Edward Carey (MFA '09) in Group Exhibition with Philadelphia Sculptors at Urban Outfitters Headquarters, Opening, March15th, 5pm

Edward Carey (MFA '09) will be featured in a group exhibition with Philadelphia Sculptors at Urban Outfitters Headquarters. Philadelphia Sculptors is fortunate to be able to share in its new development with their upcoming exhibition, "The Journey", in one of URBN's renovated buildings that also houses a restaurant and coffee bar, both open to the public. Twelve artists will exhibit sculptures and installations in this historically renovated brick and glass building on the URBN campus. Featured artists include Tom Bendtsen, Edward Carey, Carol Cole, James Fuhrman, Melissa Haims, Daniel Hoffman, Kim Knauer, Tecu'Mish Munha'Ke, Joanna Platt, Colleen Rudolf, Libbie Soffer, and Carol Wisker will exhibit their works in the gallery space leading to the public restaurant. Using a wide range of materials and techniques, artists portray life's journeys as they offer glimpses of flying and walking, transient experiences and deep memories, beginnings and endings. Join them at the opening reception for art, for ambience, and of course, for refreshments. Please RSVP by March 14 to urbncommunity@urbn.com

Opening Reception: Tuesday, March 15th, 5:00 - 8:00pm
Exhibition Dates: Tuesday, March 15th - Friday, April 15th

Philadelphia Sculptors at Urban Outfitters Headquarters
Sculpture and Installations at Gallery at B543
5000 South Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19112
http://www.philasculptors.org/events.htm

Justine Hill, Bradley LaMere and Jessica Vaughn (MFA '11 candidates) in Group Exhibition at Project Space 240 Church, Opening March 4th, 5pm

Justine Hill, Bradley LaMere and Jessica Vaughn (MFA '11 candidates) will be featured in a group exhibition titled, "Fire and Smoke" at Project Space 240 Church, Philadelphia. The exhibition will feature the latest works in painting, drawing, sculpture and performance by Hill, LaMere and Vaughn. The performance is scheduled for 7pm.

Opening Reception: Friday, March 4th, 5:00 - 9:00pm
Exhibition Dates: Friday, March 4th - Sunday, March 27th




Project Space 240 Church
Located between Market & Arch Street and 2nd & 3rd Street
Philadelphia, PA
http://projectspace240church.com/home.html

Tadashi Moriyama (MFA '06) featured at multiple venues for Art Fair NYC, Opening the 1st week of March

Tadashi Moriyama (MFA '06) will be featured at two venues for Art Fair NYC. His first exhibition will be held at ARTPROJX CINEMA at the SVA Theatre, New York. The exhibition is in association with The Armory Show & Volta NY. Tadashi will also have work featured at SCOPE ART SHOW.





ARTPROJX CINEMA at the SVA THEATRE, NEW YORK
in association with THE ARMORY SHOW & VOLTA NY
Exhibition Dates: March 1st - March 6th, 10:00am - Late
The SVA Theatre
333 West 23rd Street between 8th & 9th Avenues
New York, NY
http://www.thearmoryshow.com/
(Represented by Johannson Projects Oakland, CA)

SCOPE ART SHOW
Opening Reception: Wednesday, March 2nd, 3:00 - 9:00pm
SCOPE ART SHOW
320 West St (West Side Highway)
Across from Pier 40
New York, NY 10014
http://www.scope-art.com
(Represented by Bonellia Arte Contemporanea Mantova, ITALY)

General Admission Fair Hours:
Thursday | March 3 | noon - 8pm
Friday | March 4 | noon - 8pm
Saturday | March 5 | noon - 8pm
Sunday | March 6 | noon - 7pm

Fine Arts Lecture Series: Josiah McElheny, Thursday February 24th, 6pm

Josiah McElheny is an artist working and living in New York. McElheny creates finely crafted, handmade glass objects that he combines with photographs, text, and museological displays to evoke notions of meaning and memory. Whether recreating miraculous glass objects pictured in Renaissance paintings or modernized versions of nonextant glassware from documentary photographs, or extrapolating stories about the daily lives of ancient peoples through the remnants of their glass household possessions, McElheny’s work takes as its subject the object, idea, and social nexus of glass. McElheny’s work often takes the form of ‘historical fiction’—which he offers to the viewer to believe or not. Part of McElheny’s fascination with storytelling is that glassmaking is part of an oral tradition handed down generation to generation, artisan to artisan. Looking at a reflective object becomes a metaphor for the act of reflecting on an idea. Sculptural models of Modernist ideals, these totally reflective environments are both elegant seductions as well as parables of the vices of utopian aspirations.

McElheny's has exhibited his work at national and international venues including the Museum of Modern Art, Orchard, and Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York, Donald Young Gallery in Chicago, Institut im Glaspavillon in Berlin, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, White Cube in London, and the Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid. He has written for Artforum and Cabinet among other publications and is a contributing editor to BOMB. Recently published monographs and artist books include Josiah McElheny: A Prism (Rizzoli, 2010), The Light Club (University of Chicago Press, 2010), A Space for an Island Universe (Turner Publications, 2009), and Island Universe (White Cube, 2008).

To learn more about Josiah McElheny's work, visit http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/mcelheny/

Event Date and Time: Thursday, February 24th, 6:00pm

The Institute of Contemporary Art
Tuttleman Auditorium
118 South 36th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
http://www.icaphila.org/events/

Jenny Perlin (Undergraduate Lecturer & Graduate Critic) in Group Exhibition at Guggenheim, NY, February 11th - May 1st

Jenny Perlin (Undergraduate Lecturer & Graduate Critic) is currently featured in a group exhibition titled "Found in Translation" at the Guggenheim, NY. Her film "Transcript" (16mm, color, sound, 11:25, 2006) is part of the exhibition. "Found in Translation", curated by Nat Trotman, brings together recent works by eleven artists (Paul Chan, Patty Chang, Keren Cytter, Omer Fast, Brendan Fernandes, Sharon Hayes, Steve McQueen, Carlos Motta, Lisa Oppenheim, Jenny Perlin and Sharif Waked) who look to translation as both a model and a metaphor to critically comment on the past and to produce richly imagined possibilities for the present. For these artists, converting a text from one language to another exposes a discursive field in which the terms of identity—class, race, religion, sexuality—are negotiated, and meaning is generated. An apparently straightforward linguistic task therefore becomes a microcosm for the interaction between cultures, laden with power relations but also open to new aesthetic possibilities. Delving equally into history and fantasy, the works on view here investigate diverse political and social contexts; at their hearts, language continues to provide the crucial link between the cultures and temporalities they explore.

Perlin’s practice in 16mm film, video, and drawing works with and against the documentary tradition, incorporating innovative stylistic techniques to emphasize issues of truth, misunderstanding, and personal history. Each aspect of Perlin’s practice looks closely at the ways in which social machinations are reflected in the smallest elements of daily life. Whether it is copying a receipt from Wal-Mart, a headline from Reuters, unpacking 1950s FBI archives, or filming documentary-style interviews at the corner store, her interest is in the ways in which the sweeping statements of history affect specific details of human experience. Perlin’s works have been exhibited at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Kitchen, New York, The Drawing Center, New York, P.S.1, New York, The Whitney Museum of Art, New York, CCA Wattis, San Francisco, Ulrich Museum of Art, Kansas, Centre pour l’image contemporaine, Geneva, Aldrich Museum, Connecticut, De Appel, Amsterdam, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Rotterdam Film Festival, Berlin Film Festival, Images Film Festival, Toronto, among others.

