John Moore (Former MFA Program Chair) Exhibit "Shades of Grey" Opens Fri, Mar. 5, 5:30pm

John Moore (Former MFA Program Chair) has a solo show of new drawings at Locks Gallery titled Shades of Grey, opening Friday, March 5 from 5:30 - 7:30pm.

This exhibit, John Moore’s first exclusive drawing show, is composed of eighteen charcoal works, all completed in 2009. An ambitious endeavor into a medium that the artist had only previously handled while in college, these large-scale drawings each have a unique subject and are not studies or preparatory drawings for paintings.

Seeking a break from painting, his sole pursuit over the last decade and the focus of a mid-career retrospective in 2009, the artist was drawn to a total immersion in a new medium. Charcoal’s flexibility and variety of hues enhances the depth of field and the articulation of architectural forms - longstanding hallmarks of Moore’s work. The density of the heavily worked charcoal achieves a surface richness akin to painting. Each work also reveals Moore’s own analytic approach to the urban landscape and architecture - lifelong interests.

Moore served as chair of the Fine Arts Department at The University of Pennsylvania from 1999 through 2008, capping off a distinguished teaching career that included positions at Tyler School of Art and Boston University. The artist has shown extensively in New York and Philadelphia, in museum and gallery exhibitions, and his work is in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; SFMOMA and Yale University Art Gallery.

Opening Reception: Friday, March 5, 5:30 - 7:30pm
Exhibition Dates: March 5 - April 10

Locks Gallery
600 Washington Square South
Philadelphia, PA 19106
215-629-1000
info@locksgallery.com
www.locksgallery.com

To see more of John's work, visit www.locksgallery.com/artists.php?aid=18

Daniel Heyman (MFA ‘91) in multimedia presentation "Warning: Graphic Content", Tues. Mar. 9, 7pm

About Ali, Daniel Heyman

Daniel Heyman (MFA ‘91) is featured in the multimedia presentation “Warning: Graphic Content”, presented by First Person Arts and Bryn Mawr Film Institute on Tuesday, March 9 at 7:00pm. This event is presented as part of Philagrafika and One Book, One Philadelphia. This multimedia presentation explores the genre of the graphic memoir across multiple forms. Three leading artists– Daniel Heyman, Jamar Nicholas and Josh Neufeld – will present their work and discuss how they create it. A screening of the film Persepolis, based on the graphic memoir by Marjane Satrapi, will follow the discussion.

Prisoner abuse connected to the Iraq War has influenced the recent work of Philadelphia artist Daniel Heyman, who incorporates the words prisoners speak to him as he draws them. Philadelphia-based comics artist Jamar Nicholas is working on a new, graphic version of Geoffrey Canada’s powerful memoir Fist Stick Knife Gun. Josh Neufeld’s work gives the graphic treatment to his personal life and historical events, including the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Marjane Satrapi’s two graphic memoirs were combined to make the film version of Persepolis. The film chronicles Satrapi’s childhood in the shadow of the Iranian Revolution, following her into young adulthood as she navigates the starkly different worlds of Western Europe and an increasingly conservative Iran.

For the past four years, Daniel Heyman has concentrated his art on the war in Iraq, specifically the abuse and torture of Iraqis at Abu Ghraib and other prisons. Heyman has traveled to Jordan and Turkey where he talked face to face with over 25 former detainees, painting their portraits and capturing their prison experiences. Portfolios of Heyman’s work are held by the Library of Congress, New York Public Library, Yale University Art Gallery, Baltimore Museum of Art, Free Library of Philadelphia and many others. He teaches at Swarthmore College and the Rhode Island School of Design.

Event Date and Time: Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 7pm
Bryn Mawr Film Institute, 824 West Lancaster Avenue, Bryn Mawr, PA
Tickets are $15 ($10 for First Person Arts and BMFI members)
Advanced tickets available online only at www.firstpersonarts.org/programs2/salons/

About First Person Arts:
Founded in 2000, First Person Arts transforms the drama of real life into memoir and documentary art to foster appreciation for our unique and shared experience. First Person Arts believes that everyone has a story to tell and that sharing our stories connects us with each other and the world. First Person Arts supports the development of memoir and documentary work by artists from all walks of life and provides opportunities for their stories to be heard in programs throughout the year.

For more information, visit www.firstpersonarts.org
To see more of Daniel's work, visit www.danielheyman.com

Daniel Heyman (MFA ‘91) in Exhibit at Swarthmore College Opening Thurs. Mar 4, 4:30-7pm

Daniel Heyman (MFA '91) will have a solo exhibit titled Bearing Witness at the List Gallery at Swarthmore College. The exhibit is open from March 4 to April 9 and is held in conjunction with a symposium on Saturday, March 20.

For the past four years, Daniel Heyman, has traveled to Jordan and Turkey to meet with former Iraqi detainees, paint their portraits, and record their testimony. His exhibition will feature a selection of his portraits of survivors of torture at Abu Grahib prison as well as portraits of African American men from the Philadelphia area who have endured extreme poverty and repeated incarceration. Heyman’s moving portraits neither sensationalize the horrific stories told by their subjects nor emphasize his own emotional reaction. Instead, as Swarthmore Professor of Sociology Robin Wagner-Pacifici points out in her forthcoming exhibition catalog essay, Heyman’s portraits, with their selective inclusion of excerpts of sworn testimony, emphasize the subjects’ professional and familial roles—fundamental aspects of our social and personal identity. In doing so, the portraits restore dignity and individuality to those who have been deprived of their most basic human rights.

Heyman graduated from Dartmouth College with a degree in Visual Studies and received an M.F.A in painting from the University of Pennsylvania. Numerous institutions have acquired portfolios of his work including the Library of Congress, New York Public Library, Yale University Art Gallery, Baltimore Museum of Art, and Princeton University Art Museum. Heyman is a 2009 Pew Fellowship recipient. In addition, he has received many fellowships including awards from the MacDowell colony, the AMJ foundation, the Philadelphia Print Collaborative, and the Independence Foundation. A distinguished visiting artist and critic at noted institutions, including Cranbrook Academy and the University of Iowa, Heyman teaches printmaking regularly at Swarthmore College and Rhode Island School of Design.

Opening Reception: Thursday, March 4, 5:30-7:00pm
Artist Lecture: Thursday, March 4, 4:30pm
Exhibition Dates: March 4 - April 9, 2010

Symposium: Saturday, March 20, 2010
Artists in Wartime: Bearing Witness/Shaping a Response

Symposium Schedule:
9:30 a.m.

Welcome reception Lang Performing Arts Center Lobby (coffee and pastries)
10:00 a.m.—Noon
Symposium—Lang Performing Arts Center Cinema
Janine Mileaf, moderator, Assistant Professor of Art History, Swarthmore College
Eric Avery, Artist, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Damian Cote, Artist
Juan Manuel Echavarria, Artist
Daniel Heyman, Artist, Visiting Associate Professor of Studio Art, Swarthmore College and at Rhode Island School of Design
Andrew Lichtenstein, documentary photographer
Melissa Ho, Artist and Art Historian

Noon-1:00 p.m.—Light lunch fare provided
Reception in McCabe Library main lobby for Printmakers go to War: Works by Daniel Heyman in collaboration with Nick Flynn, Damian Cote, Eric Avery, and Michael Reed

1:00 p.m.—Poetry Reading by Nick Flynn
McCabe Library Lobby
Nick Flynn, has published his works in The New Yorker, The Nation, Fence, The New York Times Book Review, The Paris Review, and NPR's This American Life. Author of A Note Slipped Under the Door with Shirley McPhillips. his awards include "Discovery"/The Nation Award, the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award, the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship, , and fellowships from The Guggenheim Foundation and The Library of Congress.

