Jamie Diamond (MFA '08) accepted for WORKSPACE Residency

The Harmonie Family, 2008

Jamie Diamond has been accepted to a 9 month residency by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. The LMCC says of the program: "Our flagship residency program provides artists and writers working in diverse mediums and genres with free studio workspace for nine months, a modest one-time stipend, as well as access to a community of peers, professional development services, and exposure to new audiences through online and public programs."

For more information go to the LMCC wesite:
http://www.lmcc.net/art/residencies/workspace/2008/index.html

See Jamie's website: http://jamiegdiamond.com/

PennDesign MFA studios featured in Philadelphia Open Studio Tours Sat., Oct. 4

Come to our Morgan Building and Franklin Annex for refreshments, drinks, artists, and artwork! Open from 12-6pm.

Morgan Building
205 South 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Franklin Annex
3451 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

For more info:
http://www.philaopenstudios.com/welcome.aspx

email: fine-arts@design.upenn.edu
tel: 215-898-8374

Demetrius Oliver (MFA '04) reviewed in NY Times, Time Out NY, and Village Voice

Demetrius Oliver's solo show, Observatory, at D'Amelio Terras, has been reviewed in three important New York publications! See the article links below.

The exhibition dates are: Sep 02 - Sep 27,2008

D'Amelio Terras
525 West 22nd Street
New York, New York 10011
Phone: +1-212.3529460
Tue-Sat 10-18


NY Times Review:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/arts/design/19gall.html?ref=design

Time Out New York Review:
http://www.timeout.com/newyork/articles/art/58811/demetrius-oliver-observatory

Village Voice Review:
http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-09-17/art/demetrius-oliver-s-observatory-at-d-amelio-terras-john-o-connor-implant-at-ubs-art-gallery/


Find out more about the show at:
http://www.damelioterras.com/home.html

Linnea Paskow (MFA '02) exhibition at Michael Steinberg Fine Art opening Friday

Linnea Paskow's exhibition of recent collages will open this Friday in New York City.

Exhibition dates: September 19 - October 14, 2008

See Linnea's work at: www.linneapaskow.com

Penn Graduate Humanities Forum 2008-09

Topic: Change 2008-2009, Check website calendar for events and keynote
Events begin Sept. 24: http://humanities.sas.upenn.edu/calendar.shtml

Past Topics:
Origins 2007-2008, Keynote "Googlization of Everything" by Siva Vaidhyanathan
Travel 2006–2007, Keynote "Old Histories, New Itineraries" by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
(Organized in part by Shayna McConville MFA '07)
Word and Image 2005-2006, Keynote "Jeff Wall, Wittgenstein and the Everyday" by Michael Fried
(Organized in part by Emily Hoy MFA '06)

VIA Book Launch

Thursday, September 18, 7-10pm
MeyersonHall School of Design
210 S 34th Street
Philadelphia

Friday, September 19, 6-8pm
Hines Gallery Center For Architecture 534 Laguardia Place
New York

"Occupation" is the first major new volume published by via (winner of the 2008 AIA Student Journalism Award). It studies the macro- and micro-scales that inform how we read, claim, and intervene in our evolving territories. It maps contemporary discourse and investigates the relationship between individual or collective identities, the tensions in definition and space-claiming, and the potentials for the space in between. These relationships are broken into 'novellas'—terra nullius, annex, colony, and body—that separate content into territorial categories, though not reducible to scale or time. Content is political at one end—questioning the roles of designer and occupant—and sensitive on the other end—acknowledging our use of space as one of borrowing.

Contributors include Deb Hoy (MFA '08), Francesca Pfister (MFA '07) and others.

http://www.amazon.com/Via-Occupation-Publications-1/dp/0980003601/

RESOURCES for Penn MFAs

STORE YOUR RECOMMENDATIONS AT PENN'S CAREER SERVICES

Establish a file to store all of your recommendations through Penn's credential systems:
http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/careerservices/credentials/credentials.html

You often need letters of recommendation when you apply for fellowships, grants or jobs. You may establish a file of letters of recommendation which will be permanently stored by Career Services. You may have these mailed whenever you need to provide letters of recommendation. Your letters will always be available on short notice and you will not have to ask the same person to write letters for you again and again.