For more information, visit http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/upcoming/3863

Exhibition Dates: Friday, February 11th - Sunday, May 1st

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 5th Avenue (at 89th Street)
New York, NY
http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york

Nsenga Knight (MFA '10) in Performance at the Brandywine Workshop, Sunday, February 27th, 9:30am

Nsenga Knight (MFA '10) will be performing at the Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia in the work titled "Last Rite". In "Last Rite", a performance and print-based work, Knight reimagines historical events and presents a series of prints connecting Malcolm X’s transformative final ritual– his 1964 pilgrimage to Mecca, to his assassination and funeral rites in 1965. "Last Rite" re-sketches the final events and rituals in Malcom X's life, and commemorates the days in which they occurred. The "Last Rite" performance at the addresses the audience as witness, catalyst and participant - blurring the lines between spectator space and performance, while prompting questions about communal and ethical responsibility. This performance score is the first in the "Last Rite" project and commemorates the funeral of Malcolm X forty six years ago on this date and time. Knight earned a Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Pennsylvania and an undergraduate degree in Film Production at Howard University. She is currently an artist in Residence at The Brandywine Workshop. Last Rite is generously supported by a Leeway Foundation Art and Change Grant.

Event Date and Time: Sunday, February 27th, 9:30am
Opening Reception: 10:30am - 12:00pm

Glass Lobby Gallery
Brandywine Workshop
728 South Broad Street (Avenue of the Arts)
215.546.3675
* Event is free and open to the public
* Free parking available on the street and MAB Paints' parking lot next door

Jayson Scott Musson (MFA '11 candidate) featured on "ArtBlog Radio"

Jayson Scott Musson (MFA '11 candidate) was recently interviewed by "ArtBlog Radio". Profanity and insults are just distractions in Jayson Scott Musson’s posters, screeds and rants. The real message is the human comedy of rules, categories, identities, stereotypes, pretensions and social classes. In the "ArtBlog Radio" interview, Musson talks about trying to solve his problems as an artist and as an equal opportunity irritant to the politically correct. Jayson Musson currently has a solo show of his work at Marginal Utility February 4th - March 27th, 2011.


To view this feature, visit http://theartblog.org/2011/02/the-real-jayson-scott-musson-speaks-on-artblog-radio/

Penn Design MFA Students in Group Exhibition at Project Space 240 Church, Opening Friday, February 4th, 5pm

Several Penn Design MFA students will be featured in a group exhibition titled, "Just Neighbors" at Project Space 240 Church, Philadelphia. "Just Neighbors" is multimedia show that features talent from Project Space's neighborhood. Artist featured include Sarah Anderson (MFA '12 candidate), Tra Bouscaren (MFA '12 candidate), Thomas Buildmore, Jim Coughlin, Stephen Grebinski (MFA '11 candidate), Patricia Hillman, Tyrus Lytton Rachel Pfeffer, Dana Rangled, Alexander Rosenberg, Anna Fox Ryan, Cheryl Smith, Aaron Thompson, Jonathan Weary, Michael Yoder & other artists who live and work in Old City, Philadelphia. Project Space 240 Church was established by Robert Dimin (MFA '11 candidate) who will also have work featured.

Opening Reception: Friday, February 4th, 5:00 - 8:00pm
Exhibition Dates: Friday, February 4th - Saturday, February 26th, 2010

For more information about Project Space 240 Church, visit http://projectspace240church.com/home.html

Project Space 240 Church
Located on Church Street, between 2nd and 3rd, a block up from Market Street
Gallery Hours: Sunday - Wednesday by appointment or chance / Thursday - Saturday 1:30 - 5:00pm

Jayson Musson (MFA '11 candidate) in Solo Exhibition at the Marginal Utility Gallery, Philadelphia, Opening February 4th, 6pm

Jayson Musson (MFA '11 candidate) will be featured in a solo exhibition at the Marginal Utility Gallery, Philadelphia. "Neoteny | The Hard Sell" is an exhibition of art stuffs by Musson. Whether or not you attend is of small consequence to the “artist” (the term is employed loosely here), because, as the artist puts it: “I stays paid anyway!” However, the veracity of this claim is highly questionable, as it is widely known that even though the artist is in his early 30’s, he still rents an apartment, not even an apartment by himself mind you, but rather he shares a two-bedroom apartment with a roommate (who is a much better artist than he). Also, the artist still rides a bicycle because he doesn’t have the least bit of self-control when it comes to the management of his personal finances so he is unable to save for even the most austere of auto vehicles. In fact, one time I was at his house, pardon me, I mean one time I was at his two-bedroom apartment he shares with a roommate, and the artist, a bit drunk, spent a surprising amount of time looking at lycra superhero costumes on ebay which he claimed he was going to use for a “sculpture”. Well, whatever sculpture you could make by purchasing a costume off of ebay is no sculpture I want to partake of. Not at all. Not. At. All. But perhaps you do. You strike me as someone who consumes art only in jpeg format (while I have laid beneath Olafur Eliasson’s sun at the Tate!), someone who doesn’t possess a single inkling as to what comprises a true work of art. If this is the case, and I know it is, then you would most likely find some kind of satisfaction in attending.

Oh, as per the artist’s request: please keep your children at home. Because children, unlike the divinely crafted snowflake, are not unique nor are they special, and children speak at a volume which is simply unacceptable within a gallery, and even though Marginal Utility is a non-profit gallery, the etiquette of a commercial, for-profit gallery must be adhered to lest our entire society fall apart at its most sacrosanct seams. (Nathanial Snerpus)

Opening Reception: Friday, February 4th, 6:00 - 11:00pm
Exhibition Dates: Friday, February 4th - Sunday, March 27th

Marginal Utility Gallery
319 North 11th Street, 2nd Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Gallery Hours: Friday 5:00-8:00pm / Saturday + Sunday 12:00-5:00pm
http://www.marginalutility.org/

Jayson Musson (MFA '11 candidate) in Group Exhibition presented by Bodega and Extra Extra Galleries, Opening February 5th, 6pm

Jayson Musson (MFA '11 candidate) will be featured in a group exhibition titled, "The Island Beautiful / Mortal Mirror". The exhibition is presented by Bodega and Extra Extra Galleries, Philadelphia and hosts the work of thirteen artists translated by Alex Da Corte in two mirrored spaces, one with color and the other without. It will also be accompanied by the release of a limited edition artist book. Featured artists include Anna Rosen, Alexander May, Rory Mulligan, Brendan Lynch, Jayson Musson, Nick Van Woert, Andy Maas, Kate Greene, Alexi Kukuljevic, Edward Carey, Christian Holstad, Strauss Borque-LaFrance and David Muenzer.

Throughout The Island Beautiful / Mortal Mirror Da Corte absorbs work from each artist into his own. In the way one may appear in another’s dream, the artists appear as extensions of themselves; the original structure and meaning co-opted by Da Corte and reinterpreted in a dissociated imagination. The history of each artist, the past meanings given to the work, the cultural significance they exude, the singular experience assumed, are all collapsed in favor of a connected weightless whole. The work of others and consumer waste are equally available as raw material. Da Corte uses the exhibition to expose our use of language and identity as problematic. Thought, meaning and interpretation are presented as unfixed and we are given a new logic shaped by multiplicity and parallel understandings. The Island Beautiful / Mortal Mirror invites you to enter an island of thought only made whole through one’s incomplete memory. One space, a vivid fever dream, the other a skeletal hand pointing to illusion.

