Nsenga Knight (MFA '10) receives Leeway Foundation Grant and Brandywine Workshop Residency

Nsenga Knight (MFA '10) has recently been named this year's Leeway Foundation Grant Recipient. In addition to receiving the Leeway Foundation Grant, Nsenga has also been awarded a residency at the Brandywine Workshop. The Brandywine Workshop will enable Nsenga to work on a limited edition printmaking project with a master printmaker.

For more information on the Leeway Foundation Grant, visit http://www.leeway.org/home.html

In addition, visit http://www.brandywineworkshop.com/

Brian Zegeer (MFA '05) in Exhibition at Vaudeville Park's "Video Art Night", Opening December 18th, 7:30pm

Brian Zegeer (MFA '05) will perform a portion of the video from his "Pull My Daisy" project with the infinitely-talented Baby Copperhead at the Vaudeville Park's new monthly Video Art Night. The event and exhibition features a carefully curated but mixed bag of video shorts, animation, stills, feature highlights, video sculpture, installation, performance, and mixed media to music video. Through the one defining commonality of Video, this monthly night will be an exciting and unorthodox opportunity for comparing and contrasting the various expressions within such an expansive, yet shared medium. In addition to Brian Zegeer, artists presenting include Christopher Arcella, Steven Dressler, Allen Cordell, Jesse Galaznik, Devin Flynn, Scott Keirnan, Erica Magrey, Ethan Miller, Sophia Peer, Johnathan Phelps, Joesph Quinn, Garrett Shore and Chuck Stern. The event will also feature a "Degenerative Karaoke" live performance by the LOUIS V ESP All Stars and music and video by Brian Mark.

To see more of Brian's work, visit http://www.brianzegeer.com/

Opening Reception: Saturday, December 18th, 7:30 - 10:00pm

Vaudeville Park
26 Bushwick Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11211
http://www.vanishingridges.com/vaudville/

Robert Dimin, Tamara Suber and Amy Archambault (MFA '11 candidates) in Group Exhibition at the Morgan Gallery, Opening December 15th, 5pm

Robert Dimin, Tamara Suber and Amy Archambault will have work featured in a group exhibition titled "Projections, Installations and Divagations" at the Morgan Gallery, the University of Pennsylvania's Penn Design. The exhibition is in direct response to Kaja Silverman's Graduate Contemporary Art History Seminar. Dimin, Suber and Archambault respond to the work of Anri Sala, Tacita Dean, Sharon Lockhart and other prolific film artists. The exhibition cleverly melds both film and sculptural installation underneath the harmony of twilight.

Opening Reception: Wednesday, December 15th, 5:00 - 7:00pm
Exhibition Dates: Wednesday, December 15th - Tuesday, December 21st

The Morgan Gallery
University of Pennsylvania, Penn Design
205 S. 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Gallery Hours: Mondays - Fridays 10:00am - 5:00pm

Amy Archambault (MFA '11 candidate) receives the Christopher Leland Lyon Memorial Scholarship on behalf of Penn Design

Amy Archambault (MFA '11 candidate) has received the Christopher Leland Lyon Memorial Scholarship. The scholarship supports an annual prize in the School of Design for an MFA student in memory of Christopher Leland Lyon (MFA '99). Amy Archambault is in the process of completing the final year of her MFA degree. Her early paintings were grounded in architectural references to urban landscapes both constructed and decrepit. Her artistic evolution reveals interests in the physical presence within the spaces that she previously investigated and rendered. This work draws references to architecture and design, her passion for athletic practice, and the human body. In addition, Archambault has been nominated along side Jessica Vaughn (MFA '11 candidate) for the Joan Mitchell award.

To learn more about the Christopher Lyon Memorial Scholarship, visit http://www.chrislyontribute.com/

To see more of Amy's work, visit http://www.amyarchambault.com/

Alexi Worth (Senior Critic) in Group Exhibition at Marc Jancou Contemporary, Chelsea, Opening December 9th, 6pm

Alexi Worth (Senior Critic) will have work featured in a group exhibition titled "Private Future" at Marc Jancou Contemporary, Chelsea, NY. Marc Jancou Contemporary is pleased to announce Private Future curated by Michael Cline. The selection of artists spans generations and geographical locations but is united through medium and a savvy dialogue with the contemporary world presented in an unconventional way. The exhibition will feature works by Ion Birch, Carter, Scott Cassidy, Thomas Chimes, Jonathan Gardner, Jess, Kurt Kauper, Justin Lieberman, Kerry James Marshall, Erik Parker, Lari Pittman, Peter Saul, Jim Shaw, Torsten Slama, Alexi Worth and Jakub Julian Ziolkowski.

"Private Futures" is to be a showcase of painting and drawing that at first blush might seem visionary, with its idiosyncratic views of social and relational norms, alternate realities, and internal logic. The work both engages and reflects contemporary life by having one foot firmly planted in ‘now’ and the other in the slippery past, by bridging the two with old fashioned story telling. Many of the artists have careers out of step with art trends. They are stubbornly ‘old’ media and are not market driven but rather maker driven. Their art provides an alternate path to the well-trodden and traditionally linear conception of modern art. Rather than explore the branches and tender new shoots of art practice, they find sustenance and nourishment from the trunk, and more importantly the subterranean root system, where what some might call ‘tradition’ is found. This is not tradition with a capital ‘T’, this is tradition as it really is, full of perversity, distortion, religious feeling, mysticism, occultism, and sexual innuendo. In the way that something seemingly innocuous can appear strange after the scab of history and commerce have been plucked from pink flesh, these artists re-present the world as their own and refashion it to their own private means.

To see more of Worth's work, visit http://www.alexiworth.com/

Opening Reception: Thursday, December 9th, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Exhibition Dates: Thursday, December 9th - Saturday, January 29th, 2011

Marc Jancou Contemporary
524 West 24th Street
New York, NY 10011
212.473.2100
http://www.marcjancou.com/

In addition to "Private Future", Alexi will have work featured in an exhibition titled "Between Picture and Viewer" at the Visual Arts Gallery at 601 West 26th Street ("Starrett Lehigh Building"), 15th floor.

Penn Alumni in Group Exhibition at Jolie Laide, Opening December 16th, 6pm

Several Penn alumni will be featured in a group exhibition, "Tri-State Show", at Jolie Laide, Philadelphia. "Tri-State" celebrates the increasingly dynamic, decentralized universe of art production and exhibition. Today’s artists live wherever they wish, and exhibit all over; pop-up shows appear in a warehouse and disappear within a week. Jolie Laide is proud to consider a new tri-state area to close out 2010 and usher in a new year: Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia. By gathering together artists from these fair cities, we stand for inclusiveness over regionalism, interconnectedness over provincial independence. One could seek to make generalizations about the art being made in each of the three cities in this exhibit, but that may not be the most interesting or enlightening approach. Today’s Chicago sculptor may be living in New York tomorrow, while the painter who used to live in New York has moved to Philadelphia. Instead, why not contemplate the connections among artists from different cities, and the distinctions among those from the same location. Art is not concerned with boundaries except to dissolve them. Art, at its best, is an open- source code, with ideas freely available to be played with and reshaped by the curious mind.