List Gallery
McCabe Library
Swarthmore College
500 College Avenue
Swarthmore, PA 19081
www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/art/Gallery/

To see more of Daniel's work, visit www.danielheyman.com

Brian Zegeer (MFA '05) Will Screen Video Project Fri, Feb 19,

Brian Zegeer (MFA '05) will be projecting footage from the "Pull My Daisy" video/installation project filmed in October, 2008. He will be mixing the footage in real-time as part of a performance by Baby Copperhead at Pete's Candy Store.

Event Time and Date: 10:30pm, February 22, 2010

Baby Copperhead Residency

Pete's Candystore
709 Lorimer St.
Brooklyn, NY 11211
www.petescandystore.com

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

Jacolby Satterwhite (MFA '10) will perform at Rush Arts Gallery, Sat. Feb. 27, 4:00pm

Jacolby Satterwhite (MFA '10) will perform at the Country Ball 2010 at Rush Arts Gallery on Saturday, February 27 from 4:00 - 6:00pm. There will be music by DJ Jools Palmer.

"February 27, 2010 is going to be a fierce cookout in the gallery. Expect to dance your ass off, watch some killer, brand new, subversive, never before seen video art and throw down on some delicious food. Your participation is vital in this pot-luck / cookout. So bring a dish or beverage of any kind. Learn how to do the Electric Slide! And bring your truest, authentic self, because Jacolby Satterwhite is going to serve!"

Jacolby's performance is in conjunction with his show at RAG titled The Mothership has Landed, ongoing from January 29 - March 20, 2010.

Date: Saturday, February 27, 2010
Time: 4:00PM til' 6:00 PM ---and possibly much later!

Rush Arts Gallery
526 West 26th Street, Suite 311
New York, NY 10001-5521
212 - 691 - 9552
www.rushartsgallery.org

Tetsugo Hyakutake (MFA '09) Exhibits Work in the Art Prize Arte Laguna

Tetsugo Hyakutake (MFA '09) will participate in the Fourth International Art Prize “Arte Laguna”, organized by the Italian Cultural Association MoCA (Modern Contemporary Art), in cooperation with Arte Laguna. The Art Prize is dedicated to the promotion and valorization of the contemporary art.

The Prize is organized under the patronage of the Foreign Office, Region of Veneto, Province of Treviso, Province of Venice, Municipality of Venice, Municipality of Mogliano Veneto, Venetian Ca’ Foscari University, Ascom of Treviso, NIKON, Venetian Academy of Fine Arts, European Institute of Design (IED).

The Prize is subdivided in three sections: painting, photographic art, sculpture. Participants can chose the theme of their artworks.

Opening Reception: Saturday, March 6, 2010, 6:30pm

Tese of San Cristoforo
Venice Arsinale
Via Roma, 29/A
Mogliano Veneto
TV
31021
Italia

www.artelagunaprize.com

To see more of Tetsugo's work, visit www.tetsugohyakutake.com

Cecelia Post (MFA '09) Featured Work on BOMB Magazine Blog

Cecelia Post, You Made Me, Sewing, 2009

Cecelia Post (MFA '09) has work illustrating a podcast and interview with her twin, poet Frances Justine Post, on BOMB Magazine's blog. Luke Degnan has started this new project called Phoned-In which features readings of poetry by poets. Frances Justine Post is the inaugural poet and she reads four poems.

http://bombsite.powweb.com/?p=7698

To see more of Cecelia's work, visit www.ceceliapostart.com

Peter Schenck (MFA '09) Has Work Featured in BOMB Magazine Blog, Airing Tomorrow Morning, Thurs, Feb 18, 11:30am

Peter Schenck, Cops and Underwear, 2009

Peter Schenck (MFA '09) will have work accompanying a BOMB Magazine Phoned In podcast featuring poet Jack Christian, airing tomorrow, Thursday, February 18 at 11:30.

Tune in here: http://bombsite.powweb.com/?p=7787

To see more of Peter's work, visit http://peterschenck.com/

Visiting Artist Lecture : A.L. Steiner, TONIGHT, Weds Feb 17, 4:30pm

A.L. Steiner is a Brooklyn-based artist who uses constructions of photography, video, installation, collaboration, performance and curatorial work as seductive tropes channeled through the sensibility of a cynical queer eco-feminist androgyne. Steiner is a collective member of Chicks on Speed, co-curator of Ridykeulous and collaborates with numerous visual and performing artists. She is represented by Taxter & Spengemann.

Event Date and Time : Wednesday, February 17, 4:30pm

University of Pennsylvania School of Design
Meyerson Hall, Room B3
210 s. 34th street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
t: 215-898-8374
fine-art@design.upenn.edu
www.design.upenn.edu/fine-arts/visiting-artists

To see more of A.L.'s work, visit www.taxterandspengemann.com

Tadashi Moriyama (MFA '06) in *On/Off the Grid* Exhibit, Opening Sat. Feb. 13, 6:00pm

Tadashi Moriyama (MFA '06) will have work in an exhibit titled *On/Off the Grid* at Irvine Contemporary in Washington DC, opening Saturday, February 13 from 6:00 - 8:00pm.

*On/Off the Grid*, is an
exhibition of works by artists who work with - and against - the concepts of
grids, networks, architecture and abstract systems. Tadashi will be showing with Hasan
Elahi, Adam Fowler, Teo González, Courtney Jordan, Amy Lin, Linn Meyers,
Molly Springfield and Yuriko Yamaguchi.

Playing on all senses of the metaphor "grid," the exhibition features works
that engage with formal systems or embody a critique of moving with, or
against, grids, networks, and a priori abstract structures. Being "on the
grid" today can mean being connected, part of the network, plugged into the
system, knowable and known to others; "off the grid" means the opposite,
disconnected, isolated, inaccessible, unknowable. Networks and grids have
been the main modeling systems for many domains of life--idealized
abstractions, information technology, texts, digital media, social
organization, political power, complexity theory. *On/Off the Grid* presents
a sampling of ways that artists visualize the significance of grids,
networks, and complexity across many artistic mediums.

Opening Reception: Saturday, February 13, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Exhibition Dates: February 13 - March 20, 2010

Irvine Contemporary
1412 14th St., NW
Washington, DC 20005
202 - 332 - 8767
info@irvinecontemporary.com
http://irvinecontemporary.com

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

Rachel Frank (MFA '05) Directs Performance at Two Locations on Two Days: Sat. Mar. 6 & Weds. Mar. 31

Rachel Frank (MFA '05) has written and will direct Sleep of Reason: A Sculptural Performance, which will run on Saturday, March 6 at The Bushwick Starr Space in Brooklyn, NY and on Wednesday, March 31 at Vaudeville Park in Brooklyn, NY.

Sleep of Reason uses the allegorical narratives in Francisco Goya’s Los Caprichos and The Disasters of War series to examine the theatrical/performance implications of prisoner torture and abuse depicted in the Abu Ghraib photographs. The performance is set up in a tableau vivant manner: staged still scenes are briefly illuminated with a flash of light cutting through longer periods of darkness. The performance is not an exact reproduction of the images in the photos, but rather, like Goya’s prints, uses fantastical costume and allusion as an allegorical critique. Referencing his works, the costumed performance suggests the recurrent darkness beneath the rational and enlightened society of today.

