Jacob Rivkin ('13) Animation at the Experimental Films Screening at Animation Block Party

Jacob Rivkin ('13) animation flats and wagons included in the Experimental Films Screening at Animation Block Party

Animation Block Party is the premier animation festival of the East Coast. The 12th annual festival is July 30 — August 2, 2015.

Experimental Films, Graphic Design, and Music Videos

DATE: Sunday, August 2, 2015, 9PM
LOCATION: Peter Jay Sharp Building, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) Rose Cinemas
SCREENING RUN TIME: 70min

http://www.bam.org/film/2015/experimental-films-graphic-design-and-music-videos
http://www.animationblock.com
http://www.jacobrivkin.com

Phillip Adams (MFA '06) in Solo Exhibition at Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia

Phillip Adams (MFA '06) is exhibiting a new series of paintings and drawings in his solo exhibition "Love at the Matterhorn," opening next Saturday, the 24th.  The Exhibition is on view until October 23rd.  

For more information about "Love at the Matterhorn" and about Phillip Adam's work, please visit,

http://seraphin.squarespace.com/phillip-adams-2011/

 Love at the Matterhorn

On View: September 24th-October 23rd, 2011

Opening Reception: Saturday, September 24th, 6-8pm 

Seraphin Gallery
1108 Pine Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
www.seraphingallery.com

 

Of Play and Want, A show in the Morgan Gallery by Chloe Isadora Reison ('12)

Of Play and Want is a show of sculpture and photography, made by Chloe during the interim summer of her two year MFA program at the University of Pennsylvania. The show will take place in the Morgan Gallery, in the Department of Graduate Fine Arts. This will be the only opportunity to see the show, as it will come down the following weekend. Please come and view this work, as well as enjoy a cookout, which the artist has organized in conjunction with her show. The cookout will take place at the same time and location as the opening.

For more information, please visit

http://chloeisadorareison.blogspot.com/

Of Play and Want: New Works by Chloe Isadora Reison

Opening Reception: Thursday, August 18th, 6pm-9pm

Morgan Gallery

School of Design

University of Pennsylvania

205 South 34th Street, Philadelphia, PA

Edward Carey (MFA '09) Exhibits Installation in UArts Window

Edward Carey (MFA '09) is exhibiting work in two locations during the month of June. The first is in a window display at UArts. The second is at Bird Park on the corner of Third and Arch in Old City. Please check out both installations while they are up.

UArts Window

333 S.Broad Street

Philadelphia, PA 19107

Bird Park

N 3rd and Arch Street

Philadelphia, PA 19106

Multiple Alumni Represented in VOX VII, Co-Curated by Hennessy Youngman (Jason Musson (MFA' 11))

Vox Populi's seventh annual exhibition of emerging artists, VOX VII, co-curated by Hennessy Youngman and Melissa Ho, is scheduled to open July 8th, 6pm. 32 artists were selected for inclusion in the show, including 8 Alumni: Milana Braslavsky MFA `07, Leigh van Duzer MFA `10, Matthew Krawcheck MFA `10, Peter Schenk MFA `09, John Schlesinger MFA `11, Jaime Treadwell MFA `02, Jessica Vaughn MFA `11 and Nathan T. Wilson MFA `10. The complete list of artists follows:

Milana Braslavsky
Chris Domenick
Hillary L. Doyle
Leigh van Duzer
Kristina Estell
Ashlee Ferlito
Erik Geschke
Scott Giblin
Ben Goddard
Bobby Gonzales
Jordan Graw
James Grilli
Adam Jacono
Tara Kelton
Nichola Kinch
Matthew Krawcheck
Jennifer Lingford
Kevin McCullough
Bud McNichol
Dustin Metz
Jonathan Monaghan
Benjamin Pederson
Daniel Petraitis
Lauren Rice
Peter Schenk
John Schlesinger
Run Shayo
Jaime Treadwell
Jessica Vaughn
Sarah Weber
Nathan T. Wilson & Dante Blackstone
Lindsay Wraga