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TEACHING CERTIFICATE FOR PENN MFAS
If you've worked as a Teaching Assistant for two semesters, you're less than four steps from getting a Teaching Certificate from Penn's Center for Teaching and Learning. These are the requirements:

1. TA for two semesters
2. Take a few workshops (about an hour each; take during your coffee break)
http://www.ctl.sas.upenn.edu/grad/grad_workshops.html
3. Write a teaching philosophy
4. Have a CTL staff observe one class

And you're done: http://www.ctl.sas.upenn.edu/grad/certificate.html
Contact Bruce Lenthall for more info lenthall[at]sas.upenn.edu
(This is available to doctoral students and MFAs -- those pursuing a terminal degree.)

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CONCERNED ABOUT TAKING AN ELECTIVE OUTSIDE OF PENNDESIGN?
Check out Penn's course and instructor ratings for that elective

(click on a category in the "Browse Courses" section on the left):
http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/coursereview/

While this electronic publication lists mostly professors and courses from the undergraduate program, many graduate professors are listed as well (almost all of our MFA professors are listed).

RESOURCES for Penn MFAs

STORE YOUR RECOMMENDATIONS AT PENN'S CAREER SERVICES
Establish a file to store all of your recommendations through Penn's credential systems:http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/careerservices/credentials/credentials.html

You often need letters of recommendation when you apply for fellowships, grants or jobs. You may establish a file of letters of recommendation which will be permanently stored by Career Services. You may have these mailed whenever you need to provide letters of recommendation. Your letters will always be available on short notice and you will not have to ask the same person to write letters for you again and again.

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TEACHING CERTIFICATE FOR PENN MFASIf you've worked as a Teaching Assistant for two semesters, you're less than four steps from getting a Teaching Certificate from Penn's Center for Teaching and Learning. These are the requirements:

1. TA for two semesters
2. Take a few workshops (about an hour each; take during your coffee break)http://www.ctl.sas.upenn.edu/grad/grad_workshops.html
3. Write a teaching philosophy
4. Have a CTL staff observe one class

And you're done: http://www.ctl.sas.upenn.edu/grad/certificate.html
Contact Bruce Lenthall for more info lenthall[at]sas.upenn.edu(This is available to doctoral students and MFAs -- those pursuing a terminal degree.)

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CONCERNED ABOUT TAKING AN ELECTIVE OUTSIDE OF PENNDESIGN?Check out Penn's course and instructor ratings for that elective
(click on a category in the "Browse Courses" section on the left):http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/coursereview/
While this electronic publication lists mostly professors and courses from the undergraduate program, many graduate professors are listed as well (almost all of our MFA professors are listed).

College Art Association Fellowship for MFAs: Deadline Oct. 1

College Art Association is pleased to announce that the 2008 Professional Development Fellowship award is now a one-time award of $15,000. Applications are due October 1, 2008. Award notifications are mailed by January 2009.

Visual-Art Fellowships: Visual-art fellowship applicants must include the following on a CD or DVD: application form; essay; résumé or CV; description of your MFA exhibition and its timetable; all visual documentation (up to six images of still work on CD or up to ten minutes of video work on a DVD, properly labeled and formatted for both PC and Macintosh); and image script (caption list and short descriptions of the work). Three letters of recommendation; a copy of your 2007 IRS income-tax form or 2008 Free Application for Student Federal Aid (FASFA); and graduate transcript must be submitted in hard copy and mailed to CAA with the CD or DVD. Deadline: October 1, 2008; fellows are chosen by December 31, 2008.

College Art Assocation initiated the Professional Development Fellowship Program in 1993 to help MFA and PhD candidates in art and art history bridge the gap between their graduate study and professional careers. The program's purpose is to support outstanding students from socially and economically diverse backgrounds who may have been underrepresented in their fields. By nurturing promising artists and art historians at the beginning of their careers, CAA aims to strengthen and diversify the profession as a whole.

