10.29.2009

Mark Pease (MFA '03) in International Print Center Exhibit, Opening TONIGHT, Thursday, October 29, 6:00pm


Mark Pease (MFA '03) will have work featured in the exhibit New Prints 2009/Autumn at the International Print Center in New York. The show consists of sixty works by thirty-eight emerging to established artists, and two collectives, selected from a pool of nearly 2,000 submissions.

New Prints 2009/Autumn is the thirty-third presentation of IPCNY’s New Prints Program, a series of juried exhibitions organized by IPCNY four times each year, featuring prints made within the past twelve months by artists at all stages of their careers. The exhibition represents a cross-section of some of the most exceptional printmaking today while continuing IPCNY’s commitment to provide an ongoing exhibition venue for contemporary prints and a major source of information about artists working in the medium. The Selections Committee for New Prints 2009/Autumn included Erin Donnelly, Director, Artist Residencies, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; Richard Dupont, Artist; James Miller, Studio Director and Master Printer, Lower East Side Printshop; José Roca, Artistic Director and Chief Curator for Philagrafika 2010; Jessica Weber, Jessica Weber Design; and Maud Welles, Collector.

Opening Reception: Thursday, October 29, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Exhibition Dates: October 30 - December 12, 2009

International Print Center
526 West 26th Street, Room 824
New York, NY 10001
212-989-5090
www.ipcny.org

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

10.28.2009

Paul Fabozzi (MFA '03) in Solo Exhibit at The Atrium Shops, Opening Friday November 6, 6:00pm


Paul Fabozzi (MFA '03) has work in a show titled Spectral Variants: New Large Works at the Atrium Shops and Cafés, opening Friday, November 6 from 6:00 to 8:00pm.

Opening Reception: Friday, November 6, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Exhibition Dates: October 6 - November 30, 2009

Gallery Hours: 7:00am - 12:00am daily

The Atrium Shops and Cafés
153 East 53rd Street
New York, NY 10022

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

10.27.2009

Robert Dimin (MFA '11) Receives Arts & The City Year Arts Grant



MFA '11 Robert Dimin’s site-specific sculpture proposal selected for the Arts Grant by the University of Pennsylvania’s Provost Office Arts & the City Year Arts Grants Program

The University of Pennsylvania Provost’s office Arts & the City Year Arts Grants program has awarded MFA candidate 2011 Robert Dimin with the Arts Grant to complete his proposed public art project String Theory.

This project continues Robert Dimin’s staging of site-specific temporary sculpture over the past several years in Vienna, Greece, New York City, Princeton, and most recently Malibu, California.

For the String Theory project at Penn, Dimin will work with fellow students from the graduate and undergraduate programs in the School of Design and the School of Art and Sciences to assist him to intercept and circumvent trees, fences, and other permanent fixtures with over 30,000 feet of red and blue string in complex patterns.

The project will begin November 2, 2009, and extend through Homecoming Weekend at Penn (November 5-8).

For more information contact:
Jane Irish, Coordinator
MFA Department
University of Pennsylvania
205 S. 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215-898-8374
fine-arts@design.upenn.edu
www.design.upenn.edu/fine-arts

www.upenn.edu/provost/artsyear

To see more of Robert's work, visit www.robertdimin.com

10.25.2009

Matthew Ritchie (MFA Distinguished Senior Fellow) Performs at BAM in Brooklyn, October 28, 30 & 31



The Long Count

In an inspired collision of creative worlds, three inexhaustibly original artists — brothers Bryce Dessner and Aaron Dessner of indie rock band The National and omnivorous visual art phenomenon Matthew Ritchie — combine talents to create a song-filled myth about the beginning of time. A feast of images, instrumentals, and songs thick with primordial mystery, The Long Count pairs Ritchie's protean forms with a twelve-piece orchestra and the Dessners' gothic mix of electric and orchestral sounds.

Guest vocalists Kim and Kelley Deal (The Breeders, The Pixies), Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond), and Matt Berninger (The National) round out the line-up in this visionary collaboration between music and art.