Born and raised in Kentucky, Rachel Frank is a sculptor based in Brooklyn. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including grants from The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, and residencies at The Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation and The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. This will be her first theatrical performance.

Saturday, March 6, 2010
Doors open at 7:30. Performance starts at 8:00 p.m. sharp.
The Bushwick Starr Space
207 Starr Street #4, Brooklyn, NY
www.thebushwickstarr.org

Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Doors open at 7:30. Performance starts at 8:00 p.m. sharp.
Vaudeville Park
26 Bushwick Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
www.vaudevillepark.com

To see more of Rachel's work, visit www.rachelfrank.com

Tasha Doremus (Penn Photography Staff) in Solo Exhibit at NEXUS, Opening Thurs, Feb. 11, 6 - 9pm

Tasha Doremus (Penn Photography Staff) has an exhibit of work titled Scars, Caresses and Souvenirs at NEXUS/foundation for today's art, opening Thursday, February 11 from 6:00 - 9:00pm. There will also be a closing reception Friday, March 5 from 6:00 - 9:00pm.

"The experience of human life is a dappled and variegated thing, compromised of so much more than is actually present. Our world is imaginary - an amalgamation of memories, histories, and the constantly overlapping narratives we endlessly build, alter, and raze. From the scars we carry to the memory of a loved one’s caress, from the strange and elusive phenomenology of abandoned spaces to the physical fragments we leave behind, our realities are mapped out onto our bodies, our landscapes, and all the constructions conjured in between."

Opening Reception: Thursday, February 11, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Closing Reception: Friday, March 5, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Exhibition Dates: February 11 - March 5, 2010

NEXUS/foundation for today’s art
The Crane Building
1400 North American Street (Suite 102)
Philadelphia, PA 19122
215-684-1946
www.nexusphiladelphia.org
Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Sunday, 12:00 - 6:00pm

Peter Schenck (MFA '09) in Exhibition at Little Berlin, Opening Fri. Feb. 5, 6:00pm

Peter Schenck (MFA '09) has work in the exhibition titled Works on Paper Rejects at Little Berlin Gallery, opening tomorrow, Friday, February 5 from 6:00 - 11:00pm.

For the month of February Little Berlin will be exhibiting artworks rejected from Arcadia University’s 2009 Works on Paper. The November call for entries in 2009 received a record 1,256 pieces of artwork. Arcadia’s Works on Paper is a unique opportunity for artists to have a selected curator/juror review your art in flesh and blood, but what is that worth when there’s such high demand of art to be seen?

“Works on Paper Rejects” is a way Little Berlin hopes to give a voice to all of the Philadelphia art community by simply providing a gallery to exhibit the artwork.

Opening Reception: Friday, February 5, 6:00 - 11:00pm
Exhibition Dates: February 5 - 27, 2010

Little Berlin
119 West Montgomery
Philadelphia, PA 19122
610-308-0579
berlin.little@gmail.com
http://littleberlin.org/

To see more of Peter's work, visit http://peterschenck.com/

Matt Freedman (MFA Sculpture Professor) in More Than Super Event, Sun. Feb. 7, 6:00pm

Matt Freedman (MFA Sculpture Professor) will produce More Than Super, a simultaneous, play-by-play restaging of the Super Bowl on Super Bowl Sunday in collaboration with artist Jude Tallichet. The artists, along with a small army of collaborators, will substitute themselves for all the roles in the spectacle - players, referees, TV producers, half time performers, advertisers, team owners, and fans in the stadium.

On Sunday, February 7, the great American event that is the Super Bowl will be contested twice. Super Bowl XLIV will be played in Miami, Florida in front of a packed stadium and an international television audience of millions.
Simultaneously an "improved" version of the game will be played in Ridgewood, Queens before a live audience of a few dozen enthusiasts and streamed online to perhaps hundreds more.

The duplicate game will be staged in the artists' studio, a defunct synagogue in Queens. Freedman and Tallichet have created a miniature football stadium in the old sanctuary - stained glass windows bracket the end zones and dusty chandeliers illuminate the field. The entire production will stream live as the actual game is played. Freedman and Tallichet will play a game identical to the Super Bowl, but better.

The artists will use the slivers of time between the broadcast plays in the "real" football game to restage the action that had just taken place. Just two people in Queens will do the work of the 90 professional athletes playing the game in Miami. Freedman will play all the positions, offensive and defensive, for the NFC champion New Orleans Saints and Tallichet will portray the entire AFC champion Indianapolis Colts team.

Great care will be taken to recreate the ambience of the television broadcast as accurately as possible, down to the half time entertainment, but "More Than Super" will be a collaboration rather than a competition, more an awkward dance than a sublimated war. The game in the synagogue will engage America's greatest spectacle and cut it down to size.
The partial list of collaborators in alphabetical order: Kim Brandt, David Bratton, Karen Casamassima, Jeanne Golan, Kevin Greenland, Stuart Haber, Mary Ann Hansen, Walsh Hansen, Paul Hoffman, Peter Kreider, Sabrina Lessard, Lovett/Codagnone, Joe McKay, Sara Meltzer, Bill Morrison, Ella Orleans, Elizabeth Santeix, Julia Schwadron, Louis Schwadron, Andrew Strode, Dan Tague, Gabriel Velasquez, Letha Wilson.

Event Date and Time: February 7, 6:00pm. Kick off around 6:25pm
Watch it here: www.livestream.com/mattandjudebowl

To see more of Tallichet's work, visit http://judetallichet.com/

To learn more about Matt, visit www.design.upenn.edu/people/freedman_matt

Matt Neff (MFA '05) in Exhibit at CFEVA Opening Thurs, Feb 4, 5:00 - 7:00

Matt Neff (MFA '05 and Printmaking Lecturer) has work in a group exhibition titled Sweet Spot at the Center for Emerging Visual Artists (CFEVA), opening Thursday, February 4 from 5:00 - 7:00pm. Selected especially for the Philagrafika 2010 and Fiber Philadelphia 2010 festivals, Sweet Spot features six CFEVA artists whose prints, sculpture, and installations incorporate printmaking and fiber in unusual and unexpected ways.

Matt will be showing with Katie Baldwin, Julia Blaukopf, Andrea Cote, Oscar Muňoz, Marisha Simons & Ben Volta. The show was curated by Amie Potsic.

Opening Reception: Thursday, February 4th, 5:00 - 7:00 PM
Exhibition Dates: January 28 – February 18, 2010


The Center for Emerging Visual Artists
1521 Locust Street, Lower Level
Philadelphia, PA 19102
www.cfeva.org

For more information visit www.philagrafika2010.org

To see more of Matt's work visit http://mattneffonline.com/

Diane Burko (MFA '69) in Exhibit at Locks Gallery, Opening Fri. Feb. 5, 5:30 - 7:30pm

Diane Burko, Grinnell Mt. Gould #1: 1938, Grinnell Mt. Gould #3: 1998, and Grinnell Mt. Gould #4: 2006, 2009


Diane Burko (MFA '69) has work in a solo show titled Politics of Snow at the Locks Gallery, opening Friday, February 5 from 5:30 - 7:30pm. This is the artist’s tenth solo exhibition at the gallery. A fully illustrated catalogue with an essay by Ian Berry will be available.