Opening Reception: Saturday, February 5th, 6:00 - 10:00pm
Exhibition Dates: Friday, February 5th - Saturday, March 19th

Bodega Gallery
253 North Third Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106

Extra Extra
1524 Frankford Ave
Philadelphia, PA 19125

Jane Irish (Graduate Program Coordinator) in Solo Exhibition at Locks Gallery, Opening February 4th, 5:30pm

Jane Irish (Graduate Program Coordinator) will be featured in a solo exhibition titled, "The Home Front: Jane Irish's Art of War" at Locks Gallery, Philadelphia. Locks Gallery is pleased to present this exhibition of new paintings and ceramics by Irish. Irish’s work addresses the representation of the physical and emotional landscapes of Vietnam, both before and after the Vietnam War. The artist’s large scale paintings and decorative vases honor the anti-war legacy, without being consumed in bloody imagery. Irish juxtaposes the writing of a Vietnamese poet with images of American war protesters; poetry of a Vietnam War veteran with lavish rococo interiors that represent a suggested oligarchy. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalog with an essay by Glenn Adamson, Head of Graduate Studies, Research Department, Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

Jane Irish received her MFA from Queens College, CUNY, and has exhibited in New York and Philadelphia since 1983. Her work has been featured recently in exhibitions at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE. She is a 2009 recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation, Painters and Sculptors Grant. This will be Irish’s third exhibition at Locks Gallery.

Opening Reception: Friday, February 4th, 5:30 – 7:30pm
Exhibition Dates: Friday, February 4th – Saturday, March 12th

Locks Gallery
600 Washington Square South
Philadelphia, PA
Gallery Hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 10am–6pm

To see more of Irish's work, visit http://www.locksgallery.com/exhibits_works.php?eid=120

Cristina Tufiño (MFA '12 candidate) in Group Exhibition at the Green Gallery, Wisconsin, Opening January 21st, 6pm

Cristina Tufiño (MFA '12 candidate) will be featured in a group exhibition at the Green Gallery, Wisconsin titled, "A PERSON OF COLOR / a mostly orange exhibition". The exhibition has been curated by José Lerma of Andrea Rosen Gallery, NY. Tufiño will present her most recent work, a Roman Orange Fragment Figure Banner for the exhibition.

To see more of Tufiño's work, visit http://www.cristinatufino.net/

Opening Reception: Friday, January 21st, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Exhibition Dates: January 21st - February 27th, 2011

The Green Gallery East
1500 N Farwell Ave
Milwaukee, WI 53202
http://www.thegreengallery.biz/

Jessica Vaughn (MFA '11 candidate) in Group Exhibition at AirSpace Gallery, Philadelphia, Opening, January 14th, 5:30pm

Jessica Vaughn (MFA '11 candidate) will be featured in a group exhibition at AirSpace Gallery, Philadelphia. In addition to her exhibition, Vaughn was recently nominated by Penn Design for the Dedlhaus Foundation and Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Fellowship Awards. This past fall, Vaughn was also awarded an AIGA Scholarship (http://www.aiga.org/) for the 2010-2011 academic year.

To view more of Vaughn's work, visit http://jessvaughn.com/home.html

Opening Reception: Friday, January 14th, 5:30pm
Exhibition Dates: Friday, January 14th - Friday, February 11th

AirSpace Gallery
4013 Chestnut Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19104
http://www.inliquid.com/features/40street/gallery.php

Kelsey Halliday Johnson (MFA '12 candidate) awarded the Lugo Land Residency; will lecture at the University of Fine Arts Ravenna, January 10th

Kelsey Halliday Johnson (MFA '12 candidate) was recently awarded the Lugo Land Residency from the University of Pennsylvania's, Penn Design. Before arriving at Penn Design, Kelsey received her undergraduate degree from Princeton University in Art and Archaeology where she concentrated in fine art photography and European cultural studies. She is the first MFA recipient of the Lugo Land Residency in collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania. Past residents have included such esteemed photographers as Tim Davis, Graciela Iturbide and Guido Guidi.

Johnson will be giving a lecture at the University of Fine Arts in Ravenna (Accademia di Belle Arti di Ravenna) that will include a discussion with Luca Nostri, curator of Lugo Land. In the lecture she plans to talk about her photographic experience studying at Princeton under Emmet Gowin and topics such as the MFA Program, Zen and the art of Pentax 6x7 Maintenance as well as Reevaluating images.

Lecture Date and Time: Monday, January 10th, 2:30 pm

Accademia di Belle Arti di Ravenna
via delle Industrie, 76
48122 Ravenna
tel. +39 – 0544.453125 o 455784
fax. +39 - 0544.451104

To view more work by Kelsey, visit http://www.kelseyhalliday.com/

More information may be viewed on Princeton's site, http://www.princeton.edu/arts/news/archive/lugo-land-residency/

Tia Simone-Gardner (MFA '09) in Group Exhibition at the Woodstock Center for Photography, Opening January 15th, 4pm

Tia Simone-Gardner (MFA '09) will be featured in a group exhibition at the Woodstock Center for Photography titled, "Made In Woodstock V". The exhibition features the work by CPW's artists-in-residence from 2007-2009. "Made In Woodstock V (MIW V)" is the fifth installment of the Center for Photography at Woodstock's series featuring work created by recent partipants of WOODSTOCK A-I-R, CPW's residency program for artists of color working in the photographic arts.

Established in 1999, WOODSTOCK A-I-R is a workspace residency program which provides participants with time, facilities, space, and the critical & technical support necessary to move forward. The program encourages the pursuit of creative risk-taking in the inspiring environment of Woodstock, where, working without distraction, photographic artists can focus intensely on their new work, continue works in progress, layout their goals for the future, and break new creative ground. Representing the broad range of photographic practices and interests that WOODSTOCK A-I-R helps realize, the 18 artists featured in MIW V engage in an inspired and deeply self-aware dialogue on history, politics, representational concerns, and more. As no two residencies are the same, the exhibition reveals the intensely diverse, dynamic interests of the artists as a group, and addresses each image-makers own particular story and voice. Artists featured include WILLIAM CORDOVA, LATOYA RUBY FRAZIER, TIA-SIMONE GARDNER, LAWRENCE GETUBIG, DANIEL HANDAL, WAYNE HODGE, JEANNETTE LOUIE, HEE JIN KANG, TARRAH KRAJNAK & WILKA ROIG, EMILY HANAKO MOMOHARA, RICARDO MORALES-HERNÁNDEZ, DAWIT L. PETROS, TIM PORTLOCK, JUSTINE REYES, KANAKO SASAKI, LUPITA MURILLO TINNEN, and DONNA J. WAN.

Opening Reception: Saturday, January 15th, 4:00 - 6:00pm
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, January 15th - Sunday, March 27th, 2011

The Center for Photography at Woodstock
59 Tinker Street
Woodstock, NY 12498
845.679.9957
http://www.cpw.org/index.html
Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Sunday, 12:00 - 5:00pm or by appointment

Demetrius Oliver (MFA '04) featured in the Village Voice's "Best Art of 2010", December 29th

Demetrius Oliver (MFA '04) has been featured in the Village Voice's "Best Art of 2010" review. The Village Voice's intrepid art critics have been at it all year, striding from gallery to gallery, museum to museum and several other locations. After 12 months of gazing and pondering, and a fair amount of debate, three Voice writers selected their top five exhibits of 2010. R.C. Baker chose Oliver's "Jupiter" (The Highline project). Baker notes that, "With the city's most magical public space as a backdrop, this young multimedia artist combined a billboard depicting such mysterious tableaux as empty violin cases wedged into open windows with stargazing sessions and musicians jamming on Coltrane's 'Jupiter'."

