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"Inside/Outside" at Station Gallery in June 2008

2008-05-23T19:41:00.008-05:00

James and Kate Mundie will be exhibiting together for the first time in an exhibition called Inside/Outside: Kate Kern Mundie and James G. Mundie at The Station Gallery, 6 to 28 June 2008.

As befits the title, Kate will present recent interior paintings and Jim will be showing landscape paintings, drawings and prints. There will be an opening reception on Friday, 6 June 2008 from 5:00–8:00 PM.

The Station Gallery is located at 3922 Kennett Pike, Greenville DE 19807.

PRESS RELEASE

It's a boy!

2008-04-20T13:21:00.004-05:00

Jim and Kate Mundie are pleased to announce that our son Declan Fergus Mundie was born at Pennsylvania Hospital on Thursday, 17 April 2008. Declan clocked in at 7 pounds 12 ounces and 21 inches long.

Mom and baby are both home now and doing well. So far, Declan seems to be a good natured baby, and hardly fussy at all — a trend we hope continues until he is 25.

Nicola Black Design incorporates James Mundie photograph into new Dr. Sketchy's promo poster

2008-03-27T17:44:00.006-05:00

James Mundie is pleased that one of his photos of the Philthy Britches' own Violet Temper was used by Nicola Black Design to promote the latest installment of Dr. Sketchy's Philadelphia — which will feature Violet and three other dangerous divas from the Philly Roller Girls on the model stand.

Tickets for the 18 April 2008 event can be purchased now through BrownPaper Tickets.

To see more roller derby action, check out James' pics on his Flickr pages.

Photographs from European medical museums

2008-03-18T10:12:00.009-05:00

In 2007, James Mundie received a travel grant from the Center for Emerging Visual Artists in order to visit various medical and anatomy museums in Europe. In particular, he was interested in those museums with extensive teratology — the study of "monsters" — collections. During late January and early February 2008, James traveled to England, France and Holland drawing from and photographing (with permission of the curators of each institution) interesting specimens. This is seed material for a new body of work titled Cabinet of Wonders.

James took thousands of photographs on this trip, and you can see a small sampling of these images here.

Image: Hyperostosis (Musée Dupuytren) © 2008 James G. Mundie

James Mundie receives Individual Creative Artists Fellowship from Pennsylvania Council on the Arts

2008-02-15T11:06:00.005-05:00

Woo hoo! Jim returned from a European trip visiting medical museums to discover that he has been awarded a 2008 Individual Creative Artists Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.

From the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts press release of January 31st:

“Pennsylvania takes pride in the artistic excellence represented in these fellowship grants to individual artists,” said council Executive Director Philip Horn. “As creators and entrepreneurs, these artists help Pennsylvania’s creative economy flourish, which in turn enriches the commonwealth’s economy and our quality of life.”

Individual Creative Artists Fellowships are awarded annually in selected categories. The 2008 awards were available in dance - choreography; folk and traditional arts – performing traditions; literature – poetry; media arts – documentary and narrative; music – classical composition; theatre – scriptworks (for playwrights and screenwriters); and visual arts – painting or drawing/artist’s books/printmaking or new technologies/other genres.

The goal of the PCA’s individual creative artists division is to encourage and enable outstanding Pennsylvania artists of all backgrounds to perform their work and display it to the public. The council annually awards fellowships of $5,000 and $10,000.
Recipients are recommended after a rigorous evaluation process where qualified arts professionals review applicants’ work samples and support materials. The review process is anonymous, with the exception of the folk and traditional arts applications.

This year, the council will collaborate with the Institute for Cultural Partnerships, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation and Pittsburgh Filmmakers to provide administrative services for the PCA’s fellowship program.

The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts is a state agency that works to develop and promote the continued excellence, diversity and vitality of the arts in Pennsylvania, as well as to broaden the availability and appreciation of arts throughout the state.

For more information, visit www.pacouncilonthearts.org, or call 717-787-6883.

Kate Kern Mundie exhibits new paintings at F.A.N. Gallery

2007-12-29T16:39:00.000-05:00

Kate Kern Mundie is exhibiting eight paintings in a group show at F.A.N. Gallery, 4 through 26 January 2008. There will be an opening reception on Friday, January 4th from 5:00–9:00 PM.

