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Article: Garden Rules; A new gallery in Northern Liberties brings public art to the neighborhood.
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- Philadelphia Weekly
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- September 15, 2004
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After living with his family in Northern Liberties for 28 years, artist Frank Hyder opened a gallery there in June. It's on the first floor of the family's compound, which also holds Hyder's painting studio and his separate print- and paper-making studio. The gallery is a great addition to the local art scene and to Northern Liberties, and should help anchor the northward slide of the art world out of Old City.
A Moore College faculty member, Hyder is known nationally and internationally for his spiritually themed work (carvings and paintings that evoke mysticism, magic and ritual). The artist is especially well known in Venezuela, where he's lived and taught.
At the gallery's debut in ...