Dale McCarthy - Forbidden Light

4th February - 31st March

opening reception 6th February 5-8pm

Forbidden Light

The SPACE Art Gallery proudly welcomes Philadelphia-based photographer Dale McCarthy with his infrared photography journey of discovery through Wissahickon Valley Park in Philadelphia
McCarthy is a color darkroom instructor at Fleisher Art Memorial and a member of the Halide Project, where his commitment to traditional photographic methods is matched by a spirit of experimentation. His work has been exhibited in a range of group shows and published in Incandescent, mutiny!, Float Photo Magazine, and the Winter 2026 issue of The Hand.

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Chris Hytha - Rowhomes & Highrises

1st September - 15th November

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Rowhomes & Highrises

The SPACE Art Gallery proudly welcomes Philadelphia-based photographer Chris Hytha with his acclaimed visual projects: Rowhomes and Highrises.
Chris gained international notoriety with his Highrises series. And, debuting at The SPACE ART Gallery, Chris is showing his fine art Rowhomes series; a love letter to Philadelphia’s iconic housing typology. Chris’ visual storytelling goes beyond documentation. His work reframes the cityscape through clarity, elevation, and emotion. Join us in celebrating the architectural spirit of our cities—one brick, one cornice, one view at a time.

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Gurushots

August 22nd - 24th 2025

Gurushots

The SPACE Art Gallery welcomes Gurushots “The Worlds Greatest Photography Game” to Philadelphia.
Showcasing the winning entries from The Perfect Shot and Best of Black and White. Enter below at Gurushots for your chance to be exhibited at future winner’s shows.

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Frederic Bushman- Urban Collaboration

1st June - 31st August

Artist reception Fri Jun 20th 5-8pm

Urban Collaboration

The SPACE Art Gallery proudly presents “Urban Collaboration” by photographer and scientist Frederic Bushman. The images are a visual representation of unwitting collaborations over time, reflecting the efforts of whoever built the wall, the subsequent graffiti artist(s), the natural elements that eroded the paint, and himself, the photographer/digital editor who refined and memorialized the work.

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Jay Schwartz - I Belonged to the Blank Generation

Apr 1st - May 31st

I Belonged to the Blank Generation

The SPACE Art Gallery is thrilled to announce a landmark exhibition showcasing the evocative and raw silver gelatin photography of Jay Schwartz, chronicling the electric punk and new wave scene in Philadelphia from 1977 to 1980.
This extraordinary collection captures a transformative moment in rock history, offering a rare glimpse into the heart of a cultural revolution. Including Talking Heads, The Ramones, The Jam, The B-52’s, and more.

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Gurushots

Mar 14-16 2025

Gurushots

The SPACE Art Gallery welcomes Gurushots “The Worlds Greatest Photography Game” to Philadelphia for its 5th show.
Showcasing the winning entries. Enter below at Gurushots for your chance to be exhibited

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Stephen Perloff

Feb 1st - Mar 31st 2025

Old Masters Revisited

The SPACE Art Gallery welcomes Stephen Perloff and his show Old Masters Revisited.
Stephen, the founder and editor of The Photo Review and editor of The Photograph Collector, brings his extensive knowledge of photography and art to his creative work. In this particular body of work, he uses his expertise in the digital darkroom to reimagine the artwork of Baroque, Rococo, and Romantic masters. By creating photographic vignettes, Stephen translates the meaning and essence of these 17th- to early 19th-century masterpieces into a contemporary 21st-century context. His work bridges the gap between the past and present, offering a fresh interpretation of classical art through the lens of modern photography and digital manipulation.

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Gurushots

Dec 13-15 2024

Gurushots

The SPACE Art Gallery welcomes Gurushots “The Worlds Greatest Photography Game” to Philadelphia for its 4th show.
Showcasing the winning entries. Enter below at Gurushots for your chance to be exhibited

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Winter Group Show

Nov 13th 2024 - Jan 31st 2025

Winter Group Show 2024

The SPACE Art Gallery welcomes back Amie Potsic, Christopher Brown, Joseph G Brin, and Craig Blankenhorn, for a Winter shopping experience to remember!

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Craig Blankenhorn

September 4 - Nov 4 2024

Opening Reception and Artist Talk Saturday September 7th 12-4pm

Shadows and Reflections

The Space Art Gallery welcomes Craig Blankenhorn and his inaugural show of his fine art.
Craig has worked as a still photographer on some of the most iconic television shows in America - Sex and the City, The Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire, Succession and Only Murders in the Building are a few examples. His perfectly captured dramatic moments are regularly displayed in Times Square and the like. But, unbeknown to most, Craig has also been capturing the dramatic moments of New Yorkers and others across the country. Now, for the first time, Craig is sharing his personal work—telling the stories of everyday people in a single shot.

