Multiple Alumni Represented in VOX VII, Co-Curated by Hennessy Youngman (Jason Musson (MFA' 11))

Vox Populi's seventh annual exhibition of emerging artists, VOX VII, co-curated by Hennessy Youngman and Melissa Ho, is scheduled to open July 8th, 6pm. 32 artists were selected for inclusion in the show, including 8 Alumni: Milana Braslavsky MFA `07, Leigh van Duzer MFA `10, Matthew Krawcheck MFA `10, Peter Schenk MFA `09, John Schlesinger MFA `11, Jaime Treadwell MFA `02, Jessica Vaughn MFA `11 and Nathan T. Wilson MFA `10. The complete list of artists follows:

Milana Braslavsky
Chris Domenick
Hillary L. Doyle
Leigh van Duzer
Kristina Estell
Ashlee Ferlito
Erik Geschke
Scott Giblin
Ben Goddard
Bobby Gonzales
Jordan Graw
James Grilli
Adam Jacono
Tara Kelton
Nichola Kinch
Matthew Krawcheck
Jennifer Lingford
Kevin McCullough
Bud McNichol
Dustin Metz
Jonathan Monaghan
Benjamin Pederson
Daniel Petraitis
Lauren Rice
Peter Schenk
John Schlesinger
Run Shayo
Jaime Treadwell
Jessica Vaughn
Sarah Weber
Nathan T. Wilson & Dante Blackstone
Lindsay Wraga

For more information on VOX VII, visit

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

VOX VII

July 8 – 31

Opening Reception: Friday, July 8^th, 6-11pm

Vox Populi

319 N 11th Street, Third Floor

Philadelphia, PA 19107

215-238-1236

Vox Populi is open to the public Wednesday through Sunday from 12 pm to 6 pm

Joshua Mosley (Associate Professor, Chair) in group exhibition at the Fabric Workshop and Museum, opening June 3rd, 6pm

Joshua Mosley, Associate Professor of Fine Arts and Acting Chair, Department of Fine Arts, has a special project included in the group exhibition Close at Hand, which opens June 3rd at The Fabric Workshop and Museum. The show includes Philadelphia artists from the museum’s permanent collection. Also in the show is our Professor and Chair Emeritus John Moore and former graduate photo faculty & senior critic Eileen Neff. Close at Hand is co-curated by Virgil Marti, along with Marion Boulton Stroud, Ruth Fine and Mary Anne Friel.

For more information about Close at Hand, visit

http://www.fabricworkshopandmuseum.org/exhibitions/close-at-hand.php

Close at Hand:

Philadelphia Artists from the Permanent Collection

June 3 – Late Summer 2011
Opening Reception: Friday, June 3, 6-8 pm

The Fabric Workshop and Museum

1214 Arch Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107-0922
[T] 215.561.8888
[F] 215.561.8887
info@fabricworkshopandmuseum.org

Hours

Monday through Friday, 10 am to 6 pm

Saturdays and Sundays, 12 pm to 5 pm

Admission

$3 for Adults
Free for Children under 12 and all FWM Members.
Group tours available by appointment.

Rachel Eschenbach (MFA '11) and Jessica Vaughn (MFA '11) Featured in Philadelphia Sculptors’ 12th Annual Student Exhibition, 5 into 1

Philadelphia Sculptors, in cooperation with the Galleries at Moore, presents Philadelphia Sculptors’ 12th Annual Student Exhibition, 5 into 1. The show features two graduating students from each of the five Philadelphia Fine Arts programs. Participants include, Kelly McGovern and Laurel Patterson of Moore College of Art & Design, Tyler Kline and Tom Yurkovic of Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Maxi Eisenmann and Jim Shomo of Tyler School of Art, Tyler Held and Colin O’Neill of The University of the Arts, and Rachel Eschenbach and Jessica Vaughn of The University of Pennsylvania. The Curators of 5 into 1 are Emma Irvin and Anna Romaniuk. The show's reception took place on Sunday, May 22nd and was preceded by a by panel presentation with Jordan Griska, Joseph Leroux and Sharyn O’Mara, moderated by Paul Hubbard, Graduate Program Manager of Studio Art at Moore.

For more information call 215.965.4027 or visit www.thegalleriesatmoore.org.

5 into 1

May 21 – June 18, 2011

Opening Reception: Sunday, May 22, 2011, 3:15 – 5:30 p.m.

Best of Show Award presentation--"Sculpture Today”: Sunday, May 22, 1:30 – 2:45 p.m.