For more information on VOX VII, visit

http://www.voxpopuligallery.org/index.php

VOX VII

July 8 – 31

Opening Reception: Friday, July 8^th, 6-11pm

Vox Populi

319 N 11th Street, Third Floor

Philadelphia, PA 19107

215-238-1236

Vox Populi is open to the public Wednesday through Sunday from 12 pm to 6 pm

Joshua Mosley (Associate Professor, Chair) in group exhibition at the Fabric Workshop and Museum, opening June 3rd, 6pm

Joshua Mosley, Associate Professor of Fine Arts and Acting Chair, Department of Fine Arts, has a special project included in the group exhibition Close at Hand, which opens June 3rd at The Fabric Workshop and Museum. The show includes Philadelphia artists from the museum’s permanent collection. Also in the show is our Professor and Chair Emeritus John Moore and former graduate photo faculty & senior critic Eileen Neff. Close at Hand is co-curated by Virgil Marti, along with Marion Boulton Stroud, Ruth Fine and Mary Anne Friel.

For more information about Close at Hand, visit

http://www.fabricworkshopandmuseum.org/exhibitions/close-at-hand.php

Close at Hand:

Philadelphia Artists from the Permanent Collection

June 3 – Late Summer 2011
Opening Reception: Friday, June 3, 6-8 pm

The Fabric Workshop and Museum

1214 Arch Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107-0922
[T] 215.561.8888
[F] 215.561.8887
info@fabricworkshopandmuseum.org

Hours

Monday through Friday, 10 am to 6 pm

Saturdays and Sundays, 12 pm to 5 pm

Admission

$3 for Adults
Free for Children under 12 and all FWM Members.
Group tours available by appointment.

Julia Barbosa Landois (MFA '07) in Solo Exhibition at Blue Star Contemporary Art Center (San Antonio, Texas), Opening June 2nd, 6pm

Julia Barbosa Landois (MFA '07) will have work featured in a solo exhibition and live performance, entitled "Culo de Oro/The Golden Ass," at Blue Star Contemporary Art Center. "Culo de Oro/The Golden Ass" examines sex, masculinity, and the tourist mentality along the Texas/Mexico border.

Landois grew up in South Texas, surrounded by men who visited towns like Nuevo Laredo for prostitutes, bizarre sex shows, exotic game hunting, and recreational drinking. Like Las Vegas or Amsterdam, these towns illustrate how the concept of license can change when one changes environments. In this show, she, too, plays the part of tourist in the terrain of masculine identity and gendered desire, in a sexual rite of passage with no counterpart for women of the same culture.

This is Landois's first project using documentary material as a starting point. The installation and performance are informed by interviews conducted with friends and brothel patrons, sex tourism website testimonials, regional folklore, and ideas about sex and spirituality from ancient Mexico. Landois will perform in the installation space on June 30th with musician Erik Sanden of the art-rock band Buttercup. Creation of this work was made possible in part by the Residency Program at the Santa Fe Art Institute and an Award from the Artist Foundation of San Antonio, with funding provided by the Cultural Collaborative of the City of San Antonio.

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

Also, to read reviews of the show, please visit

http://www.mysanantonio.com/default/article/Curtain-lifted-on-border-sex-trade-1443687.php

http://glasstire.com/2011/07/02/nuevo-laredo-performs-in-san-antonio-culo-de-oro-the-golden-ass/

Opening Reception: Thursday, June 2nd, 6-9 pm

Live Performance: Thursday, June 30th, 7pm

Exhibition Dates: June 2nd - August 6th

Blue Star Contemporary Art Center

116 Blue Star

San Antonio, TX 78204

http://www.bluestarart.org/

Penn Design 2011 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Opening May 12th, 6pm

Penn Design Fine Arts is proud to present the 2011 MFA Thesis Exhibition at the at the Ice Box exhibition space in Crane Arts, Philadelphia. The exhibition will bring together works by the 22 artists who will graduate from the program this May. The exhibition is free and open to the public. Exhibiting Artists: Paige Adair, Amy Archambault, Sandy Boyer, Zoe Chronis, Sarah Cohen, Robert Dimin, Rachel Eschenbach, Stephen Grebinski, Justine Hill, Beth Hull, Soo Kang, Bradley LaMere, Elina Malkin, Michael Marfione, Kent Miller, Jayson Scott Musson, Heidi Nam, Martha Rich, John Schlesinger, Tamara Suber, Jessica Vaughn, and Jessica Yang.

