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What I Like About You at Parallel Art Space, Brooklyn
(in conjunction with Bushwick Open Studios)
May 31 – June 30, 2013
Opening Reception: Friday May 31st, 6 – 10 pm
Viewing Hours for BOS 2013: Saturday June 1 and Sunday, June 2 ,12 – 7 pm
Through June 30: Saturdays and Sundays 1-6 pm
Parallel Art Space
17-17 Troutman Street, # 220
Ridgewood NY 11385

Organized by Brooklyn artist Julie Torres, ‘What I Like About You’ is a continuation of last year’s Alltogethernow project, in which 11 international painters visited Bushwick for BOS 2012, to collaborate with local artists and exhibit those collaborations alongside their own work.

This year, artists are returning to showcase the work of artists they met and whose work they saw last year. New participants who weren’t present in 2012 have chosen artists’ work they have been interested in from afar.

19 international artists will arrive in Bushwick to select one piece from their chosen Brooklyn artist, and show that work alongside their own with a brief explanation of what drew them to that artists’ work.

I have chosen to exhibit with the excellent Alex Paik.

Preview this exhibition on Curating Contemporary.

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Signs and Systems at Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia
June 6-28, 2013
Opening reception: Friday, June 7, 5-7pm
Gross McCleaf Gallery
127 South 16th Street
Philadelphia PA 19102

With Alison Berry, Cora Cohen, Joanne Grune-Yanoff, Kellianne McCarthy, Sean McDonough, Deirdre Murphy, Dianne Pappas, Mira Schor, Carly Witmer, Pete Zebley

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ICE WATER FLYSWATTER at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia

I’m curating this exhibition, and I’m very excited about the lineup!
ICE WATER FLYSWATTER — Abstract painting on holiday in the Philadelphia summer
curated by Douglas Witmer
August 2 — September 1, 2013
Reception: Friday August 2, 6-10pm
Tiger Strikes Asteroid
319A North 11th Street, Suite 2H
Philadelphia PA

Featuring:
Alain Biltereyst (Belgium)
Mary Bucci McCoy (MA)
Donald Martiny (NC)
Cary Smith (CT)
Mark Wethli (ME)
Paige Williams (OH)
–with a special poem/drawing by Ian White Williams commissioned for the show

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(image above: Cary Smith, “Splat #25″)

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MORE UPCOMING SHOWS — details forthcoming
–Correspondence, group exhibition at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn
–Reason and Romance, 6B Gallery, Elingen, Belgium
–Why Not?, International Biennale of Non-Objective Art, Pont de Claix, France

49th Street, West Philadelphia

If you’re in New York for the art fairs, please join me for the closing reception for my current show on
Friday March 8, 6-8pm

All Kinds of Ways to Your Garden
New Paintings by Douglas Witmer

Thru March 8, 2013
BLANK SPACE

511 West 25th Street, Suite 204
New York, NY
More exhibition views here–>

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NEW INTERVIEW ON STUDIO CRITICAL

I was honored to be invited to participate in Valerie Brennan’s Studio Critical interview project. The interview is available now online. I think this is a terrific resource, allowing contemporary painters from around the world to talk about their studios and painting practice.

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SURFACE AS SIGNIFIER | UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE GALLERY @ CRANE ARTS

Surface As Signifier exhibition view, with Robert Straight and Douglas Witmer
University of Delaware Art Gallery @ Crane Arts
1400 North American Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122

Thru March 16, 2013
Panel Discussion, Thursday, March 14, 7pm

Curated by Peg Curtin and Bruce Garrity, this is an excellent exhibition bringing together the work of Margery Amdur, Donna Czapiga, Nicole Donnelly, James Erikson, Jim Lee, Anne Seidman, Robert Straight, Leslie Wayne, and myself. The panel discussion on March 14 should be very engaging.

FROM THE PRESS RELEASE: “Surface as Signifier” seeks to explore trends in painting that reference romantic and reductivist sensibilities. Works are slick, transparent, thick, thin and heavily layered. Process and points of inspiration are revealed as well as concealed. Evidence of touch or lack of touch contributes to and shapes the content of the work. Collectively, the work limns a cerebral entrance to an alternative place that is realized through re-contextualized media, nature, subjective trajectories, literature and architectural fragments – ultimately providing a platform for understanding a new narrative.”

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EXHIBITION REVIEW OF “WINTER DOWN”

Quite likely the one and only time anyone will ever have to cross a swinging bridge to view my work! This ambitious curated white-box-within-a-white-box show was reviewed on The ArtBlog.

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NEW STUDIO! PARTY!
I am currently moving my studio to a brand new location here in my West Philadelphia neighborhood. Please join me and the other artists of The Cedar Works Studios to celebrate the inauguration of West Philadelphia’s newest artist community.
Saturday, April 13, 7pm–??? (The Dock Street beer will likely flow freely…the studios are directly behind the brewery…!!)