For more information, visit: http://www.collegeart.org/fellowships/

Tadashi Moriyama (MFA '06) featured in exhibition at DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park

DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park
51 Sandy Pond Road
Lincoln, MA 01773-2600

August 30, 2008 – January 4, 2009

The exhibition features artists:

Alice Attie, Astrid Bowlby, Jim Dingilian,Jacob El Hanani, Dave Eppley, Tom Friedman, Darina Karpov, Laura Kim,Ricardo Lanzarini, Martha Lewis, Cynthia Lin, Marco Maggi, LouiseMarshall, Jane Masters, Julie Mehretu, Tadashi Moriyama, Mary O’Malley,Carol Prusa, Jessica Deane Rosner, Andrea Sulzer, Kako Ueda, Julia vonEichel, Rachel Perry Welty, David Omar White, Martin Wilner, and DanielZeller.
This exhibition is organized by the Curatorial Affairs Directors, Rachel Rosenfield and Lafoand Koch, and Curatorial Fellows Kate Dempsey and Nina Bozicnik.

For more information see: http://www.decordova.org/decordova/exhibit/2008/drawn%20to%20detail/drawn%20to%20detail.htm

See Tadashi's website: http://www.tadashimoriyama.com/

Erica Baum Photography Exhibition Opening Tonight (Thurs., Sept. 11) at the Kelly Writers House

7:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Kelly Writers House Art opening for Word Each to Cling I

A series of photographs by Erica Baum based on pianola rolls

Erica Baum received a B.A. in Anthropology from Barnard College, Columbia University in 1984 and an M.F.A. in Photography from the Yale School of Art in 1994. She has exhibited in New York, Baltimore, San Francisco, Kansas City, Germany, Italy and France. Her work will be shown in the upcoming show titled Subject, Index at the Malmo Konstmuseum in Malmo, Sweden. Her work has been reviewed in ArtForum and Art in America and she was recently included in the book Vitamin Ph: New Perspectives in Photography, edited by TJ Demos (Phaidon Press, 2006).


The Kelly Writers House
University of Pennsylvania
3805 Locust Walk (a pedestrian walk located between Walnut and Spruce Streets)
Philadelphia, PA

For more information: http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/calendar/0908.php

Openings tonight at PennDesign (Thurs. Sept. 4)

Join us tonight for some very exciting openings in the PennDesign community. The openings are at the Addams Gallery, the Upper Meyerson Gallery and the ICA. All openings start at 5pm. See the previous posts for more information and addresses. The press release for the Addams Gallery Exhibition is below. We hope to see you there.

(click on the image to read it in full)

Andrew Graham (MFA '06) in group show at Larry Becker Contemporary Art

Andrew Graham, Band Partition, 2008

Andrew Graham, a PennDesign MFA alumni from 2006, is currently in a group show at Larry Becker Contemporary. The show is entitled "To Be Looked At." Andrew also has a new website: http://andrewgraham.110mb.com.

See the show at: Larry Becker Contemporary Art, 43 North 2nd Street, Philadelphia, PA

"Wanna Kiss Myself" by J.Makary and Perpetual Mvmt <>Snd

J. Makary announces the completion of her new dance film "Wanna Kiss Myself." The film will debut during Fringe Festival performances of asNEXUS, September 5 through September 8, featuring a live performance by J. Makary, and a piece by performance collective Perpetual Mvmt <> Snd at NEXUS/foundation for today's art.

More information about the film, which features a dozen incredible Philly-based performers, is available on J. Makary's Web site at http://www.jmakary.com/.

NEXUS is located on the first floor of the Crane Arts Building at 1400 N. American St.
http://www.pafringe.com/2008/details.cfm?id=5349

David Aaron Mette (MFA '09) to present research at Arts and Humanities Conference

David Mette's paper, "Sovereign Communication: Reading the Deconstruction of Discursive Language in Bataille," has been accepted for presentation at the 2009 Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities. The conference will be held from January 9- 12, 2009.



To view the final program for the conference or to get more information see:
http://www.hichumanities.org/program
mette[at]design.upenn.edu

MFA 2nd Year exhibition opens Thursday, Sept. 4

Self-Generated: MFA 2nd year Fall Exhibition

In conjunction with the photography exhibition in Addams Gallery, PennDesign MFA 2nd year students will host an exhibition of their work in the Upper Meyerson Gallery. This is an unusual exhibition in that all of the work will generate its own illumination. Expect to see Sculpture, Photography, Painting and Video self-lit by industrious artistic imaginations. In order to raise money for our end of year thesis exhibition, most of the work will be available for sale. Antonio McAfee, Tia Simone-Gardner, and Jessa McFarlane (all MFA 2nd years) organized the show and decided on the curatorial direction. This will be an exciting start to the school year .... Come One, Come All!

