Matt Neff (MFA '05/Lecturer) & Virgil Marti (MFA Lecturer) in Panel Discussion for Philagrafika at the PMA, Fri. Apr. 9, 6:30pm

Virgil Marti, Austrian Swag, 2009

Matt Neff (MFA '05, Printmaking Lecturer, Manager of Common Press) and Virgil Marti (MFA Printmaking Lecturer) will participate in a panel discussion at the Philadelphia Museum of Art on Friday, April 9 from 6:30 - 8:00 as a part of Philagraphika 2010: Perspectives on Print in Contemporary Art.

Shelley Langdale, Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings and member of the Philagrafika 2010 curatorial team, will lead a discussion with artists and other Philagrafika 2010 participants about the role of print in their work and the impact of the Philagrafika festival in re-framing the position of print in contemporary art.

Other Panelists include:

Cindi Ettinger, Master Printer, founder of C.R. Ettinger Studio, Philadelphia

Caitlin Perkin, artist, member of the artists’ collective Space 1026 and Program Manager for Philagrafika 2010

Anabelle Rodriguez, Curator of the inaugural International Curatorial Exchange (ICE) @ Crane Arts LLC; Guest Curator at Painted Bride Art Center; and muralist for the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program

Event Time and Date: 6:30 - 8:00pm, Friday April 9, 2010
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Main Building, Seminar Room
26th Street and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Philadelphia, PA 19130
http://www.philamuseum.org/calendarEvents/calendar.html

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

To see more of Virgil's work, visit http://www.elizabethdeegallery.com/artists/view/virgil-marti

Joshua Mosley (MFA Acting Chair & Professor of Animation/Video) in Solo Exhibition at Donald Young Gallery, Opening Fri. Apr. 9, 5pm

Joshua Mosley, International (Animation Still), 2010

Joshua Mosley (MFA Acting Chair & Professor of Animation/Video) will have a solo exhibition of his new work International, opening at the Donald Young Gallery in Chicago on Friday, April 9 from 5:00 - 7:00pm.

International is a video and sculpture installation that aligns two historical figures in conversation for the first time, Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek (1899–1992) and American builder and philanthropist George R. Brown of Brown & Root (1898–1983).

Sampling oral history recordings captured between 1968 and 1978 of Brown and Hayek (they never met), the animation folds together a conversation that identifies their perspectives on how the ideal economic and social order for a nation should evolve. From a contemporary perspective, the conversation also reveals how it is possible for the mind to simultaneously hold incompatible ideas and how individuals like Hayek and Brown use logic to reconcile public theories and actions with more personal motivations.

The animation presents cycles of photographs staged in locations pivotal in the lives of Hayek and Brown. These include images of the Hôtel du Parc in Mont Pelerin, Switzerland (the location of the initial Mont Pelerin Society meeting in 1947 where economists, philosophers, and historians met to discuss the fate of classical liberalism and in their view, the crisis of socialism) and a triangular plot at the confluence of the Green Bayou and Houston Ship Channel in Texas purchased by the Browns in 1941 to complete a series of federal contracts to build ships for WWII. Intercut with these landscapes are animated images of old logging roads along the coast of Oregon composited with an animated 3D scan of the truck.

Interwoven with Hayek’s and Brown’s voice is a musical score composed by Mosley of single notes played on a 1938 Haines Brothers piano, matched to the piano owned by Brown's family during this transitional period of growth in their business.

Opening Reception: Friday, April 9, 5:00 - 7:00pm

Donald Young Gallery
224 S. Michigan Avenue
Suite 266
Chicago, IL 60604
312-322-3600
gallery@donaldyoung.com
www.donaldyoung.com

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

Gianna Delluomo (MFA '08) and Edward Carey (MFA '09) in Exhibition Opening Fri. Apr. 2, 6pm

Gianna Delluomo (MFA '08) and Edward Carey (MFA '09) will have work in a three-person show called "I don't think I can love you longer than just tonight" opening Friday, April 2 from 6:00 - 10:00pm. The third participating artist is Nathaniel Clark.