Artists featured include Marc Blumthal (MFA '10), Piper Brett, Tom Costa, Alex Da Corte, Jamie Diamond (MFA '08), the Dufala Brothers, Austin Eddy, Susan Fang (MFA '10), Jacob Feige, Jeff Fichera, Daniel Gerwin, James Gillispie, Jacob Goudreault, Jordan Graw, Jordan Griska (BFA '09), Robert Horvath, Easton Miller, Scott Reeder, Tyson Reeder, Max Reinhardt, Peter Schenck, Simon Slater, Christina Sucgang, and Tara White

Opening Reception: Thursday, December 16th, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Exhibition Dates: December 16th, 2010 - January 22nd, 2011
* After Party at Yakitori Boy (11th & Race St)

Jolie Laide
224 N. Juniper St.
Philadelphia, PA 19107
267.603.1295
http://jolielaide.com/gallery/Jolie_Laide_Gallery.html

Gallery Hours
Tuesday - Saturday 10AM - 6PM

Sinae Lee (MFA '06) in Solo Exhibition/Performance at Reaves Gallery, NY, Opening December 16th, 6pm

Sinae Lee (MFA '06) will be featured in a solo exhibition titled "RAW" at Reaves Gallery, Chelsea. "RAW" is a live performance and installation that engages all five senses of the body in a critique of our ideas of fantasy, intimacy and sex. The performance invites audience members’ participation and will be performed only once on opening night. For this performance, Lee will take the stage with a partner and pass an egg yolk from mouth-to-mouth until the yolk breaks. Audience members, two at a time, are then invited to take the stage and in turn pass an egg yolk from mouth-to-mouth. As audience members become performers, they will engage all of their senses – smell, touch, taste, hearing, and sight – while interpreting and reinterpreting the simple act of passing the egg yolk. The performance will be documented with video, which will become part of a later installation.

To see more of Sinae's work, visit http://www.sinaelee.org/

Event / Exhibition Date and Time: Thursday, December 16th, 6:00 - 8:00pm

Reaves Gallery
526 West 26th St, Suite 706
(Between 10th and 11th)
New York, NY 10001
415.250.3201
http://www.reavesgallery.com/Reaves_Gallery/Home.html

Gallery Hours
Wednesday - Saturday
1:00pm - 6:00pm
Other times by appointment

Leigh Van Duzer (MFA '10) in Group Exhibition at the Lost Coast Culture Machine, CA, Opening December 3rd, 6pm

Leigh Van Duzer (MFA '10) will have works featured in the exhibition titled "Home for the Holidays" at the Lost Coast Culture Machine in Fort Bragg, CA. "Home for the Holidays" celebrates the season of friends, family, warm hearths and giving by focusing on the overlooked and forgotten. Laurel Garcia Colvin presents the new American toile, where the haves and have-nots picnic and while away the hours together. Leigh Van Duzer imagines the housing crash frame-by-frame on the way down. Elizabeth Duffy creates the epitome of safe and secure living. Jeremiah Jenkins renders scale models of the ideal in dispossessed housing. The Counter Narrative Society will come bearing the imprisoned on their backs. Detroit's Object Orange will turn forgotten eyesores into eyesores begging for swift destruction.

During the run of the exhibition, LCCM will be serving as a donation hub for the Fort Bragg Food Bank, the Outdoor Store's annual Warm Coat Drive, and sleeping bags and blankets for the Evergreen United Methodist Church. LCCM and its artists will also be donating a portion of all sales to Habitat for Humanity of Mendocino Coast, Critical Resistance, and All of Us or None.

Opening Reception: Friday, December 3rd, 6:00 - 10:00pm
Exhibition Dates: Friday, December 3rd - Sunday, January 30th

Lost Coast Culture Machine
190 E. Elm Street
Fort Bragg, CA 95437
http://www.lostcoastculturemachine.org/?p=892

To see more of Leigh's work, visit http://www.leighvanduzer.com/

MFA Class of 2011 in Inaugural Exhibit at Project Space, Philadelphia, Opening December 3rd, 5pm

Members of the MFA class of 2011 will be featured in the inaugural exhibit at Project Space, Philadelphia. Project Space is a new art exhibition space founded by Robert Dimin (MFA '11 candidate). The work featured showcases the range of medium and working methods of the second-year MFA students. A percentage of all sales from this and future events will provide additional exhibition support for the MFA class of 2011. Exhibitions at Project Space will highlight members of the Penn Design Fine Arts Community. Please join us for this special event on the "First Friday" in Philadelphia!

Opening Reception: Friday, December 3rd, 5pm until late

Project Space
240 Church Street (between 2nd & 3rd and Market & Arch)
Philadelphia, PA
projectspacechurchst@gmail.com

PennDesign Fine Arts Sculpture Seminar in Group Exhibition at the Meyerson and Morgan Galleries, Opening December 3rd, 5:30pm

The PennDesign Fine Arts Sculpture Seminar is proud to present "Paradiso", a group exhibition featuring work in a range of media in response to Dante's, "The Divine Comedy". The exhibition will feature work by Amy Archambault, Tra Bouscaren, Zoe Chronis, Rachel Eschenbach, Justine Hill, Michael Marfione, Bradley La Mere, Chloe Reison, Tamara Suber, Cristina Tufino, Mary Valverde, and Jessica Vaughn

Opening Reception: Friday, December 3rd, 5:30 - 7:30pm
Exhibition Dates: Wednesday, December 1st - Wednesday, December 8th, 2010








Exhibition on Display in Two Locations:

Meyerson Gallery
210 South 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Morgan Gallery
205 South 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Terry Adkins (Graduate Faculty) and Blanche Bruce hold "John Brown Martyr Day Vigil" at the Amistad Gallery, December 2nd, 6pm

On behalf of Terry Adkins and Blanche Bruce's "Riddle of the Sphinx", the Amistad Gallery, Philadelphia will hold a "John Brown Martyr Day Vigil". The Vigil will feature the University of Pennsylvania Drum Line, the Sacred Order of Twilight Brothers, Lone Wolf Recital Corps and special guests.

"Riddle of the Sphinx" is the latest incarnation of Blanche Bruce & Terry Adkins’ ongoing cycle of site-inspired recitals on the abolitionist John Brown. Commemorating the 151st anniversary of his Harper’s Ferry, Virginia campaign, the duration of this recital coincides with the inception of Brown’s October 16th, 1859 raid on a U.S. armory through to his capture execution on that December 2nd at Charlestown. Adkins and collaborator Blanche Bruce explore aspects of John Brown as shepherd, soldier, martyr, and prophet through a muscular communion of video, sculpture, drawings, artifacts and ceremony. "Riddle of the Sphinx" is so named after a chapter in W.E.B. DuBois’ 1909 biography on Brown and the artists Bruce and Adkins have responded specifically to the titanic views and research contained therein.

Terry Adkins and Blanche Bruce are a collaborative that has worked together since 1999, upholding the legacies of immortal figures of the past by reinserting them to their rightful place in the contemporary historical landscape. Under the auspices of the Lone Wolf Recital Corps, their recitals are multimedia events that rely on the potential disclosure of biography, reclaimed materials and recovered actions. He and Blanche Bruce have performed at the Romanian Academy in Rome, The New Museum, P.S.1 MOMA, Black Box Amsterdam, and Project Row Houses in Houston. Terry Adkins was Rome Prize Fellow in Visual Arts in 2009. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden among others.