Opening Reception: Thursday, September 4th 5pm-8pm
Exhibition Dates: September 3rd-12th, 2008

School of Design

Meyerson Upper Gallery

210 S. 34th St.

Philadelphia, PA 19104

215-898-8374

Daniel Gerwin (MFA '08) at the Calvin College Center Art Gallery

Signs and Wonders: Paintings by Daniel Gerwin


July 2 - July 25, 2008
Department of Art and Art History
Calvin College
106 South Division Ave.
Grand Rapids, MI 49503






Go to the website for more information:
www.calvin.edu
www.grnow.com

John Moore Retires; Joshua Mosley Steps In

John Moore

"One of the greatest achievements during Moore’s tenure was the establishment of the Locks Foundation Distinguished Artists Program, which brought to campus the renowned artists and critics Alex Katz, Robert Storr, Robert Hughes, Chuck Close and Eric Fischl from 2003 to 2006, thanks to a generous gift from the Locks Foundation, headed by PennDesign Overseer and Locks Gallery owner Sueyun Locksand her husband Gene Locks. While transforming PennDesign’s MFA department, Moore has had four one-person shows in New York, and one each in Texas, Philadelphia and Maine. Along with Moore, PennDesign’s MFA students and alumni are exhibiting regularly and receiving international acclaim, a wonderful legacy for a chair who has had a deep and lasting impact on the fine arts at Penn."
--PennDesign Annual

As the school searches for a permanent Chair for the program, Joshua Mosley has agreed to serve as acting Chair for this next Fall (and possibly Spring) semester. Joshua has been an Associate Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania's undergraduate and graduate program since 2000. He teaches animation, video and digital design, and is an inspiring and energetic professor and fellow artist. Josh has been exhibited and screened at the 2007 Venice Biennale and at the Museum of Modern Art, NY. He has received a Pew Fellowship and will be showing at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia and at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX later this year.

Joshua Mosley

Jamie Diamond (MFA '08) featured in Philadelphia Inquirer Review

A recent Philadelphia Inquirer review of ID a show organized at Projects Gallery by the founders of Philadelphia's beloved Artblog: Roberta Fallon and Libby Rosof, mentions our recently graduated Jamie Diamond whom:

"...offers the strangest - and most fascinating - contribution with her staged 'family' photographs of 'families' whose members she selected herself (solicited in ads and through friends), and then posed together in various hotels." (Edith Newhall, The Inquirer, June 19th, 2008)

ID runs through June 26th, 2008 at Projects Gallery

click on image to read article.

Jamie has also recently launched her website: www.jamiegdiamond.com

How'd This Happen???

Penn MFA "Happy Endings" opens in Chelsea this Thursday.
Join us for the Opening Reception: June 12th. 6-9pm

Happy Endings
Micheal Steinberg Fine Art
526 West 26th Street
Suite 215
New York, NY

Show runs:
June 10th - 21st
Tues-Sat 11-6pm

Brent Wahl (MFA '06 ) in a group show at the Dumbo Arts Center: opening June 14th

Brent Wahl, The Phantom Limb (video stills), 2006-08

Brent Wahl, former MFA graduate and photography lecturer at UPenn's Undergraduate Fine Arts Dept., will be in a group show entitled Holy Holes: Absolute Stalls at the Dumbo Arts Center in Brooklyn. The show has been curated by Denise Carvalho. Brent is a member of the artist collective, Vox Populi in Philadelphia.

HOLY HOLES: ABSOLUTE STALLS is a multimedia exhibition exploring different viewpoints on the relationship between religion, power and economics. This show looks at religion from a humorous, poetic and critical perspective, subverting traditional expectations and inviting the viewer to interact, transform, or reflect on the relationship between religious rituals and consumerist everyday practices.

