Tia-Simone Gardner (MFA '09) in ISP Exhibit at Art In General, Until June 26

Tia-Simone Gardner (MFA '09) completed the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in 2010 and is having an studio program exhibit at Art in General.

The Independent Study Program (ISP) consists of three interrelated parts: Studio Program, Curatorial Program and Critical Studies Program. The ISP provides a setting within which students pursuing art practice, curatorial work, art historical scholarship, and critical writing engage in ongoing discussions and debates that examine the historical, social, and intellectual conditions of artistic production. The program encourages the theoretical and critical study of the practices, institutions, and discourses that constitute the field of culture.

The other participating artists include:
Malin Arnell
Julia Brown
Michael Cataldi
Brennan Gerard
Johanna Gustavsson
John Houck
David Kelley
Ryan Kelly
Marty Kirchner
Chelsea Knight
Hans Kuzmich
Jens Maier-Rothe
Gabriel Martinez
Mary Simpson
Danna Vajda

Art in General
79 Walker Street
New York NY 10013
212-219-0473
info@artingeneral.org
www.artingeneral.org/projects/500

For more information about the ISP, visit http://whitney.org/Research/ISP

Sinea Lee (MFA'06) in Exhibition at Edge Gallery, Opening Friday, July 18th

Sinea Lee (MFA '06) has work in "Private Property", a two-person exhibition at EDGE Gallery. Lee is an artist working with photography, video, installation and drawings. The work will be featured aside artist, Susanne Mitchell. EDGE Gallery is a contemporary, non-profit space outside the domain of commercial art venues that encourages the individuality and artistic vision of its members.

Exhibition Dates: Friday, June 18th - Sunday, July 11th



EDGE Gallery
3658 Navajo Street
Denver, CO 80211
303.477.7173
http://www.edgeart.org/

To see more of Sinea's work, visit http://www.sinaelee.org/

Tamara Suber (MFA '11) in Exhibition at Trust Gallery, Opening June 6th, 6pm

Tamara Suber (MFA '11) has work in Made in America. The exhibition at Trust Gallery (formerly FUEL) features a showcase of 40 artists from the Philadelphia region; the "City of Brotherly Love". Material ranges from drawings and paintings with small scale sculptural installation as well. The show works to capture a moment as several of the city’s most active groups and studios are involved, and the emphasis is surely on Philadelphia’s young artist population. The event is produced by McJawn and Prequency.

Opening Reception: Friday, June 4th, 6:00 - 11:00pm
Exhibition Dates: June 4th - July 31st

Trust Gallery
249 Arch Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
(215) 592-8400
http://www.phillyartgalleries.com/gallery_fuel.htm

Elizabeth Hoy (MFA '09) has work on Phoned-In, BOMB Blog

Elizabeth Hoy, You'd Be Home By Now, 2009

Elizabeth Hoy's (MFA '09) piece You'd Be Home By Now is the visual accompaniment to Bomb Magazine's Phoned-In poetry reading with Zachary Schomburg. 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=9585

Rebecca Sargent (MFA '09) has work on Phoned-In, BOMB Blog

Rebecca Sargent, Faded Waterslide, 2009

Rebecca Sargent's (MFA '09) piece Faded Waterslide is the visual accompaniment to Bomb Magazine's Phoned-In poetry reading with James Shea. 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=9992

Emilie Selden (MFA '09) has work on Phoned-In, BOMB Blog

Emilie Selden, Fenced In, 2008

Emilie Selden's (MFA '09) piece Fenced In is the visual accompaniment to Bomb Magazine's Phoned-In poetry reading with Mark Leidner. 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=10548

Heather Ramsdale and Christie Whisman (both MFA '10) in Exhibition Curated by Catherine Betz (MFA '07) Opening Sun, May 23, 3:15pm

Heather Ramsdale and Christie Whisman, both MFA '10, have work included in 5 Into 1, the annual exhibit hosted by Moore College of Art and organized by Philadelphia Sculptors. The exhibition features work by senior and graduate students at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Tyler School of Art, University of Pennsylvania, The University of the Arts, and Moore College of Art & Design. This year, the exhibition is curated by Catherine Martens Betz, a graduate of Penn with an MFA in sculpture and a 5 into 1 participant in 2007.