Opening Reception: Friday, April 2, 2010, 6:00 - 10:00pm at

319 North 11th Street, Second Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107

To see Gianna's work, visit http://giannadelluomo.com/

Artist Jun Kaneko Lectures TONIGHT, Tues Mar 30, 5:30pm

Jun Kaneko will present a lecture titled Between Light and Shadow tonight, Tuesday March 30 at 5:30pm. Jun Kaneko is an internationally recognized artist known for his large ceramic sculptures. He has completed numerous public art commissions in the United States and Japan and is the recipient of national, state, and organization fellowships. His work is included in more than seventy museum collections.

In 2008 The Opera Company of Philadelphia commissioned him to design their production of Beethoven’s Fidelio. In the photo above, Kaneko prepares for Heads, an installation on the Park Avenue Malls, New York. The University of Pennsylvania’s Residency Program is made possible by the Emily and Jerry Spiegel Fund to Support Contemporary Culture and Visual Arts. The Spiegel Fund creates and supports a series of coordinated interdisciplinary courses, programs and events.

Event Time and Date: 5:30pm, Tuesday March 30, 2010

Admission is free. Seating is limited.

Free tickets will be available at the door at 4PM.

University of Pennsylvania
School of Design
Meyerson Hall, B1
210 S. 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215-898-8374
fine-art@design.upenn.edu
http://www.design.upenn.edu/fine-arts

To see more of Jun's work, visit http://www.junkaneko.com/

Kurt Freyer (MFA '09) has work on Phoned-In, BOMB Blog

Kurt Freyer, Little Death, 2010

Kurt Freyer's (MFA '09) piece Little Death is the visual accompaniment to Bomb Magazine's Phoned-In poetry reading with K. Silem Mohammad. Phoned-In is a series of recorded conversations and poetry readings by authors, curated by Luke Degnan.

Look and listen here: http://bombsite.powweb.com/?p=8897

New Prints : Part II Exhibition Opening Reception TONIGHT, March 25, 5pm

The University of Pennsylvania School of Design and Dean Marilyn Jordan Taylor are proud to host New Prints, Part II, a juried exhibition with new works from over thirty-eight emerging to established artists, and one collective. Organized by International Print Center New York for New Prints 2010/Winter, this show presents a wide array of exciting contemporary work that challenges our understanding of fine art printmaking.

The Selections Committee for New Prints 2010/Winter included Alexander Campos, Executive Director, The Center for Book Arts; Michele Oka Doner, Artist; Kathleen Flynn, Executive Director, Dieu Donné; Shelley Langdale, Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Curatorial Team, Philagrafika 2010; Dwight E. Lee, Collector; and Leslie Miller, Founder, The Grenfell Press.

The complete artists' list for New Prints: Part II is as follows: Erika Adams, Roberta Allen, Felipe De Jesus Baeza, Karin Bos, Marisa Boullosa, Victoria Burge, Sophie Calle, Jonas Criscoe (in collaboration with writer Patrick Whitfill), Sage Dawson, E.V. Day, Hope Dector, Lesley Dill, Barbara Duval, Brad Ewing, Alejandro Garcia Restrepo, Klara Glosova, Tai Hwa Goh, William Howard, Richard Hricko, Anita S. Hunt, Nils Karsten, William Kentridge, Andrew Kozlowski, Yunmee Kyong, Karen Lederer, Whitfield Lovell, Franco Marinai, Michael Neff, Mark Parsons, Alyssa Pheobus, Ross Racine, Jenny Robinson, Zoë Sheehan Saldaña, David Sandlin, Ana Vivoda, April Vollmer, Tammy Wofsey, and Erin Woodbrey. Artists participating in the S.P. Weather Station collective are: Leah Beeferman, Natalie Campbell, Carrie Dashow, Neil Freeman, Richard Garrison, Michael Geminder, Katarina Jerinic, Daniel Larson, Bridget Lewis, Lize Mogel, Heidi Neilson, Chris Petrone, Sarah Nicole Phillips, Jing Yu, and Liz Zanis

