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First Friday Picks


In Olde City on Oct. 6, you could start and end the first First Friday of the season at the Painted Bride (230 Vine St, 925-9914). The Bride is shutting down the art gallery at 7 p.m., an hour earlier than everyone else; however, at 8 p.m. it will open its Video Cafe to premiere Eyes: Black At You, a selection of ten short works by the ImageWeavers, Philadelphia's first black women's media collective. And in the Bride gallery, Incarceration: Two Perspectives may be the last satellite show connected with Prison Sentences, which closes Oct. 29 at Eastern State Penitentiary. The show features the work of photographer Masumi Hayashi, who collages multiple points-of-view into a single panorama, and an installation by Japanese-American Hiroshi Kariya, emphasizing the individual's responsibility for his spiritual state.

Moderne Gallery's (111 N. 3rd St, 923-8536) Rethinking English Arts and Crafts: The Modernist Tradition in Turn-of-the-Century British Design has a long title, but it needs to explain itself — it's unique! Simple graceful forms reflect the arts of Japan and modern machine production in furniture and decorative objects and counter the popular image of turgid "medieval" design advocated by Ruskin and Morris.

Subculture Gallery Old City (138 N. 3rd, 413-1063) has inaugurated a new policy of solo shows. Sol Robbins'Business As Usual drawings present scathing social commentary reminiscent of George Grosz.

Other shows worth fighting through the door for: Don Springer's subtle Street Work photographs at Zone One (139 N. 2nd, 829-8995) and C.W. Wells'Planet Shindig : slightly zany ceramic sculptures reminiscent of Chinese and Pre-Colombian tomb figures at Nexus (137 N. 2nd St, 629-1103).

Tom Judd's landscapes on found surfaces at Snyderman Gallery (303 Cherry, 238-9576) are lush and panoramic. Respected sculptor Donna Dennis'Public and Private Works at Gallery Joe (304 Arch St, 592-7752) range from models for big commissions to intimate light boxes and monotypes.

— Robin Rice

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