Event Date and Time: Thursday, December 2nd, 6:00 - 9:00pm

Amistad Gallery
W.E.B. Dubois College House
3900 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Amistad Gallery Hours: 10:00am - 8:00pm Daily
Terry Adkins, Gallery Director
tadkins@design.upenn.edu

Tadashi Moriyama (MFA '06) in Group Exhibition, the SCOPE Art Show - Miami, Opening November 30th, 3pm

Tadashi Moriyama (MFA '06) will be showing his recent body of work at the SCOPE Art Show - Miami with Bonelli Arte Contemporanea. The SCOPE Art Show, Miami, will present 75 international galleries upholding SCOPE’s unique tradition of solo and thematic group shows presented alongside museum-quality programming, collector tours, screenings, and special events. The unique SCOPE experience expands this year in partnership with local and international cultural organizations, featuring: film, music, installation and performance. This season, SCOPE and its President & Founder Alexis Hubshman intends to highlight its lead role as creative R+D for a wider audience of taste makers who make art their business. By Introducing artists, curators, and cutting-edge galleries to new international audiences has made SCOPE the most comprehensive destination for the emerging art world. Tadashi's work "revels in the act of creating densely-knit parallel universes that both nod to the physical realities of life in the here and now while also envisioning potential futures where man and machine meld into one, a realm where technology overtakes us, or perhaps makes us whole. His colorful drawings and paintings can be bright and cheery in certain works that seem to celebrate the many facets of life in major urban Meccas, where where rainbow washes and circular blocks of packed housing might reference the artist's native Japan with its much discussed urban density." (Eric C. Shiner, The Milton Fine Curator of Art at The Andy Warhol Museum)

To see more of Tadashi's work, visit http://tadashimoriyama.com

Opening Reception: Tuesday November 30th, 3:00 - 9:00pm
Exhibition Dates: Tuesday November 30th - Saturday December 5th, 2010

SCOPE Art Show - Miami
Wynwood Gallery Arts District
3055 North Miami Avenue
Miami, Florida 33127
http://www.scope-art.com/Index.php/miami/

Jenny Perlin (Lecturer) in Solo Exhibition at the NADA Art Fair in Miami Beach, Opening December 2nd

Jenny Perlin (Lecturer) will be featured in a Solo Exhibition at the NADA Art Fair in Miami Beach. Perlin will present "LEADS", a film from the Perlin Papers series (16mm, black-and-white, sound, 7:10, 2009) and new drawings inspired by the film. Perlin locates her practice in an archeological space of sifting and discovery; that which film, video, drawing, and photography are useful media in which to present a range of ideas. She works with fragments, detritus, speculation, failures and afterthoughts. Since 1991, Perlin has made over 20 films and videos. Some are live-action, seemingly conforming to a conventional model of documentary filmmaking, and some are stop-motion animations, which she also thinks of as `documentaries´. In each aspect of Perlin's practice, she takes a close look at the ways in which social machinations are reflected in the smallest aspects of daily life. Whether it is copying a receipt from Wal-Mart, a headline from Reuters, or filming documentary-style interviews at the corner store, her interest is in the ways in which the sweeping statements of `History´ affect specific details of human experience.

Exhibition Dates: December 2nd - December 5th, 2010

NADA Art Fair
Galerie M + R Fricke
Booth #708, Richelieu-Room
www.galeriefricke.de

To see more of Perlin's work, visit http://www.nilrep.net/

Marjorie Van Cura (MFA '02) in Two-Person Exhibition at YES! Gallery, NY, Opening November 18th, 7pm

Marjorie Van Cura (MFA '02) will have work featured in a two-person exhibition titled "Rhythm" with Zoe Pettijohn Schade at YES! Gallery, Greenpoint Brooklyn, NY. Van Cura will also have a new work on view at the backroom of STOREFRONT Gallery in Bushwick Brooklyn. Van Cura's investigation combines graphic, Op-Art aesthetics with invented hybridizations that contain human-animal-mechanical parts. She create these iconic Chimera figures by collaging together digital photographs of various components culled from the internet which then is transformed into the final version of the hybrid and used as a foundation for the specific shapes in her mixed-media paintings. The placement and transfer drawing of each figure by hand builds an image through a systematic process that is unique to each painting. The repetition of shape combined with intense optical color relationships dissolve into a complex pattern and create a visually intense, visceral experience. Van Cura's work stands as both social commentary, informed by several themes of interest that include the origin and genetic make-up of species, the phenomenon of evolution, and issues of identity, alienation, and community in a Digital Age.

Opening Reception: Thursday, November 18th, 7:00 - 10:00pm
Exhibition Dates: Thursday, November 18th - Friday, December 10th

YES! Gallery
147 India Street
Greenpoint Brooklyn, NY 11222
347.599.2322
http://yesgalleryyes.com/

To see more of Van Cura's work, visit http://www.marjorievancura.com/index.htm

Fine Arts Lecture Series: David Salle, Thursday November 18th, 6:00pm

Since the end of the 1970's, David Salle has helped define the post-modern sensibility by combining figuration with an extremely varied pictorial language. Salle's radical use of juxtaposition conveys an improvised sense of meaning being made, of things unexpected but necessary. His paintings have been shown in over 100 museums and galleries worldwide, including major exhibitions at the Whitney; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; MoCA, Chicago; Stedelijk Museum; MoMA, Vienna; Menil Museum, Houston; Haus der Kunst, Munich; Castello di Rivoli; and the Guggenheim, Bilbao. His work is in the permanent collections of museums around the globe.

Although known primarily as a painter, Salle's work grows out of a long- standing involvement with installation art and perfomance. Over the last 25 years he has worked extensively with choreographer Karole Armitage, creating sets and costumes for many of her ballets and operas. Their collaborations have been seen at theaters in Europe and America, including The Metropolitan Opera House; The Paris Opera; The Opera Comique; Lyon Opera; Opera Deutsche, Berlin; and La Fenice, Venice. Salle received a Guggenheim fellowship for theater design in 1986 and in 1995 directed the feature film "Search and Destroy", starring Griffin Dunne and Christopher Walken.

Salle is also known as one of the most literate artists of his generation, and his essays and interviews have been published in Artforum, Art in America, Flash Art, Modern Painters, The Paris Review, as well as numerous exhibition catalogs and anthologies.

To see more of Salle's work, visit http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/david_salle.htm

Event Date and Time: Thursday November 18th, 6:00pm

The Institute of Contemporary Art
Tuttleman Auditorium
118 South 36th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
http://www.icaphila.org/events/

Paul Komada (MFA '02) in exhibition at Gallery4Culture, Opening November 4th, 6pm

Paul Komada (MFA '02) will be featured in an exhibition titled "knit_art_history" at Gallery4Culture, Seattle. Komado, originally a trained painter needed to morph his medium and method of working, to fit the confines of his living space along with the needs of his young child. Komada learned how to knit (and block), and once he mastered the craft, began creating Modernist compositions out of soft wool yarn. As a young man, the Japanese-born artist became captivated with Modernist art while visiting New York's Museum of Modern Art. Paintings like Piet Mondrian's "Broadway Boogie Woogie" as well as Kasimir Malevich's Avant-garde Supremacist compositions inspired the artist's studio practice. His first works were large-scale geometric paintings in vivid colors. With "knit_art_history", Komada pays homage to his favorite hard-edge abstractions with his newfound fiber medium. The exhibit features one wall hung work referencing the November U.S. Senate election, comprised of one hundred 15 "X15" square parts primarily in red and blue. Other works, knitted to a blanket-like scale, are presented as installations. The exhibition also incorporates a series of related watercolor studies that help the viewer track the artist's transition from paint to fiber.

