MINIATURES
mini copy of folk art chair - artist unknown … mine is for Bessie though. :)
SHOW DETAILS! https://www.stickballphila.com/
GROUP SHOW w/ Paulownia Projects <3
Exhibition Opening Celebration: Friday, July 11 5pm - 8:30pm
Exhibition Dates: July 3 - August 30, 2025.
This group exhibition showcases the work of artists that create uncanny works toying with magical realism. Each work presented here is a detailed observation of nature both imagined and real. These various diminutive works create unique, fully realized worlds for us to inhabit. Jump through space in a wormhole that alternatively leads from a raucous showdown between a red squirrel and an acorn woodpecker to the serene quietude of a lonely mountainside. These amazing works are overflowing with the vitality of life that exudes the fever of a racing heart. The mundane and everyday witness of life is also elevated in painstaking detail in a way that celebrates the perseverance of nature and an everchanging city landscape. Like the Paulownia tree that named the gallery, these images endure and grow in our hearts in a way that is unescapable and painfully beautiful.
Please join us in celebration of these warmly invasive hearts.
Opening Celebration: Friday, July 11 from 5pm to 8:30pm.
Exhibiting Artists:
Accra Zuberi
Anne Canfield
Annette Monnier
Armando Veve
Dorothy F. Foster
Emily Elliott
Jessica Tsai
Kelly Micca
Mackenzie McAlpin
Paulownia Projects
The Calvary Center for Culture and Community
4740 Baltimore Avenue in the beautiful Cedar Park neighborhood of West Philadelphia
Gallery Hours:
Thursdays: 12pm - 4pm
Fridays: 5pm - 8pm
Saturdays: 12pm - 4pm
A handful of teenies that I made for the Artblog Art Market :) Opening Oct 4, 5-7pm. It’s open until Dec 7.
Marginal Utility
Address
319 North 11th Street, 2nd Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Hours
By Appointment
Saturday + Sunday 12:00-5:00pm
Marginal Utility is proud to present ‘Many Happy Returns’, a group exhibition of five Philadelphia based artists, Ruth Scott Blackson, Sarah Gamble, Mackenzie McAlpin, Lydia Ricci and Theresa Rose, who bring their unique approaches to materiality, sentiment, form and expression to the space. Through conversation, good food, and mutual adoration, they serendipitously formed to consider themes of love, intuition, spirituality and what ultimately makes them tick as artists, women, and humans.
Ruth, Sarah, Mackenzie, Lydia and Theresa come together to present the collage of everyday life through works on paper, sculpture, and painting. Their playfulness in this exhibition highlights the nuanced elements of their individual art practices – while finding commonality and cohesion when exhibiting work. Each artist is interested in texture, from the texture of life to the physical manifestation of their mediums. The exhibition is installed using a collaborative and intuitive practice in which the artists assign placement by the relationships of the works together in the space.
Ruth Scott Blackson makes paper weavings from the discarded paintings that her small children create. What started out as fun experiments have now become a reflection on memory, labor, and motherhood.
Sarah Gamble’s oil paintings explore parallel realities, mystical psychedelia, forms of consciousness, mythology, and plant spirits, among other topics.
Mackenzie McAlpin’s miniatures pay homage to everyday objects that intentionally or unintentionally decorate and hold space in our daily lives.
Lydia Ricci makes imperfectly perfect replicas of quotidian moments and objects from a pile of scraps and everyday detritus accumulated over the last 30 years.
Theresa Rose creates works on paper marrying together photographs and drawing with monoprints to create poetic depictions of the understated beauty of her beloved hometown, Philadelphia.
http://www.title-magazine.com/2017/09/interview-with-mackenzie-mcalpin/
This was a really great interview Kaitlin Pomerantz wrote in Sept. 2017, for Title Magazine. This came out before my show ‘Dumb Love’ at University City Arts League.
My solo show Dumb Love opened on Friday, September 8 and will be on display until
October 6 at
University City Arts League 4226 Spruce St. Philadelphia, PA 19104
Hours M-F 10am - 6pm Weekends by apt only.
please do not hesitate to email me with any questions
xo Mackenzie
You can see this piece and other #WeeResist pieces at D. Thomas Fine Miniatures at 579 Warburton Ave., Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706. The opening is this Sunday (June 18) from 1-5pm. They will be on view until September 15th. <3 Thank you Darren!!!
More info here: http://www.dthomasfineminiatures.com/weeresist
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Hahaha Maxkenzie..., Anyway, I was interviewed for Star News, a Kensington online paper, and here it is ;) Thank you!
https://starnewsphilly.com/mini-sculptures-for-little-artists-888600a5d8ab
A Christmas present for Dan.
A Christmas present for Steven.
Just because. :)
A cake topper for Julia.
xo
The Arts League at 4226 Spruce Street in West Philadelphia, on May 7th, will be throwing their Spring Gala! 49 tiny paintings by 49 different artists, celebrating 49 years! You can get your tickets at www.ucartsleague.org/community/special-events/
Here is my painting that I donated. It's called "Wait, don't go."
Julia Bornefeld's piece
My mini Julia Bornefeld :)
Hello! I am a part of a group show in Raleigh, NC at LUMP Gallery this month! 35 different Philadelphia based artists creating a space called We Pain. It will be up until Nov 28, 2015.
Here are the pieces I made for the show.
XO
mushroom garden, 2015
Mom RIP, 2015
happy sad pills, 2015
not dead yet, 2015
a little claymation short by Diana Ecker and I. I'm so very happy about this. xo enjoy
Heartfoot is a workplace drama. A stop motion animated short that takes place in a time when computers still have problems, people still work in cubicles, and certain co-workers still make no sense.
I WILL BE AT THE ART STAR POP UP MARKET AT SPRUCE STREET HARBOR PARK JULY 18TH AND JULY 25TH (rain or shine), FROM 11-4PM!!! PLEASE COME AND CHECK IT OUT, IT SHOULD BE A REALLY FUN TIME. XO
THE PARK IS LOCATED AT DELAWARE AVE. AND SPRUCE ST. IN PHILADELPHIA, PA.
I made some new Big Hug Mug minis and put them all on SALE for tonight and tomorrow only, in honor of True Detective! If somehow I run out, just email me, I'll be making more, and you can be the first on the list when I finish the next batch! :) (I'll make sure to give you the SALE price as well, as long as you email me by the end of tomorrow!)
Have a great weekend!!! xoxo Mackenzie
Things have been a little crazy since I started my website, I haven't had a lot of time to update the blog or even update my stock, but keep checking back, because very soon I will have lots of new little guys for you to love! :)
