noon-6pm
Visit Culpepper’s studio on April 18th, 2021 from noon-6pm
The National Association of Women Artists (NAWA) presents Layering: Collage and Mixed Media, an online exhibition featured on the NAWA website. An online reception will be held on November 11, 2021 from 5 - 6PM. My collage, Chair with Bouquet, will be included in the show.
The National Association of Women Artists (NAWA), the oldest women’s fine art organization in the country, is a vibrant community of professional women artists that strives to support its members and women artists at large through exhibitions, programs and education.
My work is included in the biennial 2021 National Juried Painting Exhibition at the University of Southern Mississippi Museum of Art. The show will be held in the Gallery of Art and Design.
The University of Southern Mississippi Museum of Art was established in 1997 by the Mississippi Institute of Higher Learning Board of Trustees as an expansion of the C.W. Wood Gallery founded in 1977. Recently completed in 2014, the Gallery of Art and Design, a 2000 sq.ft. contemporary art gallery, is now the primary exhibition space for all USM Museum of Art exhibitions and events.
Gallery Hours: Monday through Friday, 10AM–5PM
Juror Lecture: September 30th at 5:30PM
Closing Reception: September 30 at 7PM
Juror is Susan Palmisano. Her paintings have been shown in more than seventy national and international exhibitions. Her work was recently exhibited at the Limner Gallery, NY, University of Southern Mississippi, Manifest 9th International Paint Annual Exhibition-in-Print, Women’s Caucus for the Arts in Washington DC, Gallery 263 in Cambridge, MA, Cooley Gallery in Leesburg, VA, and Westmoreland Museum of Art in Greensburg, PA.
Palmisano is a visiting professor at Ganesha University in Singaraja, Bali, Petra Christian University in Surabaya, Java, Wenzhou University in China, University of Opole, Poland, and the Institute of Art of Zagreb, Croatia. Palmisano served as Professor of Painting at Indiana University of Pennsylvania 1994-2020, where she also coordinated the MA and MFA programs in Art. Palmisano earned her M.F.A. in Painting from the University of Cincinnati and her B.F.A. in Painting from the University of Dayton, where she graduated summa cum laude.
My latest paintings will be on display in the Main Gallery at The Mill in the Manayunk neighborhood of Philadelphia, where my art studio is located. Gallery is open Monday through Friday from 10am to 4pm, or by appointment. Contact me at cc@constanceculpepper.com. My studio hours are Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday afternoons if you’d like to visit my studio as well.
Featuring a wide range of diverse artists and media, The Center for Emerging Visual Arts (CFEVA) announces its newest art exhibition, which explores the ways CFEVA artists are emerging and expanding their practice. The featured artists include: Alan Lankin, Annie Stone, Aubrey J Kauffman, Brian Bazemore, Constance Culpepper, Daina Higgins, Danielle Cartier, Elaine Soltis, Francis Beaty, Josephine Viviani, John Benigno, JP Weber, Lisa Domenic, Lori Raggio, Maria Maneos, Maria Schneider, Maryam's Mark, Michelle Marcuse, Sam Koren, Sophie White, Tom Herbert, and Tremain Smith.
Capturing the beauty and ephemera in the natural and material world around them, these artists command our attention. Their art examines our current world, and our place in it, in unique and innovative ways. Coming out of a global pandemic and into the summer months, creative expression has never been more important, to both the artists as well as their audiences. We are delighted to virtually present the work of 22 of our accomplished, resilient members in this summer’s show/shop - Zoe E. Gold of CFEVA, Summer 2021.
The 51st Annual River Road Show held at the Louisiana State Archives Gallery in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, will include my painting, Field Test: Yellow House.
Opening Reception is Friday, September 17th from 5 - 7PM.
Gallery is free and open to the public, Monday – Friday, 8AM – 4PM.
A series of my paper cut collages are on display at Park Towne Place (PTP) Artist Studio Gallery in Philadelphia through October 2021, as part of InLiquid’s rotating exhibitions at PTP’s Museum District Residences.
Gallery is open to the public Monday through Saturday 10AM - 8PM.
The exhibitions are made possible by InLiquid’s partnership with AIR; helping to organize engaging public programming at their one-of-a-kind mid-century modern complex. In the rotating exhibitions, InLiquid feature’s PTP’s permanent art collection, also bringing to light newly acquisitioned pieces.
I’ll be teaching a collage workshop in PTP’s studio space. More info and sign up, coming soon.
The National Association of Women Artists (NAWA) presents a juried selection of work by their new members, online from May 3rd to June 30th. Two of Culpepper’s paintings will be shown in this show.
