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I was thrilled to have Don Brewer visit my stu­dio at 1241 Car­pen­ter. We had a great time open­ing up my flat files and talk­ing about my draw­ings stored inside as well as the kinds of mate­ri­als I like to use when I make my work. I gave him the full stu­dio tour.

excerpt from Don Brewer’s post on my stu­dio build­ing 1241 Car­pen­ter Street. The link to the full arti­cle is at the end of this post.

The hub of the top floor and cer­tainly the finest draw­ing stu­dio I’ve ever vis­ited is Stella Unta­lan‘s, equipped with all you could want for mark mak­ing and draw­ing.  The view over­look­ing Cen­ter City is inspir­ing enough but Stella has tricked out Mon­ica Turtle’s old space with cab­i­nets of draw­ers full of fine papers, unusual vel­lums, pen­cils, char­coal, chalk and mark­ers of all kinds with which she cre­ates her mys­te­ri­ous and oth­er­worldly drawing.

Stella Unta­lan, Philadel­phia Open Stu­dio Tours 2011 pho­tos ©2011 Don Brewer

Stella Unta­lan is an infor­ma­tion designer, owner of110 Church Street Gallery in Old City and mas­ter­mind behind the artists rep­re­sen­ta­tion web­site com­pany, Heavy­bub­ble.  Her draw­ings are com­pelling with meta-mathematical themes, bold swipes of char­coal and chalk across vel­vety vel­lum mashed up with intri­cate rows of alien-like script.  Maybe that’s her secret to all her vibrant energy, she’d not from here, Unta­lansounds Tamar­ian to me and her art speaks with metaphors, too.  “Temba, his arms wide/open.”

Full arti­cle about 1241 Car­pen­ter Street Stu­dios for POST >