Wilson Lobby, Moore College of Art and Design

20th Street and The Parkway

Philadelphia, PA 19103

For more information on Philadelphia Sculptors, e-mail Leslie Kaufman at lesliekaufman@verizon.net.

www.philasculptors.org

Howard A. Silverstein and Patricia Bleznak Silverstein Photography Studio Abroad 2011 Exhibition, Populous Flows

The University of Pennsylvania Department of Fine Arts is proud to present the Howard A. Silverstein and Patricia Bleznak Silverstein Photography Studio Abroad 2011 Exhibition, Populous Flows. Howard A. Silverstein and Patricia Bleznak generously funded 19 individuals, a collection of graduate students, undergraduate students, faculty, staff and adult extension students to travel to and from Mumbai, India in March of 2011. Populous Flows is an exhibition of the work made during this time, as well as work made after the fact in response to the multitude of experiences had while abroad. Populous Flows features the following students: Christine Alix, Shumita Basu, Níger Laila Bey, Sandy Boyer, Sarah Cohen, Sarah Dekker, Clare Din, Caitlin Lennon, Michael Marfione, Katie Motyka, Chloe Isadora Reison, Alex Remnick, Tamara Suber, Elise Wrabetz. Additionally, the subsequent faculty and staff also present their work in the show: Samuel Belkowitz, Gabriel Martinez, Karen Rodenwald, Julie Saecker Schneider and Larry Shprintz.

To learn more about Populous Flows, visit

http://www.design.upenn.edu/fine-arts-undergraduate/

POPULOUS FLOWS
May 20 - July 12, 2011
Opening Reception: Friday, May 20th, 4-6pm

The Charles Addams Fine Arts Hall

University of Pennsylvania

200 South 36th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6229

215.573.5134

fine-art@design.upenn.edu

Gallery Hours: 10-5pm Monday - Friday

Julia Barbosa Landois (MFA '07) in Solo Exhibition at Blue Star Contemporary Art Center (San Antonio, Texas), Opening June 2nd, 6pm

Julia Barbosa Landois (MFA '07) will have work featured in a solo exhibition and live performance, entitled "Culo de Oro/The Golden Ass," at Blue Star Contemporary Art Center. "Culo de Oro/The Golden Ass" examines sex, masculinity, and the tourist mentality along the Texas/Mexico border.

Landois grew up in South Texas, surrounded by men who visited towns like Nuevo Laredo for prostitutes, bizarre sex shows, exotic game hunting, and recreational drinking. Like Las Vegas or Amsterdam, these towns illustrate how the concept of license can change when one changes environments. In this show, she, too, plays the part of tourist in the terrain of masculine identity and gendered desire, in a sexual rite of passage with no counterpart for women of the same culture.

This is Landois's first project using documentary material as a starting point. The installation and performance are informed by interviews conducted with friends and brothel patrons, sex tourism website testimonials, regional folklore, and ideas about sex and spirituality from ancient Mexico. Landois will perform in the installation space on June 30th with musician Erik Sanden of the art-rock band Buttercup. Creation of this work was made possible in part by the Residency Program at the Santa Fe Art Institute and an Award from the Artist Foundation of San Antonio, with funding provided by the Cultural Collaborative of the City of San Antonio.

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

Also, to read reviews of the show, please visit

http://www.mysanantonio.com/default/article/Curtain-lifted-on-border-sex-trade-1443687.php

http://glasstire.com/2011/07/02/nuevo-laredo-performs-in-san-antonio-culo-de-oro-the-golden-ass/

Opening Reception: Thursday, June 2nd, 6-9 pm

Live Performance: Thursday, June 30th, 7pm

Exhibition Dates: June 2nd - August 6th

Blue Star Contemporary Art Center

116 Blue Star

San Antonio, TX 78204

http://www.bluestarart.org/

Marjorie Van Cura (MFA '02) interviewed by Peter Gynd Medley of Northside Open Studios

In the Studio: With Majorie Van Cura
By Peter Gynd Medley
posted May 7, 2011
www.northsideopenstudios.org/news/

This week I visited with Greenpoint artist Marjorie Van Cura.
Van Cura’s work is born of experience; her father a computer programmer at a genetic research lab, Van Cura’s work is informed by her personal experiences and reflections on genetic hybridization. Dealing directly with building personally relevant icons through appropriated imagery, her work bypasses the narrative, focusing instead on the subconscious processing of ideas.

Marjorie’s paintings begin with a Google image search. She searches for photos illustrative of both her experiences and the subconscious of an experience. The images are then digitally collaged together forming a hybridized human/animal/mechanical icon.

Reflective of genetic exploration, these icons undergo a series of changes through their generational reproduction. Referring to this as the “generation of a generation”, Marjorie hand traces these forms repeatedly to her final surface, the icon changing or evolving slightly with every successive transfer. This process produces paintings which upon first glance appear as perfectly balanced and symmetrical compositions of repeating forms. Upon closer inspection though, Van Cura’s paintings slowly reveal the subtle variations of the process.

Referencing Op Art and Surrealism, the works are pattern and color based, meant to be disorientating, but not completely overwhelming. The imagery of the icons reflective of the hybridization of contemporary culture and as Van Cura puts it, “a way to process the world and events without being overly political.”

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

Northside Open Studios: June 16th - 19th
* Note: Marjorie Van Cura will be in studio on Sunday only, June 19th from 12:00 - 6:00pm.

