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Artist Cathy Abramson
Chevy Chase, Maryland USA
Fishtown
Oil Painting
Artist Statement
“Fishtown” is based on photographs I took of this Philadelphia, PA neighborhood composed of narrow streets in an area north of Girard Street. It is a neighborhood in transition with bars, restaurants and art galleries springing up in a working class neighborhood. My husband and I walked the neighborhood on a grey, late winter day and noticed the graffiti on the wall opposite the scene I painted, it was a reference to an album, “Kurt Vile–Wakin On a Pretty Daze.” At one point the mural was embellished by other graffiti artists and the artist behind the mural, Stephen “ESPO” Powers, wrote that the evolving mural “returned graffiti to its rightful place on the Philadelphia cultural landscape, dead center where it doesn’t belong”. I have listened extensively to his namesake, Kurt Weill’s “Three Penny Opera” and thought that the neighborhood, the mural and the grittiness of the El and warehouses I painted were evocative of Weill’s music, dark but with an intimation of hope.
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