Like the painters of the Hudson River School associated with the sublime landscape, Burko’s new paintings focus on epic views. Her new subjects are glaciers and remote peaks in Alaska, Montana and the Alps. In Politics of Snow, Burko has shifted away from the quasi-naturalistic palette of the previous decade. Working from small black-and-white archival photographs, she introduces liberal interpretations via a monumentalizing scale and an imaginative color palette, including exposure of the unpainted canvas as its own color and ground.

Burko will also be exhibiting photographs in a third floor exhibition titled Imprints in the the Landscape. These images, taken between 2007 and 2009 of the ice-covered ground of Pennsylvania and the sands of the South Dakota Badlands, draw the viewers’ attention to the imprints in the ground - both concrete and ephemeral - and strike a balance between abstraction and representation. This exhibition runs concurrent with the city-wide festival celebrating print in contemporary art, Philigrafika 2010.

Opening Reception: Friday, February 5, 5:30 - 7:30pm
Exhibition Dates: February 5 - March 13, 2010

Locks Gallery
600 Washington Square South
Philadelphia, PA 19106
215-629-1000
www.locksgallery.com

To see more of Diane's work, visit www.dianeburko.com

Miler Lagos, Visiting Artist Exhibition Opening TONIGHT, Weds. Jan. 27, 5:30 - 7:30pm

Visiting Artist Miler Lagos has an installation titled Silence Dogood at the Arthur Ross Gallery opening Wednesday, January 27 from 5:30 - 7:30pm.

Lagos is a multi-media artist with an interest in relating different socioeconomic environments (urban and popular) and re-appropriating the different visual and social phenomena that emerge in each context. Lagos' installation uses literally four tons of recycled newspapers to create sculpted trees. This work has been made this month during a three week residency as a Distinguished International Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania.

Opening Reception: Wednesday, January 27, 5:30 - 7:30pm
Exhibition Dates: January 27 - March 21, 2010

The Arthur Ross Gallery
University of Pennsylvania
220 South 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Housed in the Fisher Fine Arts Library
www.upenn.edu/ARG

For more information about Philagrafika, visit www.philagrafika2010.org

Micah Danges (MFA Photography Technician) in Exhibit at Vox Populi, Opening Fri. Feb. 5, 6:00 - 11:00pm

Micah Danges (MFA Photography Technician) will have work in an exhibit titled Wake Up Sharp at Vox Populi, opening Friday, February 5 from 6:00 - 11:00pm.

Through photographs and sculpture, Micah examines balance and measurement in spaces and environments, natural and man-made. A blurring of material and place portrays a site where the remembered meets the imagined.

Opening Reception: Friday, February 5, 6:00 - 11:00pm
Exhibition Dates: February 5 - 28, 2010

Also, there will be a gallery talk with Luis Gispert (MFA Photography Professor), Sunday, February 28, 3:00pm.

Vox Populi
319 N 11th Street
Third Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107
215-238-1236
vox@voxpopuligallery.org
www.voxpopuligallery.org

To see more of Micah's work, visit http://micahdanges.org/

PennDesign Alumni / Philagrafika Exhibit Opening Thurs, Feb 4

The PennDesign Alumni Association has curated an exhibit of MArch, MFA and other PennDesign alumni at Bahdeebahdu Gallery. The participating artists all work in print-making methods and the show will be held in collaboration with Philagrafika. The entries were juried by PennDesign faculty and alumni. The exhibit opens February 4 with an opening reception on February 11.

Artists whose work will be exhibited include:
J. Thomas Bolles (C'75)
Heather J. M. Brammeier (MFA'02)
Mark N. Brosseau (MFA'01)
Marie D. Bukowski (MFA'00)
Diane Burko (MFA'69)
Annette Cords (MFA'93)
Peter J. Exley (MArch'90)
Anthony Exter (C'75)
Matthew D. Feuer (MFA'83)
Rui Guo (MArch'08)
Lydia S. Hunn (MFA'71)
Christianne Kapps (MFA'01)
Nadine Kashlan (MArch'09)
James B. Ketover (MArch'09)
Jean Sausele Knodt (MFA'84)
Brian S. Kreydatus (MFA'94)
Yvonne M. Murphy-Love (MFA'94)
Emily Brett Lukens (FA'80 MFA'81)
Shu-Wei Herman Mao (MCP'06 MArch’06)
James Montgomery (MArch'02)
Keith Geoffrey Moskow (MArch'86)
Julia Murphy (MArch'03)
Demetra Tassiou Panidis (MFA'95)
Mark Pease (MFA'03)
Francesca D. P. Pfister (MFA'07)
Cecelia M. Post (MFA'09)
Martin E. Rich (MArch'64)
Alexandra A. Schmidt-Ullrich (MArch'00)
David S. Slovic (MArch'66)
Jason Eric Travers (MFA'98)

Involving more than 300 artists at more than 80 venues throughout the city, Philagrafika 2010 will be one of the largest art events in the United States and the world’s most important print-related exposition. Prominent museums and cultural institutions across Philadelphia are participating in Philagrafika 2010, offering regional, national and international audiences the opportunity to see contemporary art that references printmaking in dynamic, unexpected ways and to experience the rich cultural life of the city in the process. The administrative staff of Philagrafika, the Artistic Director and the curatorial team have worked closely with local institutions in planning and implementing a wide range of exhibitions, public programs and events, resulting in a citywide collective effort, which appropriately reflects the collaborative nature of printmaking itself.

Opening Reception: Thursday, February 11, 2010, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Exhibition Dates: February 4 - February 26, 2010

Bahdeebahdu Gallery
1522 North American Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122
215 - 627 - 5002
www.philagrafika2010.org
www.bahdeebahdu.com

For more information, visit www.mainlinetoday.com/Main-Line-Today/Calendar

Jacolby Satterwhite (MFA '10) in Exhibit at RAG, Opening Fri, Jan 29, 6:00-8:00pm

Jacolby Satterwhite (MFA '10) will have work in an exhibit titled The Mothership Has Landed at Rush Arts Gallery, opening Friday, January 29 from 6:00 - 8:00pm.

The Mothership Has Landed is a group exhibition featuring sculpture, video, photography and painting by Brandon Coley Cox, Lainie Dalby, Ayanna V. Jackson, Glendalys Medina, Marcus Morales and Jacolby Satterwhite. Guest Curator: Derrick Adams.

The title of the show borrows from the infamous George Clinton + Funkadelic and their decades-long experimental movement combining music, fashion, illustration and performance. Their phrase, "The Mothership Has Landed" can roughly translate to "The shit is about to hit the fan!" and illustrates the collective nature of the group's overall expressive and raw quality.

A similar expressive and raw quality can be seen in this group of artists. Their works are cultural hybrids borrowing from the familiar and inspired by their investigation of media transformed through personal experience, resulting in a cosmic array of images, objects and performance. "Here's a chance to dance our way out of our constrictions…with the groove our only guide, we shall all be moved."

Opening Reception: Friday, January 29, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Exhibition Dates: January 29 - March 20, 2010

Live Performance Dates: Saturdays 4-5pm
Lainie Dalby: February 13th
Jacolby Satterwhite: February 27th
Glendalys Medina: March 6th

Rush Arts Gallery
526 W 26th Street Suite 311
New York, NY 10001
212 - 691 - 9552
www.rushartsgallery.org

Jacolby Satterwhite (MFA '10) Will Perform and Exhibit Work at P.S.1 Sat, Jan 16, 4:00-6:00pm

Jacolby Satterwhite (MFA `10) will have an 8 channel video installation and perform at P.S.1. this Saturday, January 16 from 4:00 - 6:00pm as a part of their Saturday Session. The afternoon of performance and music is titled WERRRQ.