Paul Komada was also recently recognized at the City Art Walks' Best of First Thursday. City Arts’ Best of Walk Awards were held at Vito's on First Hill on November 4th. Guest judges were Betsey Brock, Communications and Outreach for Henry Art Gallery and Whitney Ford-Terry, Co-curator for Hedreen Gallery.

Paul Komada divided his early years between Japan and the United States. He earned a BFA from the University of Washington, Seattle and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He currently lives in Seattle with his wife and son.

To see more of Paul's work, visit at www.paulkomada.com.

Opening Reception: Thursday, November 4th, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Exhibition Dates: Thursday, November 4th - Wednesday, November 24th

Gallery4Culture
4Culture Offices
101 Prefontaine PL S
Seattle, WA 98104
Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday, 9:00am – 5:00pm
206.296.8674
http://www.4culture.org/publicart/gallery/

Marjorie Van Cura (MFA '02) in Two Exhibitions in Brooklyn Opening Nov. 18 & 19

Marjorie Van Cura (MFA '02) will have work in a two-person show at YES! Gallery in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Rhythm: Marjorie Van Cura & Zoe Pettijohn Schade will open on Thursday, November 18 and remain on view through December 10, 2010.

Opening Reception: Thursday, November 18, 7:00 - 10:00pm
Exhibition Dates: November 18 - December 10, 2010

YES! Gallery
147 India Street
Brooklyn, NY 11222
917-593-9237
http://yesgalleryyes.com/

Gallery hours are Monday-Friday from 12-7pm and Saturday/Sunday by appointment.

Marjorie will also have one new work on view at the backroom of STOREFRONT Gallery in Bushwick Brooklyn.

Opening Reception: Friday, November 19, 6:00 - 9:00pm.

STOREFRONT Gallery
16 Wilson Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11237
www.storefrontbk.com

To see more of Marjorie's work, visit www.marjorievancura.com

Pernot Hudson (MFA '06) in Solo Exhibition at University City Arts League, Opening Nov 12

Pernot Hudson (MFA '06) has a solo show titled soft bigotry for a mercy killing (in two preludes) at the University City Arts League in Philadelphia. The exhibition is a multi-media exploration of the possibilities and impossibilities of perceptual accountability. Conceived of as a factual recounting and reaction to past events, soft bigotry for a mercy killing demonstrates the difficulty in separating fact and one’s emotional attachment. In the artist’s written document of this character’s recounting, it is clear that a traumatic event has taken place, but the reader is unable to define what has actually occurred. This presentation defies a strictly linear documentation of events or understanding as it is still unclear as to the extent to which what is displayed is a personal documentation of current happenings as understood, hence an historical account, or means by which one attempts to reenact for the sake of understanding. The distancing language and academic vocabulary point to a striking vulnerability that is at the heart of these works.

Opening Reception: Friday, November 12, 5:30 - 7:30pm
Exhibition Dates: November 12 - December 5, 2010

University City Arts League
4226 Spruce St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215-382-7811
info@ucartsleague.org
www.ucartsleague.org

To see more of Pernot's work, visit www.pernothudson.com

The Speigel Lecture Series: Lauren Greenfield, Thursday November 11th, 5:30pm

The University of Pennsylvania Speigel Lecture Series is proud to present Lauren Greenfield, the acclaimed photographer considered a preeminent chronicler of youth culture. Greenfield was named by American Photo as one of the 25 most influential photographers working today; this as a result of her groundbreaking projects "Girl Culture", "Fast Forward" and "THIN". Her photographs deal with issues relating to youth culture, gender identity, body image and the influence of popular culture on lifestyle adaptations and behavior. Greenfield's photographs have been published several times in The New York Times, Time, GQ, and American Photo. Her documentary film, "THIN" (2006) aired on HBO and won numerous awards for its unflinching portrayal of girls and eating disorders. "THIN was awarded the Grierson Award for Best Documentary at the London Film Festival, and Grand Jury Prizes at the Independent Film Festival of Boston, the Newport International Film Festival, and the Jackson Hole Film Festival. The project was featured on The Today Show, Good Morning America, Nightline, and CNN and was excerpted in People Magazine. The "THIN" Book was honored by the 2007 International Photography Awards as well as the Photo District News Annual. In 2009, Greenfield and her husband founded the Institute for Artist Management, an agency representing photographers and filmmakers.

To see more of Greenfield's work, visit http://www.laurengreenfield.com/

Event Date and Time: Thursday, November 11th, 5:30pm

University of Pennsylvania
Meyerson Hall, B1
210 S. 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215.898.8374
http://www.icaphila.org/

Fine Arts Lecture Series: Matthew Monahan, Tuesday November 9th, 6:30pm

Matthew Monahan’s work presents a futuristic archaeology. Drawing from a wide range of influences, from Modernist art to ancient totems, Monahan’s ‘artefacts’ are both familiar and strange. Filtering historical mythologies through his own personal system of reference, altered further through the experience of making, Monahan’s work alludes to a contemporary spirituality, where beauty and brutality coalesce as virtual monuments. Nondescript and clunky, the work's plausible function is secondary to their materiality: wax, paper, and plaster take on barbaric forms, their temporal media humorously suggesting timelessness. Their precious value is guarded by an over-sized sculptural ‘shard’. Through his assemblages, Monahan offers a dark mysticism, where material trickery and abstracted form resurrect forgotten primal instincts (The Saatchi Gallery). Matthew Monahan received a BFA from Cooper Union School of Art. He studied at Gerrit Rietveld Academy, and De Ateliers, Amsterdam, and in Japan at the Kitakyushu Center for Contemporary Art. His work was the subject of a solo show at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. He has been included in Sonsbeek Sculpture Exhibition, Arnhem; Life on Mars: 55th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh; Unmonumental, New Museum, New York; Eden's Edge: Fifteen LA Artists, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and the 2006 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum, New York. Monahan currently works and lives in Los Angeles, California.

To see more of Monahan's work, visit http://www.mmmonahan.com/

Event Date and Time: Tuesday November 9th, 6:30pm

University of Pennsylvania: Penn Design
B1 Meyerson Hall
210 S. 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Jules Joseph (MFA '09) in Exhibition at Pinion Gallery, Opening Sat. Nov. 20

Jules Joseph (MFA '09) has work in a three-person exhibition titled Transience at Pinion Gallery in Brooklyn. Pinion Gallery is an artist-run gallery located in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. The artwork exhibited reflects the working environment and personality that surround the physical space. Automotive and carpentry businesses occupy adjacent buildings with the elevated steel platform of the Long Island railroad progressing down the middle of Atlantic Avenue. Jules will be showing with Matt Miley and David McLeish.

A wide range of new and traditional media are represented from sculpture, drawing, and painting, to new media and performance. The Artwork challenges traditional ideas by promoting skeptical thinking that both dismantle and rebuild recurrently. Those involved are committed to generating honest and challenging dialogue with the contemporary art world and the community by promoting art that challenges those structures and by donating time, money, and positive ideas to local community supporting organizations.