Majorie's Studio Location
255 Calyer Street
(@ corner of Newel)
Second Floor
Greenpoint Brooklyn

Penn Design 2011 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Opening May 12th, 6pm

Penn Design Fine Arts is proud to present the 2011 MFA Thesis Exhibition at the at the Ice Box exhibition space in Crane Arts, Philadelphia. The exhibition will bring together works by the 22 artists who will graduate from the program this May. The exhibition is free and open to the public. Exhibiting Artists: Paige Adair, Amy Archambault, Sandy Boyer, Zoe Chronis, Sarah Cohen, Robert Dimin, Rachel Eschenbach, Stephen Grebinski, Justine Hill, Beth Hull, Soo Kang, Bradley LaMere, Elina Malkin, Michael Marfione, Kent Miller, Jayson Scott Musson, Heidi Nam, Martha Rich, John Schlesinger, Tamara Suber, Jessica Vaughn, and Jessica Yang.

The PennDesign MFA class of 2011 has been challenged to independently pursue artistic research in visual art. With the graduation of this class, we celebrate the Fine Arts program's new unification of individual disciplines. For example, the work of a photographer is no less conscious of the universe of painting, and a video artist might have equal interest in sculpture. These graduating students have had exposure to international traveling studios, sponsored residencies, and visiting faculty. The combination of these experiences have broadened the students' perspectives and shaped their responsibilities as artists.

To learn more about the exhibition, visit http://pennexhibitions.com/index.php?/home/mfa_shows/2011/

Opening Reception: Thursday, May 12th, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Exhibition Dates: Thursday, May 12th - Sunday, May 29th

Crane Arts Building: Ice Box Project Space
1400 North American Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Sunday 12:00 - 6:00pm

Brent Wahl (Lecturer, MFA '06) in Solo Exhibition at Vox Populi, Opening May 6th, 6pm

Brent Wahl (Lecturer, MFA '06) will have work featured in his fourth solo exhibition at Vox Populi, entitled "Group Show". Fabricating three-dimensional "situations" that move through contextual and visual shifts is an ongoing interest in Brent Wahl’s work, as are reoccurring themes that investigate cultural phenomena, abstraction, architecture and illusion. For Wahl, abstraction has often been the "glue" that binds together the disparate visual forms in his varied work.

In "Group Show", Wahl refocuses his interest in abstraction in full force. Drawing on his fascination with the optical and spatial shifts that happen between three-dimensional structures imaged in two-dimensions (via photography), he embraces a playful and experimental stance with this work. Collaborating with himself, he compiles a “group show" of imagery that is at once thematically linked and visually diverse.

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

Opening Reception: Friday, May 6th, 6:00 - 11:00pm
Exhibition Dates: Friday, May 6th - Sunday, May 29th

Vox Populi
319 North 11th Street
Philadelphia, PA
http://www.voxpopuligallery.org/

Caroline Santa (MFA '07) in Solo Exhibition at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Opening May 6th, 6pm

Caroline Santa (MFA '07) will have recent work featured in a solo exhibition, titled "Coda", at Tiger Strikes Asteroid. Mining old drawings, discarded scraps of paper, and other found items, Santa's newest mixed media works are improvisatory, intuitive, and guided by serendipity. "Coda" is the inaugural exhibition in Tiger Strikes Asteroid's new space on the 2nd floor.

Santa's previously unresolved drawings are remembered, reexamined, and reshaped to become a fresh inventory of color, marks, and surfaces. Enforced by other found items, this collection of materials is recognized for an undeveloped portential and an appreciation of its own characteristics. Her thoughtfulness in observations and the inspiration she finds in overlooked fragments and secondary forms reveals a compelling process. The negative spaces of Santa's drawings become the subject, cut out and reinforced by the application of arbitrary shapes in gouaches, ink washes, spray paint and graphite. Santa holds a BFA from the University of Delaware and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. Recently her work has been shown at Projects Gallery, UnSmoke Space, and Gross McCleaf Gallery. In 2007, she was the recipient of the Charles Addams Prize, and was an Artist-in-Residence in Pereira, Colombia. Her work has been exhibited at The Delaware Center of Contemporary Art, FLUXspace, The Jenny Jaskey Gallery, The University of the Arts, the galleries of The University of Pennsylvania, and The Lucy Tejada Cultural Center in Pereira, Colombia. Santa lives and works in Philadelphia.

To view more works by Santa, visit http://carolinesanta.com/news.html

Opening Reception: Friday, May 6th 6:00pm-10:00pm
Exhibition Dates: Friday May 6th - Sunday May 29th

Tiger Strikes Asteroid
319A North 11th Street
2nd Floor (Our New Location!)
Philadelphia PA 19107

Joe Ovelman (MFA '10) in Solo Exhibition at Conner Contemporary Art, Opening May 14th, 6pm

Conner Contemporary Art is pleased to present concurrent solo exhibitions by Jeremy Kost, Joe Ovelman and Geoffrey Aldridge. Joe Ovelman (MFA '10) explores sexuality and the subversion of social norms with a series of new sculptures in his second solo exhibition with the gallery, "Coming Home". Works made of wood and mixed media resemble apparatuses used in past decades to provide anonymity during sexual encounters. Removing these forms from their original contexts and adjusting the relation of their features to human anatomy, Ovelman emphasizes the universality of these objects.

To view more of Ovelman's work, visit http://joeovelman.com/home.