P.S.1 invites Edwin Ramoran from Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art (Newark, NJ), to host and organize WERRRQ, an afternoon program of performance and music which is part of the ongoing Saturday Sessions series and Free Space program. WERRRQ introduces emerging artists from the art, club, and ballroom scenes who work in music and sound, performance, sculpture, and video.

Featured artists:
$10 Outfit
Neko Legacy International
Jeffrey Ralston
Kenya (Robinson)
Jacolby Satterwhite

Saturday Sessions is a new program of emerging performance art designed to introduce new performance artists to New York audiences. P.S.1 has had a long tradition of showcasing performance-based art, from the Butoh dance of Min Tanaka to the films of Jack Smith. This is a new formalized series presenting a younger generation of artists.

Free Space is a new collaborative initiative with artists and nonprofit arts institutions in which P.S.1 provides use of its gallery space for exhibitions, events, rehearsals, and other live presentations. Past participants include Marina Abramovic, Kalup Linzy and Printed Matter. Creative Time will be hosting Free Space on January 23 and 24.

Event Date and Time: Saturday, January 16, 2010, 4:00 - 6:00 PM
http://ps1.org/calendar/view/108/

Marc Blumthal (MFA '10) Illustrated Album Artwork - Record Release Party Fri, Jan 15, 8:30pm

Marc Blumthal (MFA '10) did the artwork for the band The Elevator Parade's most recent album. The band is having a record release party Friday, January 15 at 8:30pm at the M Room. They're playing with Imaginary Friends, Music For Headphones and The Choice Tasters DJs.

Event Date and Time: Friday, January 15, 8:30pm

The M Room
15 West Girard Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19125
215-739-5577

www.themanhattanroom.com

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

Marc Blumthal (MFA '10) and Mark Pease (MFA '03) in Philagrafika Exhibit Opening Weds, Jan 27, 5:00 - 7:00pm

Marc Blumthal (MFA '10) and Mark Pease (MFA '03) have work at Drexel University in an exhibit titled IPCNY New Prints 2009/ Autumn. This exhibit is part of Philagrafika.

Philagrafika 2010 is an international festival that celebrates the role of print as a vital force in contemporary art, running from January 29 through April 11, 2010 throughout the city of Philadelphia. Set to be one of the largest arts events in the United States, Philagrafika 2010 will showcase the work of more than 300 artists and will unite 88 Philadelphia area art institutions in the inaugural presentation of what will become a recurring event, anticipated to repeat every three years. Curated by Artistic Director José Roca, Philagrafika 2010 will offer regional, national, and international audiences the opportunity to see contemporary art that references printmaking in dynamic, unexpected ways and to experience Philadelphia’s rich cultural life in the process.

The festival was initiated by the Philagrafika organization, formerly known as the Philadelphia Print Collaborative. Philagrafika builds upon the region's rich printmaking history and abundant artistic resources to enhance Philadelphia’s presence as an international center for innovative printmaking. Philagrafika 2010 is the result of more than five years of planning, culminating in a citywide collective effort, which appropriately reflects the collaborative nature of printmaking itself. The festival is divided into three components: a core curated exhibition titled The Graphic Unconscious, Out of Print, and Independent Projects.


Opening Reception: Wednesday, January 27, 5:00 - 7:00pm
Exhibition Dates: January 11 - February 13, 2010

Leonard Pearlstein Gallery
Drexel University
Nesbitt Hall
33rd & Market Streets
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215-895-2548
gallery@drexel.edu

For more information, visit:
www.drexel.edu/westphal/about/facilities/pearlstein
www.philagrafika2010.org

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

To see more of Mark Pease's work, visit www.markpease.com

Lecture: Charles Atlas, Thurs, Jan 21 5:30pm, Meyerson B3

Charles Atlas, video artist and filmmaker, will present a lecture on Thursday, January 21 at 5:30pm in Meyerson Hall, B3.

Charles Atlas was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1958. Atlas is a filmmaker and video artist who has created numerous works for stage, screen, museum and television. Atlas is a pioneer in the development of media-dance, a genre in which original performance work is created directly for the camera. Atlas worked as filmmaker-in-residence with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company for ten years. Many of the Atlas’s works have been collaborations with choreographers, dancers, and performers, including Yvonne Rainer, Michael Clark, Douglas Dunn, Marina Abramovic, Diamanda Galas, John Kelly and Leigh Bowery. His work has been shown at international institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Museum of Modern Art; Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Geoerges Pompidou, Paris; the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Charles Atlas lives and works in New York City and Paris.

Thursday, January 21, 5:30pm

University of Pennsylvania
Meyerson Hall, Room B3
210 S. 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

http://www.design.upenn.edu/fine-arts/visiting-artists

To learn more about Charles, visit www.pbs.org/art21/artists/atlas

Jane Irish (MFA Program Coordinator) Awarded 2009 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant

Jane Irish, the MFA Program Coordinator, has been awarded a 2009 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant.

The Painters & Sculptors Grant Program was established in 1993 to assist individual artists. The grants are given to acknowledge painters and sculptors creating work of exceptional quality.

The Foundation selected nominators nationwide dedicated to supporting artists who are under-recognized for their artistic achievements and whose careers would benefit from the grant. The candidates' images were viewed for consideration through an anonymous process by a jury panel, which convened in November at the office of the Joan Mitchell Foundation. Nominators and jurors include prominent visual artists, curators, and art educators.

Additional programs undertaken by the Foundation include free art classes for New York City youth, grants to MFA graduates to aid in their transition from academic to professional studio work, and support to painters and sculptors in the Gulf Coast area.

The Joan Mitchell Foundation was established in April 1993 as a not-for-profit corporation following the death of Joan Mitchell in October 1992. The Foundation strives to fulfill the ambitions of Joan Mitchell to assist the needs of contemporary artists and to demonstrate that painting and sculpture are significant cultural necessities.

Congratulations, Jane!!

For more information on the Joan Mitchell Foundation and its recipients, please visit www.joanmitchellfoundation.org

To see more of Jane's work, visit www.locksgallery.com/artists

Francesca Pfister (MFA '06) in Solo Exhibit at Burrison Gallery Opening January 11

Francesca Pfister will have a solo exhibition titled Snow Traces at the Burrison Gallery opening January 11.

Francesca practices a form of visual archeology. Working in photography, video and installation, she explores the physical world around her, looking for surfaces, objects and spaces that express human presence. Her main source of inspiration is the city, with its urban textures, permanent marks and ephemeral traces. In Snow Traces, she investigates a pedestrian’s experience of Philadelphia streets ­in the aftermath of a snowstorm.

After earning an Art History degree in Switzerland and a certificate in Museum Studies from NYU’s Graduate School of Arts and Science in New York, Pfister worked as a curatorial researcher and educator for museums in New York. She then studied photography at The University of The Arts in Philadelphia and the Centre Iris in Paris, before obtaining an MFA from Penn, where she currently teaches photography in the Fine Arts Department.

Opening Reception: Thursday, January 14, 5:00 - 7:00pm
Exhibition Dates: January 11 - February 19, 2010

Burrison Gallery
University Club at Penn
3611 Walnut Street 2nd Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19104
universityclub@pobox.upenn.edu
215-898-4618
www.upenn.edu/universityclub

To learn more about Francesca, visit www.design.upenn.edu/people/pfister_francesca

Hunter Stabler (MFA '06) in Solo Show at Pentimenti Gallery, Opening Saturday, January 23

Hunter Stabler (MFA '06) will have a solo show titled Center of the Cyclone at Pentimenti Gallery opening Saturday, January 23.