Opening Reception: November 20th, 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Pinion Gallery
1265 Atlantic Avenue Suite 2L
Brooklyn, NY 11216
www.piniongallery.com

Fine Arts Lecture Series: Rick Lowe, Thursday November 4th, 6pm

Rick Lowe is an artist, architect, urban designer, developer, businessman, and activist who is a catalyst for social outreach for underserved neighborhoods. Lowe’s early founding of Project Row House in Houston’s Third Ward in 1993 became the template for others to follow on how to bring local people together to engage their own creative energies and aesthetic values to produce a “collective expression” to reinstate a community. Lowe’s socially engaged methodology helps individuals excavate talents that they might have either forgotten about or just lost sight of. An example of his progressive thinking can be seen in a recent concept for a series of small businesses that draws on local individual’s abilities—such as homemade cookies and laundry service—and turns them into emerging noted talents and proprietors.

To see more of Lowe's work visit, http://www.unitedstatesartists.org/Public2/USAFellows/2009Fellows/Alphabetically/RickLowe/index.cfm

Event Date and Time: Thursday November 4th, 6pm

The Institute of Contemporary Art
Tuttleman Auditorium
118 South 36th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Julia Barbosa Landois (MFA '07) in exhibition at El Paso Museum of Art, Opening November 20th, 12pm

Julia Barbosa Landois (MFA '07) newest installation will be featured in the Border Art Biennial – Bienal Fronteriza de Arte 2010 at the El Paso Museum of Art. Her piece, entitled Tracks, uses a repeating image of altered "tire tracks" printed on the floor and walls, signaling the aftermath of violence.

The Border Art Biennial – Bienal Fronteriza de Arte 2010 is an exhibition that examines and highlights the often under represented, but vital art and artists from the states of the US/Mexico border. Artists from the states of Arizona, Baja California Norte, Baja California Sur, California, Chihuahua, Coahuila, New Mexico, Nuevo Leon, Sonora, Tamaulipas, and Texas were encourage to apply, of which 43 were selected. This exhibition is a collaborative effort between the El Paso Museum of Art, Museo de Arte INBA de Ciudad Juarez, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, CONACULTA-INBA, the Mexican Consulate in El Paso, Texas, and the American Consulate in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua. 2010 Jurors are Rita Gonzalez, Assistant Curator in the Department of Contemporary Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Itala Schmelz, Director at the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil in Mexico City.

Opening Reception: Saturday, November 20th, 12:00pm
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, November 20th - Saturday, February 13th, 2011

El Pado Museum of Art
Contemporary Gallery
1 Arts Festival Plaza
El Paso, TX 79901
915.532.1707
Admission to this exhibition is free and open to the public.
http://www.elpasoartmuseum.org/upcoming.asp

To see more of Julia's work, visit http://www.julialandois.com/

Homecoming Weekend featuring Arts & Culture at Penn: October 28 - 31, 2010

Homecoming Weekend featuring Arts & Culture at Penn: October 28 - 31, 2010

Register for this year’s Homecoming Weekend featuring Arts and Culture at Penn. A record 2,220 alumni, parents, and friends enjoyed last year’s expanded Homecoming programming, and we are building on that momentum. You will find a full menu of activities that highlight the University’s strengths in arts and culture, including a printmaking workshop with Penn Alumni Matt Neff (Penn MFA '05).

Also, check out the Penn Alumni Film Festival, co-curated by Penn alumni filmmakers and members of our Arts Host committee, David Novack, ENG'86 and Nancy Levy-Novack, C'87. Please note this year our feature film is a yet to be released Sony Pictures film, Just Go With It, starring Adam Sandler, Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Aniston.

Register: click HERE

To see the full list of events: click HERE

For more information, contact Sheila Raman, Director of Arts and Culture at alumni [at] ben.dev.upenn.edu, or Arts & Culture Host Committee member Elizabeth Lim (Penn MFA'07) at lime [at] alumni.upenn.edu.

Pernot Hudson (MFA '06) in Two-Person Show at Fowler Arts Collective, opening Fri. Nov 5

Pernot Hudson (MFA '06) will exhibit work in a two-person show at the Fowler Arts Collective in Brooklyn. The show is titled soft bigotry for a mercy killing (in two preludes) and is comprised of work by Pernot and Johnny Woods.

The exhibition is a multi-media exploration of the possibilities and impossibilities of perceptual accountability, and includes paintings, sculptural installation, video, and sound. Conceived of as a factual recounting and reaction to past events, soft bigotry for a mercy killing demonstrates the difficulty in separating fact and one’s emotional attachment. In the artist’s written document of this character’s recounting, it is clear that a traumatic event has taken place, but the reader is unable to define what has actually occurred. This presentation defies a strictly linear documentation of events or understanding as it is still unclear as to the extent to which what is displayed is a personal documentation of current happenings as understood, hence an historical account, or means by which one attempts to reenact for the sake of understanding. The distancing language and academic vocabulary point to a striking vulnerability that is at the heart of these works. An excerpt of the writing is as follows:

Recounting recent events … Currently, this work presents the beginning stages of cognizance and various degrees of personal acceptance or rejections of these current states entirely beyond control. While the impetus is not solely for the purpose of fulfilling a reactionary or deliberate gesture for the sake of a specific situation or event, it is due to a disconnect between person and surrounding from an observer’s point of view. These are preludes of awareness and control (however disillusioned).

The artists have created an immersive exhibition that will transform the gallery space at Fowler. Pernot Hudson will also have a concurrent exhibition opening November 12th, 2010 at the UCAL in Philadelphia, PA. Visit UCAL’s website for more information on that show: www.ucartsleague.org

Opening Reception: Friday, November 5th, 6-10pm
Exhibition Dates: November 5 - December 5, 2010


Fowler Arts Collective
67 West Street 2nd Floor
Brooklyn, NY

www.fowlerartsbrooklyn.org/
http://fowlerartsbrooklyn.tumblr.com/

To see more of Pernot's work, visit www.pernothudson.com

Amy Archambault (MFA Candidate '11) in Solo Exhibition at The Taft School, Opening Fri, Nov 5

Amy Archambault (MFA Candidate '11) has a solo exhibition titled Constructive / Destructive at the Mark Potter Gallery at the Taft School. Archambault's work explores the human relationship to contemporary constructed urban spaces and the destructive forces of nature upon them. Archambault uses materials, the pictorial plane of painting and her physical engagement during the process of making to reveal such narratives.

Opening Reception: Friday, November 5, 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Exhibition Dates: November 5th - December 9th, 2010


Mark W. Potter Gallery: The Taft School
110 Woodbury Road
Watertown, CT
Gallery Hours: Monday - Saturday, 8:00am - 5:00pm

For more information, contact Director Loueta Chickadaunce at 860-945-7809.

To see more of Archambault's work, visit http://www.amyarchambault.com/.

Demetrius Oliver (MFA '04) Featured on ArtReview.com for Chelsea Commission

Demetrius Oliver (MFA '04) has been featured on ArtReview.com for his first major public commission and latest in the High Line's series of artist projects, which opened last week. The High Line is an elevated railroad spur running through Chelsea and the West Village which in its recent makeover now has become a wildly successful tourist draw.