To view the "Best Art of 2010" review, visit http://www.villagevoice.com/2010-12-29/art/the-best-art-of-2010/

To see more of Oliver's work, visit http://demetriusoliver.blogspot.com/

Joseph Erb (MFA '02) featured in New York Times for work with Apple, December 23rd, 2010

Joseph Erb (MFA '02) has been noted by the recent New York Times article on December 23rd, "Cherokee, Apple Partner to Put Language on iPhones". Joseph Erb had worked in sculpture and animation during his years at Penn and has recently been working with Apple so that they would include Cherokee on iPhone, iPad and iPod. This project started at Penn in 2001 when Erb produced a thesis animation in Cherokee, subtitled; towards saving the language.

The article can be accessed on the New York Times official site, http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/12/23/us/AP-US-iPhone-Cherokee-Language.html?_r=3&pagewanted=1&emc=eta1

It is also available on NPR's official site, http://www.npr.org/tablet/#story/?storyId=132277962

Jackie Tileston (Graduate/Undergraduate Faculty) & David Humphrey (Graduate Critic) in Exhibition at Regina Rex, NY, Opening January 8th, 6pm

Jackie Tileston (Graduate/Undergraduate Faculty) and David Humphrey's (Graduate Critic) will be featured in a group exhibition titled "Texture.txt" at Regina Rex, Queens, NY. "Texture.txt" features paintings, drawings, installation, and sculptures from Tileston and Humphrey among additional artists including Sarah Butler, Josh Faught, Kristen Kee, Mary Reid Kelley, Lucy Kim, Leeza Meksin, Dona Nelson, Gilbert Rocha and Rebecca Shore. "Texture.txt" is curated by Yevgeniya Baras (Penn BA '02 and MS '03).

Texture is the arrangement, pattern, or feel of constituent parts: a rough surface comprised of granules, thread woven into fabric, musical notes swirling in densities of sounds. Text is letters shuffled into words shuffled into meaningful passages - visual communication representing speech, our guttural utterances in the form of perceptible marks on a surface. Speech is formed by syllables that are constructed in the body and emitted through the mouth, where hard and soft sounds with wavering intonation are filtered through the acoustic mechanism of the throat, and are shaped by the tongue and lips. Texture and text originate from the Indo-European word "teks" meaning to weave, to fabricate. It is a word for a craftsperson, one who builds, one who manipulates an accumulation of small units into something useful, something to trade, something symbolic.

Artists often play with these ideas. They jiggle symbols into alternately meaningful and confusing relationships, build patterns from distinct marks, and create objects that are meant to have special value. Artworks, like writing, are graphic and reference both words and images. And the evolution of writing is linked to pictures, as the earliest forms of written communication are depictions of animals in caves, pigmented rubbings and scratches on dark stone walls that say "I was here, I saw this, I have feelings about this thing I saw."

Opening Reception: Saturday, January 8th, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, January 8th – Sunday, February 6th

* Immediately following the opening at 10pm, there will be a performance by Mira Stroika at Tandem Bar, 236 Troutman Street New York, NY 11237.

Regina Rex
17-17 Troutman, #329
Queens, NY 11385
www.reginarex.org

To view more work of Tileston and Humphrey, visit http://www.jackietileston.info/ and http://davidhumphreynyc.com/art/

Julia Barbosa Landois (MFA '07) in Group Exhibition at Vox Populi, Opening January 7th, 7pm

Julia Barbosa Landois (MFA '07) will be featured in a Group Exhibition titled "Voxelvision 1.0", at Vox Populi, Philadelphia. Landois' featured piece, Indelible, is inspired by a notorious sex show in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. The video is part of a new body of work exploring the relationship between folklore and landscape, masculine rites of passage, and sexual politics on the Texas/Mexico border. "Voxelvision 1.0" along with the opening of Patricia Baga's "Rectangle with the Sound of Its Own Making" at Fourth Wall, and the continuation of "Quadruple-Consciousness" is curated by Malik Gaines. It was juried by Rachel Cook.

This Friday, January 7th, join Vox at 7pm for their first annual video festival, a screening juried by Rachel Cook. The videos will be looped through the month of January and will feature the following artists; Karen Ostrom's "The End", Julia Sherman's "The Audience Reacts", David Politzer's "A Rousing View of Nature's Magnificence", Kara Dunne's "Ag dul sios an Straighre", Katie Cercone's "Queen Candy Bile", Justin Lincoln's "09/22/2010 blogmix", Skote's "Dump", Justin Lincoln's "Color Grid I", Jillian Mayer's "How My Best Friend Died", Julia Landois' "Indelible", Esfandyar Poozesh's "...to Eden", Skote's "Treasure Island", Tara Kelton's "Time Travel", Jessica Mallios' "1:1", Skote's "Catalogue" and David Politzer's "You Are Listening to Metallica Because...".

Opening Reception & Video Screening: Friday, January 7th, 7:00pm
Exhibition Dates: Friday January 7th - Sunday, January 30th

Vox Populi
319 North 11th Street
Third Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107
215.238.1236
http://www.voxpopuligallery.org/index.php

To see more work of Julia's, visit http://www.julialandois.com/

Nsenga Knight (MFA '10) receives Leeway Foundation Grant and Brandywine Workshop Residency

Nsenga Knight (MFA '10) has recently been named this year's Leeway Foundation Grant Recipient. In addition to receiving the Leeway Foundation Grant, Nsenga has also been awarded a residency at the Brandywine Workshop. The Brandywine Workshop will enable Nsenga to work on a limited edition printmaking project with a master printmaker.

For more information on the Leeway Foundation Grant, visit http://www.leeway.org/home.html

In addition, visit http://www.brandywineworkshop.com/

Brian Zegeer (MFA '05) in Exhibition at Vaudeville Park's "Video Art Night", Opening December 18th, 7:30pm

Brian Zegeer (MFA '05) will perform a portion of the video from his "Pull My Daisy" project with the infinitely-talented Baby Copperhead at the Vaudeville Park's new monthly Video Art Night. The event and exhibition features a carefully curated but mixed bag of video shorts, animation, stills, feature highlights, video sculpture, installation, performance, and mixed media to music video. Through the one defining commonality of Video, this monthly night will be an exciting and unorthodox opportunity for comparing and contrasting the various expressions within such an expansive, yet shared medium. In addition to Brian Zegeer, artists presenting include Christopher Arcella, Steven Dressler, Allen Cordell, Jesse Galaznik, Devin Flynn, Scott Keirnan, Erica Magrey, Ethan Miller, Sophia Peer, Johnathan Phelps, Joesph Quinn, Garrett Shore and Chuck Stern. The event will also feature a "Degenerative Karaoke" live performance by the LOUIS V ESP All Stars and music and video by Brian Mark.

