Through Nov. 15, Projects Gallery, 629 N. Second St., 267-303-9652, projectsgallery.com
Working in mixed media, Margery Amdur takes floral art beyond gynecology-centric Georgia O'Keeffe wannabes and Painting 101 amateurs. Her work is abstract, full of layers, textures and colors, both vibrant and neutral. Surrogate #1 (pictured) bursts with hot reds, cool blues and deep oranges, but is overlaid with a beige mist, giving the work a dreamy quality.
Check Out My Junk
Through Nov. 13, 12 Steps Down, 831 Christian St., 215-238-0379, 12stepsdown.com
Matt Brownlee, a tattoo artist at Baker Street Tattoos in Media, is showing at Bella Vista dive 12 Steps Down, where he is a regular. But Brownlee's day job and venue don't prepare you for his work: wood cuts and paintings with Tibetan and Buddhist imagery. "As a tattoo artist, I'm trying to do a job and please the client," he says on the phone, with a tattoo needle whirring in the background. (No worries — he wasn't working at the time.) "The show is stuff I like doing."
Invented Landscapes
Through Nov. 14, Yo Darkroom, 113 N. 23rd St., 215-789-9032, yodarkroom.com
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Yo Darkroom takes the tried and true artform of landscape photography and breathes new life into it with an avant garde twist. The nine artists on display take different approaches on dealing with the vast expanse in front of them. Chris Macan's Barnegat Light would be a standard shot of a lighthouse if the photo were not manipulated to utilize a bright wine-colored flora and a gradient of blues for the sky.
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`I think Chima and the other Brazzillian steak house are both tourist traps, selling mediocre food, at really expensive prices, and making drinks that ` »
`This is a terrible story (I mean the content, not the reporting). It's still hard to know what happened in this individual case. I hope some outside ` »
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