In Oliver's "Jupiter", five views of a bedroom were various stages of surrealist transformation – from a relatively straightforward shot of a lunar globe on a chair to images of a telescope and violin cases before darkened windows and furled umbrellas balanced at the edge of a bed – appeared to rotate across a billboard next to and slightly below the High Line in a parking lot at West 18th Street. Like those seen in telescopes, Oliver’s images are traces of the past, events constructed by the artist and reflected off the shiny surface of a convex teapot. Oliver’s installation was timed to run for a full lunar cycle – his five images were meant to suggest the moon in its various phases – and coincided with the fall equinox and the Jupiter opposition on 21 September. As supplemental programming, Friends of the High Line planned a public viewing of the opposition with the New York chapter of the Amateur Astronomers Association; and in response to the artist’s desire to add a musical component to the installation, students from the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music performed John Coltrane’s Jupiter Variation (1967). Oliver's ability to create complex and evocative connections between images and performative media has yet to catch up with his fascination and search for meaning.

To see more of ArtReview's feature, visit http://www.artreview.com/forum/topics/demetrius-oliver-jupiter

To see more of Oliver's work, visit http://demetriusoliver.blogspot.com/

Jayson Musson (MFA Candidate '11) in Group Exhibition at Grimmuseum, Germany, Opening October 21st, 7pm

Jayson Musson will be part of the group exhibition titled "SYNCOPATION" at the Grimmuseum in Berlin, Germany. The Grimmuseum will host D12, a series of six alter ego shows. D12 is a rap collective of local Detroit MC's (Eminem, Bizzare, Proof a.o) formed in 1996 in the vein of the Wu Tang Clan. Unable to find twelve members, initiator Proof asked the six members of the group to each create an alter ego. Following the concept of the original D12 group in Detroit, the artist Despina Stokou invited six art professionals, among them a gallery director, an art critic, an art editor, a collector, a curator and an artist to present their creative alter ego. Francesca Gavin presents "SYNCOPATION" in featuring artists Cory Arcangel & Frankie Martin, Oliver Laric, Paolo Chiasera & DJ Shablo, Ajit Chauhan, Mark Titchner, Jayson Scott Musson, Jeremy Shaw, Samuel Levack and Jennifer Lewandowski, and Matt Stokes. "SYNCOPATION" brings together work that explores the intersection between art and music. The aim is to demonstrate how artists are inspired and interpret sound and music in sculpture, installation, video, photographic and performance works. The show touches on how the spiritual aspect of music – from Sufism and whirling dervishes to Hindu devotional Bhajans to the Jewish cantors – manifests in the very modern forms of raves, subcultures and other musical tribalism.

Opening Reception: Thursday, October 21st, 7:00pm
Exhibition Dates: Thursday, October 21st - Saturday, October 31st

Grimmuseum
Fitsche Strasse 2
10967, Berlin, Germany
www.grimmuseum.com
info@grimmuseum.com
Gallery Hours: Daily 2:00 - 7:00pm

To see more of Jayson's work, visit http://www.jaysonmusson.com/welcomemat.html

Terry Adkins (Graduate Faculty) and Blanche Bruce's "Riddle of the Sphinx" at Amistad Gallery, Opening October 22nd, 6pm

"Riddle of the Sphinx" is the latest incarnation of Blanche Bruce & Terry Adkins’ ongoing cycle of site-inspired recitals on the abolitionist John Brown. Commemorating the 151st anniversary of his Harper’s Ferry, Virginia campaign, the duration of this recital coincides with the inception of Brown’s October 16th, 1859 raid on a U.S. armory through to his capture execution on that December 2nd at Charlestown. Adkins and collaborator Blanche Bruce explore aspects of John Brown as shepherd, soldier, martyr, and prophet through a muscular communion of video, sculpture, drawings, artifacts and ceremony. "Riddle of the Sphinx" is so named after a chapter in W.E.B. DuBois’ 1909 biography on Brown and the artists Bruce and Adkins have responded specifically to the titanic views and research contained therein.

Terry Adkins and Blanche Bruce are a collaborative that has worked together since 1999, upholding the legacies of immortal figures of the past by reinserting them to their rightful place in the contemporary historical landscape. Under the auspices of the Lone Wolf Recital Corps, their recitals are multimedia events that rely on the potential disclosure of biography, reclaimed materials and recovered actions. He and Blanche Bruce have performed at the Romanian Academy in Rome, The New Museum, P.S.1 MOMA, Black Box Amsterdam, and Project Row Houses in Houston. Terry Adkins was Rome Prize Fellow in Visual Arts in 2009. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden among others.

Opening Reception: Friday, October 22nd, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Exhibition Dates: October 16th - December 2nd
Vigil Ceremony by the Lone Wolf Recital Corps: Thursday, December 2nd, 6:00 - 9:00pm

Amistad Gallery
W.E.B. Dubois College House
3900 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Amistad Gallery Hours: 10:00am - 8:00pm Daily
Terry Adkins, Gallery Director
tadkins@design.upenn.edu

Pernot Hudson (MFA '06) in Group Exhibition at SINErgy Project Space, Receptions October 14th and November 11th, 5pm

Pernot Hudson will be featured in a group exhibition titled "SYNESTHESIA.2: The Blending of the Senses in Art" at the SINErgy Project Space, Philadelphia. In an ongoing curatorial exploration of perceptual phenomena and the brain’s construction of reality, SYNESTHESIA.2 brings together new and recent work by artists who tantalize our senses through their strategic use of images, lines, scents, colors, sounds, and motion. Curated by Anabelle Rodriguez-Lawton, this second iteration of the SYNESTHESIA exhibition series includes an autobiographical textile-based project by Julie Hoxie representing her synesthetic abilities, new drawings by Chris Kline (Space 1026), recent encaustic paintings and digital transfers by Michelle Marcuse, mixed media by Pernot Hudson, a reprise of the Alter-Integration Altar interactive printmaking installation by Shelley Thorstensen, a new site-specific mural and recent mixed media by Paul Santoleri and “Le Josh” Smith, works on paper by Henry Bermudez, “Macrorganic” photography by Lu Szumskyj, a site-specific installation Bonnie Brenda Scott (Space 1026), a genealogical installation by Jayasihnji Jhala et al, experimental photography by John Schenk aka Tantrum Tonic and Jacqueline Reis, and videos and animations by Rhett Grumbkow, Jason Hsu (Space 1026), Thomas Ross Miller, Paul Osorio, Rafael Rosario, and James Short. SINErgy Project Space and Gallery are multipurpose experimental venues managed by Justin Gibbon + Dan Trevitt Buerk, visionary multimedia producers and INCITING’s founding partners.

Opening Receptions: Thursday, October 14th and Thursday, November 11th, 5:00 - 10:00pm

SINErgy Project Space and Gallery
2310 North American Street (@ DAUPHIN)
Philadelphia, PA 19133
SINERGYSPACE@GMAIL.COM

To view more of Pernot's work, visit http://www.pernothudson.com/

Jewyo Rhii (MFA '97) awarded the 2010 Yanghyun Prize

The Yanghyun Prize was created in 2008 following the wishes of the late Chairman Sooho Cho whose passion in art led to active promotion of various cultural activities with the ultimate goal of bringing Korean art to the world stage. While visiting major international galleries and museums, he expressed a disappointment for Korean exhibition rooms and their limited spaces or underrepresented displays. By bringing spotlight on the Korean art and its artists abroad, we hope to increase international recognition and nurture Korean artists in the future. The Yanghyun Foundation and the Yanghyun Prize promote globalization in arts by awarding artists not limited to Korean artists but including all talented international artists and their commendable works.