There will be a presentation on public art by Julia Guerrero, Director of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority Fine Arts Program on Sunday before the reception from 1:30 – 2:45 pm.

Opening Reception: Sunday, May 23, 3:15-5:30pm
Exhibition Dates: May 22 - June 19, 2010

Moore College of Art & Design
Wilson Gallery
20th Street and The Parkway
Philadelphia, PA 19103
http://moore.edu/events_calendar/list/2

To see more of Heather's work, visit www.heatherramsdale.com

Tadashi Moriyama (MFA '06) in Exhibition at Luis de Jesus LA, Opening May 22, 5pm

Tadashi Moriyama

Tadashi Moriyama (MFA '06) will exhibit work at Luis de Jesus Los Angeles in a show titled Group Show. The exhibit opens Saturday May 22 at 5pm. The other participating artists are Christopher Barnard, Margie Livingston, Christopher Russell, Jason Sherry, and William Staples. The exhibition runs concurrent with Lael Corbin: "Greetings from Earth", in the main gallery.

Tadashi Moriyama was born in Tokyo and raised in Japan and the United States. Moriyama attended Tyler School of Art (BA 2003) and the University of Pennsylvania (MFA 2006). His intricately detailed aerial views of post-apocalyptic landscapes explore themes of creation and subsequent collapse of cities, memories, space and time, where technology and digital media function as manipulators and instigators of fear, death and hopeful renewal. Inspired and influenced by Buddhist and Hindu miniature painting, Italian Renaissance painting, as well as personal experiences, his overcrowded, over-systematized metropolises sprout consumptive organs, and breeding buildings evolve into chaotic knots of life-sustaining connective tissue. This will be Tadashi’s first exhibition with Luis De Jesus Los Angeles. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Opening Reception: May 22, 5:00 - 8:00pm
Exhibition Dates: May 22 - June 26, 2010

To read more about the show, view www.luisdejesus.com/news

LUIS DE JESUS LOS ANGELES
2525 MICHIGAN AVENUE
BERGAMOT STATION F2
SANTA MONICA, CA 90404
www.luisdejesus.com/exhib_dtl

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

Marc Blumthal (MFA '10) in Exhibition at International Print Center, Opening Thurs May 27

Marc Blumthal (MFA '10) has work in New Prints 2010/Spring, the thirty-fifth presentation of International Print Center New York (IPCNY)'s New Prints Program. The show consists of sixty-seven pieces by sixty-seven emerging to established artists, selected from a pool of nearly 2,200 submissions. 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. It was curated by Philip Pearlstein.

Opening Reception: Thursday, May 27, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Exhibition Dates: May 18 - June 26, 2010

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

To see more of Marc's work, visit www.marcblumthal.com

Jacolby Satterwhite (MFA '10) in Event at the Kitchen, June 23 - 24

Robert Melee's Talent Show

Artist Robert Melee returns as the curator of another evening of dance, performance art, music, and video. Organized as an evening of introductions between artists that Melee admires, each artist presents a short performance or video that unfolds in a talent show format on a stage set of Melee’s own design. Melee also adds to the showcase with the presentation of a new performance.

Participating artists include: Blanko + Noiry, Gerald Casel, Erin Dunn, Jacolby Satterwhite, Bruce LaBruce, Austin McCormick, Mirror Mirror, Marilyn Minter, Tom Melee, and Robert Melee.

This program is made possible with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

Exhibition Dates: June 23 - 24, 2010, 8pm

The Kitchen
512 West 19th Street
New York, NY 10011
(212) 255-5793
http://www.thekitchen.org/

University of Pennsylvania 2010 MFA Thesis Exhibition!! Opening Thurs. May 13

The University of Pennsylvania MFA Class of 2010 invites you to our MFA Thesis Exhibition opening Thursday, May 13 from 6:00-9:00pm.