October 28, 30 & 31 at 8:00pm

Part of the 2009 Next Wave Festival
Commissioned by BAM for the 2009 Next Wave Festival

Music director Rob Moose
Audio design by David Sheppard
Costume design by Rabia Troncelliti
Vocalists include Kim and Kelley Deal, Shara Worden, and Matt Berninger

BAM
Howard Gilman Opera House
30 Lafayette Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
11217
info@BAM.org
718-636-4100

For more information, visit www.bam.org
To see more of Matthew's work, visit www.matthewritchie.com
To see more of the National's work, visit www.americanmary.com

Jackie Tileston (MFA Painting Professor) in Solo Exhibit at Pentimenti Gallery, Opening Friday, November 6, 6:00 - 8:30pm



Jackie Tileston, Auspicious Circling of Mad Utopias, 2008


Jackie Tileston, MFA Professor of Painting, will have a solo show titled Mesocosmos opening Friday, November 6 at Pentimenti Gallery. This show will include Jackie's drawings and photographs as well as her paintings. Her paintings incorporate various elements, ranging from photo-collage of cultural landscape motifs (Tibetan landscapes, “El Dorado”, Eastern architectural silhouettes, etc.) to seemingly arbitrary abstract shapes all with a purpose to insinuate a constant flux. The works eventually accumulate information in the center of a massive space to depict a whole image, an unreal landscape that only exists in her work. Her drawings on black paper give a much greater sense of space through the compression of her reduced imagery. Her powerful and colorful photographs will give more insight into the fictional worlds she creates from.

Opening Reception: Friday, November 6, 6:00 - 8:30pm
Exhibition Dates: November 6 - December 18, 2009

Pentimenti Gallery
145 N 2nd St
Philadelphia, PA 19106
215-625-9990
www.pentimenti.com

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

Sam Belkowitz and Micah Danges (Penn Photography Staff) Curate and Exhibit in Show at Little Berlin, Opening Saturday, November 7, 6:00 - 10:00


Sam Belkowitz, Penn's Photography Facilities Manager, has curated and will show in an exhibit called Heaven on Earth at Little Berlin Gallery in Philadelphia. The show includes Micah Danges, the MFA Photography Technician, among the eighteen participating artists. The show tackles the ambitious task of mining one’s search for utopia. In this exhibition, Belkowitz asks each artist: where do you find perfection? Are the ideals of utopia even possible or attainable? These works coalesce into an environment without limits at Little Berlin, providing the viewer with a series of vantage points from which to experience the paradoxical nature of utopian dreams.

This exhibition will include video, installation, painting, sculpture, and photography. Featured artists include: Sam Belkowitz, Helen Cahng, Michelle Chong, Micah Danges, Joy Feasley, Richard Harrod, Nadia Hironaka, M. Ho, Aaron Igler, Eugene Lew, Tristin Lowe, Jacob Lunderby, Naomi Reis, Josh Rickards, Mary Smull, Matthew Suib, Paul Swenbeck, Artie Vierkant, and Linda Yun.

Opening Reception: Saturday, November 7, 6:00 - 10:00pm
Exhibition Dates: November 7 - 28, 2009

Special musical performances:
Saturday, November 14, 8:00pm: agup b
Sunday, November 22, 4:00pm: Zurgunruhe sounds + Shake the Sky

Little Berlin
119 W. Montgomery Ave.
Philadelphia, PA 19122
610-308-0579
berlin.little@gmail.com
www.littleberlin.org

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

Art21 Fantasy Episode Screens Tuesday, October 27, 6:00pm


The fourth episode of this season's Art21, Fantasy, will be screened in Meyerson Hall, Lecture Hall B3, Tuesday, October 27 at 6:00pm. Fantasy features artists Cao Fei, Mary Heilmann, Jeff Koons and Florian Maier-Aichen.

Second year MFA student Nsenga Knight has coordinated Art21 Access '09 screenings at Penn. These events are part of Art21 Access ‘09, a celebration of contemporary art and Season 5 of Art:21 - Art in the Twenty-First Century. Art21 Access '09 is held at over 300 museums, schools, libraries, art spaces and community centers and is organized in collaboration with Americans for the Arts’ National Arts and Humanities Month.

