Philly Art at Cornerstone Market!

Cornerstone Market, if you haven't heard, will be hosting its inaugural art exhibit next week! Cornerstone was a first time food vendor at the arts festival this year, and we hope to have them again next year! If you haven't been, there on the north side of Girard Ave, right between Front and Frankford. A nice place to stop and grab food for dinner just after you've gotten off of the El.

The juice:

Cornerstone Market & Produce presents its

Inaugural

Food & Art Event

Friday, June 19, 2009

6 PM to close

19 W. Girard Ave., Phila., PA 19123

Featuring local artist Hannah Taylor and her exhibition – No Pretty Girls Allowed. Join us for an evening of gourmet food, kickass art and discount shopping!!

Hannah’s current assemblage of work is an exploration in humanity’s grim determination to outmode itself. Mass media and the silent majority have set standards we can no longer keep up with and “reality,” what is supposedly being portrayed, has to take the slack for its failure. The dumbed-down qualities inherent in mass media have led us to believe in stock characters, stereotype, and most of all, the false belief that these generalizations are true.

Cultural satire, irony and contempt for mainstream ideals of beauty are rampant themes, with a strong emphasis placed on the grotesque and the dehumanization of women as a result from said ideals. What will be the ramifications these mass portrayals of women will have on the lowest common denominator standard? She likes to think of herself as a world-gone-wrong artist.

Hannah will be receiving her BFA in Painting from the University of the Arts in December 2009. Her work has been in several group shows from Philadelphia to Ireland. She aspires to become a professional portrait painter for corporate CEOs and other rich-types, because there is a hilarious irony in painting someone’s portrait for cash in the age of the photograph. She will most likely end up working for the Postal Service and spend her remaining hours in her studio wondering what will become of us all.