The reception will take place on May 20, 2021 at 5PM (EST) over zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81471394559?pwd=ZWhQekcydCtUVGdLVjI2S0EzMVNhQT09
Meeting ID: 814 7139 4559, Passcode: 076988
Visit Culpepper’s studio on April 18th, 2021 from noon-6pm
Philadelphia Open Studio Tours (POST) 2020
(RESCHEDULED DUE TO COVID)
Wednesday, April 17th, 2021 from 6 - 8 PM
I'll be opening my studio virtually on Wednesday April 7th, 2021 for POST, along with 24 other artists in The Mill Studios. Click here to join me and the other artists virtually.
Philadelphia Open Studio Tours, a program of The Center for Emerging Visual Artists, is the largest tour of artist studios and creative workspaces in the region and one of the premier open studio tour events in the country.
Typically held each October, but due to Covid-19 rescheduled to April 2021, POST activities span twenty unique Philadelphia neighborhoods and highlight the creative workspaces of nearly 300 artists and community partners. POST provides a behind-the-scenes glimpse of visual artists at work through an approachable, self-guided, and easy-to-navigate tour. Ancillary activities include featured exhibitions, demonstrations and workshops, artist talks, receptions, guided tours, and more! No other program in or around Philadelphia consistently brings such an intimate and diverse cultural experience to the community free of charge and across such a large geographic area.
12 x 12 x 12 will feature the work of 12 artists, each working two dimensionally on canvas 12" x 12”. The intent of the exhibition is to provide a dynamic variety of materials, styles and inspiration unified by continuity in size and installation.
Opening Reception is March 5th from 5:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Artists' talk on April 22nd from 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
The Art Trust is a non-profit, volunteer-based organization that supports and cultivates the exploration of a contemporary aesthetic for the benefit of artists and the community. In 2020, The Art Trust focused efforts on hardships brought about by COVID 19. Through net proceeds of gallery sales and in partnership with artists, over $10,000 was donated to art organizations, artist grants and community organizations. More information is available at thearttrust.org
The Center for Emerging Visual Arts (CFEVA) will host their 2021 exhibition of 29 local artists virtually this year. Artwork is available to view and for sale here. I have three new works in the show, found here.
Lily Gilston of CFEVA writes this about the show:
In many ways, 2020 served as a reset for artists. For some, moving away from the hustle and bustle of the city offered a change in perspective, allowing for reflection and experimentation outside the studio.
As a result, CFEVA members revisited their practice in new contexts. As their artistic identities converged with their roles as caretakers, teachers, essential workers, and members of their respective communities, many of the resulting work reflects a change of awareness – that, in fact, creative thinkers are intrinsic to their communities, and enrich our lives with diversity and forward-thinking.
When the world was on lockdown, when anxieties about the future consumed our thoughts, CFEVA members emerged strong, with new perspectives on artmaking. These artists tapped into their creative flow using a variety of techniques to grapple with and reconfigure their realities, approaching their bodies of work with newfound clarity and immediacy.
The works in this collection range from paintings and work on paper, to photography, mixed media, and sculpture. Each artist offers a unique approach to working and seeing, some finding inspiration in their immediate surroundings, and others imagine faraway places in a future free of restrictions. While in-person galleries are temporarily out of reach, we are delighted to virtually present the work of 29 of our accomplished, resilient members.
Looking for a holiday gift under $200? I’m selling prints of four of my paintings at The Center for Emerging Visual Art’s (CFEVA) Holiday Pop-up Shop. A portion of the proceeds will benefit CFEVA's mission and programs.
Prints are available for socially distanced, local pick-up, adhering to all CDC safety protocols. Shipping is available for a flat $14 additional fee.
Check out CFEVA’s website for available artwork from other local Philadelphia artists as well!
Penn Medicine presents a yearlong exhibition of artwork in their new medical building in Radnor, PA. I have two paintings included in this show.
Penn Medicine Radnor
145 King of Prussia Road
Radnor, PA 19087
Join me on World Collage Day, May 9th, at 2PM, when I take over InLiquid’s Instagram account to give a live demonstration on collaging. You can watch or participate!
If you’d like to collage along with me, make sure to have:
– Flat space to work: desk, table, counter
– Cutting tools: Scissors, x-acto blade, hole punch (or just tear with your hands!)
– Adhesive: Glue, tape, DIY wheat paste (whatever you have!)
– Paper/fabric for cutting and design- photographs, magazine images, newspaper, construction paper, wrapping paper, any paper you want to shred!
– Glue brush (optional, but preferable)
– Tweezers (optional)
– A “base” layer for your collage: Heavy stock paper, index card, cardboard, foam board, whatever!
Preparation Before the Event
– Find a reference image to inspire your collage: photo, image from magazine, newspaper, something online – can even be a work of art – that’s a great place to start!
– Choose the base material you will be gluing onto – so you will be ready to get started.
