Envisage is a collection of selected works from the 2013 Graduates of the University of the Arts Photography Program. This exhibit highlights thesis work, and has allowed the students involved to work together in creating a professional off-campus exhibition.
More Info: http://envisagephotoexhibition.tumblr.com
Today, pop culture and media are instantly available and just as instantly forgettable. The work I create is heavily influenced by nostalgia, from my own life and others. As Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from – it’s where you take them to.” While creating this body of work, I challenged myself and stepped outside the process I normally use to create images. I applied my personal filter to each pop culture icon, rather than creating new characters. I also worked in a medium that is less forgiving, allowing for more spontaneity within my mark making.
Growing up in a traditional suburban area, my sources of anger remained very minimal. Gaining a wider perspective of the world in an urban setting opened my eyes to new environments that, at times, sparked anger. These paintings are portraits of individuals and musicians who share that emotional reaction to the world serving as a catalyst and inspiration for me to focus it into producing art.
Daniel Hughes is an Illustrator and printmaker living and working in Kensington, Philadelphia. He received a BFA from the University of the Arts in Illustration.
More Info: http://danielhughesillustration.com/
Candace Karch, artist, curator and formally of Bambi Art Gallery along with John Margraff 2nd, curator and chef of the authentic Salon Margraff in Santa Fe, New Mexico, are lifelong friends. Their simpatico philosophies lead them to Painter, Diane McGregor, Metal Smith, Ken Derengowski, and mixed media artists, Madelin Coit, Joseph leroux, Jennifer Joseph and Chis Collins.
“Systematic Devotion” defines how six artists communicate method, placement and discipline in the world.
Madelin Coit applies raw material- mesh, chicken wire, and insulation to create an order and continuity in aesthetic and intention. Depending on how each piece is lit, shadows from the density and transparency of her materials create another appearance. Diane McGregor’s work is an exercise in a repetition of the grid. These process-driven abstractions reference patterns of order and randomness in nature. Jennifer Joseph and Chris Collins are exhibiting the installation “The Rapture Project”. This piece began during a conversation about the end of time. The included works on paper are shot, and intentionally aimed, with a 40 caliber Glock. Ensuing bullet holes are gilded 24K gold referring to a swarm of 24k gold bullets on the floor. Joseph Leroux’s new installation contains manipulations of iconic images and objects through repetitive processes that alter the surface, color and texture. Interactions between the objects and images expose narratives of conflicting states of hostility, vulnerability and empowerment stemming from a personal societal experience. Each component within this work plays a part within a larger narrative. Parts of this piece have been pre fabricated, but the entirety of the work remains to be seen until it’s completed in the space. Ken Derengowski’s is a metal smith. The gemstone known as a diamond has captured humanity for thousands of years. His installation, “Manufactured”, made of discarded McDonald’s French fry boxes, are meticulously folded into diamond shapes, and hung with such precision, like he has cut the diamonds himself. The awe and sparkle in recycled paper is reflected as if it were the history of a real diamond.
These photographs represent my everyday encounters and interactions with my peers. They are a collection that has grown throughout my life and is continuously changing. It is a hard-copy of my life. This documentary style started as a personal collection and has evolved into personal and candid moments that would have otherwise gone unrecorded.
Darla Jackson is most notably recognized for her animal sculptures and installations that have been seen infiltrating spaces throughout Philadelphia. Her past exhibitions include While you were out… at the Philadelphia Art Alliance, Anatomy Now at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, My Dog Speaks at Seraphin Gallery, and On the Rise at the Gallery at Art in City Hall.
