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Bambi Gallery to close at end of March

POSTED: Friday, February 25, 2011, 5:30 PM

Michael T. Regan

Candace Karch (center)

Bambi Gallery, the pink-aura-ed gallery located in Bart Blatstein's Piazza, is closing its doors on March 31. Owner Candace Karch says that Bambi will resurface at some point in the fall with pop-up shows, but that she has no plans to move to a new store right now. Karch announced the news in a press release about the site's final exhibit, which opens Fri., March 4. She explained that Bambi is moving out of its Piazza location partly because of the expenses caused by the sprinkler system raining inside the gallery, on two separate occasions in January. Bambi has been temporarily closed for five weeks because of the damage. It also rained on Dominic Episcopo's "Meat America" exhibit, which was up at the time, and damaged those photographs. And that's why, when the tongue-in-cheek Karch holds pop-up shows this fall, she's going to call them "floating" Bambi shows.

"I thought that when a sprinkler shoots off, it just sort of rains like in Hollywood," she says. "It's not like that at all. It's gross, disgusting brown water, like the Gods are pouring down gallons and gallons on you."

Episcopo's exhibit was what Karch calls "the pinnacle show for him." It was following two years of work, and the completion of his book, also called Meat America, which will hit shelves soon.

"We were hoping to make a lot of money, to carry me through for the next few months. But that's not what happened," says Karch.

Episcopo's work was recently purchased by the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Karch said the gallery will re-open just in time for First Friday, on March 4, which will feature a huge closing party.

Itching to know more? Look for more information about Bambi's closure and upcoming exhibit in City Paper's First Friday column next week.

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