This second Friday, Feb. 10 is jam packed with exciting art openings in West Philadelphia. Check out the listings below and make your very own second Friday gallery crawl. From textiles to video installation to art by your next door neighbor, these shows promise big excitement with some local flavor.

Banished: Marie Alarcon

The AIR Gallery, 4007 Chestnut Street, 6-9 p.m. (Through March 2)

Banished is a curation of short video and installation pieces by 40th Street Artist-In-Residence Marie Alarcon that deal with transformation. Banished explores cathartic expulsion and violent removal, sometimes initiated by the subject, at other times imposed by another. One of the pieces, MAGIcicada, a 5-minute video, follows a magical ritual of transformation created through live action, animation, and video collage.  “She Lost Her Wings Before She Could Fly,” is a video of devotion in dreams. http://mariedaphnie.com

Textile Art: A Lifelong Collection

Art on the Avenue Gallery, 3808 Lancaster Avenue, 5-8 p.m. (Through April 7)

This unique collection of textile, garments and ornaments from Mexico, South and Central America, Asia and Africa has grown over 45 years of traveling, living and working in these parts of the world. The artistic talent exhibited in weaving, embroidering and sewing these artifacts is exquisite and each object has a story to tell. http://lancasteravenuearts.com

Carlos Urenia & Cloris Lowe

Correction: Opening Saturday, Feb. 11. Gallery 13 W, 4504 Regent St, 7-10 p.m. (Through April 13)

Two-dimensional/installation artist Ramon Carlos Urenia will present work along with woodworker and 3d artist Cloris Lowe, who will show sculpture from his One a Day Series (pictured left). Lowe explores construction and ownership through small found object sculptures made from household objects (superglue caps, playing cards, clothespins and more). Urenia layers paint on wood to address de-construction and abandonment, saying “My current work is a direct reflection of my environment, specifically the abandoned urban spaces and neglected commercial lots of Philadelphia and Brooklyn.” http://www.gallery13w.com

7th Annual Fun-A-Day

Studio 34, 4522 Baltimore Avenue, 7-11 p.m. (Through February 11)

Organized by the Artclash Collective, a Philadelphia-based group of artists who organize free non-juried art projects and shows that aim to be fun, inclusive and participatory, the Fun-A-Day show features Philadelphia residents who created a work of art every day for the month of January. Come out to support your friends and neighbors as they display visual art, sculpture, installation, musical performance, and literary work.

The show opens on Friday, Feb. 10 from 7-11 p.m. On Saturday, Feb. 11 there will be an open mic style reading for written work from 5-7 p.m., followed by the main show from 7-11 p.m.

http://www.studio34yoga.com/2011/01/art-7th-annual-fun-a-day-art-show-211-12/

– Emma Eisenberg