“All’s fair…in love and war. And at times those two very different things feel like they are one and the same. Words can become both weapons and trophies. They are collected and saved, cataloged like rare specimens… Some people stockpile them to be used again one day, and others just go over them again and again, trying to figure out where things went wrong…”
-Darla Jackson
Laure-Hélène Caseau, John Emison, Raphael Fenton-Spaid, Alex Ibsen, Jebney Lewis, Tiffany Livingston, Mark Martinez, Kaitlin McDonough, Jonathan Ryan, Theresa Sterner, Misha Wyllie
The MFA 2014 candidates of the Painting, Drawing and Sculpture Department at Tyler School of Art are pleased to present the group exhibition low rumble. The project was organized by the eleven participating artists with exhibition design by Christian Tomaszewski.
low rumble is a van full of emerging artists brought together by graduate school. It is a celebration of individual practices with the hope that there will be enough conversation to make the drive home enjoyable. Luckily we have some books on tape:
I no longer know that in my apartment there are walls, and that if there weren’t any walls, there would be no apartment. The wall is no longer what delimits and defines the place where I live, that which supports it from the other places where other people live, it is nothing more than a support for the picture.[1]
The publication low rumble 2013 will accompany the exhibition. Neither roadmap nor user manual, the book offers a circuitous detour through the exhibition and lasting memento of the project. Copies will be available at the opening and closing receptions and by request.
More Info: tylermfa.com
PPAC is pleased to announce Un-drawn, a group exhibition presenting the work of J Carrier, Richard Mosse, Xaviera Simmons and David Taylor. Un-drawn offers 4 distinct perspectives on displacement and immigration from multiple locations across the globe. Collectively, they address how invisible or contested borders are revealed through images of the landscape, it’s inhabitants and the spaces or monuments in between the two. The images in this exhibition depict exile and migration, conflict and defeat, permeated by the desire to reveal a new understanding of place.
Photographs of vividly beautiful land marred by conflict are juxtaposed with an understated narrative about migration and yearning set throughout Israel and the West Bank. Images of US/Mexico border monuments are juxtaposed with a wall-sized grid of over thirty found photographs, appropriated from news sources depicting migrants afloat in the open sea. Un-drawn presents a series of works that are connected through their depiction of displacement and tensions felt, but unseen.
More Info: http://www.philaphotoarts.org/category/exhibitions/
Please join us for ahem, a group exhibition of the Tyler School of Art 2013 MFA Candidates. This juried show, curated by Rebecca Michaels, Christian Tomaszewski, and Adele Nelson, features recent works by thirty artists in Tyler School of Art’s nine MFA programs: Ceramics, Fibers and Material Studies, Glass, Graphic and Interactive Design, Metals/Jewelry/CAD-CAM, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, and Sculpture. ahem showcases the diversity of vision, technique, and style generated by these emerging artists.
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog, which is the culmination of a semester-long effort between graduate students in the art history department and MFA candidates to engage in discussion and exchange critical dialogue. The catalog features essays on each of the exhibiting aritsts, written by sixteen art historians.
ahem will be on view at Crane Arts Ice Box from March 6th-16th, 2013, with an Opening Reception on Saturday March 9th from 6-9 pm, and a Second Thursday Reception on Thursday March 14th, 6-9pm.
More info: tylermfa.com + Facebook.com/TylerSchoolOfArt.MFA2013
More Info: http://indigoarts.com/
Indigo Arts presents a selection of artwork from African and the African diaspora.
The exhibition includes paintings, prints and sculpture by artists from Brazil, Botswana, Cuba, Haiti, Kenya, Nigeria and Tanzania. The exhibit reflects both the diversity of work from the African continent and the rich trans-Atlantic tradition of African descendants in the New World. Featured artists include Xhose Noxo of Botswana, Jose Borges of Brazil, Alejandro Lazo, Manuel Mendive and José Montebravo of Cuba, Gerard, Payas, Prospere Pierre-Louis and Louisiane Saint-Fleurant of Haiti, Cartoon Joseph and George Thairu of Kenya, Yinka Adeyemi and Twins Seven-Seven of Nigeria, and Mohamed Charinda and George Lilanga of Tanzania.
The series of paintings within this show are all about rocks. Whether stacked or bisected, laid out flat on patios or heating and cooling beneath the earth’s surface, they are an immense source of fascination to me. Through the use of bright colors within my works I sometimes draw the eye away from the rocks to focus on the patterns that exist within their environment. Sometimes the pieces focus on the mortar which binds them. This interest in rocks and their environments is largely due to where I live and work, in Salem NY, at Salem Art Works. The natural environment of Washington County New York, paired with living in the context of an art colony and sculpture park allows me to observe the world around me.
