Listed on the National Registry of Historic Places, Park Towne Place offers a robust and award-winning art program that includes rotational exhibits, engaging artist talks, and hands-on workshops. This complements an extensive permanent collection featuring 150 artworks from over 110 artists.
Located in the heart of Philadelphia’s cultural district on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, you’ll find fine art around every corner.
In Human Scale, artists explore how they perceive and engage with the carefully designed structures that shape our built environment. By examining the formal elements of architecture and uncovering the layered histories within buildings, five artists find inspiration in edifices—industrial, residential, and commercial alike—drawing from their beauty, functionality, and cultural significance.
Janos Korodi investigates architecture and urbanism through a social and environmental lens, capturing spaces and forms that shape our environment. Similarly, David Beker responds to the structures around us, juxtaposing industrial elements with the idea of “home” in his functional and abstract sculptures. Through this tension and balance, his work reflects the complexities of the modern world. Likewise, Philadelphia’s rich architecture, Allen Spencer and Deborah Imler, convey their immense love for the city with their photographic assemblages highlighting its facades through intricate patterns and layered compositions.
Additionally, Anna Guarneri emphasizes the interplay between humans and architectural structures through her colorful and playful stained glass Body/Building series and mixed-media works. At the same time, Krista Svalbonas, reflecting on her family’s history of migration, addresses the ideas of displacement and belonging, capturing the emotional resonance of impermanence in the series Migrant and Migrator.
Collectively, the artists of Human Scale reveal that adapting, building, and cohabiting are fundamentals of the human experience. Their works demonstrate that our physical surroundings are not merely a backdrop, but an active force in shaping identity, memory, and community.
Inspired by climate systems and the ever-changing landscape, the five artists of Material Time evaluate and deconstruct patterns and forms found in nature. Working with materials and processes that are both natural and human, each artist offers ways of being with environments, acting as both witnesses and agents of transformation.
In the wake of altered climate systems and human disruption, Material Time serves as a catalyst for contemplation, urging individuals to consider their relationship with and their role within an ever-changing environment.