– Set up a workspace that’s ok if glue gets on it. Once I’m gluing, I like to have a small bowl of water, paper towels. If you don’t want glue to get on your surface, you can tape wax or parchment paper down and use it for gluing. Or newspaper in a pinch; you just want something clean you can throw away afterward.
One of my new paintings will be included in this show sponsored by The Center for Emerging Visual Artists (CFEVA).
Opening Reception is January 23, 2020 from 5 to 7PM.
ABOUT CFEVA
With a mission to nurture and advance the careers of emerging visual artists while expanding opportunities for the public to discover and connect with art, CFEVA raises the profile of Philadelphia’s professional artists, fosters artistic experimentation and innovation, and showcases how vibrant artistic communities boost civic engagement. Through fellowships, residencies, educational outreach, exhibitions, professional development, and city-wide events, CFEVA provides artists with the tangible resources needed to develop viable and sustainable careers. www.cfeva.org
The University of North Carolina Wilmington presents The Self-Portrait, an art exhibition, from January 16th through February 23rd, in their Cultural Arts Building (CAB) Art Gallery.
What is a self-portrait? Is it a mirror image of the artist, a psychological reflection? In Contemporary Art, the self-portrait has freed itself from the figural and literal to delve into the abstract, digital, conceptual and beyond traditional mediums. This exhibition will take a journey into the experience of ‘self’ and the boundless ways this can be expressed. My painting, Scarlett, will be included in this show.
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 16, 5:30–7 PM
Gallery hours are Monday through Friday 10 - 4 PM
The CAB Art Gallery hosts national, international, student, and faculty exhibits serving as a key educational component of the University of North Carolina Wilmington Department of Art and Art History. In addition to showcasing the work of senior students, exhibitions by visiting artists, invitational and juried exhibitions are displayed. The Art Gallery, a resource for the department, campus, and the Wilmington community, is located on the ground floor of the Cultural Arts Building, near the building's main entrance. The Cultural Arts Building is on the corner of Randall Parkway and Reynolds Drive on the UNCW campus and can be accessed from South College Road or Racine Drive. Visitor parking is in front of the box office entrance to the building.
Philadelphia Stories celebrates its 15th anniversary with a gala event at the Cheltenham Center for the Arts on Saturday, November 16, 2019, from 7-10pm. The anniversary celebration will also be the opening of The Philadelphia Stories 15th Anniversary Art Exhibition, which will feature a selection of the original artwork published over the last five years in the magazine. The exhibit will run through December 5, 2019.
Gallery Hours are Monday to Friday 10AM -5PM. Weekends and Evenings by appointment or during special event weekends.
The 15th Anniversary Party will include a cocktail reception, the release of The Best of Philadelphia Stories, 15th Anniversary Edition anthology, and an online and live auction that will benefit Philadelphia Stories’ mission to “cultivate a community of writers, artists, and readers.” Tickets for the celebration are $40 per person in advance and $45 at the door. Click here to reserve your ticket. For more details, please visit philadelphiastories.org.
About Philadelphia Stories
Philadelphia Stories is a 501c3 that has served the writing, reading, and art community of the Greater Delaware Valley since 2004. Co-founders Carla Spataro and Christine Weiser began Philadelphia Stories to promote the culture of the Philadelphia area. Since that time, Philadelphia Stories has supported its mission to build a Philadelphia-based community of writers, artists, and readers through the free magazine and affordable educational programs and events, including sponsoring national poetry and fiction awards and publishing Philadelphia Stories Junior and PS Teen, magazines devoted to publishing the writing and art of children from the Delaware Valley, ages 18 and younger.
Been to the library lately? My paintings will be on display in the beautifully rebuilt Ludington Library in Bryn Mawr, PA, until November 1, 2019.
Library Hours:
9AM - 9PM Monday to Thursday
9AM - 6PM Fridays
9AM - 5PM Saturdays
12 - 5PM Sundays
3rd Street Gallery presents Inside-Outside, a group exhibition of artists showing work in a variety of media including painting, photography, ceramic, sculpture.
Featured Artists:
Connie Cone & Constance Culpepper, Nicole Patrice Dul & Elaine M. Erne, Nancy Lloyd & Annelies Van Dommelen, Jasmine Alleger & Ed Marion, Rhea & Rob Dennis, Tom Herbert & Howard Brunner, Sharon Egan & Maura Egan, Matthew Hall & Erica Harney, June Blumberg & Jean Plough, Conny Parsons & Keith Sharp, Jacque Ferretti & Gail Zivin, Carol Deustch & Francesca (Paca) Pujols, Judith Schermer & Thalia Hare, Meri L. Adelman & Hannah Coale
Gallery hours: Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday, 12pm - 6pm • Fourth Fridays, 5 - 9pm • By Appointment (267) 768-6691
Location: 610 S. 3rd Street, Store Front, Philadelphia, PA 19147