TONIGHT Reception: Thursday, March 25, 5:00 - 7:00pm
Exhibition Dates: March 8 - April 4, 2010

University of Pennsylvania
School of Design
Meyerson Hall Gallery
210 South 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday, 10:00 - 5:00pm
http://www.design.upenn.edu/calendar/tonight-new-prints-part-ii?destination=home

To learn more about IPCNY, visit http://www.ipcny.org/

Jessica Clauser (MFA '09) has work on Bomb Magazine Blog

Jessica Clauser, Beijing Cotton Candy, 2009

Jessica Clauser's (MFA '09) photograph Beijing Cotton Candy is the visual accompaniment to Bomb Magazine's Phoned-In poetry reading with Dorothy Lasker. Phoned-In is a series of recorded conversations and poetry readings by authors, curated by Luke Degnan.

Look and listen here: http://bombsite.powweb.com/?p=8282

To see more of Jessica's work visit http://jessicamarieclauser.blogspot.com/

Daniel Gerwin (MFA '08) has work on Bomb Magazine Blog

Daniel Gerwin, Moment of Doubt, 2008

Daniel Gerwin (MFA '08)'s painting Moment of Doubt is the visual accompaniment to Bomb Magazine's Phoned-In poetry reading with Ben Lerner. Phoned-In is a series of recorded conversations and poetry readings by authors, curated by Luke Degnan.

Look and listen here: http://bombsite.powweb.com/?p=8669

To see more of Daniel's work visit http://www.danielgerwin.com/

Chris Lawrence (MFA '10) in Exhibition at Seventh Gallery, March 16 - April 3

Chris Lawrence (MFA '10) in exhibition titled Response: Nobody is an Island at Seventh Gallery in Melbourne, Australia. For this exhibition, 13 artists were given a piece of music composed by Dead Dog (Liam and Rohan from My Disco) and a spherical object. They were asked to listen to the music and respond using the object.

On March 31 the musicians will be performing in the space in response to the artwork.

Artists include: Rebecca Agnew, Lauren Brown, Adam John Cullen, Jessica Dean, Christopher LG Hill, Sean Hogan, Kim Jaeger, Renee Jaeger, Amy-Jo Jory, Chris Lawrence, Emma Morgan, Dunja Rmandic & Simon Taylor

Musicians include: Matthew Brown, Houlette, The Artifishal Limb, Pissypaw and Damien Sutton.

Opening Reception : March 31
Exhibition Dates : March 16 - April 3, 2010

Seventh Gallery
155 Gertrude Street
Fitzroy, Victoria, 3065
Melbourne
Australia
infoseventhgallery@gmail.com
http://seventhgallery.org/

To learn more, read this: http://www.threethousand.com.au/look/respond-exhibition-and-closing-gig/

To see more of Chris' work, visit http://chrislawrenceprojects.com/

Andrew Graham (MFA '06) in exhibit at DCCA, Opening March 26

Andrew Graham, Bonanza, 2006

Andrew Graham (MFA '06) is in a show titled Spectrum: Contemporary Color Abstraction, at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts in Wilmington, Delaware.

"The term "decorative" is still suspect in many art circles, but, as Spectrum demonstrates, color abstraction is clearly here to stay. In fact, this is the second exhibition on the topic installed by the DCCA in recent years. This exhibition brings together both painting and sculpture. Not only is color abstraction alive, but it plays a vital role in today's art practice. Younger artists have found innovative ways of incorporating color and abstraction into their artistic vocabulary, while more established artists have found a renewed interest in color exploration in their recent work. The range of approaches to color abstraction in this exhibition represents the vast array of approaches to the theme, from from softsculpture to cast forms, from paintings on Plexiglas to painted and shaped plywood. Stylistic presentations span a continuum from organic to geometric abstraction, and from abstraction based on natural forms to the purely non-objective. Some of the artists in Spectrum present highly elegant images or constructions while others utilize everyday materials, attaching a sense of the absurd or the whimsical. Yet, in all cases, color and abstract form are at the heart of the work. Clearly, neither painting nor formal abstraction has died. In fact, it is not even on life-support, but rather contributes a healthy, robust voice to the art of the twenty-first century."
- J. Susan Isaacs, PhD
Curator of Special Projects