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

Opening Reception: Saturday, December 18th, 7:30 - 10:00pm

Vaudeville Park
26 Bushwick Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11211
http://www.vanishingridges.com/vaudville/

Robert Dimin, Tamara Suber and Amy Archambault (MFA '11 candidates) in Group Exhibition at the Morgan Gallery, Opening December 15th, 5pm

Robert Dimin, Tamara Suber and Amy Archambault will have work featured in a group exhibition titled "Projections, Installations and Divagations" at the Morgan Gallery, the University of Pennsylvania's Penn Design. The exhibition is in direct response to Kaja Silverman's Graduate Contemporary Art History Seminar. Dimin, Suber and Archambault respond to the work of Anri Sala, Tacita Dean, Sharon Lockhart and other prolific film artists. The exhibition cleverly melds both film and sculptural installation underneath the harmony of twilight.

Opening Reception: Wednesday, December 15th, 5:00 - 7:00pm
Exhibition Dates: Wednesday, December 15th - Tuesday, December 21st

The Morgan Gallery
University of Pennsylvania, Penn Design
205 S. 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Gallery Hours: Mondays - Fridays 10:00am - 5:00pm

Amy Archambault (MFA '11 candidate) receives the Christopher Leland Lyon Memorial Scholarship on behalf of Penn Design

Amy Archambault (MFA '11 candidate) has received the Christopher Leland Lyon Memorial Scholarship. The scholarship supports an annual prize in the School of Design for an MFA student in memory of Christopher Leland Lyon (MFA '99). Amy Archambault is in the process of completing the final year of her MFA degree. Her early paintings were grounded in architectural references to urban landscapes both constructed and decrepit. Her artistic evolution reveals interests in the physical presence within the spaces that she previously investigated and rendered. This work draws references to architecture and design, her passion for athletic practice, and the human body. In addition, Archambault has been nominated along side Jessica Vaughn (MFA '11 candidate) for the Joan Mitchell award.

To learn more about the Christopher Lyon Memorial Scholarship, visit http://www.chrislyontribute.com/

To see more of Amy's work, visit http://www.amyarchambault.com/

Alexi Worth (Senior Critic) in Group Exhibition at Marc Jancou Contemporary, Chelsea, Opening December 9th, 6pm

Alexi Worth (Senior Critic) will have work featured in a group exhibition titled "Private Future" at Marc Jancou Contemporary, Chelsea, NY. Marc Jancou Contemporary is pleased to announce Private Future curated by Michael Cline. The selection of artists spans generations and geographical locations but is united through medium and a savvy dialogue with the contemporary world presented in an unconventional way. The exhibition will feature works by Ion Birch, Carter, Scott Cassidy, Thomas Chimes, Jonathan Gardner, Jess, Kurt Kauper, Justin Lieberman, Kerry James Marshall, Erik Parker, Lari Pittman, Peter Saul, Jim Shaw, Torsten Slama, Alexi Worth and Jakub Julian Ziolkowski.

"Private Futures" is to be a showcase of painting and drawing that at first blush might seem visionary, with its idiosyncratic views of social and relational norms, alternate realities, and internal logic. The work both engages and reflects contemporary life by having one foot firmly planted in ‘now’ and the other in the slippery past, by bridging the two with old fashioned story telling. Many of the artists have careers out of step with art trends. They are stubbornly ‘old’ media and are not market driven but rather maker driven. Their art provides an alternate path to the well-trodden and traditionally linear conception of modern art. Rather than explore the branches and tender new shoots of art practice, they find sustenance and nourishment from the trunk, and more importantly the subterranean root system, where what some might call ‘tradition’ is found. This is not tradition with a capital ‘T’, this is tradition as it really is, full of perversity, distortion, religious feeling, mysticism, occultism, and sexual innuendo. In the way that something seemingly innocuous can appear strange after the scab of history and commerce have been plucked from pink flesh, these artists re-present the world as their own and refashion it to their own private means.

To see more of Worth's work, visit http://www.alexiworth.com/

Opening Reception: Thursday, December 9th, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Exhibition Dates: Thursday, December 9th - Saturday, January 29th, 2011

Marc Jancou Contemporary
524 West 24th Street
New York, NY 10011
212.473.2100
http://www.marcjancou.com/

In addition to "Private Future", Alexi will have work featured in an exhibition titled "Between Picture and Viewer" at the Visual Arts Gallery at 601 West 26th Street ("Starrett Lehigh Building"), 15th floor.

Penn Alumni in Group Exhibition at Jolie Laide, Opening December 16th, 6pm

Several Penn alumni will be featured in a group exhibition, "Tri-State Show", at Jolie Laide, Philadelphia. "Tri-State" celebrates the increasingly dynamic, decentralized universe of art production and exhibition. Today’s artists live wherever they wish, and exhibit all over; pop-up shows appear in a warehouse and disappear within a week. Jolie Laide is proud to consider a new tri-state area to close out 2010 and usher in a new year: Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia. By gathering together artists from these fair cities, we stand for inclusiveness over regionalism, interconnectedness over provincial independence. One could seek to make generalizations about the art being made in each of the three cities in this exhibit, but that may not be the most interesting or enlightening approach. Today’s Chicago sculptor may be living in New York tomorrow, while the painter who used to live in New York has moved to Philadelphia. Instead, why not contemplate the connections among artists from different cities, and the distinctions among those from the same location. Art is not concerned with boundaries except to dissolve them. Art, at its best, is an open- source code, with ideas freely available to be played with and reshaped by the curious mind.

Artists featured include Marc Blumthal (MFA '10), Piper Brett, Tom Costa, Alex Da Corte, Jamie Diamond (MFA '08), the Dufala Brothers, Austin Eddy, Susan Fang (MFA '10), Jacob Feige, Jeff Fichera, Daniel Gerwin, James Gillispie, Jacob Goudreault, Jordan Graw, Jordan Griska (BFA '09), Robert Horvath, Easton Miller, Scott Reeder, Tyson Reeder, Max Reinhardt, Peter Schenck, Simon Slater, Christina Sucgang, and Tara White

Opening Reception: Thursday, December 16th, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Exhibition Dates: December 16th, 2010 - January 22nd, 2011
* After Party at Yakitori Boy (11th & Race St)

Jolie Laide
224 N. Juniper St.
Philadelphia, PA 19107
267.603.1295
http://jolielaide.com/gallery/Jolie_Laide_Gallery.html

Gallery Hours
Tuesday - Saturday 10AM - 6PM

Sinae Lee (MFA '06) in Solo Exhibition/Performance at Reaves Gallery, NY, Opening December 16th, 6pm

Sinae Lee (MFA '06) will be featured in a solo exhibition titled "RAW" at Reaves Gallery, Chelsea. "RAW" is a live performance and installation that engages all five senses of the body in a critique of our ideas of fantasy, intimacy and sex. The performance invites audience members’ participation and will be performed only once on opening night. For this performance, Lee will take the stage with a partner and pass an egg yolk from mouth-to-mouth until the yolk breaks. Audience members, two at a time, are then invited to take the stage and in turn pass an egg yolk from mouth-to-mouth. As audience members become performers, they will engage all of their senses – smell, touch, taste, hearing, and sight – while interpreting and reinterpreting the simple act of passing the egg yolk. The performance will be documented with video, which will become part of a later installation.