This show coincides with the first Philagrafika 2010 International Print Festival. Philagrafika will become a recurring event in Philadelphia, celebrating the role of print in contemporary artistic practice.

Opening Reception: Saturday, January 23, 3:00 - 5:00pm
Gallery Talk: Saturday, January 23, 4:00pm
Exhibition Dates: January 23 - February 27, 2010

Pentimenti Gallery
145 North Second St.
Philadelphia, PA 19106
215-625-9990
mail@pentimenti.com

www.pentimenti.com

See more of Hunter's work at www.hunterstabler.com

To learn more about Philagrafika, visit www.philagrafika.org

Hunter Stabler (MFA '06) in Exhibition at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Opening Friday, January 8

Hunter Stabler (MFA '06) has work in a group show titled Unveil at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, opening Friday, January 8th from 6:00 - 10:00pm.

The show also features the work of Corey Antis, Ben Pranger, Donna Ruff and Adam Parker Smith.

Opening reception: Friday, January 8th, 6:00 – 10:00pm
Exhibition Dates: January 8 - 29, 2010

Tiger Strikes Asteroid
319A North 11th Street, 4th Floor
Philadelphia PA 19107
www.tigerstrikesasteroid.com
TigerStrikesAsteroid (at) gmail (dot) com

Gallery hours: Friday and Saturday 2pm-6pm and by appointment only

See more of Hunter's work at www.hunterstabler.com

Michael Marfione (MFA '11) Wins First Place in Exhibit at Emory Visual Arts Gallery

Michael Marfione, Memory 5

Michael Marfione won First Place in an exhibit titled Picturing Home at the Emory Visual Arts Gallery of Emory University in Atlanta, GA.

From the show prospectus: 'What is home, and where is it? What does it mean to look for home, to find home, to lose home, to be at home? How is “home” being impacted by the current economic crisis in America? This juried exhibition presents photographic works that investigate “home” in its familiarity and unfamiliarity, its pleasures and discomforts, its communal and personal aspects. The jurors are Julian Cox, Curator of Photography at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, and Jason Francisco, acclaimed photographer and chair of Emory’s Visual Arts Department.'

Opening Reception: Thursday, December 3, 5:00 -7:00pm
Exhibition Dates: December 3 - January 29, 2010

Emory Visual Arts Gallery
Emory University
700 Peavine Creek Drive
Atlanta, GA 30322
404-727-6315
http://visualarts.emory.edu/

To see the exhibition online visit
http://visualarts.emory.edu/events/PHgallery/

Sinae Lee (MFA '06) in Exhibit at Ceres Gallery Opening Saturday, December 26, 3:00 - 5:00pm

Sinae Lee (MFA '06) has a solo show in an exhibition cycle titled Exposure at the Ceres Gallery in New York opening Saturday, December 26. Exposure is a unique, rotating exhibition of multiple, one-week, one-person shows bringing the personal vision of a diverse group of artists to Chelsea audiences.

Opening Reception: Saturday, December 26, 3:00 - 5:00pm
Exhibition Dates: December 22 - 29, 2009

Ceres Gallery
547 West 27th Street
Suite 201
New York, NY 10001
212-947-6100
art@ceresgallery.org
www.ceresgallery.org

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

Jane Irish and Eileen Neff in exhibition at Locks Gallery, Philadelphia OPENING this Friday, Dec. 4th 530-730PM

Edition/Addition

Jane Irish (PennDesign MFA Program Coordinator) and Eileen Neff (past Graduate Photography Faculty) will be in an exhibition at Locks Gallery.

Opening reception: Friday, Dec. 4th from 530-730pm
Exhibition Dates: Dec. 4 - Jan. 16, 2010

Locks Gallery
600 Washington Square South
Philadelphia, PA 19106

Locks Gallery is pleased to present a show of prints and multiples, in two parts. Part one, Edition/Addition, will be on view December 4, 2009 through January 16, 2010. There will be an opening reception on Friday, December 4th, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm.

Part two, Edition/Addition/Object will be on view January 26–February 20, 2010. There will be a reception in conjunction with the city-wide print exposition, Philigrafika 2010, on February 5th, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm.

The transformative advances in printing techniques and the postwar explosion in screenprinting have opened up unlimited possibilities for contemporary artists. In exploring the realm of editions as objects, often referred to as multiples--artists have extended their practice and subject matter into materials as varied as aluminum, lead, bronze and glass.

Edition/Addition will feature the print work of contemporary artists Edna Andrade, Polly Apfelbaum, Jennifer Bartlett, Howard Hodgkin, Jane Irish, Elizabeth Murray, Eileen Neff, Mimmo Palladino, Edward Paschke, Frank Stella, Ena Swansea, Terry Winters.

Edition/Addition/Object presents multiples by artists Richard Artschwager, Lynda Benglis, Christine Borland, Thomas Chimes, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, George Segal, Franz West, Rob Wynne.

Find out more about the exhibition here: www.locksgallery.com/index.php

Lecture: David Humphrey, Friday, December 4, 5:00pm

Painter David Humphrey will lecture Friday, December 4 at 5:00pm at the ICA. David Humphrey received a B.F.A. from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1977 and an M.A. in liberal studies from New York University in 1980. He lives and works in New York City and is represented by Sikkema Jenkins and Co. His first show was with the McKee Gallery in 1984, and he has since been exhibiting nationally and internationally. His work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Walker Art Center, the Carnegie Institute, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, among others. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002, fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and two New York Foundation Grants. He wrote a column for Art issues from 1989 until the journal's demise in 2002 and is a periodic contributor to Art in America.

This lecture will be followed by a signing of Humphrey’s new book of art criticism, Blind Handshake. Forward written by Alexi Worth. Limited copies available.

http://www.design.upenn.edu/fine-arts/visiting-artists
http://www.sikkemajenkinsco.com/davidhumphrey.html

Friday, December 4. 2009, 5:00pm

Institute of Contemporary Art
Tuttleman Auditorium
118 South 36th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215-898-7108
www.icaphila.org

University of Pennsylvania School of Design
Graduate Fine Arts
t: 215-898-8374
fine-art@design.upenn.edu

Jiwon Lee (MFA '10) in Fusion Exhibition Opening Friday, December 4, 6:00 - 8:00pm

Jiwon Lee (MFA '10) has been selected to participate in Fusion, an exhibition presented by Artists Talk on Art. The show will run from November 30 -December 12, 2009 with an opening reception on Friday December 4 from 6:00 - 8:00pm at the Tenri Cultural Institute in New York.

This event came about as a result of a call for artists for a nationwide competition run by Artists Talk on Art (ATOA) and their chosen curator for 2009, Dr. Thalia Vrachopoulos. The mission of ATOA is to provide a forum for critical discussions in the visual arts. After over 30 years they are one of the longest running art discussions. ATOA depends upon artists who are willing to talk about their work, share their art with others and volunteer their time. ATOA is a not-for-profit corporation run by artists.

Jiwon Lee graduated from Hong-Ik University in Seoul with her BFA after which she moved to the United States to study at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and is expected to graduate with her MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in 2010. Lee is interested in opposites. She often depicts scenes of purity, innocence and creative genius against horror, violence, and death. She emphasizes their differences while placing them together creating new images. Lee uses carbon paper to draw her works adding snippets of nature which tend to unite or neutralize somewhat the contrasting scenes. Jiwon will be showing with eight other selected artists.