This panel discussion includes:
Nancy Cifuentes, Artist Avatar, Second Life
Nsenga Knight (moderator), PennDesign MFA Candidate, University of Pennsylvania
Michael Marfione, PennDesign MFA Candidate, University of Pennsylvania
Joe Ovelman, PennDesign MFA Candidate, University of Pennsylvania

www.pbs.org/art21


PennDesign
Meyerson Hall B3
210 S. 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215-898-8374
fine-arts@design.upenn.edu

Jayson Musson (MFA '11) in Exhibit at CTRL Gallery, Houston, TX, Opening Friday, November 6


Jayson Musson (MFA '11) will have work featured in a show titled Good Ship Lolly Pop at CTRL Gallery in Houston, TX.

The exhibition is dedicated to the adorable child star Shirley Temple who 75 years ago,
with her delectable dimples and corkscrew curls, was busy helping grown-ups deal with the
difficulties of the Great Depression. Legend has it that she got more fan mail than Greta
Garbo and was photographed more often than FDR. In fact, leading historians credit her
cuteness as one of the main factors affecting economic recovery in the US and even abroad.

Opening reception: Friday, November 6, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Exhibition Dates: November 6 - December 19, 2009

CTRL
3907 Main Street
Houston, TX 77002
713-523-2875
info@ctrlgallery.com
www.ctrlgallery.com

To see more of Jayson's work, visit www.jaysonmusson.com

10.24.2009

First Year MFA Exhibition Opens Thursday, October 29 , 4:30 - 7:00pm


The First Year MFA students will have a group exhibit titled AEIOU Sometimes Y and Maybe W in the Charles Addams Gallery on campus. The students are Paige Adair, Amy Archambault, Sandy Boyer, Amir Campbell, Stephanie Cheng, Zoe Chronis, Sarah Cohen, Robert Dimin, Rachel Eschenbach, Stephen Grebinski, Justine Hill, Beth Hull, Bradley La Mere, Elina Malkin, Michael Marfione, Kent Miller, Jayson Musson, Heidi Nam, Martha Rich, John Schlesinger, Tamara Suber, Jessica Vaughn, and Jessica Yang.

Opening Reception: Thursday, October 29, 4:30 - 7:00pm
Exhibition Dates: October 29 - November 20, 2009

Charles Addams Gallery
University of Pennsylvania
200 S. 36th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215-898-8374
www.design.upenn.edu/fine-arts/exhibitions

Marc Blumthal (MFA '10) in Exhibition at International Print Center, NY, Opening Thursday October 29, 6 - 8pm


Marc Blumthal (MFA '10) will have work featured in the exhibit New Prints 2009/Autumn at the International Print Center in New York. The show consists of sixty works by thirty-eight emerging to established artists, and two collectives, selected from a pool of nearly 2,000 submissions.

New Prints 2009/Autumn is the thirty-third presentation of IPCNY’s New Prints Program, a series of juried exhibitions organized by IPCNY four times each year, featuring prints made within the past twelve months by artists at all stages of their careers. The exhibition represents a cross-section of some of the most exceptional printmaking today while continuing IPCNY’s commitment to provide an ongoing exhibition venue for contemporary prints and a major source of information about artists working in the medium. The Selections Committee for New Prints 2009/Autumn included Erin Donnelly, Director, Artist Residencies, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; Richard Dupont, Artist; James Miller, Studio Director and Master Printer, Lower East Side Printshop; José Roca, Artistic Director and Chief Curator for Philagrafika 2010; Jessica Weber, Jessica Weber Design; and Maud Welles, Collector.