The participating artists are Marc Blumthal, Tay Cha, Susan Fang, Nsenga Knight, Matthew Krawcheck, Chris Lawrence, Jiwon Lee, Liby Limoso, Kyle LoPinto, Joe Ovelman, Maria Rajewski, Heather Ramsdale, Jacolby Satterwhite, Ramon Urenia, Leigh Van Duzer, Christie Whisman, Nathan Thomas Wilson, and Cay Yoon.

Opening Reception: Thursday, May 13th 6 – 9pm
Exhibition Dates: May 13th – 30th, 2010

Ice Box Project Space
Crane Arts Building
1400 North American Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122
www.pennexhibitions.com
www.design.upenn.edu

Pernot Hudson (MFA '06) and Ivanco Talevski (MFA '08) in Exhibition Opening Fri. May 7, 6pm

Pernot Hudson (MFA '06) and Ivanco Talevski (MFA '08) have work in a three-person exhibition titled I don't think we can do this any longer, opening Friday, May 7 from 6 - 10pm. The third participating artist is Christine Fenwick.

Opening Reception: Friday, May 7, 6:00 - 10:00pm

319 North 11th Street
Second Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107

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

To see more of Ivanco's work, visit www.ivancotalevski.com

Joshua Mosley (MFA Professor of Animation and Acting Chair) Has Work Exhibited at Philadelphia Art Museum

Joshua Mosley, International (Animation Still), 2010

Live Cinema/Histories in Motion presents a program of animated films by three young artists for whom the moving image and its cinematic qualities have become the prevailing form of expression. Philadelphia-based Jennifer Levonian and Joshua Mosley, along with Martha Colburn, originally from Pennsylvania and based in New York and Amsterdam, employ animation to examine both personal and communal experience. Combining paper cut-outs, collages, drawings, watercolors, and sculptures with stop-action techniques and computer technology, their animated films employ cinematic devices to create stories that reflect a range of experience, from daily interaction to ideological debates. Each artist’s animation and accompanying artworks will be on view for approximately one month.

Joshua Mosley’s International (2010) focuses on two historical figures, the American builder and philanthropist George Brown and Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek. Using photographs of pivotal places in the lives of the two protagonists, Mosley constructs an imaginary conversation that identifies Brown and Hayek’s perspectives on how a nation’s economic and social order should ideally evolve. International will be on view June 29 – July 25, 2010, together with a sculpture installation by Mosley.

Joshua will also give an artist's talk on Friday, July 9 called In Dialogue: Joshua Mosley and Adelina Vlas.

Exhibition Dates: June 29 - July 25, 2010
Artist Talk: 6:30pm, Friday, July 9, 2010, Van Pelt Auditorium

Philadelphia Art Museum
26th Street and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Philadelphia, PA 19130
www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/399.html

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

Brent Wahl (MFA '06 and Fine Arts Lecturer) In Group Exhibition at Tate Modern, May 14-16

Brent Wahl, excerpt from Interplanetary Death Star

Brent Wahl (MFA '06 and Fine Arts Lecturer) will be featured along with the other artists at the Vox Populi artist collective, at the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall this month. Wahl will be part of a three-day festival entitled No Soul For Sale – A Festival of Independents, from May 14-16. Tate Modern is working in collaboration with artist Maurizio Cattelan and curators Cecilia Alemani and Massimiliano Gioni to stage this event and to celebrate 10 years of the Tate Modern.

Just released this month, Wahl will also be one of the artists featured in, Vox Populi's first publication, We're Working On It. It’s a 120-page book that includes the history of Vox Populi (by Amy Adams), the starting point for a history of artist-run spaces in Philadelphia (by Richard Torchia), and an essay on our city's identity as a center of artistic production (by Paul Galvez).