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

Event / Exhibition Date and Time: Thursday, December 16th, 6:00 - 8:00pm

Reaves Gallery
526 West 26th St, Suite 706
(Between 10th and 11th)
New York, NY 10001
415.250.3201
http://www.reavesgallery.com/Reaves_Gallery/Home.html

Gallery Hours
Wednesday - Saturday
1:00pm - 6:00pm
Other times by appointment

Leigh Van Duzer (MFA '10) in Group Exhibition at the Lost Coast Culture Machine, CA, Opening December 3rd, 6pm

Leigh Van Duzer (MFA '10) will have works featured in the exhibition titled "Home for the Holidays" at the Lost Coast Culture Machine in Fort Bragg, CA. "Home for the Holidays" celebrates the season of friends, family, warm hearths and giving by focusing on the overlooked and forgotten. Laurel Garcia Colvin presents the new American toile, where the haves and have-nots picnic and while away the hours together. Leigh Van Duzer imagines the housing crash frame-by-frame on the way down. Elizabeth Duffy creates the epitome of safe and secure living. Jeremiah Jenkins renders scale models of the ideal in dispossessed housing. The Counter Narrative Society will come bearing the imprisoned on their backs. Detroit's Object Orange will turn forgotten eyesores into eyesores begging for swift destruction.

During the run of the exhibition, LCCM will be serving as a donation hub for the Fort Bragg Food Bank, the Outdoor Store's annual Warm Coat Drive, and sleeping bags and blankets for the Evergreen United Methodist Church. LCCM and its artists will also be donating a portion of all sales to Habitat for Humanity of Mendocino Coast, Critical Resistance, and All of Us or None.

Opening Reception: Friday, December 3rd, 6:00 - 10:00pm
Exhibition Dates: Friday, December 3rd - Sunday, January 30th

Lost Coast Culture Machine
190 E. Elm Street
Fort Bragg, CA 95437
http://www.lostcoastculturemachine.org/?p=892

To see more of Leigh's work, visit http://www.leighvanduzer.com/

MFA Class of 2011 in Inaugural Exhibit at Project Space, Philadelphia, Opening December 3rd, 5pm

Members of the MFA class of 2011 will be featured in the inaugural exhibit at Project Space, Philadelphia. Project Space is a new art exhibition space founded by Robert Dimin (MFA '11 candidate). The work featured showcases the range of medium and working methods of the second-year MFA students. A percentage of all sales from this and future events will provide additional exhibition support for the MFA class of 2011. Exhibitions at Project Space will highlight members of the Penn Design Fine Arts Community. Please join us for this special event on the "First Friday" in Philadelphia!

Opening Reception: Friday, December 3rd, 5pm until late

Project Space
240 Church Street (between 2nd & 3rd and Market & Arch)
Philadelphia, PA
projectspacechurchst@gmail.com

PennDesign Fine Arts Sculpture Seminar in Group Exhibition at the Meyerson and Morgan Galleries, Opening December 3rd, 5:30pm

The PennDesign Fine Arts Sculpture Seminar is proud to present "Paradiso", a group exhibition featuring work in a range of media in response to Dante's, "The Divine Comedy". The exhibition will feature work by Amy Archambault, Tra Bouscaren, Zoe Chronis, Rachel Eschenbach, Justine Hill, Michael Marfione, Bradley La Mere, Chloe Reison, Tamara Suber, Cristina Tufino, Mary Valverde, and Jessica Vaughn

Opening Reception: Friday, December 3rd, 5:30 - 7:30pm
Exhibition Dates: Wednesday, December 1st - Wednesday, December 8th, 2010








Exhibition on Display in Two Locations:

Meyerson Gallery
210 South 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Morgan Gallery
205 South 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Terry Adkins (Graduate Faculty) and Blanche Bruce hold "John Brown Martyr Day Vigil" at the Amistad Gallery, December 2nd, 6pm

On behalf of Terry Adkins and Blanche Bruce's "Riddle of the Sphinx", the Amistad Gallery, Philadelphia will hold a "John Brown Martyr Day Vigil". The Vigil will feature the University of Pennsylvania Drum Line, the Sacred Order of Twilight Brothers, Lone Wolf Recital Corps and special guests.

"Riddle of the Sphinx" is the latest incarnation of Blanche Bruce & Terry Adkins’ ongoing cycle of site-inspired recitals on the abolitionist John Brown. Commemorating the 151st anniversary of his Harper’s Ferry, Virginia campaign, the duration of this recital coincides with the inception of Brown’s October 16th, 1859 raid on a U.S. armory through to his capture execution on that December 2nd at Charlestown. Adkins and collaborator Blanche Bruce explore aspects of John Brown as shepherd, soldier, martyr, and prophet through a muscular communion of video, sculpture, drawings, artifacts and ceremony. "Riddle of the Sphinx" is so named after a chapter in W.E.B. DuBois’ 1909 biography on Brown and the artists Bruce and Adkins have responded specifically to the titanic views and research contained therein.

Terry Adkins and Blanche Bruce are a collaborative that has worked together since 1999, upholding the legacies of immortal figures of the past by reinserting them to their rightful place in the contemporary historical landscape. Under the auspices of the Lone Wolf Recital Corps, their recitals are multimedia events that rely on the potential disclosure of biography, reclaimed materials and recovered actions. He and Blanche Bruce have performed at the Romanian Academy in Rome, The New Museum, P.S.1 MOMA, Black Box Amsterdam, and Project Row Houses in Houston. Terry Adkins was Rome Prize Fellow in Visual Arts in 2009. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden among others.

Event Date and Time: Thursday, December 2nd, 6:00 - 9:00pm

Amistad Gallery
W.E.B. Dubois College House
3900 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Amistad Gallery Hours: 10:00am - 8:00pm Daily
Terry Adkins, Gallery Director
tadkins@design.upenn.edu

Tadashi Moriyama (MFA '06) in Group Exhibition, the SCOPE Art Show - Miami, Opening November 30th, 3pm

Tadashi Moriyama (MFA '06) will be showing his recent body of work at the SCOPE Art Show - Miami with Bonelli Arte Contemporanea. The SCOPE Art Show, Miami, will present 75 international galleries upholding SCOPE’s unique tradition of solo and thematic group shows presented alongside museum-quality programming, collector tours, screenings, and special events. The unique SCOPE experience expands this year in partnership with local and international cultural organizations, featuring: film, music, installation and performance. This season, SCOPE and its President & Founder Alexis Hubshman intends to highlight its lead role as creative R+D for a wider audience of taste makers who make art their business. By Introducing artists, curators, and cutting-edge galleries to new international audiences has made SCOPE the most comprehensive destination for the emerging art world. Tadashi's work "revels in the act of creating densely-knit parallel universes that both nod to the physical realities of life in the here and now while also envisioning potential futures where man and machine meld into one, a realm where technology overtakes us, or perhaps makes us whole. His colorful drawings and paintings can be bright and cheery in certain works that seem to celebrate the many facets of life in major urban Meccas, where where rainbow washes and circular blocks of packed housing might reference the artist's native Japan with its much discussed urban density." (Eric C. Shiner, The Milton Fine Curator of Art at The Andy Warhol Museum)

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

Opening Reception: Tuesday November 30th, 3:00 - 9:00pm
Exhibition Dates: Tuesday November 30th - Saturday December 5th, 2010

SCOPE Art Show - Miami
Wynwood Gallery Arts District
3055 North Miami Avenue
Miami, Florida 33127
http://www.scope-art.com/Index.php/miami/

Jenny Perlin (Lecturer) in Solo Exhibition at the NADA Art Fair in Miami Beach, Opening December 2nd

Jenny Perlin (Lecturer) will be featured in a Solo Exhibition at the NADA Art Fair in Miami Beach. Perlin will present "LEADS", a film from the Perlin Papers series (16mm, black-and-white, sound, 7:10, 2009) and new drawings inspired by the film. Perlin locates her practice in an archeological space of sifting and discovery; that which film, video, drawing, and photography are useful media in which to present a range of ideas. She works with fragments, detritus, speculation, failures and afterthoughts. Since 1991, Perlin has made over 20 films and videos. Some are live-action, seemingly conforming to a conventional model of documentary filmmaking, and some are stop-motion animations, which she also thinks of as `documentaries´. In each aspect of Perlin's practice, she takes a close look at the ways in which social machinations are reflected in the smallest aspects of daily life. Whether it is copying a receipt from Wal-Mart, a headline from Reuters, or filming documentary-style interviews at the corner store, her interest is in the ways in which the sweeping statements of `History´ affect specific details of human experience.