Jewyo Rhii introduced her works of art, which she produced for about 5 years from 1998, mainly in the form of books in which an environment of the birth of works and the gradual flow of time were revealed. She published three art books in which urgent efforts that a man makes to improve the physical and mental environment of the everyday life are revealed humorously in the form of photos, drawings and unique makings. Afterward, being interested in herself as an artist in non-retrospective nowness, coincidences that vary depending on the places, spontaneous events, and unfamiliar space and in the dynamics of each exhibition factor, Rhii engages in many exhibition activities. Her interest of other’s matter through the experience of her living abroad in many different cultures shows in the ephemeral objects with temporary materials and fast drawings that deal with the insecurity, resentment, deficiency and vulnerability in individual existence. Rhii uses none-finite installation method, expressing the manner of hesitation and the pendency in the exhibition. Her recent works are distinctly characterized as undisclosed stories arising from a unique relationship that the other person’s drifting life toward a particular fate has with the artist’s continuing life. Rhii was born in Seoul, Korea and studied at Ewha Woman's University in Seoul, University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Chelsea College of Art and Design in London and Rijks Akademie in Amsterdam. She currently lives and works in Seoul.

To see more of Jewyo's work and view the exhibitions that she has been featured in, visit http://oneartworld.com/artists/J/Jewyo+Rhii.html

To learn more about the Yanghyun Prize, visit http://www.yanghyunprize.org/YHP/en/about/prize.jsp

Julia Barbosa Landois (MFA '07) in Group Exhibition at the Detroit Museum of New Art, October 2nd - 30th

A video by Julia Barbosa Landois (MFA '07) will be featured in New Media, Sex, and Culture in the 21st Century at the Detroit Museum of New Art. Her featured piece, also showing later this fall at the Museo de Arte in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, is part of a new body of work exploring sex tourism on the Texas/Mexico border. Landois explores the physical body as the fundamental site for public manifestation of meaning. Her performance/video work explores the cultural trappings of belief, specifically in rituals occurring at the convergence of Catholicism, Mexican folk practice, and Latin identity.

Sex has a long history of being subjected to technologies of observation, regulation, enhancement, and representation. Certainly many of the discourses and technologies of the Internet have been preoccupied with it, even though the U.S. government and other groups have tried to make it harder for people to find sex online. Scholars and artists who explore many such aspects of online pornography, sexual identities in today's society, femininity, masculinity, desire, pleasure, family politics, liberation and repression, prostitution, sexual violence, and other topics are featured in the exhibition.

Exhibition Dates: Saturday October 2nd - Saturday October 30th

Detroit Museum of New Art
7 North Saginaw Street
Pontiac, Michigan
detroitmona@aol.com
Gallery Hours: Thursday - Saturday 1:00 - 6:00pm

http://www.detroitmona.com

To see more of Julia's work, visit http://www.julialandois.com/

Fine Arts Lecture Series: Kamrooz Aram, Thursday October 14th, 6pm

Kamrooz Aram's paintings and drawings bring together traditional and contemporary cultural references to create scenes reflecting “the carnivalesque, absurd, magical and scary present day.” Aram also investigates warfare and mysticism among violence and the sublime. He explores the idea of nationalism and the way that icons and mythologies are used to romanticize politics and culture. Aram was born in Shiraz, Iran in 1978 and received his MFA from Columbia University in 2003. He has had solo exhibitions at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASSMoCA), North Adams, Massachusetts; Wilkinson Gallery, London; and Oliver Kamm/5BE Gallery, New York. His work has been included in various group exhibitions internationally including the Busan Biennale (2006), P.S.1/MoMA’s Greater New York 2005, and the Prague Biennale I (2003).

To see more of Kamrooz's work, visit http://www.kamroozaram.com/

Event Date and Time: Thursday October 14th, 6:00pm

The Institute of Contemporary Art
118 South 36th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

To discover more about the MFA Fine Arts Lecture Series, visit http://www.design.upenn.edu/fine-arts/visiting-artists

Fine Arts Lecture Series: Nancy Davenport (Graduate Faculty & Lecturer), Thursday October 7th, 6pm

Nancy Davenport explores photography via a series of computer-manipulated photographs that challenge the illusion of the real embedded within the photographic document. Her work deftly utilizes digital technology in order to question photographic medium while connecting discourse regarding the document within the manipulated image. Davenport examines the politics of representation by tracing the continuities of historical photographic practices within contemporary digital culture.

Nancy Davenport's work is represented by Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery. Her photography, animations and digital work have been exhibited at a variety of venues including the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Le Locle (Suisse), the Liverpool Biennial, DHC/Art Fondation pour l'art Contemporain (Montréal), the Istanbul Biennial, the Bienal de Sao Paulo, the First Triennial of Photography & Video at the International Center of Photography (NY) and the MIT List Arts Center. Her work has appeared in numerous publications including Artforum, October, Frieze, the New York Times, Art in America and Vitamin Ph: New Perspectives in Photography (Phaidon Press). In 2009, she was the Henry Wolf Chair at Cooper Union NY and also teaches in the MFA programs at Bard, NY, the School of Visual Arts, NY and Yale University.

To see more of Nancy's work, visit www.nancydavenport.com.

Event Date and Time: Thursday October 7th, 6:00pm

The Institute of Contemporary Art
118 South 36th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

To discover more about the MFA Fine Arts Lecture Series, visit http://www.design.upenn.edu/fine-arts/visiting-artists

Mary Valverde (MFA Candidate '12) featured in solo exhibition at Abrons Arts Center, Opening September 30th, 6pm

Mary Valverde (MFA '12) will be featured in a solo exhibition titled, "Variations on Notes" at the Abrons Arts Center, NY. Including drawings and room-sized installations, Valverde's work grows out of patterns created on the floors or walls that are inspired by ancient spaces, mandalas, and formulas of measure in music and architecture. In this exhibition, Valverde references such form generating patterns as Metatron's Cube, The Flower of Life, and the Vesica Piscis. Rendered and altered through a lively collage of materials such as chalk, string, aluminum tape, washers, pennies, and colored fabric, these patterns are transformed into mysterious constructions which point to a cosmic search for beauty in the unknown.


Opening Reception: Thursday, September 30th, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Exhibition Dates: Thursday, September 30th - Friday, November 5th

To see more of Mary's work, visit http://mary-a-valverde.com/

Abrons Arts Center: Henry Street Settlement
466 Grand Street
New York, NY, 10002
215.598.0400
www.abronsartscenter.org

Cecelia Post (MFA '09) establishes Fowler Arts Collective and has Group Exhibition, Opening October 2nd, 7pm

Cecelia Post (MFA '09) recently established the Fowler Arts Collective in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Founded in July of 2010, Fowler is a new studio and gallery collective that houses 20 talented artists working in all mediums. Fowler also has a 700 square foot gallery and event space that will be the site for original exhibitions, artist projects, readings, classes, and more.