F.A.N. Gallery is located at 221 Arch Street Street, Philadelphia PA 19106.

Image: Powhatan Creek, oil on paper © 2007 Kate Kern Mundie

New photographs from James Mundie

2007-12-29T16:21:00.000-05:00

Jim has recently posted several new sets to his Flickr photostream, including photographs from knock-down roller derby, the freaky fun of Sideshow Gathering 2007 and the Shocked and Amazed! mini-tour, and the saucy Dr. Sketchy's Philadelphia.

Image: Tyler Fyre (Shocked and Amazed! mini-tour) © 2007 James G. Mundie

NEW: Le Pétomane t-shirt

2007-11-19T11:45:00.000-05:00

Step right up and attire yourself in this fantastic tribute to one of the world's most unusual performers: Joseph Pujol — known on the stage of the famed Moulin Rouge as “Le Pétomane”, the Fartiste.

We kid you not. Pujol was hailed far and wide for the acoustic facilities of his rectum, which he manipulated to create all manner of sounds and left French audiences rolling in the aisles.

This illustration was originally created by James Mundie for volume 9 of James Taylor's Shocked and Amazed: On & Off the Midway, which is available now. But better than just reading about Pujol, you can proudly wear Le Pétomane emblazoned across your chest.

You may now purchase one for your very own through PayPal, or contact us to make other arrangements.

You go away on vacation...

2007-10-14T13:51:00.000-05:00

... and Caramel ceases to exist!

So, how weird is this? We hang Kate's show at Caramel on Wednesday, October 3rd, and we have the opening reception two nights later. Turn out is good and Kate sells a bunch of paintings (yippee!) — which is especially gratifying considering all the money that was spent on framing, advertising, etc. Everything seems spiffy, so on Saturday morning we leave for a week's vacation in Virginia.

We're still on vacation on Friday, October 12th, when I check the email and find a message from the new owner of Caramel — which it turns out shut its doors on Tuesday! What the...?! So, this show that was supposed to be up until Halloween was really only officially visible to the public for three days. Three days! We call the new guy to find out what's going on — because nobody from Caramel ever let on that anything like this was in the works — and basically we need to pick up Kate's work because they want to start gutting the place this week.

Jayzuz... you work really hard to be professional and put your best foot forward and somebody else comes along and screws up the whole thing. This happens time and time again in the art biz, so much so that we've come to expect that every exhibition will have some kind of colossal screw-up either by the gallery itself or a third party. But who winds up looking like a jerk? The artist.

Ah well, on the bright side, the people who bought paintings in the show are going to get them much faster than they expected, and we can spread some of the other paintings around to exhibition opportunities that just popped up.

Kate Kern Mundie: Delaware Valley Landscapes

2007-09-28T14:19:00.000-05:00

During the month of October, Kate Kern Mundie will be showing new and recent landscape paintings at Caramel in Philadelphia. The exhibition begins with an opening reception on October 5th, and continues through October 31st.

Caramel is located at 725 Walnut Street in Center City Philadelphia. Business hours are 7:30 AM to 6:30 PM (Monday—Friday) and 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM (Saturday).

Image: City Hall, oil on museum board, © 2007 Kate Kern Mundie

The American Gallery of Juror Art

2007-09-28T14:08:00.000-05:00

What do you mean you've never hear of it? Clearly, you haven't been paying attention to the latest developments in American legal machinations. All right, neither had we - but here is proof that jury duty pays off.

After Jim posted some sketches he did during jury duty, he was contacted by Anne Reed, a trial lawyer from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who writes a blog called Deliberations about the law and the jury selection process. Who would have thought that the humble drawings Jim made that day to pass the time would have found their way into the hallowed halls of The American Gallery of Juror Art?

Freeks and Geaks at Plowhaus

2007-07-14T09:28:00.000-05:00

James Mundie will be showing recent drawings, prints, and photographs alongside Col. J.D. Wilkes and Brett Whitacre in Freeks and Geaks at The Plowhaus, 20 July – 5 August 2007. An opening reception will be held on Friday, 20 July 2007 from 7 to 11:00 PM.

The Plowhaus is located at 211 South 17th Street, East Nashville TN 37206.