Opening Reception: Thursday, October 29, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Exhibition Dates: October 30 - December 12, 2009

International Print Center
526 West 26th Street, Room 824
New York, NY 10001
212-989-5090
www.ipcny.org

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

10.19.2009

Siobhan McBride (MFA '05) in Exhibit at Mount Airy Contemporary Artists Space, Opening Friday, November 6, 6 - 9pm

Siobhan McBride, Moody House

Siobhan McBride (MFA '05) will have work in the exhibit titled On the Fringe of Nature at the Mount Airy Contemporary Artists Space in Philadelphia. She will show with artists Amy Chan and John Slaby.

All three artists in this show engage in work that inhabits the region where human habitation intermingles with the natural environment - a porous, permeable border where neither civilization nor nature remains pristine, and cross-pollination can create surprises. In Siobhan McBride's work, solitary warehouses and vaguely habitable structures squat under darkened skies that hang low over the landscape; weeds and bracken push up through the margins between concrete, brick and debris. McBride is influenced by urban domestic living and the industrial debris of Red Hook, Brooklyn. She draws from various source material for her content - photographs (both taken and scavenged), and her own filtered impressions of everyday experiences moving within the urban landscape.

Opening Reception: Friday, November 6th, 6:00 to 9:00pm
Exhibition Dates: November 6th - December 5th, 2009

Gallery is open by appointment; arranging weekend visits is encouraged.

Mount Airy Contemporary Artists Space is an artist-run exhibition space in the Mt. Airy neighborhood of Philadelphia PA. They mount shows that emphasize connections between art communities and networks among artists.

Mount Airy Contemporary Artists Space
25 West Mt. Airy Ave.
Philadelphia PA 19119
215-764-5621
info@mountairycontemporary.com
www.mountairycontemporary.com

To see more of Siobhan's work, visit www.siobhanmcbride.com

10.15.2009

Jessica Vaughn (MFA '11) in Solo Exhibition at Stamp Gallery, Opening Friday, October 23, 5:00pm


Jessica Vaughn (MFA '11) will have a solo exhibition titled Toppled
at the Stamp Gallery at the University of Maryland College Park. The
exhibition includes 23 mixed media prints. Jessica will be giving an artist
talk during the opening reception on Friday October 23rd, from 5-7pm.

Opening Reception: Friday, October 23, 5:00 - 7:00pm
Exhibition Dates: October 14 - December 18, 2009

Stamp Gallery
1220 Stamp Student Union
Adele Stamp Memorial Union
The University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
www.thestamp.umd.edu/gallery

To see more of Jessica's work, visit http://jessvaughn.com

Art21 Access Screening Friday, October 16, 7:00pm




The second episode of this season's Art21, Compassion, will be screened in Meyerson Hall, Friday, October 16 at 7:00pm. Compassion features artists William Kentridge, Doris Salcedo and Carrie Mae Weems. Second year MFA student Nsenga Knight has coordinated Art21 Access '09 screenings at Penn. These events are part of Art21 Access ‘09, a celebration of contemporary art and Season 5 of Art:21 - Art in the Twenty-First Century. Art21 Access '09 is held at over 300 museums, schools, libraries, art spaces and community centers and is organized in collaboration with Americans for the Arts’ National Arts and Humanities Month.

Tonight's panel discussion includes:
Leslie Hewitt, Artist
Jane Irish, PennDesign MFA Program Coordinator and Artist
Nsenga Knight (moderator), PennDesign MFA 2010 Candidate

Other screenings in the series will be held:
Systems, Thursday, October 22nd, 6pm
Fantasy, Tuesday, October 27th, 6pm

www.design.upenn.edu/calendar/art21-access

www.pbs.org/art21

PennDesign
Meyerson Hall
210 S. 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215-898-8374
fine-arts@design.upenn.edu

10.14.2009

Robert Dimin (MFA '11) in Solo Exhibit at CVZ Contemporary, Opening Saturday, October 17, 7:00pm



Robert Dimin (MFA '11) will have a solo show titled Collages & Women at CVZ Contemporary.