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Joseph G Brin

June 1 - Aug 31 2024

Side Walks

The Space Art Gallery welcomes Joseph G Brin who has been walking across cities as a photographer for over 50 years, looking ahead, glancing aside, crouching down or looking up.
Side Walks is Brin’s inaugural solo show introducing you, the viewer, to Philadelphia from his perspective

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Christopher Brown

Apr 1 - May 31 2024

Fragile Wonderscapes

The Space Art Gallery welcomes back photographer Christopher Brown and his captivating cyanotypes featuring Dale Chihuly's blown glass abstract landscapes. Brown's work, characterized by its stunning interplay of light and form, offers viewers a unique perspective on Chihuly's masterpieces.

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Amie Potsic

Jan 27 - Mar 31 2024

Opening Reception:
Saturday, February 3, 2024, 2:00 – 5:00 pm

Seeker

The SPACE Art Gallery welcomes Photographer Amie Potsic. Seeker is a solo exhibition highlighting the contemporary artist’s feminist photography created while backpacking alone for one year in India and Israel at the age of 23.
Defying the stereotype of the heroic male photographer, Potsic traversed the Negev Desert and scaled the Himalayas with her Hasselbald camera and 100 rolls of film. Through a female gaze, she documented visual splendor, human dignity, and the role of women in their communities. Her lens revealed a multifaceted experience of the depth of ritual and resilience of tradition in the eastern and western Holylands. This exhibition presents the artist’s original photographs as well as mixed media works, memoir, and a monograph created through decades of reflection upon female empowerment, gender politics, and religious patriarchy.

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Winter Group Show 2023

Dec 1st 2023 - Jan 26th 2024

Winter Group Show 2023

The SPACE Art Gallery welcomes back Chuck Kelton with new work accompanied by Stuart Rome, Christopher Kirkwood, Jerad Armijo and Christopher Brown for a Winter shopping experience to remember!

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Stuart Rome

Sept 23rd - Nov 30th 2023

Oculus

The SPACE Art Gallery welcomes Photographer Stuart Rome.
Oculus is a solo exhibition of photographs made from with-inside ancient, living redwoods and sequoias in the American west. These giant trees are hollowed-out from millennia of lightning strikes and fires, and they form apertures to the sky and the canopy above. Though hollow, these trees remain very much alive and their charcoal dark interiors reveal strange shapes that suggest a passage from one recognizable world to another that is like a waking dream.

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Christopher Kirkwood

July 15th - Sept 22nd 2023

Capturing Iconic Comfort

The SPACE Art Gallery welcomes Christopher Kirkwood with Capturing Iconic Comfort: A Visual Journey into Mid-Century Modern Chairs
Through the lens of talented photographer Christopher Kirkwood, this exhibit brings together a carefully curated collection of images that showcase the exceptional craftsmanship, innovative forms, and enduring appeal of mid-century modern chairs. From the sleek lines of the Eames Lounge Chair to the organic shapes of the Arne Jacobsen Egg Chair, each photograph serves as a window into the fascinating world of design that characterized this influential period.

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Jerad Armijo

April 1st - May 31st 2023

Away I Flew

As I’ve evolved as a human, so too has my artistic expression. Traversing through life, I have noticed that it is becoming increasingly more difficult to be human. For 15 years I’ve honed in on my artistic eye, to create my current aesthetic.
My experience with chromesthesia means that I am able to harness color to create delicate, light and compositionally balanced art. I often strive to find otherworldly, desolate, and surreal scenes with peculiar colors which I use to express my life’s journey. It is my hope that my work will connect others while creating a safe space for me to process life’s atrocities.

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Christopher Brown

February 1st - March 31st 2023

Aqua Cadens

The SPACE Art Gallery welcomes back Christopher Brown with Aqua Cadens
What happens when water tumbles over a rock or down a steep slope? Aqua Cadens, is just that, a collection of water under the influence of gravity and photographic light, utilizing long exposure creating a curtain of silky water has been the paint brush of the classical photographer. Photographed using both analog and digital methods, Aqua Cadens have been captured by the silver bromide in the emulsion or digitized and pixelated to create water with personalities.

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Robert Carter

October 14th - Dec 3rd 2022

Opening Reception Friday October 14th 5-8pm

Atemporal Artefacts

The SPACE Art Gallery welcomes back Robert Carter
for the debut of Atemporal Artefacts.
Drawing inspiration from some of the most important relics and artistic eras of human history, this photographic series poses the question of what future art histories could look like. These modern, ‘living artifacts’ assume Blackness as a state of divinity, seamlessly blending elements of afrofuturism, ancient history, and cinematic aesthetics into a cohesive, otherworldly tapestry.