The PennDesign MFA class of 2011 has been challenged to independently pursue artistic research in visual art. With the graduation of this class, we celebrate the Fine Arts program's new unification of individual disciplines. For example, the work of a photographer is no less conscious of the universe of painting, and a video artist might have equal interest in sculpture. These graduating students have had exposure to international traveling studios, sponsored residencies, and visiting faculty. The combination of these experiences have broadened the students' perspectives and shaped their responsibilities as artists.

To learn more about the exhibition, visit http://pennexhibitions.com/index.php?/home/mfa_shows/2011/

Opening Reception: Thursday, May 12th, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Exhibition Dates: Thursday, May 12th - Sunday, May 29th

Crane Arts Building: Ice Box Project Space
1400 North American Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Sunday 12:00 - 6:00pm

Brent Wahl (Lecturer, MFA '06) in Solo Exhibition at Vox Populi, Opening May 6th, 6pm

Brent Wahl (Lecturer, MFA '06) will have work featured in his fourth solo exhibition at Vox Populi, entitled "Group Show". Fabricating three-dimensional "situations" that move through contextual and visual shifts is an ongoing interest in Brent Wahl’s work, as are reoccurring themes that investigate cultural phenomena, abstraction, architecture and illusion. For Wahl, abstraction has often been the "glue" that binds together the disparate visual forms in his varied work.

In "Group Show", Wahl refocuses his interest in abstraction in full force. Drawing on his fascination with the optical and spatial shifts that happen between three-dimensional structures imaged in two-dimensions (via photography), he embraces a playful and experimental stance with this work. Collaborating with himself, he compiles a “group show" of imagery that is at once thematically linked and visually diverse.

To view more of Wahl's work, visit, http://brentwahl.com/home.html

Opening Reception: Friday, May 6th, 6:00 - 11:00pm
Exhibition Dates: Friday, May 6th - Sunday, May 29th

Vox Populi
319 North 11th Street
Philadelphia, PA
http://www.voxpopuligallery.org/

Caroline Santa (MFA '07) in Solo Exhibition at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Opening May 6th, 6pm

Caroline Santa (MFA '07) will have recent work featured in a solo exhibition, titled "Coda", at Tiger Strikes Asteroid. Mining old drawings, discarded scraps of paper, and other found items, Santa's newest mixed media works are improvisatory, intuitive, and guided by serendipity. "Coda" is the inaugural exhibition in Tiger Strikes Asteroid's new space on the 2nd floor.

Santa's previously unresolved drawings are remembered, reexamined, and reshaped to become a fresh inventory of color, marks, and surfaces. Enforced by other found items, this collection of materials is recognized for an undeveloped portential and an appreciation of its own characteristics. Her thoughtfulness in observations and the inspiration she finds in overlooked fragments and secondary forms reveals a compelling process. The negative spaces of Santa's drawings become the subject, cut out and reinforced by the application of arbitrary shapes in gouaches, ink washes, spray paint and graphite. Santa holds a BFA from the University of Delaware and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. Recently her work has been shown at Projects Gallery, UnSmoke Space, and Gross McCleaf Gallery. In 2007, she was the recipient of the Charles Addams Prize, and was an Artist-in-Residence in Pereira, Colombia. Her work has been exhibited at The Delaware Center of Contemporary Art, FLUXspace, The Jenny Jaskey Gallery, The University of the Arts, the galleries of The University of Pennsylvania, and The Lucy Tejada Cultural Center in Pereira, Colombia. Santa lives and works in Philadelphia.