Opening Reception: Friday, October 17, 7:00 - 10:00pm
Exhibition Dates: October 17 - November 10, 2009

CVZ Contemporary
446 Broadway
3rd Floor
New York, NY 10013
www.cvzcontemporary.com

To see more of Robert's work, visit www.robertdimin.com

10.13.2009

John Yau: Visiting Artist Lecture, Wednesday, October 14, 5:30pm



John Yau is an art critic, essayist, poet, and prose writer who will be speaking Wednesday, October 14 at 5:30pm. He was born in Lynn, Massachusetts in 1950, shortly after his parents fled Shanghai. He received his B.A. from Bard College in 1972 and his M.F.A. from Brooklyn College in 1978. His collections of poetry include Borrowed Love Poems (Penguin, 2002), Forbidden Entries (1996), Berlin Diptychon (1995), Edificio Sayonara (1992), and Corpse and Mirror (1983), a National Poetry Series book selected by John Ashbery. His books of art criticism include The United States of Jasper Johns (1996) and In the Realm of Appearances: The Art of Andy Warhol (1993). He has also edited Fetish (1998), a fiction anthology. Yau's honors include the Lavan Award from the Academy of American Poets, the Jerome Shestack Prize from the American Poetry Review, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the General Electric Foundation. He lives in New York City.

Meyerson Hall Upper Gallery
210 S. 34th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215-898-8374
www.design.upenn.edu/fine-arts/visiting-artists

10.07.2009

Penn Alums and Staff in Exhibit at Stella Elkins Tyler Gallery, Opening TONIGHT, Wednesday, October 7, 7:00pm


Jane Irish (MFA Program Coordinator), Micah Danges (MFA Photography Technician), and Alex Paik (MFA '05) are all featured in a group show titled 1.5 Million that opens tonight. Inspired by a 1970 exhibition by Lucy Lippard, 1.5 Million will feature new works by 71 artists, curators and writers in the Stella Elkins Tyler Gallery, Tyler Hall at Temple University. Focusing on the space between imagination and practice, the exhibition will feature proposals for works that could - but don’t necessarily - exist. As in the original show, each proposal will be represented by one index card.

Curated by Corey Antis.

Opening Reception: Wednesday, October 7, 7:00-9:00pm
Exhibition Dates: October 7 – October 17, 2009

Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Saturday, 10:00am – 5:00pm

Stella Elkins Tyler Galleries
Tyler School of Art
12th and Norris Streets
Lower Level South, B02
Philadelphia, PA 19122

To see more of Jane's work, visit www.locksgallery.com/artists/irish
To see more of Micah's work, visit http://micahdanges.org
To see more of Alex's work, visit www.alexpaik.com

10.05.2009

Tetsugo Hyakutake (MFA '09) in Best of Show 2009 Event, Splashlight Studios, Saturday, October 17, 7:00pm


Tetsugo Hyakutake (MFA '09) will be featured in the event Best of Show 2009 on October 17. The Best of Show winners were chosen from this year's IPAs (International Photography Awards), in which Tetsugo was awarded first place in architectural photography.

October 17th, 2009 7-10pm

Best of Show 2009
Splashlight Studios
One Hudson Square
75 Varick Street, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10013
212-268-747
www.splashlight.com

About the event: www.photoawards.com/en/news

For more information about the IPA Awards, visit www.photoawards.com

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

10.02.2009

Terry Adkins (MFA Sculpture Professor) in Solo Show at American Academy in Rome, Opening Oct. 16


Terry Adkins will have a solo show at the American Academy in Rome titled Meteor Stream: Recital in Four Dominions.

Meteor Stream is the latest incarnation of Terry's ongoing cycle of site-inspired recitals on the abolitionist John Brown that began in 1999 at the John Brown House and sheep farm in Akron, Ohio. Commemorating the 150th anniversary of his Harper’s Ferry, Virginia campaign, Meteor Stream coincides with the inception of Brown’s October 16,th 1859 raid on a U.S. armory to his execution by hanging on that December 2nd at Charlestown. Adkins dutifully explores biblical aspects of John Brown as a shepherd, soldier, martyr and prophet through a muscular communion of sound, text, video, sculpture, drawing and ritual actions. He has also responded to new research for Meteor Stream that reveals incredibly far-reaching ties that bind the legend of this enigmatic American figure to parallel histories of Rome, Janiculum Hill and the American Academy.

