Photos: Made in America / Stupid Easy Show

First Fridays are no strangers to us as we have made plenty of journeys to Philadelphia’s Old City in the past couple of years. This past Friday, McJawn and Phrequency presented the Made In America art show at the Trust Gallery with a portion of the sales going to a fund for Sabina Rose. The show featured a mixture of 40+ artists with pieces ranging from wood carvings to bottle cap art to traditional paintings.








This was my favorite piece of the show for the simple fact that I wrote his name down…Alex Passapera. It carried the style of a traditional painting but showed plenty of elements to characterized itself into Neo-Pop. I found it pretty nifty that not only did the females have squid heads, but also male body parts. At first glance, it reminded me of Botticelli’s Birth of Venus but with slimmer bodies and what I would think to be a total opposite title … ‘Death of Sheep’.




Along the way to Brave New World comic book shop, we stumbled into carnival-like festivities and artist alleys.


The art gallery at the comic book shop attracts their avid followers every month, with this month’s pieces being mostly themed around popular culture characters.

The Ren and Stimpy piece was my favorite. Although the piece itse’f is a print, it reminded of a time when I was fascinated with collecting limited edition animation cels.

Rocko’s Modern life fits somewhere in my top 10 Nickelodeon cartoons of all time…and I’m sticking with it.

Before it got too late we made our way to the Speak Easy Art Show presented by 215tayyib and Questlove. The show feature a few local artist like Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, El Toro, and FlyGirrl.

El Toro strike again.

Later I ran into some friends from Sweettooth Specialtees who set up some pieces outside of the galleries.