Event Dates: May 14 - 16, 2010

Tate Modern
Bankside
London SE1 9TG
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/

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

To learn more about Vox Populi, visit http://www.voxpopuligallery.org/

Tetsugo Hyakutake (MFA '09) has exhibit in Challenge 3 at Fleisher Art Memorial, Opening Sat. May 1

Tetsugo Hyakutake (MFA '09) has an exhibition as part of the Wind Challenge at Fleisher Art Memorial opening Saturday, May 1 from 5:30 - 7:30pm.

Born and raised in Japan, Tetsugo Hyakutake remembers hating the ubiquitous factories that created so much pollution. Now an adult, he cannot help but to be mesmerized by their mythological structures and colored lighting. By recording reality through photography, with minor aesthetic adjustments, Hyakutake confronts his complicated relationship with modern industrial Japan. He intends his work to serve as a tribute to those who made it possible for Japan to thrive as a nation, as well as to create open dialogue on all the contradictory “truths” it created through its' industrialization.

Fleisher Art Memorial presents the final exhibition in the thirty-second season of the three-part Wind Challenge Exhibitions at Fleisher - the Delaware Valley's premier juried artist exhibition program. This season's nine Challenge artists were selected from a field of nearly 300 applicants to exhibit in one of three three-person exhibitions. Challenge 3 features the work of artists Tetsugo Hyakutake, Scott Kip, and Brenna K. Murphy.

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 1, 5:30 - 7:30pm
Exhibition Dates: May 1 - June 25, 2010

Gallery hours are 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM (Monday through Friday), 6:30 to 9:30 PM (Monday through Thursday), and 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM (Saturday).

Fleisher Art Memorial
719 Catharine Street
Philadelphia, PA 19147-2811
215-922-3456
info@fleisher.org
http://www.fleisher.org/exhibitions/challenge3-2010.php

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

Visiting Artist Sze Tsung Leong Lectures Mon. Apr. 19, 5pm

Sze Tsung Leong, New Fengdu, Chongqing Municipality, 2003

Photographer Sze Tsung Leong will present a lecture on Monday, April 19 at 5:00pm. Leong is American and British, born in Mexico and living in New York. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Brooklyn Museum of Art and the Yale University Art Gallery, among others. His work has been exhibited internationally, including An Atlas of Events at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, the 2006 Havana Biennial, New Photography at the High Museum of Art, the 2004 Taipei Biennial, and Painting as Paradox at Artists Space. He is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2006 his book History Images was published by Steidl. He is represented by Yossi Milo in New York.

This lecture is generously sponsored by the Silverstein Lectures in Contemporary Photography.

Event Date and Time: Monday, April 19, 5:00pm

University of Pennsylvania
Meyerson Hall, B1
210 S. 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
www.design.upenn.edu/fine-arts-undergraduate
http://www.design.upenn.edu/calendar

To see more of Leong's work visit www.szetsungleong.com

Fine Arts Lecture Series : Dana Schutz, Thurs. Apr. 15, 5:30pm

Dana Schutz, How We Cured the Plague, 2007

Painter Dana Schutz will present an artist talk on Thursday, April 15 at 5:30pm at Penn as part of the MFA Fine Arts Lecture series. Schutz is a New York-based artist who graduated with her MFA from Columbia in 2002 and has tremendous artistic success since that time. Her work has already been included in major museum collections and she is represented by Zach Feuer LFL.

In Bomb magazine, critic Mei Chin wrote that "dissection and dismemberment abound in Dana Schutz's work, all offset by sunny colors and a pert sense of humor. Among other things, she has created a race of people who eat themselves; a guy called Frank who is the last man on Earth; a gravity-phobic person who has tied herself to the ground; and a variety of characters that are spliced, for different reasons, on operating tables. Schutz loves to give her characters life and then cut them up. Yet hers is a blithe cruelty, the curiosity of a child playing at being a creator. Even when she hates, she does it with whimsy."

Event Date and Time: Thursday, April 15, 5:30pm

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

http://www.design.upenn.edu/calendar/dana-schutz?destination=home

To see more of Dana's work, visit www.zachfeuer.com/danaschutz.html

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