Exhibition Dates: March 26 - August 1, 2010

Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts
Carole Bieber and Marc Ham Gallery
200 South Madison Street
Wilmington, DE 19801
302-656-6466
info@thedcca.org
www.thedcca.org/

To see more of Andrew's work, visit http://andrewgraham.110mb.com/

Sam Durant (MFA Senior Critic) in Solo Exhibition at Paula Cooper, Mar 13 - Apr 17

Sam Durant, Dead Labor Day, 2010

Sam Durant (MFA Senior Critic) has a solo exhibition titled Dead Labor Day at Paula Cooper Gallery from March 13 to April 17, 2010.

The title of the exhibition refers to Karl Marx’s description of surplus value as the “dead labor” of capitalist production.

“Capital is dead labor, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks. The time during which the laborer works, is the time during which the capitalist consumes the labor-power he has purchased from him.” (Michel In Beaud)

The show will include a large sculpture based on the scaffold used to hang the famous Chicago anarchists known as the Haymarket Martyrs (shown in the image above). Monument-like in scale, the sculpture is not an exact reproduction of the gallows but rather an outline of the structure that doubles as a worker’s break room. Viewers can access the platform using an industrial steel staircase, and once on top get a drink from a water dispenser.

The “Haymarket Martyrs” (August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer, George Engel, and Louis Lingg who committed suicide in prison before he could be hung) were labor activists and anarchists. They were arrested following an ambiguous bombing and subsequent shoot-out involving police officers on May 4, 1886 known as the Haymarket Riot, which had begun peacefully as a labor rally in support of the 8-hour workday. Though there was no credible evidence linking the rally organizers to the bombing, they were sentenced to death and executed publicly on November 11, 1887. The case sparked outrage and gained the labor movement worldwide attention. The 8-hour day was finally enacted into law over 20 years later. The five Anarchists became martyrs to both the founding of International May Day (May 1st), a day of celebrating labor, and the 8-hour workday.

This exhibition partly grows out of Durant’s recent work on capital punishment comprised of small-scaled architectural models of historically significant gallows and drawings with statistical imagery. However, it also addresses issues of labor history and its relevance to today’s economic conditions. According to the artist, historical accounts of the economic conditions in which the Haymarket affair took place reveal striking similarities to today’s relationship between labor and capital, especially with respect to the weakening of labor laws and worker unions’ loss of leveraging power.

Durant’s work explores the political dimensions of contemporary culture by weaving relationships between defining historical and cultural events of the recent and less recent past. He has focused on such pivotal periods as the civil-rights era, the 1968 student riots, and the last century’s struggle between Native Americans and European settlers. He started exhibiting in the 1990s and has had one-person exhibitions at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Kunstverein Düsseldorf; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston. His work has been included in numerous group exhibitions such as the 2004 Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial, New York; the 2002 Venice Biennale, Italy; and Out of Place: Contemporary Art and the Architectural Uncanny at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. He lives and works in Los Angeles.

Exhibition Dates: March 13 - April 17, 2010

Paula Cooper Gallery
534 W. 21st St
New York, NY 10011
212-255-1105
info@paulacoopergallery.com
www.paulacoopergallery.com

To see more of Sam's work, visit www.samdurant.com

Demetrious Oliver (MFA '04) in Solo Show at Inman Gallery, Opening Fri. Mar. 12

Demetrious Oliver, Albedo (detail), 2010

Demetrious Oliver (MFA '04) has a solo show titled Albedo at Inman Gallery in Houston, Texas, opening Friday March 12 from 6:00 to 8:00pm. This is Oliver’s third solo exhibition with Inman Gallery, concurrent with Fotofest’s 2010
Biennial.