Fowler is pleased to present ENTER, the inaugural exhibition of its new space in the historic Greenpoint Terminal Building on the Brooklyn waterfront. This Group Exhibition includes 26 emerging artists from New York City and Philadelphia. Artists were asked to respond to the gallery space in its raw/industrial form. These responses take the form of installations that have been made specifically for the exhibition, or the responses are reflected in the content of the artwork. What results is a show full of discoveries and unexpected conversations between the artwork and the gallery/studio spaces.

Featured artists include Cameron Bishop, Scott Chasse, Elizabeth Coll, Katie Dobbins, Jenny Drumgoole, Leigh Van Duzer (MFA '10), Harlan Erskine, Susan Fang (MFA '10), Kurt Freyer (MFA '09), Jessica Goehring, Elizabeth Hoy (MFA '09), Nicholas Johnston, Frank Deleon Jones, Jules Joseph (MFA '09), Deanna Lee, Kate Nielsen, Rebecca Posner, Cecelia Post (MFA '09), Raphaela Riepl, Emilie Selden (MFA '09), Victoria Sica, Kim Sielbeck, Leonor Torres, Ramon Urenia (MFA '10), Cay Yoon (MFA '10) and Jing Wei.

Opening Reception: Saturday, October 2nd, 7:00 - 11:00pm
Exhibition Dates: Friday, October 1st - Friday, October 22nd

Additional Events at Fowler:

Open Studios at Greenpoint, Brooklyn: Friday, October 1st, 2:00 - 6:00pm / Sunday, October 2nd, 12:00 - 6:00pm

Lightbased Performance Arts Festival by Bring To Light, NYC, Greenpoint Terminal Market Building, Noble Street and West Street: Saturday, October 2nd, 7:00pm

Fowler Arts Collective
67 West Street, #216
Brooklyn, NY 11222
www.fowlerartsbrooklyn.org
Contact: Lia at fowlerartsbrooklyn@gmail.com

Marc Blumthal (MFA '10) reviewed in the "Daily Serving Forum", September 21st

Marc Blumthal (MFA '10) has been reviewed by the Daily Serving Forum, an international forum for contemporary visual artists. Blumthal was selected among two artists for the organizations monthly "Fan Mail" submission. "Blumthal’s work is an investigation of individual and collective identity. His images, which reference the artist’s personal experiences as well as America’s history, address the nature of being human and the pressures of the past", writes the Daily Serving. Blumthal states that, “I’m inspired by shame and guilt. My interests lie in Identity…[my] work addresses my personal identity and my national identity.” Blumthal’s work subtely yet effectively sheds light on the shameful hypocrisy that is created when one’s actions are the antithesis of the “love” they preach. He has recently exhibited work at the "International Print Club of New York" and the "Leonard Pearlstein Gallery" in Philadelphia.

To view the Daily Serving Forum review, visit http://dailyserving.com/

To see more of Marc's work, visit http://marcedmundblumthal.blogspot.com/

Fine Arts Lecture Series: Anne Chu, Thursday September 23rd, 6:00pm

Sculptor and Painter Anne Chu will present an artist talk on Thursday, September 23rd at 6:00pm at the University of Pennsylvania as part of the MFA Fine Arts Lecture series. Drawing her inspiration from ancient sculptures, such as funerary carvings from the Tang Dynasty, or the medieval friezes at Chartres, Anne Chu's version of history is something more akin to fairytale. Primitively carved from wood, Chu's invented relics capture a rich, timeless aesthetic, which makes their authenticity all the more believable. Tombstone For a King is a rough-hewn tableau depicting a long forgotten tragedy. Her clunky figures are careful study of craftsmanship, displaying a casual presence rarely found in ancient depictions, her washy pigmentation is convincing as battered remains. But it's her dreamy colours, greys, pinks, and yellows, which give rise to girly romance: her ancient dynasties always seem strangely contemporary, bringing mystery and romance to life. Chu has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami; the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina; Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, California; Dallas Museum of Art, Texas; and Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Ohio. Her work was included in The Puppet Show, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia and the 54th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh; Sculptors Drawing, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado; and Shuffling the Deck: The Collection Reconsidered, Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey. The artist currently resides in Queens, New York.

To see more of Anne's work, visit http://www.donaldyoung.com/chu/chu_1.html

Event Date and Time: Thursday, September 23rd, 6:00pm

The Institute of Contemporary Art
118 South 36th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

To discover more about the MFA Fine Arts Lecture Series, visit http://www.design.upenn.edu/fine-arts/visiting-artists

University of Pennsylvania's Residency Program Lecture: Mary Ellen Mark, Thursday, September 30th, 5:30pm

Photographer Mary Ellen Mark will present an artist talk reflecting her career on Thursday, September 30th, 5:30pm at the University of Pennsylvania as a part of the University's Residency Program. Mark has achieved worldwide visibility through her numerous books, exhibitions and editorial magazine work. She has published photo essays and portraits in The New Yorker, LIFE, The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, and Vanity Fair. She has traveled extensively to make pictures that reflect a high degree of humanism. Her images of the world's cultures have become landmarks oin the field of documentary photography. Mark is the recipient of many awards and grants including the "Cornell Capa Award", the "Infinity Award for Journalism", an "Erna & Victor Hasselblad Foundation Grant", and a "Walter Annenberg Grant" for her book and exhibition project on America. Among her awards are the "John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship", the "Matrix Award" for an outstanding woman in the field of film/photography, and the "Dr. Erich Salomon Award" for outstanding merits in the field of journalistic photography. These are only a few of the plethora of awards, grants and fellowships that Mark has received. Mark was presented with honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degrees from her Alma Mater, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of the Arts.

The University of Pennsylvania's Residency Program is made possible by the "Emily and Jerry Spiegel Fund to Support Contemporary Culture and Visual Arts".

To see more of Mary Ellen's work, visit http://www.maryellenmark.com/

Event Date and Time: Thursday, September 30th, 5:30pm

University of Pennsylvania
Meyerson Hall, B1
210 S. 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215.898.8374

Elizabeth Hoy (MFA '06) featured in Governers Island Art Fair, September 4th - September 26th

Elizabeth Hoy (MFA '06) will be featured in the Governors Island Art Fair, NYC. The collective, 4heads, is a New York-based arts crew that specializes in commandeering and beautifying unused spaces - developing unique environments for the purpose of exhibition, installation and performance so that artists from all over the world can make good use of dismissed areas. Ernie Sandidge, Nicole Laemmle, Jack Robinson and Antony Zito make up the founding core of the group which was formed in early 2008 with a mission of forging new opportunities for the growing community of artists in New York and beyond.

The 4heads goal is to continually create diverse venues and forums to present, advocate and provide services for artists everywhere. The desire to structure valuable opportunities for creative individuals comes in part as an empathetic reflection of the 4heads' own struggle as working artists surviving in NYC. The collective is primarily focused on encouraging organically occurring culture by nurturing the evolving community of artists - who they see as the true voice of contemporary culture.

To see more of Elizabeth's work, visit http://www.elizabethhoy.com/

Art Fair Dates: Saturday, September 4th - Friday, September 24th
Closing Reception: Friday, September 24th, 11:00 - 6:00pm


Governers Island Art Fair
Art Fair Hours: Saturday and Sundays 11:00 - 6:00pm
For more information and directions to the fair, visit http://www.4heads.org/