Opening Reception: October 16, 5:00 - 7:00pm
Exhibition Dates: October 16 – December 2, 2009

American Academy in Rome
Via Angelo Masina 5
00153 Rome Italy
www.aarome.org

For more information about this year's Rome Prize winners, visit www.aarome.org/people-place-publications

For more information about Terry, visit www.design.upenn.edu/people/adkins_terry

10.01.2009

Joshua Mosley (MFA Professor and Acting Chair) in Beautiful Human Exhibit at Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, to October 9


Joshua Mosley, Associate Professor of Animation & Digital Media and Acting Chair of PennDesign's MFA program, has work in an exhibit titled Beautiful Human at the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery at Haverford College.

The exhibit runs through October 9 and is curated exclusively for Haverford by Shelley Spector, a Philadelphia sculptor, educator and founder of the pioneering Spector Gallery/Projects, which has become known for setting art world trends and boosting the careers of many young artists. The exhibit focuses on the theme of human beings as both subjects and observers, and also features works from five other Philadelphia-based artists, including James G. Mundie, Laura Graham and Rob Matthews.

Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery
Whitehead Campus Center
Haverford College
370 Lancaster Avenue
Haverford, PA 19041
610-896-1287
www.haverford.edu/exhibits

To see more of Joshua's work, visit http://joshuamosley.com

Penn MFA Studios Open for POST 2009: October 10-11, 12noon - 6:00pm



Our MFA program is participating in the 10th Annual POST Philadelphia Open Studios Tour on Saturday, October 10 and Sunday, October 11. POST is a program of The Center for Emerging Visual Artists, a nonprofit career development organization that creates opportunities for artists to reach their professional goals.

All studio buildings will be open. Our largest studio building, Morgan, will be open both days from 12:00 - 6:00pm.

Franklin building, which houses the MFA sculpture studios, will be open with guided tours at 2:00 and 4:00pm both Saturday and Sunday.

Duhring building, which houses the MFA photography studios, will also be open with guided tours at 2:00 and 4:00pm both Saturday and Sunday.

For these two special tours, meet at the Morgan building lobby at 2:00 or 4:00pm.

Come by and see what we're working on!

PennDesign MFA Studios
Morgan Building
205 S. 34th Street (Between Walnut and Spruce Streets)
Philadelphia, PA 19143
215-898-8374

For more information, visit:
www.philaopenstudios.com
www.philaopenstudios.com/penndesign
www.cfeva.org

PennDesign and ICA to Host Art21 Access '09 Screenings Beginning Thursday, October 8




Second year MFA student Nsenga Knight has coordinated Art21 Access '09 screenings at Penn. These events are part of Art21 Access ‘09, a celebration of contemporary art and Season 5 of Art:21 - Art in the Twenty-First Century. Art21 Access '09 is held at over 300 museums, schools, libraries, art spaces and community centers and is organized in collaboration with Americans for the Arts’ National Arts and Humanities Month.

The first episode, Transformation, will be screened at the ICA on Thursday, October 8 at 6pm. Transformation features artists Paul McCarthy, Cindy Sherman and Yinka Shonibare.

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion featuring:
Luis Gispert, PennDesign Photography Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania
Nsenga Knight, PennDesign MFA Candidate, University of Pennsylvania
Ekin Pinar, History of Art PhD Candidate, University of Pennsylvania
Gregory Tentler, History of Art PhD Candidate, University of Pennsylvania

Other screenings in the series will be held at PennDesign:
Compassion, Friday, October 16th, 7pm
Systems, Thursday, October 22nd, 6pm
Fantasy, Tuesday, October 27th, 6pm

For more information, visit:
www.icaphila.org/events

www.design.upenn.edu/calendar/art21-access

www.pbs.org/art21

Location for Thursday, October 8 Transformations episode:
ICA Institute of Contemporary Art
118 S. 36th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215-898-7108

Location for all other Art21 Access '09 Screenings:
PennDesign
Meyerson Hall
210 S. 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215-898-8374