To view more works by Santa, visit http://carolinesanta.com/news.html

Opening Reception: Friday, May 6th 6:00pm-10:00pm
Exhibition Dates: Friday May 6th - Sunday May 29th

Tiger Strikes Asteroid
319A North 11th Street
2nd Floor (Our New Location!)
Philadelphia PA 19107

Joe Ovelman (MFA '10) in Solo Exhibition at Conner Contemporary Art, Opening May 14th, 6pm

Conner Contemporary Art is pleased to present concurrent solo exhibitions by Jeremy Kost, Joe Ovelman and Geoffrey Aldridge. Joe Ovelman (MFA '10) explores sexuality and the subversion of social norms with a series of new sculptures in his second solo exhibition with the gallery, "Coming Home". Works made of wood and mixed media resemble apparatuses used in past decades to provide anonymity during sexual encounters. Removing these forms from their original contexts and adjusting the relation of their features to human anatomy, Ovelman emphasizes the universality of these objects.

To view more of Ovelman's work, visit http://joeovelman.com/home.


Opening Reception: Saturday, May 14th, 6:00 - 8:00pm.
Exhibition Dates: May 14th – July 2nd, 2011


Conner Contemporary Art
1358 Florida Avenue,
NE –Washington, DC 20002
(in the Historic Atlas/H Street Area)
http://www.connercontemporary.com/
202.588.8750
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 - 5:00pm

Marc Blumthal (MFA '10) in Group Exhibition at the Woodbury Hollywood Gallery (WUHO), CA, Opening Thursday April 14th, 7pm

Marc Blumthal (MFA '10) will have work featured in a group exhibition titled, "2D3D-2: Drawing in the Post-Digital Age" at the Woodbury University School of Architecture Hollywood Gallery (WUHO) in Los Angeles, California. Drawing is a major and parallel mode of expression for many of today’s progressive architects. The gallery thus proposes "2D3D", a comprehensive annual exhibition of architectural drawings. Please join the Blumthal and additional artists for this special event.

"Architectural drawings have a variety of uses: to instruct, inform, indulge, confuse, confirm, congratulate and console. The most worthwhile are those that undertake these essential architectural tasks on behalf of the producer rather than the consumer. When this is the case, which is rare, then such drawings do indeed become an integral part of the architecture they portray rather than a cypher for thoughts translated elsewhere, and by other means."
-Cedric Price

To see more of Blumthal's work, visit http://www.marcblumthal.com/

Opening Reception: Thursday, April 14th, 7:00 - 10:00pm
Exhibition Dates: Thursday, April 14th - Sunday, May 1st

Woodbury University School of Architecture
Hollywood Gallery (WUHO)
6518 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, California 90029
http://wuho.org/

Nathlie Provosty (MFA '07) in Group Exhibition at Fowler's Gallery, Brooklyn, Opening April 23rd, 6pm

Fowler Arts Collective is pleased to present "Fist City", an exhibition of abstract paintings by EJ Hauser, Logan Grider, Matt Phillips, and Nathlie Provosty (MFA '07).

A fist is the hand’s best attempt to organize itself. More often than not, our attempts to create order and meaning only remind us of how lawless and mysterious life actually is. What does the inside of your closed hand even look like? "Fist City" is not just a place; ...it is a community and a credo. Hands reaching out to grasp, touch, and configure the entropic. When words become too elusive and you have to take matters directly into your hands, you have entered "Fist City". Titled after the infamous Loretta Lynn song of the same name, "Fist City" embodies the bold, take-notice attitude of Lynn’s lyrics. The artists in "Fist City" are engaged in a rigorous investigation of abstraction and all the different forms it can take. The exhibition is a collaboration between the artists: self-directed and independently organized with the support of Fowler Arts Collective. In addition to paintings, the artists have produced a limited edition broadsheet that will accompany the exhibition.The artists live and work primarily in New York City and Philadelphia. Fowler is a new gallery and studio collective located in Greenpoint, Brooklyn founded by Cecelia Post (MFA '09).

