Pentimenti

🔛 Now on view — “Lines are marked, yet we are all outsiders” featuring 10 artists from across Pennsylvania: Natessa Amin, Kathleen Eastwood-Riaño, Leslie Friedman, Vincent Hron, Jody Joyner, Henry Morales, Cobi Moules, Tania Qurashi, Peter Sparber, and Jonathan Wahl. Today, we are featuring the work of artist Jody Joyner.

🗓 Gallery Hours
Tuesday–Friday: 10 AM – 5 PM
Saturday: By appointment

📍 145 North Second Street
Philadelphia, PA

“I make sculptures from infrastructural objects like shipping pallets and storage crates. Produced as a byproduct of the global supply chain, packaging is fascinating to me in the way it’s been relegated to a secondary status– only existing to support and protect more precious objects, rarely the thing to be beheld itself. Through a kind of pseudo-alchemy, I transform discarded infrastructural objects with processes like casting, flocking, and UV printing to create novel forms.”

— Jody Joyner

Images I - III - Export Pallet V, 48 x 40 x 6 inches / 121 x 101 x 15 cm, found shipping pallet, flocking, enamel, sesame seeds, UV printing, 2026
Images IV - V - Offcut I, 11 x 9 inches / 28 x 23 cm, found crate, flocking enamel, found cardboard packaging, 2026
Image VI - Offcut II, 11 x 9 inches / 28 x 23 cm, found crate, flocking enamel, found cardboard packaging, 2026

🔛 Now on view — “Lines are marked, yet we are all outsiders,” featuring 10 artists from across Pennsylvania: Natessa Amin, Kathleen Eastwood-Riaño, Leslie Friedman, Vincent Hron, Jody Joyner, Henry Morales, Cobi Moules, Tania Qurashi, Peter Sparber, and Jonathan Wahl. Today, we are featuring the work of artist Peter Sparber.

🗓 Gallery Hours
Tuesday–Friday: 10 AM – 5 PM
Saturday: By appointment
📍 145 North Second Street
Philadelphia, PA

“The drawings are part of a series exploring the theater of celebrity through a recurring structure: the celebrity, their protectors, the press, and the audience...visible or implied. The celebrity may be political, cultural, or criminal, but the dynamics remain constant. We, the audience, are both observers and participants, drawn by proximity to power, glamour, or notoriety. In this ecosystem, attention becomes currency: our gaze, clicks, and fascination feed a system in which fame is produced, consumed, and monetized.”

— Peter Sparber

Image I – Gallery installation view
Images II - V – The Jester, 15 x 22 inches / 38 x 56 cm, 22.5 x 30 inches / 57 x 76 cm | Framed, oil pen on paper, 2025

🔛 Now on view — “Lines are marked, yet we are all outsiders,” featuring 10 artists from across Pennsylvania: Natessa Amin, Kathleen Eastwood-Riaño, Leslie Friedman, Vincent Hron, Jody Joyner, Henry Morales, Cobi Moules, Tania Qurashi, Peter Sparber, and Jonathan Wahl. Today, we are featuring the work of artist Jonathan Wahl.

🗓 Gallery Hours
Tuesday–Friday: 10 AM – 5 PM
Saturday, July 4: Closed

📍 145 North Second Street
Philadelphia, PA

“Jonathan Wahl’s current work is the result of his ongoing fascination with American Tinware. Tin objects of the colonial period were not just functional objects but tools that enabled our ‘Manifest Destiny” and the establishment of the United States. The tin lantern like the Conestoga wagon were the means that allowed the spread the ideals of “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness” and the creation of the American Republic. Utilizing the same means of manufacture and inspired by the original forms from the colonial period Wahl creates contemporary pieces to recontextualize the past in the present.

The work parallels the current political and cultural currents in the United States where Democratic, Revolutionary and Humanist ideals are morphed, subverted and evolve as our nation does. The function of the objects Wahl creates is not always clear, too many handles, too small a spout, an odd color but a familiar form, text that seems misleading or incomplete. The objects evoke familiarity, humble tools from a bygone past yet still recognizable. Wahl hopes these pieces illicit the same strange experience he feels today as an American, that things
seem in flux, changing without a definitive direction, that cultural forces are beyond our control, or with outcome that is vaguely associated with the ideals explicit in our founding documents.”

— Jonathan Wahl

Images I - III - Colonial Snuffy Vessel, 22 x 22 x 20 inches / 56 x 56 x 51 cm, fabricated tin, enamel paint, 2026