Opening Reception: Saturday, May 14th, 6:00 - 8:00pm.
Exhibition Dates: May 14th – July 2nd, 2011


Conner Contemporary Art
1358 Florida Avenue,
NE –Washington, DC 20002
(in the Historic Atlas/H Street Area)
http://www.connercontemporary.com/
202.588.8750
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 - 5:00pm

Marc Blumthal (MFA '10) in Group Exhibition at the Woodbury Hollywood Gallery (WUHO), CA, Opening Thursday April 14th, 7pm

Marc Blumthal (MFA '10) will have work featured in a group exhibition titled, "2D3D-2: Drawing in the Post-Digital Age" at the Woodbury University School of Architecture Hollywood Gallery (WUHO) in Los Angeles, California. Drawing is a major and parallel mode of expression for many of today’s progressive architects. The gallery thus proposes "2D3D", a comprehensive annual exhibition of architectural drawings. Please join the Blumthal and additional artists for this special event.

"Architectural drawings have a variety of uses: to instruct, inform, indulge, confuse, confirm, congratulate and console. The most worthwhile are those that undertake these essential architectural tasks on behalf of the producer rather than the consumer. When this is the case, which is rare, then such drawings do indeed become an integral part of the architecture they portray rather than a cypher for thoughts translated elsewhere, and by other means."
-Cedric Price

To see more of Blumthal's work, visit http://www.marcblumthal.com/

Opening Reception: Thursday, April 14th, 7:00 - 10:00pm
Exhibition Dates: Thursday, April 14th - Sunday, May 1st

Woodbury University School of Architecture
Hollywood Gallery (WUHO)
6518 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, California 90029
http://wuho.org/

Fine Arts Lecture Series: Mika Rottenberg, Thursday, April 21st, 5:30pm

The Penn Design Fine Arts Lecture Series is pleased to present a lecture by video installation artist, Mika Rottenberg. Rottenberg's latest work, "Squeeze" (2010), presents an uncommon and unsettling vision of art and commerce that is mirrored in the uncommon and potentially disorienting museum experience she creates for viewers. To reach the video, one must travel a mazelike installation. This physical passage offers a through-the-rabbit-hole journey into an alternate art space in which impossible and uncanny events transpire, serving as an architectural symbol of the absurdist approach with which Rottenberg produces serious commentary on current social conditions.

To create her short films, Rottenberg typically pursues an idea through drawings that give free rein to her imagination. Next she begins the careful casting process to find real people (instead of trained actors) who will interact with her mazelike, sculptural installation. She collaborates with a team of carpenters, engineers, and other assistants to build the environment or film set. Even before the construction is complete, she works with her characters in the space—almost as objects or motion studies—filming them and tailoring each compartment to fit their behaviours and unique corporeal features. Rottenberg makes feminist art decades after feminism was legibly defined. She makes seriously political art that is preposterously funny. She documents reality, but spins it into narrative fiction. With "Squeeze" (2010), Rottenberg hones these signature tactics, creating a video installation that is both humorous and unsettling.

Mika Rottenberg was born in Buenos Aires in 1976, and holds a BFA from the School of Visual Arts (2000) and an MFA from Columbia University (2004). She lives and works in New York. Solo exhibitions include San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; La Maison Rouge, Paris; KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin; and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York. Her work has been exhibited in the 2008 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art; the Tate Modern, London; Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao and New York); The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Uncertain States of America: American Art in the Third Millenium (multiple venues, 2005-2006). In March 2011 she will have a monographic exhibition at de Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam.

To learn more of Rottenberg's work, visit http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/26/arts/design/26galleries-MIKAROTTENBE_RVW.html

Event Date and Time: Thursday, April 21st, 5:30pm

Morgan Building
205 South 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
*Once you enter the building the lecture will be in the room immediately to your right.

Nathlie Provosty (MFA '07) in Group Exhibition at Fowler's Gallery, Brooklyn, Opening April 23rd, 6pm

Fowler Arts Collective is pleased to present "Fist City", an exhibition of abstract paintings by EJ Hauser, Logan Grider, Matt Phillips, and Nathlie Provosty (MFA '07).

A fist is the hand’s best attempt to organize itself. More often than not, our attempts to create order and meaning only remind us of how lawless and mysterious life actually is. What does the inside of your closed hand even look like? "Fist City" is not just a place; ...it is a community and a credo. Hands reaching out to grasp, touch, and configure the entropic. When words become too elusive and you have to take matters directly into your hands, you have entered "Fist City". Titled after the infamous Loretta Lynn song of the same name, "Fist City" embodies the bold, take-notice attitude of Lynn’s lyrics. The artists in "Fist City" are engaged in a rigorous investigation of abstraction and all the different forms it can take. The exhibition is a collaboration between the artists: self-directed and independently organized with the support of Fowler Arts Collective. In addition to paintings, the artists have produced a limited edition broadsheet that will accompany the exhibition.The artists live and work primarily in New York City and Philadelphia. Fowler is a new gallery and studio collective located in Greenpoint, Brooklyn founded by Cecelia Post (MFA '09).

To learn more about Fowler and this exhibition, visit http://www.fowlerartsbrooklyn.org/.