To learn more about Fowler and this exhibition, visit http://www.fowlerartsbrooklyn.org/.

Opening Reception: Saturday, April 23rd, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Exhibition Dates: April 23rd to May 7th, 2011

Fowler Arts Collective Gallery
67 West Street, 2nd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11222
Gallery Hours: Saturday and Sunday 12:00 - 6:00pm or by appointment

Francesca Pfister (MFA '07) and Stefania Luciani Binnick (MFA '87) in Exhibition at the Consulate General:Italy, Philadelphia, Opening April 28th, 6pm

Francesca Pfister (MFA '07) and Stefania Luciani Binnick (MFA '87) will have work featured in a Group Exhibition titled, "The Unity of Italy and USA: A Bridge of 150 Year". Curated by Shara Wasserman, the exhibition will hosts two openings at the Crane Arts Building: Gray Area and the Consulate General of Italy, Independent Mall. Wasserman is the Exhibitions Director at Temple University Rome. A video projection and concert will be featured the day prior to Pfister and Binnick's opening.

* Opening Reception: Thursday, April 28th, 6:00 - 9:00pm

* Consulate General of Italy: Philadelphia
150 South Independence Mall W
Philadelphia, PA



Concert and Video Projection: Wednesday, April 27th 6:00 - 9:00pm

Crane Arts: Gray Area
1400 North American Street
Philadelphia, PA

Nathlie Provosty (MFA '07) in Group Exhibition at Jolie Laide, Opening April 8th, 6pm

Nathlie Provosty (MFA '07) will have work featured in a group exhibition titled "Becoming Something Found" at Jolie Laide, Philadelphia. "Becoming Something Found" explores how chance and uncertainty guide the processes of making art. The exhibition included artists from different generations who “collaborate with chance” (Rebecca Solnitt). The artists are connected through practices that involve unplanned gestures and indirect courses. Their processes are similar yet disparate, overlapping in approaches to materials and abstraction and varying in particularities of methods and imagery. For all of the artists, making art entails an ability to get lost and to remain open to what one may find. Additional artists featured include Jessica Dickinson, Emily Do, Rachel Foullon, Shelia Hicks, Alison Knowles, Fabienne Lasserre, Siobhan Liddell, Ree Morton, Jo Smail, and Molly Smith.

To see more of Provosty's work, visit http://www.nathlieprovosty.com/


Opening Reception: Friday, April 8th, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Exhibition Dates: Friday, April 1st - Saturday, May 28th

Jolie Laide Gallery
224 N. Juniper St.
Philadelphia, Pa 19107
http://www.jolielaide.com

Chloe Isadora Reison and Mary Valverde (MFA '12 candidates) in Exhibition at the Morgan Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Opening April 8th, 6pm

In "Deliberate Enigmas", Chloe Isadora Reison and Mary Valverde (MFA '12 candidates) present their individual sculptural works, as well as a collaborative performance piece, to take place the night of the opening. Both Reison and Valverde are interested in material culture, consumption and excess. They execute their respective work quite differently from one another, though each artist approaches their practice with a similar and curious sense of exploration, and a dedication to formalism. Their goal in showing together is to perpetuate the influence and inspiration the two artists have taken from one another, as well as to see what dialogue may arise in the joining of their work. Reison and Valverde see this as the start of a conversation that they hope to continue throughout their careers.