Dates of exhibition: June 14 - August 3, 2008
Opening Reception: June 14, 2008, 6 - 9 PM
Hours: Wednesday - Sunday, 12 - 6pm or by appointment

Dumbo Arts Center
30 Washington Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
T. 718.694.0831

For more info: www.dumboartscenter.org

See more of Brent's work at: www.brentwahl.com

Jane Irish talk at PAFA this Friday

You are invited to a talk and reading at the with Jane Irish, W.D. Ehrhart,hosted by Academy Curator of Modern Art, Robert Cozzolino


At the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
June 6, 2008 at 6 p.m.
Morris Gallery, Historic Landmark Building (Broad and Cherry, Philadelphia)

In conjunction with exhibition:

Spot Check : Academy Contemporary (runs through June 8)

Since 2004 the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts has set aside a portion of its acquisition funds to purchase work by emerging artists. This Morris Gallery focus installation spotlights over a dozen objects that have entered the Academy’s collection through the Contemporary Art Development Fund. Spot Check: Academy Contemporary will showcase art that engages in a wide range of current practices.

Upcoming, in conjunction with this exhibition, there will be an artist talk on Friday, June 6 that will occur on Academy First Fridays, and will start at 6 p.m. in front of the artist's work in the Morris Gallery. Academy Curator of Modern Art, Robert Cozzolino, artist Jane Irish, and poet W.D. Ehrhart (who will also read) will discuss the work together offering a dialogue about issues or questions that the piece provokes. Attendees will be able to ask questions and engage in a conversation, about Vietnam Veterans Against the War, poetry, painting, resistance, and history.

Friday, June 6: Jane Irish
Dewey Canyon III, 2003
Varnished egg tempera and gouache on linen; 116 x 65 inches
Contemporary Art Development Fund, 2004.25

This painting was begun in January 2003, completed in August 2003. Composed of paintings within a painting, like a play within a play, Dewey Canyon III includes smaller paintings, an inventory of heroic protest of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. These six paintings are set within a large image (allegorical) of wealth and opulence depicting a Robert Adams Rococo type interior composed by the artist from several images of high style décor.

Gianna Delluomo (MFA '08) in Group Exhibition at The Dorsky Gallery, LIC

"The World is a Handkerchief"
Opening Reception: Sunday, June 8th 3-5pm
June 8 - July 13, 2008
Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs
11-03 45th Ave
Long Island City, NY

Hunter Stabler (MFA '06) has solo show at Philadelphia's Pageant Soloveev gallery

Hunter Stabler, who graduated from PennDesign's MFA program in 2006, will have a solo show at Philadelphia's Pageant Soloveev Gallery. The show opens on June 12th at 7pm and will be up until the 3rd of August. Hunter also recently launched a new website.

See Hunter's work: www.hunterstabler.com
Visit Pageant: www.pageantsoloveev.com

MFA Thesis show written about on ARTBLOG

Damon Reaves, Entertaining, video, TV


In a Wed. May 28, 2008 post, Libby Rosof wrote about her visit to the MFA exhibition at The Icebox, Crane Arts Building. Rosof wrote extensively about Damon Reaves' work and included several of his images. She also included images and/or descriptions of the work of Ivanco Talevski, Jamie Diamond, Shanjana Mahmud, and Simon Slater. Rosof mentioned that she and Roberta Fallon chose to include Jamie Diamond in an exhibition entitled ID that is opening on the 6th of June, 2008 at Projects Gallery.

The MFA Thesis exhibition will be up until June 6, 2008.

See the post at:
http://fallonandrosof.blogspot.com/2008/05/philadelphia-art-schools-some-of.html

Daniel Gerwin (MFA '08) and Edward Carey (MFA '09) chosen for Vox Populi exhibition

Two PennDesign MFA students, Daniel Gerwin and Edward Carey, have been chosen to take part in Philadelphia's Vox Populi Gallery exhibition, SOLID GOLD.

The exhibition dates are June 6-27, 2008.
Opening reception: June 6, 2008, 6pm-11pm.

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

Kurt Freyer (MFA '09) part of Philadelphia Sculptors exhibition OPENING THIS WEEKEND (May 30th and 31st, 2008)