Opening Reception: Saturday, April 23rd, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Exhibition Dates: April 23rd to May 7th, 2011

Fowler Arts Collective Gallery
67 West Street, 2nd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11222
Gallery Hours: Saturday and Sunday 12:00 - 6:00pm or by appointment

Francesca Pfister (MFA '07) and Stefania Luciani Binnick (MFA '87) in Exhibition at the Consulate General:Italy, Philadelphia, Opening April 28th, 6pm

Francesca Pfister (MFA '07) and Stefania Luciani Binnick (MFA '87) will have work featured in a Group Exhibition titled, "The Unity of Italy and USA: A Bridge of 150 Year". Curated by Shara Wasserman, the exhibition will hosts two openings at the Crane Arts Building: Gray Area and the Consulate General of Italy, Independent Mall. Wasserman is the Exhibitions Director at Temple University Rome. A video projection and concert will be featured the day prior to Pfister and Binnick's opening.

* Opening Reception: Thursday, April 28th, 6:00 - 9:00pm

* Consulate General of Italy: Philadelphia
150 South Independence Mall W
Philadelphia, PA



Concert and Video Projection: Wednesday, April 27th 6:00 - 9:00pm

Crane Arts: Gray Area
1400 North American Street
Philadelphia, PA

Penn Alumni at Tiger Strikes Asteroid Promoting Gallery for Funding Support

Tiger Strikes Asteroid has been home to 25 exhibitions since it began in 2009. These include solo shows of its member artists and group and solo exhibits from local and national non-members as well. Our goal is to connect the Philadelphia art community with the National and International community by exhibiting a diverse array of exhibits and other programs.
In the coming months the gallery is also pleased to announce that it will move to a beautiful new space on the 2nd floor of the building it is currently in (319A North 11th Street). This will further plant the gallery in the vibrant community it has been apart of since it began and will increase opportunities for dialogue and conversation with other exhibition spaces and artist groups. In the coming months we will feature member exhibitions from Caroline Santa and Alex Paik, two person exhibitions from Amy Beecher and Susan Bricker, solo exhibitions from Tracy Thomason and Gerard Brown and an exhibit curated by Wallace Whitney, a New York based painter and part owner of the Lower East Side gallery, Canada.

With these coming exhibits comes increased costs. Tiger Strikes Asteroid is asking for funds to help with operating expenses, move related costs and other bills that may arise as we develop our gallery and programming.

Money donated to Tiger Strikes Asteroid will go to:
-The construction and renovations of our new gallery space.
-Shipping costs so we can bring artists from afar to our gallery.
-Equipment so we can expand the scope of our exhibits and programming.
-Costs associated with the development of a visiting speaker series.

Here is the link. Please donate today!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2082312048/tiger-strikes-asteroid-moves-and-expands

To learn more about Tiger Strikes Asteroid, visit http://www.tigerstrikesasteroid.com/

Kim Brickley (MFA '09) and Sarah Zimmer (MFA '08) create light installation for new project by the Mural Arts Program, Philadelphia

Kim Brickley (MFA '09) and Sarah Zimmer (MFA '08) contribute to a new project by the Mural Arts Program, in conjunction with the Northern Liberties Neighborhood Association. The project plans to bring a more permanent light installation to the city. The Spring Garden Gateway Project is an interactive light installation created by Brickley and Zimmer, which hopes to cover the I-95 underpass at Second and Spring Garden Streets with Lightwild Pixel LED lights and motion sensors to “transform the space into an interactive environment that pulses with light and movement.”

People, bikes and cars would all activate motion sensors, which (depending on the speed and position of said commuters) would activate pixels varying in color and brightness. The display would be ever-changing and depend entirely on the commotion of the city around it. Michael Sebright is the architectural consultant on the job, Adam Rokhsar of Harvestworks is the interactive programmer and Billy Hodges of Illuminations is the lighting consultant on the project.

To learn more about this project, visit http://nakedphilly.com/northern-liberties/the-spring-garden-gateway-project-an-interactive-light-installation-under-95/

Linnea Paskow (MFA '02) in Exhibition at the President's Gallery, Pratt Institute, Opening April 14th, 4pm

Linnea Paskow (MFA '02) in will have her collages featured in an exhibition at the President's Gallery, Pratt Institute. Paskow is a visual artist who works with collage as her primary medium. She is an Assistant Professor Pratt Institute's upstate location at Munson-Williams-Proctor in Utica. She is also a Visiting Assistant Professor in the foundation department at Pratt Institute. She has an M.F.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. from Haverford College. Locations of recent group exhibitions include: The New York Design Center and The Painting Center, in New York City; the Gross McCleaf Gallery in Philadelphia; and the Anna Bondonio Gallery in Alba, Italy. In 2007, she had a solo show at Kunstoffice in Berlin, and her work was included in 07_Art Projects with Michael Steinberg Fine Art in London. A solo installation of her work will be shown in the project room of Michael Steinberg Fine Art in the fall of 2008.

For more information, please visit http://www.linneapaskow.com.