Exhibition Dates: December 2nd - December 5th, 2010

NADA Art Fair
Galerie M + R Fricke
Booth #708, Richelieu-Room
www.galeriefricke.de

To see more of Perlin's work, visit http://www.nilrep.net/

Marjorie Van Cura (MFA '02) in Two-Person Exhibition at YES! Gallery, NY, Opening November 18th, 7pm

Marjorie Van Cura (MFA '02) will have work featured in a two-person exhibition titled "Rhythm" with Zoe Pettijohn Schade at YES! Gallery, Greenpoint Brooklyn, NY. Van Cura will also have a new work on view at the backroom of STOREFRONT Gallery in Bushwick Brooklyn. Van Cura's investigation combines graphic, Op-Art aesthetics with invented hybridizations that contain human-animal-mechanical parts. She create these iconic Chimera figures by collaging together digital photographs of various components culled from the internet which then is transformed into the final version of the hybrid and used as a foundation for the specific shapes in her mixed-media paintings. The placement and transfer drawing of each figure by hand builds an image through a systematic process that is unique to each painting. The repetition of shape combined with intense optical color relationships dissolve into a complex pattern and create a visually intense, visceral experience. Van Cura's work stands as both social commentary, informed by several themes of interest that include the origin and genetic make-up of species, the phenomenon of evolution, and issues of identity, alienation, and community in a Digital Age.

Opening Reception: Thursday, November 18th, 7:00 - 10:00pm
Exhibition Dates: Thursday, November 18th - Friday, December 10th

YES! Gallery
147 India Street
Greenpoint Brooklyn, NY 11222
347.599.2322
http://yesgalleryyes.com/

To see more of Van Cura's work, visit http://www.marjorievancura.com/index.htm

Fine Arts Lecture Series: David Salle, Thursday November 18th, 6:00pm

Since the end of the 1970's, David Salle has helped define the post-modern sensibility by combining figuration with an extremely varied pictorial language. Salle's radical use of juxtaposition conveys an improvised sense of meaning being made, of things unexpected but necessary. His paintings have been shown in over 100 museums and galleries worldwide, including major exhibitions at the Whitney; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; MoCA, Chicago; Stedelijk Museum; MoMA, Vienna; Menil Museum, Houston; Haus der Kunst, Munich; Castello di Rivoli; and the Guggenheim, Bilbao. His work is in the permanent collections of museums around the globe.

Although known primarily as a painter, Salle's work grows out of a long- standing involvement with installation art and perfomance. Over the last 25 years he has worked extensively with choreographer Karole Armitage, creating sets and costumes for many of her ballets and operas. Their collaborations have been seen at theaters in Europe and America, including The Metropolitan Opera House; The Paris Opera; The Opera Comique; Lyon Opera; Opera Deutsche, Berlin; and La Fenice, Venice. Salle received a Guggenheim fellowship for theater design in 1986 and in 1995 directed the feature film "Search and Destroy", starring Griffin Dunne and Christopher Walken.

Salle is also known as one of the most literate artists of his generation, and his essays and interviews have been published in Artforum, Art in America, Flash Art, Modern Painters, The Paris Review, as well as numerous exhibition catalogs and anthologies.

To see more of Salle's work, visit http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/david_salle.htm

Event Date and Time: Thursday November 18th, 6:00pm

The Institute of Contemporary Art
Tuttleman Auditorium
118 South 36th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
http://www.icaphila.org/events/

Paul Komada (MFA '02) in exhibition at Gallery4Culture, Opening November 4th, 6pm

Paul Komada (MFA '02) will be featured in an exhibition titled "knit_art_history" at Gallery4Culture, Seattle. Komado, originally a trained painter needed to morph his medium and method of working, to fit the confines of his living space along with the needs of his young child. Komada learned how to knit (and block), and once he mastered the craft, began creating Modernist compositions out of soft wool yarn. As a young man, the Japanese-born artist became captivated with Modernist art while visiting New York's Museum of Modern Art. Paintings like Piet Mondrian's "Broadway Boogie Woogie" as well as Kasimir Malevich's Avant-garde Supremacist compositions inspired the artist's studio practice. His first works were large-scale geometric paintings in vivid colors. With "knit_art_history", Komada pays homage to his favorite hard-edge abstractions with his newfound fiber medium. The exhibit features one wall hung work referencing the November U.S. Senate election, comprised of one hundred 15 "X15" square parts primarily in red and blue. Other works, knitted to a blanket-like scale, are presented as installations. The exhibition also incorporates a series of related watercolor studies that help the viewer track the artist's transition from paint to fiber.

Paul Komada was also recently recognized at the City Art Walks' Best of First Thursday. City Arts’ Best of Walk Awards were held at Vito's on First Hill on November 4th. Guest judges were Betsey Brock, Communications and Outreach for Henry Art Gallery and Whitney Ford-Terry, Co-curator for Hedreen Gallery.

Paul Komada divided his early years between Japan and the United States. He earned a BFA from the University of Washington, Seattle and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He currently lives in Seattle with his wife and son.

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

Opening Reception: Thursday, November 4th, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Exhibition Dates: Thursday, November 4th - Wednesday, November 24th

Gallery4Culture
4Culture Offices
101 Prefontaine PL S
Seattle, WA 98104
Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday, 9:00am – 5:00pm
206.296.8674
http://www.4culture.org/publicart/gallery/

Marjorie Van Cura (MFA '02) in Two Exhibitions in Brooklyn Opening Nov. 18 & 19

Marjorie Van Cura (MFA '02) will have work in a two-person show at YES! Gallery in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Rhythm: Marjorie Van Cura & Zoe Pettijohn Schade will open on Thursday, November 18 and remain on view through December 10, 2010.

Opening Reception: Thursday, November 18, 7:00 - 10:00pm
Exhibition Dates: November 18 - December 10, 2010

YES! Gallery
147 India Street
Brooklyn, NY 11222
917-593-9237
http://yesgalleryyes.com/

Gallery hours are Monday-Friday from 12-7pm and Saturday/Sunday by appointment.

Marjorie will also have one new work on view at the backroom of STOREFRONT Gallery in Bushwick Brooklyn.

Opening Reception: Friday, November 19, 6:00 - 9:00pm.

STOREFRONT Gallery
16 Wilson Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11237
www.storefrontbk.com

To see more of Marjorie's work, visit www.marjorievancura.com

Pernot Hudson (MFA '06) in Solo Exhibition at University City Arts League, Opening Nov 12

Pernot Hudson (MFA '06) has a solo show titled soft bigotry for a mercy killing (in two preludes) at the University City Arts League in Philadelphia. The exhibition is a multi-media exploration of the possibilities and impossibilities of perceptual accountability. Conceived of as a factual recounting and reaction to past events, soft bigotry for a mercy killing demonstrates the difficulty in separating fact and one’s emotional attachment. In the artist’s written document of this character’s recounting, it is clear that a traumatic event has taken place, but the reader is unable to define what has actually occurred. This presentation defies a strictly linear documentation of events or understanding as it is still unclear as to the extent to which what is displayed is a personal documentation of current happenings as understood, hence an historical account, or means by which one attempts to reenact for the sake of understanding. The distancing language and academic vocabulary point to a striking vulnerability that is at the heart of these works.