Opening Reception: Friday, December 4, 2009
Exhibition Dates: November 30 -December 12, 2009

Tenri Cultural Institute of New York
43A West 13th Street
New York, NY 10011
212 - 645 - 2800
tci@tenri.org
http://tenri.org

To see more of Jiwon's work, visit http://jiwonlee.net

Elizabeth Hoy and Cecelia Post (both MFA '09) in exhibition at the Ox Gallery, Philadelphia. OPENING this Friday, Dec. 4th 6-9PM.

Elizabeth Hoy, The celebrated inside-outside feelings, 2009.

Cecelia Post, You Made Me, Cotton, 2009.

SUBJECT TO CHANGE

Opening Reception: Friday, December 4, 6 - 9 pm.
Exhibition open by appointment: Dec. 4-11, 2009

Ox Gallery
North 2nd Street and Turner Street
Philadelphia, PA

NOT THIS Artist Collective in Philadelphia is pleased to present Subject to Change. The exhibition is a culmination of sixteen artists exploring a variety of mediums in differing stages of their careers. The artists are unified in the exploration of the boundaries of their art-making process and are creating work in the realm of context and possibility.

On view at Ox Gallery, a new D.I.Y. space located on North 2nd St. and Turner St., the exhibition runs from December 4, 2009 through December 11, 2009 with gallery hours by email appointment.

Subject to Change aims to challenge the viewer’s perception of an exhibition and examine the hierarchical roles that exist in art as well as the chronology of the art-making process. NOT THIS is a temporary student collective comprised of students from Tyler School of Art.

Artists: Brittany Binler, Max Doyle, Jennifer Grimyser, Conor Fields, Melanie Fischer, Fred Frederick, Elizabeth Hoy, Matthew Kalasky, Jong Kyu Kim, Sky Kim, Mindy Lu, Benjamin Nelson, Cecelia Post, Scott Rinehart, David Soffa, and Mike Treffehn.

For more information or to schedule an appointment, contact NotThisArtistCollective@gmail.com

See more of Elizabeth's work: http://elizabethhoy.com

See more of Cecelia's work: http://www.ceceliapost.com

Jackie Tileston (MFA Professor of Painting) in Review in Philadelphia Inquirer

Jackie Tileston, El Dorado Depot, 2009


Jackie Tileston (MFA Professor of Painting) has a show at Pentimenti Gallery currently on view, and was reviewed by Edith Newhall in the Philadelphia Inquirer. The article is below.

Galleries: Two outstanding pairings, at Pentimenti and at Locks

By Edith Newhall

It's not often that a two-person show catches both of its artists on a perfect wave - or, rarer still, unites two who make each other shine - but Pentimenti Gallery's pairing of Jackie Tileston and Jedediah Morfit does both. While Tileston envisions the landscape as a place of ever-expanding possibility, Morfit uses it to evoke the inevitable passage of human life on Earth as it was viewed a couple of centuries ago, with some odd goings-on along the way.

Tileston's new paintings push her visions of kaleidoscopic worlds to even greater dimensions than her earlier works have done. Where her meditative, floating, dissolving landscapes of a few years ago suggested a hybrid of sci-fi and Japanese Ukiyo-e ("pictures of the floating world") or Chinese scroll painting, her new, glitter-sprinkled paintings describe vaster places, sharper geometries, and explosive phenomena - in outer space and the world we know.

Even in the calmest of these new paintings, El Dorado Depot, a meteorlike shape is headed toward a jagged cliff of exposed, rainbow- hued strata. Opposite that cliff a mountain looms, a nicely forbidding perch for a Wicked Witch, but as drippy as any abstract expressionist painting at its base. It's just a painting, after all, melting as the witch did.

An installation of Tileston's photographs from her recent trips to China and India offers insight into the compositions and colors of her paintings. In each one, a dozen coincidental juxtapositions and intersections exist in utter stillness, motionless. In her paintings, the same kinds of coincidences of placement appear, but as in a state of flux: coalescing, breaking apart, attenuating, reuniting.

Morfit's bas-relief sculptures of humans and animals, which compose the smaller of these two shows (he's in the "Project Room"), bring Kara Walker's silhouettes to mind, but his groupings rarely constitute a story or event as Walker's do. Made from cast white plastic, Morfit's exquisitely modeled figures look as if they had escaped from a prim, 18th-century Wedgwood frieze and found themselves unprepared for the perils and excitement of the life of Tom Jones (the foundling, not the singer). Without a narrative to enact, they seem to be trudging along the same path in the same landscape, as if still confined to the contours of the vase they formerly encircled.

Pentimenti Gallery
145 N. Second St.
Philadelphia, PA
215-625-9990
www.pentimenti.com

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/entertainment

To see more of Jackie's work, visit www.jackietileston.info

PennDesign MFA takes part in Penn's Art & the City Year Arts Crawl THIS Friday, Nov. 20th

Penn’s Arts & the City Year celebrates arts and culture across our campus and throughout our neighborhood, city, and region. It features an exciting range of events in Fall 2009 and Spring 2010, from dynamic student performances and distinguished guest artists, to vital discussions about national arts policy, the role of the arts in public health, and the importance of civic engagement with arts and culture.

With its array of diverse perspectives, the Arts & the City Year spotlights Penn’s commitment to knowledge that crosses disciplines and boundaries, while reaffirming the essential role of arts and culture in campus and city life.

This Friday, Nov. 20th there is an astounding range of events taking place across the Penn campus. You can find a full listing of all of the events here: www.vpul.upenn.edu/platthouse/artscrawl.php

Here is a small selection of some of the events taking place (edited to mostly Fine Arts related events):

8:30am – 9pm: Kamin Gallery, 1st Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center. Experience Penn Libraries provocative exhibition: Werner-Pfeiffer (censor, villain, provocateur, experimenter): Book objects & Artist Books. Refreshments from 2-4 pm.

10am -5pm: Addams Gallery - First Year MFA Exhibition.

12pm (doors open at 11:30 am): XPN Free At Noon Concert and Live Broadcast | WXPN/World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut Street. GRANT LEE PHILLIPS / BOB SCHNEIDER. FREE ADMISSION | RSVP @ XPN.org

12pm-8pm Institute of Contemporary Art - Join the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) from noon until 8pm for their exciting line up of fall exhibitions. Among them, Dance with Camera, a group show of over thirty artists, spanning seventy years featuring film, video and photography. At 6:30pm author Steven Conn will discuss his new book, Do Museums Still Need Objects? Music generously provided by WQHS, Penn's student radio station. ICA is always free!

7-9pm. Meyerson Hall - MFA Benefit Auction. Bid on contemporary work by University of Pennsylvania MFA Candidates, Faculty, Alumni, and Supporters of PennDesign. Auction Preview: Thursday, November 19th 10am – 5pm . All proceeds support PennDesign's 2010 MFA Thesis Exhibition.

8pm: The Rotunda - In this installment of the popular GATE experimental series, witness sonic innovations as Bowerbird presents local and international musicians who span countless styles and inspirations.

9:30pm: Finish up at Annenberg After Hours (Annenberg Center) for a FREE arts party! Eat food from your favorite local restaurants, try your luck at winning awesome prizes and get great deals on Annenberg Center tickets. Spend the night dancing or just hanging out while Pieris Music transforms the lobby into a happening club scene with its electronic string concertos, DJ interludes and hip video art projections. This event is part of the Penn Arts Crawl and is FREE to all students!