Opening Reception: Thursday, April 14th, 4:00 - 5:30pm
Exhibition Dates: April 14th - February 2011

President’s Office Gallery
Pratt Institute
Main Building, First Floor
200 Willoughby Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11205
Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday, 10:00am-4:00pm

Jane Irish (MFA Program Coordinator) receives the Alfred and Trafford Klots International Program for Artists Residency

Jane Irish (MFA Program Coordinator) recently received the Alfred and Trafford Klots International Program for Artists Residency in
Léhon, France. The residency invites Irish to a five week program beginning May 15th, 2011. In addition it provides artists with notable resources includinng Painting French rooms, WWII landscapes and beautiful churches. In 1989, Isabel Klots founded the Artist Residency Program in Rochefort-en-Terre in memory of her father-in-law, Alfred Klots, and her husband, Trafford Klots, both artists, and of their hospitality to other artists. In 1995, Maryland Institute College of Art began to administer the program. The "Friends of Rochefort" was established in 1998 to support the program as its focus and reputation expanded. Through the generosity of the Friends and of Isabel Klots, MICA has established an endowment fund for the Residency Program. Through 2010, the Residency Program was housed on the grounds of the Château that Alfred Klots created in the early 20th century from medieval structures remaining on the site of an ancient castle destroyed during the French Revolution. Now, because the Château requires extensive renovation and is no longer habitable, MICA has moved the Residency Program to Léhon, another extraordinary medieval village in Brittany. Irish, a painter, received her MFA from Queens College, CUNY, and has exhibited in New York and Philadelphia since 1983. Irish’s ceramic work can be seen in the Institute of Contemporary Art’s exhibition, Dirt on Delight: Impulses Which Form Clay (Jan 16 - Mar 29, 2009), which travels to the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN. In 2002-03, Irish created a large-scale installation for the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts - her first solo museum exhibition, History Lesson. She is currently represented by Locks Gallery, Philadelphia.

In addition to receiving the Alfred and Trafford Klots International Program for Artists Residency, Irish has been named the Bill Co-Organizer of the Bill Walton exhibition opening at ICA in September 2011.

Nathlie Provosty (MFA '07) in Group Exhibition at Jolie Laide, Opening April 8th, 6pm

Nathlie Provosty (MFA '07) will have work featured in a group exhibition titled "Becoming Something Found" at Jolie Laide, Philadelphia. "Becoming Something Found" explores how chance and uncertainty guide the processes of making art. The exhibition included artists from different generations who “collaborate with chance” (Rebecca Solnitt). The artists are connected through practices that involve unplanned gestures and indirect courses. Their processes are similar yet disparate, overlapping in approaches to materials and abstraction and varying in particularities of methods and imagery. For all of the artists, making art entails an ability to get lost and to remain open to what one may find. Additional artists featured include Jessica Dickinson, Emily Do, Rachel Foullon, Shelia Hicks, Alison Knowles, Fabienne Lasserre, Siobhan Liddell, Ree Morton, Jo Smail, and Molly Smith.

To see more of Provosty's work, visit http://www.nathlieprovosty.com/


Opening Reception: Friday, April 8th, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Exhibition Dates: Friday, April 1st - Saturday, May 28th

Jolie Laide Gallery
224 N. Juniper St.
Philadelphia, Pa 19107
http://www.jolielaide.com

Chloe Isadora Reison and Mary Valverde (MFA '12 candidates) in Exhibition at the Morgan Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Opening April 8th, 6pm

In "Deliberate Enigmas", Chloe Isadora Reison and Mary Valverde (MFA '12 candidates) present their individual sculptural works, as well as a collaborative performance piece, to take place the night of the opening. Both Reison and Valverde are interested in material culture, consumption and excess. They execute their respective work quite differently from one another, though each artist approaches their practice with a similar and curious sense of exploration, and a dedication to formalism. Their goal in showing together is to perpetuate the influence and inspiration the two artists have taken from one another, as well as to see what dialogue may arise in the joining of their work. Reison and Valverde see this as the start of a conversation that they hope to continue throughout their careers.


Opening Reception: Friday April 8th, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Performance Time: 7:00pm
Exhibition Dates: Friday, April 8th - Friday, April 15th

Morgan Gallery
Department of Fine Arts
University of Pennsylvania
205 S 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Jessica Vaughn (MFA '11 candidate) in Exhibition at DuBois College House, University of Pennsylvania, Opening April 5th, 7pm

In "Redress", Jessica Vaughn (MFA '11 candidate) presents photographs and works on panel made during her graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She explores printmaking and photography in unconventional ways by altering the surface of her works through processes of drawing, painting and erasure. Vaughn’s work starts with a recognizable image, found photographs from magazines, newspaper sources or ones that she has taken. She combines different processes together to create connectivity and analysis in images where it is generally assumed none exists. Such is the case in her recent work where she uses 16 th century Dutch woodcuts and African American hairpieces, or installation set-ups of cardboard banker boxes, iconic red plaid plastic bags and faux star galaxy backdrops. Her sense of abstraction has developed from translating information that is often recognized and seen as monolithic into something new.