Opening Reception: Friday April 8th, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Performance Time: 7:00pm
Exhibition Dates: Friday, April 8th - Friday, April 15th

Morgan Gallery
Department of Fine Arts
University of Pennsylvania
205 S 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Jessica Vaughn (MFA '11 candidate) in Exhibition at DuBois College House, University of Pennsylvania, Opening April 5th, 7pm

In "Redress", Jessica Vaughn (MFA '11 candidate) presents photographs and works on panel made during her graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She explores printmaking and photography in unconventional ways by altering the surface of her works through processes of drawing, painting and erasure. Vaughn’s work starts with a recognizable image, found photographs from magazines, newspaper sources or ones that she has taken. She combines different processes together to create connectivity and analysis in images where it is generally assumed none exists. Such is the case in her recent work where she uses 16 th century Dutch woodcuts and African American hairpieces, or installation set-ups of cardboard banker boxes, iconic red plaid plastic bags and faux star galaxy backdrops. Her sense of abstraction has developed from translating information that is often recognized and seen as monolithic into something new.

To view more of Vaughn's work, visit http://jessvaughn.com/home.html

Opening Reception: Tuesday April 5th , 7:00 - 9:00pm

DuBois College House
University of Pennsylvania
39th and Walnut
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Kelsey Halliday Johnson (MFA '12 candidate) and Robert Dimin (MFA '11 candidate) in Exhibition at Project Space 240 Church, Opening April 1st, 6pm

Kelsey Halliday Johnson (MFA '12 candidate) and Robert Dimin (MFA '11 candidate) will be in a group exhibition titled, "After the Curtain" at Project Space 240 Church, Philadelphia. The exhibition features the latest work by Leigh Barrow, Reed Barrow
Mia Berg, Justin Melnick, Stephen K. Schuster, Dimin, Johnson & others.

Opening Reception: Friday, April 1st, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Exhibition Dates: Friday, April 1st - Saturday, April 30th



Project Space 240 Church
240 Church Street (Between Market & Arch and 2nd & 3rd)
Philadelphia, PA 19104
http://projectspace240church.com/home.html

University of Pennsylvania Undergraduate Fine Arts Senior Thesis Exhibition, Opening March 23rd, 5pm

Please join the University of Pennsylvania Undergraduate Fine Arts Class of 2011 for their Undergraduate Senior Thesis Exhibition. Artists featured in the exhibition include Li-Hsing Chen, Siede Coleman, Sarah Dekker, Rebecca Donald, Fay Fussell, Rachel Ivanhoe, Jeremy Maas, Stacey Toseland, and Greg Wall. The Class of 2011 has spent the past year preparing for this show which reflects a culmination of their work. The exhibition hosts a variety of media including painting, animation, sculpture, installation and text / digital media. It also presents a diverse array of content.

To learn more about the Thesis Exhibition, visit http://www.design.upenn.edu/fineartsthesis2011/index.html

Opening Reception: Wednesday, March 23rd 5:00 - 7:00pm
Exhibition Dates: Wednesday, March 23rd - Thursday, April 21st

Charles Addams Fine Arts Gallery
University of Pennsylvania
200 South 36th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday 9:00 - 5:00pm, Saturdays upon request

MFA '11 & '12 Graduates Candidates in Group Exhibition at the Morgan Gallery, Opening March 22nd, 5:30pm

Several MFA '11 & '12 graduate candidates will be featured in a group exhibition titled, "Trembling: A Collaborative Ongoing Installation" in the Morgan Gallery, University of Pennsylvania. This ongoing collaborative installation takes place on behalf of graduate faculty Matt Freedman's Drawing Seminar. The seminar pauses in midstream for an evening of viewing and celebration. In the spirit of experimentation, the seminar and exhibiting artists invite you to explore this work amidst it's progress. The exhibition will be up and continuing to evolve until March 27th. Artists featured include Tra Bouscaren , Sarah Goffstein, Kelsey Halliday Johnson, Elina Malkin, Saori Moriizumi, Yoorim Park, Erik Reinholdz, Meredith Sellers, Woohyun Shim, Brett Wiemann and Mikey Winsor

Opening Reception: Tuesday, March 22nd 5:30 - 8:30pm
Exhibition Dates: March 22nd - March 27th (Visit the MFA Graduate Office for Appointment)

The Morgan Gallery
University of Pennsylvania
205 S. 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA, 19104