Exhibition news

2007-06-12T11:24:00.000-05:00

James Mundie's Young Woman with a Parasitic Twin Wearing a Mantilla and Basquiña was selected for the 40th anniversary edition of Art of the State® at the State Museum of Pennsylvania. Furthermore, James was recently informed that his piece received an award in the Works on Paper category.

Art of the State: Pennsylvania 2007 will be held 9 June through 9 September 2007. The State Museum of Pennsylvania is located at 300 North Street, Harrisburg PA 17120.

Kate Kern Mundie is showing a new drawing in the Annual Faculty Exhibition at the Fleisher Art Memorial, 19 May through 13 July 2007. Fleisher Art Memorial is located at 719 Catharine Street, Philadelphia PA 19147.

New photo sets on Flickr

2007-06-12T10:38:00.000-05:00

James Mundie has recently added several new photo sets to his Flickr pages:

Eastern State Penitentiary set

and

South Philly set

James Mundie receives Alumni Travel Grant from CFEVA

2007-06-12T10:24:00.000-05:00

James Mundie is pleased to announce that he has received an Alumni Travel Grant from the Center for Emerging Visual Artists (CFEVA) — formerly Creative Artists Network.

James will be using the funds from this grant to visit medical collections in Europe. He hopes to spend time in several museums, drawing and sketching on site from unusual specimens in order to find new source material for a body of work tentatively titled Cabinet of Curiosities.

Collecting sideshow items

2007-03-23T11:43:00.000-05:00

In a bit of blogging cross-pollination, Jim was recently interviewed about his collection of historic sideshow items on Ephemera: exploring the world of old paper.

New work posted to MundieArt.com

2007-02-23T13:49:00.000-05:00

We have just uploaded a whole bunch of new paintings by Kate and new drawings by Jim to MundieArt.com. Check them out!

Image: Cherry Tomatoes, oil on mylar, © 2006 Kate Kern Mundie

Kate Mundie's Seasonal Landscapes at Fleisher

2007-01-30T20:06:00.000-05:00

Kate Kern Mundie will show new landscape paintings in an exhibition in the Faculty Gallery of the Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial. The show begins with an opening reception from 5:30-7:30 PM on Friday, February 16th, and continues through March 17th, 2007.

The exhibition features paintings of locations around the Philadelphia area to which Kate returned several times over the past eight months. The exercise was an attempt to capture how each location changes over the course of the year.

The Fleisher Art Memorial is located at 719 Catharine Street in South Philadelphia. Gallery hours are 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM (Monday through Friday), 6:30 to 9:30 PM (Tuesday through Thursday), and 10:00 AM to 3:30 PM (Saturday).

Image: South Street Bridge, oil on paper, © 2006 Kate Kern Mundie

Quality artwork at affordable prices

2006-12-07T22:33:00.000-05:00

For the month of December, James and Kate Mundie are holding a major online studio sale of original paintings, drawings, etchings, woodcuts and photographs - at deeply discounted rates. Furthermore, you may make your purchases safely and securely with PayPal.

But wait, there's more! We are also offering free shipping within the United States. This is a limited time offer, so hurry up and get 'em while they're hot!

e-commerce discussion with Libby Rosof on ArtBlog

2006-12-02T13:47:00.000-05:00

Libby Rosof of ArtBlog was curious about my recent adventures in online art sales, and has posted part of our conversation here.

Photographs of Eastern State Penitentiary

2006-11-16T21:22:00.000-05:00

Last week Kate and I spent an afternoon poking through the gloomy but beautiful ruin that is Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary. While Kate set up her easel to paint, I wandered around with my camera.

Eastern State opened in 1829. Unlike earlier prisons in which criminals — regardless of offense, age or gender — were herded into large holding pens, Eastern State was based upon Quaker ideas of redemption through isolation and labor. The theory was that left alone to contemplate the errors of their ways without distraction from other prisoners or the outside world, inmates would become truly penitent — hence the name of the new prison model.

Architect John Haviland's original seven-wing design radiating from a central surveillance hub represents the advent of modern architecture in America. Each prisoner had his own centrally heated cell with running water, flush toilet and skylight, plus an adjacent private exercise yard. This “machine for reform” proved so revolutionary that both the building's design and the Pennsylvania System (as it came to be known) served as the model for hundreds of prisons around the world.

Eastern State Penitentiary operated for more than 140 years until it was finally abandoned in 1971. Today the site is preserved as a historic site.