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

Opening Reception: Tuesday April 5th , 7:00 - 9:00pm

DuBois College House
University of Pennsylvania
39th and Walnut
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Matt Neff (MFA '05 & Undergraduate Faculty) has print featured on cover of the Philagrafika Graphic Unconscious Exhibition Catalog

Matt Neff's (MFA '05) print with Óscar Muñoz was recently chosen to featured on the cover of the Philagrafika Graphic Unconscious Exhibition Catalog. The Graphic Unconscious catalog is a reference for the expanded field of printmaking featuring work by forty artists and collectives, working in a variety of media from traditional print to multi-disciplinary practices, featured in The Graphic Unconscious exhibition of the Philagrafika 2010 festival. Featured artists within the catalog and Philagrafika include Lisa Anne Auerbach, Eric Avery, Christiane Baumgartner, Erick Beltrán, Bitterkomix, Mark Bradford, Cannonball Press, Enrique Chagoya, Sue Coe, Julius Deutschbauer, Dexter Sinister, Dispatch, Drive By Press, Eloísa Cartonera, Art Hazelwood, Pablo Helguera, Orit Hofshi, Thomas Kilpper, Gunilla Klingberg, Virgil Marti, Paul Morrison, Óscar Muñoz, Pepón Osorio, Carl Pope, Qui Zhijie, Duke Riley, Betsabeé Romero, Francesc Ruiz, Jenny Schmid, Self Help Graphics & Art, Regina Silveira, Kiki Smith, Space 1026, Superflex, Swoon, Tabaimo, Temporary Services, Barthélémy Toguo, Tromarama, and YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES.

Tra Bouscaren (MFA '12 candidate) will present selected work at Stony Brook University's Philosophy and the Arts Conference, April 1st, 11am

Tra Bouscaren (MFA '12 candidate) has been selected to present his work "Progressive Palingenesis" at the Stony Brook University, Philosophy and the Arts Conference. The conference hosts an excellent lineup of philosophers, artists, art historians, and scholars from other fields coming from across North America to present their ideas and artworks. The Keynote Speaker for the event, Dr. Kaja Silverman (University of Pennsylvania, Art History) will address the conference on Friday. Information on the conference, as well as the schedule of events for Friday, April 1st and Saturday April, 2nd can be viewed at the link below. For more information regarding this event, visit http://www.philosophyartconference.org/2011-conference.html

Event Date and Time: Friday April 1st, 11:00am - Saturday April 2nd, 7:45pm

Stony Brook University, Manhattan
387 Park Avenue South, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10016
(Please enter at the 101. E. 27th Street entrance, below the Stony Brook flag)

Fine Arts Lecture Series: Michelle Grabner, Thursday March 31st, 6pm

The Penn Design Fine Arts Lecture series presents Michelle Grabner and her lecture at the ICA. Michelle Grabner is an artist and writer. She is also is a corresponding editor for X-tra and ArtUS. Her writing has been published in Artforum, Modern Painters, Frieze, Contemporary, X-tra, Art Press, Teme Celeste among others.

Professor and Painting and Drawing Department Chair at The School of the Art Institute, she has also taught at The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Cranbrook Academy of Art, and the Yale Norfolk Program. Recent visiting artist engagements include California Institute of the Arts; Albert College of Art and Design, Calgary; American University; Bennington College; California College of Art; and the San Francisco Art Institute.

Grabner is also the founder and director of The Suburban, an artist-run project space in Oak Park, Illinois, which over the past ten years has hosted projects by numerous major and emerging artists. A ten-year anniversary catalogue titled Can I Come Over to Your House: The First Ten Years of The Suburban, with essays by Michelle Grabner Michael Newman is being published later this year. She and her husband Brad Killam also run The Poor Farm, a kunsthalle in Waupaca County WI.

She has exhibited her work at Musée d´art Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg; Stadtgalerie, Keil; Kunsthalle, Bern; Daimler Contemporary, Berlin; Midway, Minneapolis; Rocket, London; INOVA, Milwaukee; Southfirst, Brooklyn; Gallery 16, San Francisco; Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI; Feigen, Inc. New York; Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago; The Milwaukee Art Museum; Galerie der Stadt Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen; McKenzie; Bricks and Kicks, Vienna; Turbinehallerne, Copenhagen; Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas.

To learn more about Grabner's work, visit http://www.michellegrabner.com/

Event Date and Time: Thursday, March 31st, 6:00pm

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

Kelsey Halliday Johnson (MFA '12 candidate) and Robert Dimin (MFA '11 candidate) in Exhibition at Project Space 240 Church, Opening April 1st, 6pm

Kelsey Halliday Johnson (MFA '12 candidate) and Robert Dimin (MFA '11 candidate) will be in a group exhibition titled, "After the Curtain" at Project Space 240 Church, Philadelphia. The exhibition features the latest work by Leigh Barrow, Reed Barrow
Mia Berg, Justin Melnick, Stephen K. Schuster, Dimin, Johnson & others.