Moore Info: www.alumni.temple.edu/tyler
Victory for Tyler is a biennial exhibition of Tyler alumni work that was founded in 2007 to benefit the Tyler School of Art. 2013 submissions will be juried by Paulina Pobacha, Assistant Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture, MOMA.
One space. One night a year. One Love: ART.
An exclusive group of jurors from the Philly art scene will select three artists to create limited edition prints for our sponsors and guests:
• Robert Morrison, of The Project Group, and collector
• Jennifer Zwilling, Independent Curator,
and Adjunct Professor at PAFA and Tyler School of Art
• Larry Becker and Heidi Nivling, of Larry Becker Contemporary Art
• Jim Houser, artist and last year’s Juror Pick
Preview and online bidding at www.inliquid.org/auction. More stuff being added daily check back often.
For More info or to purchase tickets please visit InLiquid.org
Friday, February 15, 2013 5 – 6:30 pm
VIP Preview Party and Meet & Greet with Jurors
Admission:
$75 in advance* / $100 at the door (includes admission to the Main Event from 6:30 to 9:30 pm)
The v.13 VIP Preview Party is a more intimate and formal occasion for high-level patrons, collectors, and sponsors, featuring exclusive live entertainment, a meet and greet with the selected jurors, and pre-bidding on all silent auction items. Special Live Performance by Laurent Bass.
Friday, February 15, 2013 6:30 – 9:30 pm
InLiquid v.13 Silent Auction Benefit
Admission:
$40 in advance* / $50 at the door
InLiquid’s Annual Benefit is both a fabulous social happening and a showcase for the works of the region’s premier visual artists. As always, a major feature of our party is the array of art, gift certificates, jewelry, and design items available in a silent auction.
Curated by: Peg Curtin and Bruce Garrity
Mellifluous, porous, undulating and otherwise, surfaces serve as visual signifiers. Surface as Signifier examines conceptually abstract works that are slick, transparent, thick, thin, and heavily layered. Process, evidence of touch — or lack of touch — contributes to and shapes the content of this work. Collectively, these contrasting vernaculars point to an open sensibility that continues to limn new narratives in abstract painting.
Surface as Signifier features:
Margery Amdur
Donna Czapiga
Nicole Donnelly
James Erikson
Jim Lee
Anne Seidman
Robert Straight
Leslie Wayne
Douglas Witmer
I Made This is a new work created through MIRO’s ongoing Mash Up process. A German ballerina (Irene Klein), a Philly band (Totally Super Pregnant) and Miller Rothlein spend a week together in the studio – then show you their work of epic unpredictability. One performance only.
Tickets: millerrothlein.tix.com
More info: millerrothlein.org
Philadelphia is ready for the darkly humorous work of German artist Tony Rizzi. An Attempt to Fail At Groundbreaking Art With Pina Arcade Smith, inspired by an unlikely encounter with a group of nuns in Rome, is an uncanny ode to artistic role models Pina Bausch, Penny Arcade, and Jack Smith. Rizzi draws on characters whose underground aesthetics reach for something deeper – fearless and different. Performed by Tony Rizzi and Irene Klein. For mature audiences.
Tickets: millerrothlein.tix.com
More info: millerrothlein.org
Inciting (www.incitingaction.com) presents the second event in The Monochrome Sequence, a series of 16 events that features some of the world’s most forward thinking electronic musicians. The series will culminate in a video documentary.
Live Electronic Sets By:
*Population One [aka Terrence Dixon] [Tresor/Utensil/Metroplex/Thema/Delsin || Detroit]
*westov temple [inciting/Great Circles || Phila]
*Cars Will Burn [Jewish Noise || Phila]
Plus DJ Sets By Lenny Posso [Founder/Owner of Thema Records || Brooklyn]
Curated by Rebecca Saylor Sack
Stuart Elster’s oil paintings on canvas explore abstraction through iconographic manifestations of power. Images in Elster’s work are gleaned from the public domain; appropriating currency (Abraham Lincoln’s cabin embossed on the back of a penny), fashion (the label from a Marc Jacob bag) and war (stock images of warships from WWI and WWII). Constructed through bold strokes of a palette knife, Elster’s richly painted works simultaneously build and subvert the image, questioning the nature of representation and its source.