Opening Reception: Friday, November 12, 5:30 - 7:30pm
Exhibition Dates: November 12 - December 5, 2010

University City Arts League
4226 Spruce St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215-382-7811
info@ucartsleague.org
www.ucartsleague.org

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

The Speigel Lecture Series: Lauren Greenfield, Thursday November 11th, 5:30pm

The University of Pennsylvania Speigel Lecture Series is proud to present Lauren Greenfield, the acclaimed photographer considered a preeminent chronicler of youth culture. Greenfield was named by American Photo as one of the 25 most influential photographers working today; this as a result of her groundbreaking projects "Girl Culture", "Fast Forward" and "THIN". Her photographs deal with issues relating to youth culture, gender identity, body image and the influence of popular culture on lifestyle adaptations and behavior. Greenfield's photographs have been published several times in The New York Times, Time, GQ, and American Photo. Her documentary film, "THIN" (2006) aired on HBO and won numerous awards for its unflinching portrayal of girls and eating disorders. "THIN was awarded the Grierson Award for Best Documentary at the London Film Festival, and Grand Jury Prizes at the Independent Film Festival of Boston, the Newport International Film Festival, and the Jackson Hole Film Festival. The project was featured on The Today Show, Good Morning America, Nightline, and CNN and was excerpted in People Magazine. The "THIN" Book was honored by the 2007 International Photography Awards as well as the Photo District News Annual. In 2009, Greenfield and her husband founded the Institute for Artist Management, an agency representing photographers and filmmakers.

To see more of Greenfield's work, visit http://www.laurengreenfield.com/

Event Date and Time: Thursday, November 11th, 5:30pm

University of Pennsylvania
Meyerson Hall, B1
210 S. 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215.898.8374
http://www.icaphila.org/

Fine Arts Lecture Series: Matthew Monahan, Tuesday November 9th, 6:30pm

Matthew Monahan’s work presents a futuristic archaeology. Drawing from a wide range of influences, from Modernist art to ancient totems, Monahan’s ‘artefacts’ are both familiar and strange. Filtering historical mythologies through his own personal system of reference, altered further through the experience of making, Monahan’s work alludes to a contemporary spirituality, where beauty and brutality coalesce as virtual monuments. Nondescript and clunky, the work's plausible function is secondary to their materiality: wax, paper, and plaster take on barbaric forms, their temporal media humorously suggesting timelessness. Their precious value is guarded by an over-sized sculptural ‘shard’. Through his assemblages, Monahan offers a dark mysticism, where material trickery and abstracted form resurrect forgotten primal instincts (The Saatchi Gallery). Matthew Monahan received a BFA from Cooper Union School of Art. He studied at Gerrit Rietveld Academy, and De Ateliers, Amsterdam, and in Japan at the Kitakyushu Center for Contemporary Art. His work was the subject of a solo show at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. He has been included in Sonsbeek Sculpture Exhibition, Arnhem; Life on Mars: 55th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh; Unmonumental, New Museum, New York; Eden's Edge: Fifteen LA Artists, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and the 2006 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum, New York. Monahan currently works and lives in Los Angeles, California.

To see more of Monahan's work, visit http://www.mmmonahan.com/

Event Date and Time: Tuesday November 9th, 6:30pm

University of Pennsylvania: Penn Design
B1 Meyerson Hall
210 S. 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Jules Joseph (MFA '09) in Exhibition at Pinion Gallery, Opening Sat. Nov. 20

Jules Joseph (MFA '09) has work in a three-person exhibition titled Transience at Pinion Gallery in Brooklyn. Pinion Gallery is an artist-run gallery located in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. The artwork exhibited reflects the working environment and personality that surround the physical space. Automotive and carpentry businesses occupy adjacent buildings with the elevated steel platform of the Long Island railroad progressing down the middle of Atlantic Avenue. Jules will be showing with Matt Miley and David McLeish.

A wide range of new and traditional media are represented from sculpture, drawing, and painting, to new media and performance. The Artwork challenges traditional ideas by promoting skeptical thinking that both dismantle and rebuild recurrently. Those involved are committed to generating honest and challenging dialogue with the contemporary art world and the community by promoting art that challenges those structures and by donating time, money, and positive ideas to local community supporting organizations.

Opening Reception: November 20th, 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Pinion Gallery
1265 Atlantic Avenue Suite 2L
Brooklyn, NY 11216
www.piniongallery.com

Fine Arts Lecture Series: Rick Lowe, Thursday November 4th, 6pm

Rick Lowe is an artist, architect, urban designer, developer, businessman, and activist who is a catalyst for social outreach for underserved neighborhoods. Lowe’s early founding of Project Row House in Houston’s Third Ward in 1993 became the template for others to follow on how to bring local people together to engage their own creative energies and aesthetic values to produce a “collective expression” to reinstate a community. Lowe’s socially engaged methodology helps individuals excavate talents that they might have either forgotten about or just lost sight of. An example of his progressive thinking can be seen in a recent concept for a series of small businesses that draws on local individual’s abilities—such as homemade cookies and laundry service—and turns them into emerging noted talents and proprietors.

To see more of Lowe's work visit, http://www.unitedstatesartists.org/Public2/USAFellows/2009Fellows/Alphabetically/RickLowe/index.cfm

Event Date and Time: Thursday November 4th, 6pm

The Institute of Contemporary Art
Tuttleman Auditorium
118 South 36th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Julia Barbosa Landois (MFA '07) in exhibition at El Paso Museum of Art, Opening November 20th, 12pm

Julia Barbosa Landois (MFA '07) newest installation will be featured in the Border Art Biennial – Bienal Fronteriza de Arte 2010 at the El Paso Museum of Art. Her piece, entitled Tracks, uses a repeating image of altered "tire tracks" printed on the floor and walls, signaling the aftermath of violence.

The Border Art Biennial – Bienal Fronteriza de Arte 2010 is an exhibition that examines and highlights the often under represented, but vital art and artists from the states of the US/Mexico border. Artists from the states of Arizona, Baja California Norte, Baja California Sur, California, Chihuahua, Coahuila, New Mexico, Nuevo Leon, Sonora, Tamaulipas, and Texas were encourage to apply, of which 43 were selected. This exhibition is a collaborative effort between the El Paso Museum of Art, Museo de Arte INBA de Ciudad Juarez, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, CONACULTA-INBA, the Mexican Consulate in El Paso, Texas, and the American Consulate in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua. 2010 Jurors are Rita Gonzalez, Assistant Curator in the Department of Contemporary Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Itala Schmelz, Director at the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil in Mexico City.

Opening Reception: Saturday, November 20th, 12:00pm
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, November 20th - Saturday, February 13th, 2011

El Pado Museum of Art
Contemporary Gallery
1 Arts Festival Plaza
El Paso, TX 79901
915.532.1707
Admission to this exhibition is free and open to the public.
http://www.elpasoartmuseum.org/upcoming.asp

To see more of Julia's work, visit http://www.julialandois.com/