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LAURA BELL
Aggregate
Paintings

MATT HAFFNER
Tales from the Lonesome City
Paintings & Works on paper

March 6 - April 11, 2009
Reception: Friday, March 6, 6 - 8:30 pm

PHILADELPHIA, PA - Pentimenti Gallery is pleased to announce 2 solo exhibitions AGGREGATE and TALES FROM THE LONESOME CITY from March 6 - April 11, 2009. A reception with the artists will be held on Friday, March 6 from 6 - 8:30 pm.

Laura Bell’s work combines paintings and works on paper. The images reference the celestial world, constellations, galaxies and nebulae but also the astonishing, often unsettling beauty found in biomorphic forms.
Laura Bell received a BA degree from the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington and a MFA degree in printmaking from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. Bell is a listed artist in New American Paintings; Condé Nast’s Domino Magazine. Recent exhibitions include: Museum Of Contemporary Art, Atlanta; Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia; Ruby Green Contemporary Art Center, Nashville, as well as a group exhibition in Berlin (Germany).

Matt Haffner’s paintings and ink drawings on mylar with traditional photograph derive from film noir, comic book and contemporary popular media. This new series presents fictional and chaotic urban landscapes with remembrances of street life staged with transparent figures evoking a feeling of nostalgia.

After his solo show at Pentimenti Gallery, Matt Haffner will open in April 25, 2009 a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta. Haffner graduated from the University of Akron (BFA) and Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA (MFA). Recent exhibitions are: Rialto Center for the Arts, Georgia State University; Forward Arts Foundation - Swan Coach house, GA and in the collections of: KUNSTWERK Museum, Berlin (Germany); Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia; Alston and Bird LLP., Atlanta, GA; Charles McDougall, Director, Desperate Housewives; Anglo Irish Bank, Dublin / New York; Alabama Theatre, Birmingham, Al; Temple Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA; University of Akron, Akron Ohio as well as in various private collections.