July 14, 2009 - September 5, 2009

From July 14^th through September 5^th, Gallery 339 is pleased to present a selection of work by artist Sarah Stolfa from her award-winning series, The Regulars.  This exhibition coincides with the release of Stolfa’s first book, The Regulars, published by Artisan Books.  The Regulars will be available beginning July 1, 2009 and includes an introduction by best-selling author Jonathan Franzen.   The show will include images that have not previously been exhibited, and will be presented alongside this summer’s Yale MFA Photo exhibition, which Stolfa herself participated in last year. 

Gallery 339 originally showed images from The Regulars in 2006, just as the series was completed.  The series was subsequently exhibited in New York, and images from The Regulars have been included in art fairs and museum exhibitions around the country.  They have also been reproduced in many publications, including The New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker. In his introduction, Franzen says about Stolfa and The Regulars, “The magic of good portraiture, such as Stolfa’s, is to frame and de-reference human subjects in such a way as to evade our everyday judgments and restore the subjects to a natural world in which everything is interesting, everything incites sympathy and wonder, everything is worth a careful second look.  She’s a classical short-storyist of the camera.”

Stolfa made this remarkable body of work while tending bar at McGlinchey’s (one of Philadelphia’s oldest taverns) and while still an undergraduate at Drexel University.  She earned her BS in photography from Drexel University, Philadelphia, in 2005 and her MFA in Photography from Yale University in 2008.  She is represented by galleries in Philadelphia and New York, and her work has been collected by museums around the country, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.  Stolfa currently resides in Philadelphia and is the founder and Executive Director of the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, a non-profit organization which will open this summer.

Gallery 339 is located at 339 South 21^st Street (at the corner of Pine Street) in Center City, Philadelphia.  The Gallery is open Tuesday – Saturday, 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM, and Sunday and Monday by appointment.  For more information, contact Martin McNamara at 215-731-1530 or info@gallery339.com.