In Albedo, comprising a series of photographs, an installation, and a sculpture, Demetrius Oliver explores the effects and potential meanings of reflected light. In astronomy, albedo describes the ability of a celestial body, including Earth, to reflect (or, conversely, absorb) solar radiation — snow, for example, has a higher albedo than dirt. Derived from the Latin “albus,” meaning white, albedo is also an alchemical phase, the stage in which impurities are removed. Oliver transforms common objects to evoke poetic associations between physical materials and abstract ideas. Albedo, 2010, presents a single, carry-on piece of luggage unzipped to reveal surreal contents: incandescent light bulbs and chunks of lustrous anthracite coal.

Light bulbs appear again as structure and surface in the photographic series Ember, 2007. In each image, Oliver’s hand clenches a fistful of lightbulbs, creating a globular mass onto which the artist has projected photographs of workspaces.

The installation, Mare, 2009, projects light directly onto the gallery walls and, incidentally, the bodies of gallery viewers. A digital projector presents a slideshow of a rotating, circular image of a crashing wave. The projector is placed on a spinning turntable, and the image orbits the room. Connecting personal means and empyrean phenomena, the installation recreates the sense of wonderment felt when looking at the night sky, and the desire to understand one’s place in the universe. Moreover, Mare, Latin for “seas”, recalls both ancient conceptions of the moon’s dark spots as oceans and Earth’s tides, created by the moon’s gravitational pull. The three parts of the exhibition together suggest narratives of energy stored and transferred, as well as metaphors of darkness and illumination, looking and discovery.

Opening Reception: Friday, March 12, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Exhibition Dates: March 12 - May 1, 2010

Inman Gallery
3901 Main Street
Houston, TX 77002
713 - 526 - 7800
info@inmangallery.com
www.inmangallery.com

Joshua Mosley (MFA Acting Chair, Professor) in Solo Exhibit at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Opening Mar 12

Joshua Mosley (MFA Program Acting Chair and Associate Professor of Animation and Digital Media) has a solo exhibition titled American International at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Joshua will give an artist talk on March 11 at 6:00pm and the exhibit is open from March 12 - August 29, 2010.

This exhibition brings together two video and sculpture installations by Joshua Mosley: A Vue (2004) and the museum premiere of his newest work International (2010). Each work is composed of a video that uses computer and stop-motion animation, and bronze sculptures of figures that populate the works. Combining the most current technology with the hand-wrought physicality of studio-made objects, A Vue and International employ video and sculpture in a critically engaged manner that poses nuanced questions about American ideology and contemporary life.

Artist Talk: March 11, 2010, 6:00 pm

Exhibition: March 12 - August 29, 2010

Indianapolis Museum of Art
4000 Michigan Road
Indianapolis, Indiana 46208-3326
317-923-1331
www.imamuseum.org/explore/exhibitions/joshuamosley

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

Tadashi Moriyama (MFA '06) has work at Scope Art Show, Mar 3 - 7

Tadashi Moriyama (MFA '06) has work represented by Bonelli Arte Contemporanea at the SCOPE art fair in New York. The fair is open from March 3 - 7, 2010. SCOPE launches its 2010 season with its flagship fair, SCOPE New York Art Show. SCOPE proudly returns to Manhattan's most famous cultural icon, Lincoln Center, with a glass facade pavilion situated in Lincoln Center's Damrosch Park, at the corner of 62nd Street and 10th Avenue. Introducing artists, curators, and cutting-edge galleries to new audiences internationally has made SCOPE the most comprehensive destination for the emerging art world available anywhere. With art fairs in Miami, Basel, New York, London, and the Hamptons, SCOPE is proud to be an influential presence in the expanding global art market.


Event Dates: March 3 - March 7, 2010

Opening Schedule
Wednesday | March 3 | 3pm-9pm (for all VIPs and press)
Wednesday | March 3 | 6pm-9pm (Press View)

General Admission Fair Hours
Thursday | March 4 | noon - 8pm
Friday | March 5 | noon - 8pm
Saturday | March 6 | noon - 8pm
Sunday | March 7 | noon - 7pm

Location
Lincoln Center Damrosch Park
62nd Street and Amsterdam (10th Avenue)
New York, NY 10023

For more information, visit the Scope website: http://69.24.73.123/SCOPE/index.php/new_york/

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

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