Tetsugo Hyakutake (MFA '09) in exhibition presented by Gallery 339, Philadelphia...OPENING Fri. Nov. 20th. 6-8PM.

Tetsugo Hyakutake, Industrial Still-Life 1, Philadelphia, USA, 2005

8x10 and Under

Exhibition Opening: Friday, November 20th from 6-8PM

Exhibition Dates: Nov. 20-Jan. 23, 2010

Gallery 339
339 South 21st St
Philadelphia, PA 19103

Over the past several years, a convergence of technology and art market forces have conspired to foster the emergence of the ever larger fine art photograph. The ability to make large prints has only gotten easier and more affordable, particularly with the advent of digital print. As a counterpoint to the enormity consistent with most contemporary photography, Gallery 339 has decided to present a group exhibition of landscape photography entitled 8x10 and Under. This exhibition includes prints with dimensions smaller than 8x10 inches, from 11 different artists: Linda Connor, David Freese, David Graham, Tetsugo Hyakutake, Richard Kagan, Michael Kenna, Christine Laptuta, Edward McHugh, Andrea Modica, Stuart Rome, and Jerry Spagnoli. Each of these photographers has created a body of work that, though small in scale, depicts the vastness and sometimes dynamic abstraction of a landscape.

See the gallery's website for more info: www.gallery339.com
See more of Tetsugo's work on his website: www.tetsugohyakutake.com/index.html

Matthew Richie (MFA Distinguished Senior Fellow) exhibition at Andrea Rosen, NYC, reviewed by Roberta Smith in the New York Times

Matthew Richie, Weep in Light, 2009

MATTHEW RITCHIE review by Roberta Smith
Published in the New York Times Art In Review section Nov. 12, 2009

Line Shot
Andrea Rosen Gallery
525 West 24th Street, Chelsea

Exhibition on view through Nov. 21, 2009

"It is hard to know if Matthew Ritchie is a genuine polymath or a painter with too many ideas for his own good. The canvases in his latest New York gallery show are some of the best of his career. They have lost the small mythological figures, scribbled equations and sky-chart compositions that once signaled obscure narratives. Instead their cosmic implications inhabit semi-abstract forms and light-rinsed colors, suggesting wheeling planets, meteors, toxic atmospheres and sun showers. “Weep in Light” and “Initial Series” take things a little further with fantastical Rorschach compositions that could be elegantly monstrous heads or crystal formations.

Mr. Ritchie’s narrative lives on in large-scale multimedia musical works like “The Long Count,” which was part of the New Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music last month. Synthesizing various American creation myths, it was written and directed by Mr. Ritchie with wonderful music by Aaron and Bryce Dessner. Mr. Ritchie also provided a three-screen video whose images suggest rushing landscapes and aerial views that form the work’s highly effective backdrop.

A related video accompanied by music and text dominates one corner at Rosen. It is surrounded and bisected by lattice-like tangles of line drawn directly on the wall, so the rushing seems to be viewed through fancy goggles. Some of the ink-and-pencil drawings in a second gallery also have Rorschach-like symmetry, and despite the long text keeping them company are most interesting as studies for future paintings. When all is said and done it is still painting that would most benefit from Mr. Ritchie’s undivided attention.

The least appealing element in this show is three-dimensional: the lattice motif recurs on perforated polygonal sculptures that pile up unpleasantly at the entrance and sprawl about the gallery. Made of cast aluminum covered with black epoxy, they look like nothing so much as hip wrought-iron garden furniture." ROBERTA SMITH

See the review here: www.nytimes.com/2009/11/13/arts/design/13galleries.html

See Matthew Richie's website here: www.matthewritchie.com/

Matt Neff (MFA '05) spoke at The Print Center Gallery, Philadelphia, this week

Matt Neff, Pallbearer #4, 2008

Gallery Store Talk: Matt Neff

The Print Center Gallery Store artists speak about their approaches, techniques, subject matter and art collecting in an informal environment. Enjoy a 10% discount in the Gallery Store that day. FREE and open to the public.

Printmaker Matt Neff combines a modern sensibility with antiquarian subject matter. In addition to creating his own work, Neff runs Common Press at the University of Pennsylvania, publishing artists' books, posters and prints.

To see more of Matt's work visit: http://mattneffonline.com/

Find out more about the Common Press at Penn here: www.design.upenn.edu/commonpress/common_press_home.htm

Find out more about the Print Center: www.printcenter.org/pc_home.html

Pernot Hudson (MFA '06), Matt Neff (MFA '05), and Professor Gabriel Martinez in Exhibition at Arcadia University, Wednesday, November 18, 6:30pm

Pernot Hudson (MFA '06), Matt Neff (MFA '05), and Senior Lecturer in Photography Gabriel Martinez have work in Arcadia University Art Gallery's 25th presentation of Works on Paper which opens Wednesday, November 18. There will be a lecture titled Four Points Towards a Present History: Knowledge, Representation, Freedom and the Subject, given by juror João Ribas at 6:30pm in Stiteler Auditorium, Murphy Hall. The opening reception in the art gallery will follow immediately after the lecture.

Featuring 22 works juried from a record number of 1,256 entries submitted by 567 artists living within a 40-mile range of the University, Works on Paper 2009 is among the most incisive iteration of the show in two decades. With its layering of organic, formal affinities and open, associative themes, the resulting show can be read as a curated effort expressing a deeply focused and invested sensibility.

Participating Artists: Leah Bailis, Andrea Beizer, Gabriel Boyce & Preston Link, Bruce Campbell, Michael Davis Carter, John Costanza, Hannah Heffner, Pernot Hudson, James Johnson, Sebastien Leclercq, Erika Mayer, Gabriel Martinez, Kristina Martino, Quentin Morris, Matt Neff, Robert T. Pannell, Mia Rosenthal, Fay Stanford, Mark Stockton, Judith Taylor, and Dino Vasquez.

Opening Reception: Wednesday, November 18, 6:30pm
Exhibition Dates: November 18 - December 21, 2009

Arcadia University Art Gallery
450 South Easton Road
Glenside, PA 19038
215-572-2131
gallery@arcadia.edu
www.arcadia.edu/news

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

To see more of Matt's work, visit http://mattneffonline.com/

To see more of Gabriel's work, visit www.design.upenn.edu/people/martinez_gabriel

Olaf Breuning Lectures Thursday, November 19, 5:30pm

Olaf Breuning, MFA Visiting Artist, will present a lecture on Thursday, November 19 at 5:30pm.

Olaf works in photography, video, sculpture and installation. His one-person exhibitions include the Migros Museum, Zurich; New Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City; Musée de Strasbourg, France; MAGASIN: Centre d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble; Chisenhale Gallery, London; and the Swiss Institute, New York. The work has been included in group shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona; Museum of Modern Art, New York; 2008 Whitney Biennial, New York; Hayward Gallery, London; 2007 1st Athens Biennial; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Ellipse Foundation, Portugal; P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; 2005 Prague Biennale; and Jeu de Paume, Paris.

Olfa was born in Switzerland and currently lives in New York and Zurich.

Lecture: Thursday, November 19, 5:30pm

Meyerson Hall, B3
University of Pennsylvania
210 S 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215-898-8374
fine-art@design.upenn.edu

To see more of Olaf's work, visit www.olafbreuning.com

And www.metropicturesgallery.com