Stuart Elster work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including solo exhibitions in New York, Paris and Amherst. Reviews of Elster’s work have been printed in the New York Times, Artcritical, and Kunstforum. Stuart Elster lives and works in New York. Peter Krashes’ gouache paintings on paper are an examination and critique of power from personal experience.
Krashes’ paintings are an extension of his work as a community organizer and leader in Brooklyn. The images in Krashes’ paintings are derived from photographs he takes from his public life. The paintings question where power resides; in the building that houses local or federal government, the camera that mediates our view of governance, or the home-made protest signs and children’s painted faces from political rallies.
Peter Krashes’ solo exhibitions include Theodore: Art, Derek Eller Gallery, and Momenta Art. Krashes is a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundations Painters and Sculptors Grant. Reviews of his work have been published in the New York Times, Time Out New York, and The New Yorker. Peter Krashes lives and works in New York.
Winter Down, curated by Timothy Belknap and Ryan McCartney, is a salon style exhibition focusing on the work of five participating artists. Each artist will be exhibiting several works ranging from paintings, to object studies, and the mechanical reduction of a single action. This exhibition explores the systematic notion of its parts becoming the whole- a spatial development by the indiscriminate hanging of both paintings and sculptural objects.
The exhibition will be housed inside the Icebox at the Crane Arts building, within a 10’x10’x10’ antechamber. This intimate space will be connected to the entrance of the Icebox by a suspended bridge. The bridge, a psychological transition, functions as the space between the here and there: the departure and the arrival, a pathway to experience. Featuring: Amy Lincoln, Beth Livensperger, Mike Stifel, Becky Suss, and Douglas Witmer.
This winter InLiquid presents Istoria, an installation by member artist Jay Walker in the Hall at the Crane Arts Building. There will be an opening reception for the artist on Second Thursday, January 10, 2013 from 6 to 9 pm. An additional reception on February 14, 2012 from 6 to 9 pm in the Hall will be held during InLiquid’s Benefit v.13* free Second Thursday and Young Professionals Preview event in the Ice Box Project Space.
This installation will be constructed entirely of tape, laser cut vinyl, contact paper and veneers, then layered, shaped and formed to create the imagery throughout the Hall space along three sections. The installation is centered around Theotokos, by definition meaning Mother of God, typically used in the Eastern Orthodox Church as a title of the Virgin Mary. Walker traditionally has created this series on wood panels. This exhibition is his exploration into using walls as his surface of choice. Walker explains, “When people interact with this series I hear a multiplicity of identifications, all representing different cultures and ages, from druids to Buddhist monks to burqas to crusaders to Mary to Star Wars.”
More info: www.inliquid.org
Influenced by my travels, I use my quilts as a journal. Graffiti is an inspiration, whether it is scribbled on the side of public transit, a park bench, or the tiled surface of a subway station. In order to replicate layered surfaces of urban walls, I use techniques of appliqué, spray-paint, stitching, and wheat-paste. This process-based work replicates the complexity of my surroundings and also defines an important aspect of fiber arts. The majority of the textiles in this collection are hand dyed. Most is by using a process of utilizing scrap metal to “rust burn” the fabrics. Others are dyed with pomegranates, black walnuts, madder root, cochineal (tiny dried beetles), coffee, tea and so on. The pillows are quilted with 100% wool batting and stuffed with premium down. I like to stay natural with the fiber content so the quilts are filled with cotton batting.
The content of my work varies, ranging from the industrialization of my community to my self-identification. The pillows are directly inspired by the manholes of Philadelphia. To capture their unique textures, I simulated grave rubbings with paper and black chalk. The printed image on the pillows are a direct result of the rubbings taken during my travels. The flat quilts are a mini collection within this body of work that is inspired by the streets one does not frequently travel. The side streets of Philadelphia are adorned with beautiful oddities; storm drains, cobblestones, porch ironwork. Combined these objects embellish the In-betweens.
More info: http://www.coroflot.com/olankentreeves
