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Founded in 1968, Locks Gallery represents an international group of critically respected contemporary artists working in a wide variety of disciplines. The gallery exhibition program presents new works by mid-career artists while introducing the work of emerging artists to a national audience. Survey and thematic exhibitions of work by essential artists of the 20th-century are regular highlights of the gallery exhibition program.

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    Locks Gallery

    600 S. Washington Square
    Philadelphia, PA 19106

    Phone: 215-629-1000   |   Official Website

  • Current Events

    There are no current events available for this organization at this time.

  • Upcoming Events

    06/01/12- 07/13/12

    Ellen Harvey: Arcade/Arcadia Locks Gallery Ellen Harvey: Arcade/Arcadia Presented by Locks Gallery at Locks Gallery June 1-July 13, 2012 Ellen Harvey is known for her use of traditional media or aesthetics to create situations that call into question our expectations and desires for art. In Arcade/Arcadia (2011–12) an amusement arcade collides with a gallery to create an unsettling embodiment of how easily the desire for the sublime can collapse into an acceptance of commercial spectacle. From the outside, the viewer sees an old-fashioned aluminum fairground sign spelling out the word “ARCADIA” in six-foot...

    06/01/12- 07/13/12

    Jun Kaneko Locks Gallery Jun Kaneko Presented by Locks Gallery at Locks Gallery June 1-July 13, 2012 Locks Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of ceramic and bronze sculptures, and paintings by Jun Kaneko. The exhibit will feature 15 new and recent works from his ongoing dango series—the artist’s signature sculpture. These rounded forms are each unique in profile, surface design and coloring. The works for this exhibit specifically reference the human body or face, and Locks will exhibit a pair of his bronze heads for the first time. The art critic Arthur Danto has...

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  Upcoming Events

  • Current Events

    There are no current events available for this organization at this time.

  • Upcoming Events

    06/01/12- 07/13/12

    Ellen Harvey: Arcade/Arcadia Locks Gallery Ellen Harvey: Arcade/Arcadia Presented by Locks Gallery at Locks Gallery June 1-July 13, 2012 Ellen Harvey is known for her use of traditional media or aesthetics to create situations that call into question our expectations and desires for art. In Arcade/Arcadia (2011–12) an amusement arcade collides with a gallery to create an unsettling embodiment of how easily the desire for the sublime can collapse into an acceptance of commercial spectacle. From the outside, the viewer sees an old-fashioned aluminum fairground sign spelling out the word “ARCADIA” in six-foot...

    06/01/12- 07/13/12

    Jun Kaneko Locks Gallery Jun Kaneko Presented by Locks Gallery at Locks Gallery June 1-July 13, 2012 Locks Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of ceramic and bronze sculptures, and paintings by Jun Kaneko. The exhibit will feature 15 new and recent works from his ongoing dango series—the artist’s signature sculpture. These rounded forms are each unique in profile, surface design and coloring. The works for this exhibit specifically reference the human body or face, and Locks will exhibit a pair of his bronze heads for the first time. The art critic Arthur Danto has...

• Past
  Events

  • Past Events

    04/20/12- 05/25/12	Thomas Chimes: Symbolic Landscapes (1958-1962) Locks Gallery
    04/20/12- 05/25/12	Jennifer Bartlett: Addresses (1976-78) Locks Gallery
    03/02/12- 04/13/12	Orit Hofshi: Pharos Locks Gallery
    03/02/12- 04/13/12	Louise Nevelson: Sculpture and Collage Locks Gallery
    01/13/12- 02/25/12	True Stories Locks Gallery
    01/13/12- 02/25/12	Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib: 1967 Locks Gallery
    12/02/11- 12/31/11	Super Vision Locks Gallery
    11/18/11- 12/31/11	Elizabeth Osborne: Watercolors Locks Gallery
    10/14/11- 11/12/11	Ray Metzker: Philadelphia Elusive (1962-2009) Locks Gallery
    10/14/11- 11/26/11	Pat Steir: Water and Sand Locks Gallery
    09/09/11	Artist's receptions at Locks Gallery Locks Gallery
    09/01/11- 10/08/11	Neysa Grassi: Rose Gatherer, 2001–2011 Locks Gallery
    09/01/11- 10/08/11	Rob Wynne: Incognito Locks Gallery
    07/08/11- 08/19/11	Diane Burko: Photographs Locks Gallery
    07/08/11- 08/19/11	Diane Burko: Photographs Locks Gallery
    05/18/11- 06/30/11	Jennifer Bartlett: The Studio Inside Out Locks Gallery
    04/01/11- 05/04/11	The Insolent Eye - Alfred Jarry in Art Locks Gallery
    04/01/11- 05/13/11	Standing on the Edge: 20th Century Sculpture Locks Gallery
    02/15/11- 03/30/11	Elizabeth Osborne: New Works Locks Gallery
    02/04/11- 03/12/11	The Home Front: Jane Irish's Art of War Locks Gallery
    01/07/11- 02/05/11	Alterations Locks Gallery
    12/03/10	Ann Agee: Rules of the Pattern (Reception) Locks Gallery
    10/20/10- 11/13/10	Robert Motherwell: Paintings Locks Gallery
    10/01/10- 11/13/10	Warren Rohrer: ...To Make a Live Painting Locks Gallery
    09/10/10	Locks Gallery Presents: Edna Andrade and Eileen Neff Locks Gallery
    06/18/10- 07/30/10	Whiteout Locks Gallery
    05/07/10- 06/11/10	1968 Locks Gallery
    03/23/10- 04/24/10	Jill Bonovitz, Kathy Butterly, Betty Woodman Locks Gallery
    03/05/10- 04/10/10	John Moore: Shades of Gray Locks Gallery
    09/10/09- 10/16/09	Thomas Chimes Early Work Locks Gallery