Box Spring Gallery Opens at Crane Arts

Gallery Launch/Opening Reception: Thursday, June 13, 6–9pm
Exhibition Duration: June 4–30, 2024
Crane Arts, 1400 N American St, 100C, Philadelphia, PA 19122
Gallery Hours: Thursday–Saturday, 12–6pm, and by appointment by emailing [email protected].
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A place to celebrate where art and design meet, Box Spring Gallery provides carefully curated exhibitions with opportunities to buy work from a variety of creatives.

MEMPHIS, MILANO, MIAMI

The inaugural exhibition MEMPHIS, MILANO, MIAMI at Box Spring Gallery demonstrates one way where art and design meet. The selected works, when shown together, bring to mind the Memphis Milano design movement and Miami deco-influenced postmodernism.

Italian design firm Memphis Milano, and a multitude of imitators of the design style, defined the 1980s. Whether in bright primary colors or whimsical pastels, the shapes were geometric and blocky. It was a nod to both Art Deco and Brutalism with a postmodern flair; edgy and playful at the same time. Similarly, Miami is famous for its Art Deco buildings and its beachy hues, and its postmodern and contemporary design clearly pays tribute to art deco, pop, but most of all FUN. These styles influenced architecture, fashion and graphic design of the time — think round edges, step downs, confetti patterns, Miami Vice.  

Participating artists: Terri Fridkin (prints, wood construction), Jeffrey Harris (pastel drawings), Robert Reinhardt (prints, collage).