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Gurushots

September 30th - October 2nd

Gurushots

The SPACE Art Gallery welcomes Gurushots “The Worlds Greatest Photography Game” to Philadelphia.
Showcasing the winning entries from The Creative Composition contest and Best of Black and White. Enter below at Gurushots for your chance to be exhibited

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Rick Freeman

August 1st - September 29th 2022

FireFace

The SPACE Art Gallery welcomes Rick Freeman and his inexhaustible urge to suspend in time the transitory energy, beauty, and mystery of a firework.

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Jennifer Louise

June 8th - July 31st 2022

Altered State

The SPACE Art Gallery welcomes Jennifer Louise’s inaugural solo exhibit.
“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” - Wayne Dyer
Using multiple exposures, Jennifer manipulates her environment by adjusting focus and camera orientation to create a new form: an altered scene that deviates from each photo’s original state and challenges the viewer to view both from a new perspective.
“Altered State” is unaltered by photo processing programs, however that doesn’t mean it won’t alter one’s view of things.

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Chuck Kelton

April 1st - May 31st 2022

Dipped In Gold

The SPACE Art Gallery welcomes Chuck Kelton. Through his exploration and love of the photographic process, he works inside his darkroom transforming light, black and white chemicals, and paper into rich abstract landscapes full of fire and mystery. Describing his approach as “calligraphy with chemistry,” Chuck Kelton’s cameraless photography invites us into his romantic world that is delicate and composed.

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Richard Bowen

Feb 1st - March 31st 2022

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The SPACE Art Gallery welcomes the moving portraiture of photographer Richard Bowen, capturing the spirit of girls living in China’s state run welfare institutions circa 2000.
This show benefits OneSky. OneSky teaches communities and caregivers to provide nurturing responsive care and early education that unlocks the potential hidden in our worlds most vulnerable young children.

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Altera Vita Photo Contest 2021 Winners Show

Jan 1 - 31 2022

Altera Vita Photo Contest Winners Show 2021

The SPACE Art Gallery welcomes the inaugural winners show from The AlteraVita Photo Contest juried by Stephen Perloff.

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Winter Show 2021

Nov 16 - Dec 31 2021

Winter Group Show 2021

The SPACE Art Gallery welcomes back JS Cela with new work accompanied by Robert Carter, JD Dragan and Christopher Brown for a Winter shopping experience to remember!

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JD Dragan

Oct - Nov 15, 2021

Modern Day Classics

The SPACE Art Gallery welcomes JD Dragan and his beautiful portraiture of the Black male body.
From Michelangelo’s David through Weston’s Pepper, Dragan brings a multitude of classic and contemporary art history influences to his images. The result is “Modern Day Classics”.

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Robert Carter Sept 2021

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“Femme Noire” – celebrates the intersection of art and design through the lens of world history and Black artists. Featuring couture designs by Philadelphia’s Dom Streater, the series explores graphic textiles inspired by queens throughout history, and arresting silhouettes that are at once timeless and fresh.

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Christopher Brown January - February 2021

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The SPACE Art Gallery welcomes back Christopher Brown as an exhibiting Artist. His body of work 'A Splash of Color' captures the integration of color and motion from nature, whether it is a blur from an intentional camera movement or from the natural ebb and flow of the world around us. Extended exposures create abstractions that are accompanied by beautiful landscape portraits to create a vibrant eye-catching photography show for a fresh start to 2021.

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A. Clifford Hotchkiss Mar 1st - 31st 2020

Our Hidden Faces
& Tintypes

The SPACE welcomes Photographer A.Clifford Hotchkiss with his beautifully crafted wet plate collodion Tintypes and his intimate photographic exposé on the facets of mental illness.
“Our Hidden Faces” seeks to educate us about the personal impact of having to put on a public face to hide your feelings by showing multiple exposures on a single piece of film.

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William T. Dowell Dec 1st 2019 - Jan 31st 2020

The Gift of Water

Covering the news for more than half a century, William Dowell has worked on assignment in five continents.
“Gift of Water,” his first solo exhibition at The SPACE Art Gallery, focuses on the individuals from the mountains of the Hindu Kush to the depths of the Congo and their dependence and interaction with one of the five basic elements of the universe.

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J.S. Cela Oct 1st - Nov 16th

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Trailblazing the next generation of NYC’s Street Photographers, Joe’s work has been part of The Recontres d’Artes and NYC Galleries. Now coming to Philadelphia, his transformational imagery encapsulates the essence of the modern-day Social Landscape

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Keith B. Fred Sept 1st-30th 2019

Palimpsest

“Palimpsest,” meaning layers upon layers, is a perfect way to describe photographer Keith Fred’s texturally rich abstracts of the ever-changing soul of the urban environment.

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Christopher J Brown Jun 1st - Aug 31st 2019

Owls

A wise old Owl sat in an Oak: The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why can't we all be like that wise old bird? (Anonymous)

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