Honoring the Women of
Stanek Gallery

Stanek Gallery is participating in (re)FOCUS: Philadelphia Focuses on Women in the Visual Arts, a citywide festival recognizing women artists. Stanek Gallery recognizes the critical role of women in the arts and is celebrating their creative contributions with this virtual exhibition which culminates in a exclusive buyers' event on May 18th. This exhibition has also been featured in "(re)FOCUS: Then and Now" which shines a light on women in art and Feminist Art from their first core show in 1974 as well as contemporary women artists.

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Join us on May 18th for a special buyer's event and cocktail reception to Honor to Women of Stanek Gallery in association with (re)FOCUS magazine. Drinks and light fare will be served as you peruse the work of our represented and featured women artists.

Admission to this event will also allow access to an exclusive silent auction. All works included in the show are available for bids! At Stanek Gallery, our silent auctions are a fan favorite - our artists are fully compensated for artwork that is sold as opposed to traditional auction formats where the work is donated and artists do not receive payment. The gallery absorbs discounts passed on to buyers, allowing the artist to be paid for their work.

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Stanek Gallery is a women-owned, all-women-run gallery in the Northern Liberties neighborhood of Philadelphia where over 50% of represented artists are also women. Our innovative exhibition programs demonstrate how distinctive styles, content, and genres can coexist in the same room with harmony and intrigue. At Stanek Gallery, we do not dictate what the artist creates, and we do not discriminate. The highly selective curation process prioritizes quality of content, craft, and creativity above all else, so it is no surprise that women make up more than half of our exhibiting artists.

Our represented women artists are Tamie Beldue, Jacqueline Boyd, Deborah Fine, Barbara Fisher, Carson Fox, Stanka Kordic, Kathy Loev Putnam, Nicole Michaud, Mary Nomecos, Rachel Romano, Leona Shanks, Mary Spinelli, Katherine Stanek, Louise Strawbridge, Christina Weaver, and Treacy Ziegler. This exhibition also includes work by guest artists Donna Usher and Donna Quinn as well as gallery assistant Isabella Del Signore and manager Jennifer Bedford.

Source: Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report 2019, as reported in The Art Newspaper article, “Gallery representation dwindles for 'established' female artists, new research finds,” January 25, 2019.

studio photograph of artist Katherine Stanek teaching a course

photograph of Rachel Romano in her studio with Katherine Stanek and Jennifer Bedford

Studio photograph of artist Nicole Michaud

Photographs taken by Gallery Assistant Bella Lucy of Gallery Owner & Director Katherine Stanek and Gallery Artists Treacy Ziegler, Rachel Romano, and Nicole Michaud.

The Women We Are Honoring In This Project Are:

Jennifer Bedford

Born in Alnwick, England, Jennifer Bedford is a dual English and American citizen currently residing in Philadelphia. Bedford has always had a deep love for art, art history, and the philosophy of art and has worked in art studios, museums, and now Stanek Gallery as the gallery manager. Bedford attended the University of Delaware between 2011-2015 and received a BA in Art History and another in Art Conservation. There, she learned how to create, understand, replicate, and repair artworks from a multitude of cultures, time periods, and materials. Then, she moved back to Europe to complete an MA in the History and Philosophy of Art, travel, visit museums, and make art. When her final semester in Paris ended, Bedford found herself returning to Pennsylvania, where she spent her childhood, and revisiting her love for painting and gilding. She worked on commissions, at an art studio for adults with developmental and intellectual disabilities, and as a TA to help pay for her PhD in Art History at Tyler School of Art and Architecture which focused on Artificial Intelligence and the concept of creativity as a skill. Ultimately, Bedford left the program during COVID, turned a room in her apartment into an art studio, and started working as a gallery manager at Stanek Gallery. She is a certified archery instructor, has published a short novel, and is currently collaborating on a children’s book with artist Bella Lucy. Bedford continues to live and work in Philadelphia, travel the globe, and paint figurative works in oil.

Tamie Beldue

Born in upstate New York, Tamie Beldue is a contemporary American artist focused in mixed media drawings. Beldue received a BFA from the Columbus College of Art & Design and earned her MFA at the University of Cincinnati. Beldue has exhibited extensively in the US in group and solo exhibitions, including the Fort Wayne Museum of Art Realism Biennial, Southern Ohio Museum, North Carolina Museum of Art, Mobile Museum of Art, the Arnot Art Museum’s Re-Presenting Representation and the Fontbonne University Fine Arts Gallery. Her works are in the permanent collections of the Arnot Museum of Art, The DeYoung Museum, Howard & Judy Tullman Collection, James T. Dyke Collection of Contemporary Drawings and the Sandy & Diane Besser Collection. Currently she is represented by Blue Spiral Galleries in Asheville, NC and is an Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina Asheville.

Jacqueline Boyd

Jacqueline Boyd was born and raised in Brigantine, New Jersey. The artist built a professional career managing her family sign shop alongside her father and two brothers. With a burning desire to create, Boyd uprooted her life and committed to her calling for painting in the early 2000s. The determined artist commuted from the comfort of her island home to Philadelphia every day to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, graduating in 2007. Boyd’s work is inspired by her deep connections to home, family, and nature that have fulfilled her day-to-day life on the coast.
Jacqueline Boyd shows her gratitude for these elements by painting imagery of treasured spaces, places, landscapes, and daily objects such as plants, books, and personal memorabilia. Although her paintings begin as recognizable compositions, Boyd alters the perceived reality of the imagery by adding and subtracting paint and blending subjects together with one another as well as with the background. She plays with perspective, transparency, texture, and color to visualize the essence of a place or thing, rather than reproducing reality. The result is imagery that resonates with viewers.
Jacqueline Boyd maintains a consistent studio practice where intuition guides the brush as she captures her emotional relationship to the subject matter. Her subjects continue to evolve and flourish, even past the painting plane. Boyd pushes her practice by experimenting with found materials, exemplified in her newest collage series: “Fragments.” The artist has been recognized locally for her vision by the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and has been featured in galleries throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Isabella Del Signore

Isabella Del Signore was born in the "Main Line" area outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 2000. She found her personal style of kinetic lines and intricate detail in high school, where she found her hunger for art and realized that it HAD to be her livelihood. It was then that Isabella Del Signore became determined to make it so.

Isabella Del Signore obtained her BFA from The Pennsylvania State University in 2022 which also enabled her to study abroad at Studio Arts College International in Florence, Italy in 2020. Additionally, Del Signore recently completed a residency at Mauser Ecohouse in Costa Rica where she painted 3 large-scale murals. Despite her young age, Del Signore has made big moves in the art world and has already been exhibited at Stanek Gallery, Main Line Art Center, Bellefonte Art Museum, 3 Dots Downtown, and Sitar Arts Center. She has also been commissioned to produce public murals in Haverford High School, Housing Transitions and 3 Dots Downtown in State College in addition to two private murals in a Center City luxury home.

Del Signore is an illustrator, painter, and animator who is passionate about using art to tap into the chaos of the world and create harmony and unity. She utilizes vibrant colors, unconventional proportions, and intricate details to create otherworldly characters and environments that push back against society’s standards for normalcy. Influenced by the impermanence of existence, Del Signore creates her surrealist imagery to capture the preciousness of human relationships and moments of spontaneity.

Honoring the Women of Stanek Gallery

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