5 Into 1 + 1 exhibition FLUXspace Exhibition Dates: May 31th - June 15th, 2008 Open Hours: Saturdays 12pm-5pm and by appointment For Appointments Call: 610.764 7488 Opening Reception: Friday, May 30th - 6:30pm - 9pm, 2008 Moore College of Art and Design - Wilson Gallery Exhibition Dates: May 31st - June 15th, 2008 Open Hours: 10am-6pm Sunday - Monday Opening Lecture/Reception: Saturday, May 31st - 1:30pm-5:30pm, 2008 Philadelphia Sculptors is proud to present "5 into 1 + 1", in cooperation with Moore College of Art and Design. This is the ninth year for the annual student exhibition that showcases sculpture by outstanding senior and graduate students from Philadelphia area colleges. In a change from past shows, this exhibition will be divided into two parts. Moore College of Art and Design will host the primary exhibition, with the opening reception on Saturday, May 31, 2008 from 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. A second related exhibition of student work will take place at FLUXspace in Kensington, with an opening reception scheduled for Friday, May 30, 2008 from 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Both shows will run from May 31 – June 15, 2008. The exhibition is curated by recent graduates of Tyler School of Art, Joe DiGiuseppe and Chris Golas. The colleges and students represented are: Arcadia University: Katie Popelak, Dan Galloway and Julie McConnell. Moore College: Samantha Hill; PAFA: Ted Sare, Gregory Scott, Robert Scobey, and Tina Zavitsanos; Tyler School of Art: Brian Goodhart; The University of the Arts: Adam Bush, Max Hartley, and Nicholas Poyner; and the University of Pennsylvania: Kurt Freyer. for more information: http://www.thefluxspace.org/current.html

MFA Awards 2008

Graduating Student Awards (MFA'08):

Locks Fondation Post-Graduate Fellowship: Damon Reaves
Lawrence Shprintz MFA Award: Daniel Gerwin
Christopher Leland Lyon Memorial Fund: Travis Heck
Charles Addams Memorial Prize: Simon Slater
Toby Devin Lewis Foundation Prize: Jamie Diamond

Continuing Student Awards (MFA'09):

Lawrence Shprintz MFA Award: Tay Cha
Stuart Egnal Scholarship Award: Laura Shema
Dedalus Foundation Nominees: Peter Schenck and Antonio McAfee

Congratulations.

Happy Graduation

almost the class of 2008 outside of the morgan building

Update: MFA Thesis Exhibition Opening Reception Rescheduled

The UPenn MFA Thesis Exhibition Opening Reception has been rescheduled for Saturday, May 17th 6-9pm at the Crane Arts Building. Check the Crane website for more information.

University of Pennsylvania MFA Thesis Exhibition
Dates: May 16 – June 6, 2008
Reception: Saturday May 17th, 6-9pm
Location: The Ice Box, Crane Arts Building
Hours: Thurs-Sun 12-6 pm


www.cranearts.com
www.pennmfathesis.com

ICEBOX Project Space, the expansive, museum-quality visual arts gallery at the gateway of the North American Street corridor, will host the thesis exhibition of recent Master of Fine Arts recipients from The University of Pennsylvania. The exhibit runs from May 16- June 4, 2008. Penn Design is pleased to have William Pym as exhibition curator. Pym is an active contributor to the arts in Philadelphia as a curator, writer, and art dealer. He has recently collaborated with John Pym on “What one small film tells us about how we live now”, an essay and glossary about a minor TV film from 1978, and the Indian films of Merchant Ivory Productions, and will be a contributing essayist for the catalogue accompanying English artist Mark Leckey’s midcareer survey at the Kolnischer Kunstverein this fall.
The Artists: Monica Bodnar, Warren Corlett, Rita Crocker, Jamal Cyrus, Gianna Delluomo, Jamie Diamond, Daniel Gerwin, Travis Heck, Deb Hoy, Leejin Kim, Shanjana Mahmud, Damon Reaves, Megan Rogers, Simon Slater, Ivanco Talevski, Molly Winston, Anastasia Wong, Sarah Zimmer Expansive and challenging, the artwork presented in this exhibition deals with a diverse range of subject matter, realized in various media. Issues pertaining to ecology and destruction, otherness and foreign culture, hysteria and delirium, as well as anxiety, both corporeal and cultural bring a unique body of work together from an outstanding group of young artists.

Many of the eighteen emerging artists in this exhibition have already received special recognition from prestigious organizations for their endeavors. Several members of this year’s class have attended the Vermont Studio Center residency as well as the Skowhegan residency program. Many have exhibited throughout North America, Europe, and Asia including Canada, Italy, United Kingdom, Macedonia, Iceland, and Japan. Highlights of their collective accolades include a Thouron Award, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, and representation at the 2006 Whitney Biennial.