Opening Reception: Friday, April 1st, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Exhibition Dates: Friday, April 1st - Saturday, April 30th



Project Space 240 Church
240 Church Street (Between Market & Arch and 2nd & 3rd)
Philadelphia, PA 19104
http://projectspace240church.com/home.html

Jayson Musson (MFA '11 candidate) interviewed in "Art in America"

Jayson Musson (MFA '11 candidate) was recently interviewed by Brian Boucher in "Art in America". Musson's alter-ego, Hennessey Youngman is the latest phenomenon to sweep the Internet. Musson / Youngman, the creator of "Art Thoughtz", who is black, styles himself in one of his videos as "the pimp of one-liners". He offers screamingly funny and sometimes sharply critical observations on the art world in the form of instructional videos. Topics range from the perils of copying Bruce Nauman ("You into torture? Shit, I'm into torture. Shit, you know what? Too bad. Bruce Nauman, he owns torture!"), to understanding relational esthetics, to how to be a successful artist. Over the last year, 10 videos have been posted, all in the same genre, some purportedly responding to requests and comments from viewers.

To view more of Musson's "Art in America" interview, visit http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/conversations/2011-03-24/hennessey-youngman-youtube/

Visit http://www.youtube.com/user/HennesyYoungman to catch the latest Hennessey footage.

Fine Arts Lecture Series: Stan Douglas, Thursday March 24th, 5:30pm

Stan Douglas is an artist whose work explores social histories played out through a complex cinematic and televisual language. His interest in the social implementation of western ideas of progress, particularly utopian philosophies, is located in their often divisive political and economic effects. His interrogation of the structural possibilities of film and video, in concert with intricately developed narratives, has resulted in a number of groundbreaking contemporary art works. These have been
included in exhibitions around the globe, most recently in Documenta 11, 25th Bienal de Sao Paulo, and the 51st Venice Biennale.

(Reid Shier, Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Contemporary Art Gallery, Stan Douglas: Every Building on 100 West Hastings, 2002)

To learn more about Stan Douglas' work, http://www.davidzwirner.com/artists/17/

Event Date and Time: Thursday, March 24th, 5:30pm

Meyerson Hall, Room B1*
210 S 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
http://www.icaphila.org/events/

* Please note the change of location, this lecture will be held in Meyerson Hall Room B1.
Afterwards please remember to stop by The ICA’s opening reception for Shelia Hicks: 50 Years lasting from
* 6:00 - 8:00pm.

University of Pennsylvania Undergraduate Fine Arts Senior Thesis Exhibition, Opening March 23rd, 5pm

Please join the University of Pennsylvania Undergraduate Fine Arts Class of 2011 for their Undergraduate Senior Thesis Exhibition. Artists featured in the exhibition include Li-Hsing Chen, Siede Coleman, Sarah Dekker, Rebecca Donald, Fay Fussell, Rachel Ivanhoe, Jeremy Maas, Stacey Toseland, and Greg Wall. The Class of 2011 has spent the past year preparing for this show which reflects a culmination of their work. The exhibition hosts a variety of media including painting, animation, sculpture, installation and text / digital media. It also presents a diverse array of content.

To learn more about the Thesis Exhibition, visit http://www.design.upenn.edu/fineartsthesis2011/index.html

Opening Reception: Wednesday, March 23rd 5:00 - 7:00pm
Exhibition Dates: Wednesday, March 23rd - Thursday, April 21st

Charles Addams Fine Arts Gallery
University of Pennsylvania
200 South 36th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday 9:00 - 5:00pm, Saturdays upon request

MFA '11 & '12 Graduates Candidates in Group Exhibition at the Morgan Gallery, Opening March 22nd, 5:30pm

Several MFA '11 & '12 graduate candidates will be featured in a group exhibition titled, "Trembling: A Collaborative Ongoing Installation" in the Morgan Gallery, University of Pennsylvania. This ongoing collaborative installation takes place on behalf of graduate faculty Matt Freedman's Drawing Seminar. The seminar pauses in midstream for an evening of viewing and celebration. In the spirit of experimentation, the seminar and exhibiting artists invite you to explore this work amidst it's progress. The exhibition will be up and continuing to evolve until March 27th. Artists featured include Tra Bouscaren , Sarah Goffstein, Kelsey Halliday Johnson, Elina Malkin, Saori Moriizumi, Yoorim Park, Erik Reinholdz, Meredith Sellers, Woohyun Shim, Brett Wiemann and Mikey Winsor

Opening Reception: Tuesday, March 22nd 5:30 - 8:30pm
Exhibition Dates: March 22nd - March 27th (Visit the MFA Graduate Office for Appointment)

The Morgan Gallery
University of Pennsylvania
205 S. 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA, 19104

Alexis Granwell (MFA '07) in Exhibition with Rick Lewis at MACAS, Opening March 5th, 6pm

Mount Airy Contemporary Artists Space (MACAS) is pleased to present artwork by Philadelphia artist Alexis Granwell (MFA '07) and Brooklyn artist Rick Lewis. Utilizing a variety of techniques and media, including painting, print and wall-mounted assemblage, the artists demonstrate their connection to place. Their work is as much about the performance of making as it is about the paradoxical tension between their use of fragile materials and the strength of their designs. Granwell is inspired by the cycle of decay and renewal in the urban landscape. Using detritus from the city she assembles constructions that suggest new possibilities. Her prints incorporate the lines and patterns of topographical maps leading us to a visualization of a psychological geography. MACAS is a small artist-run exhibition space in the northwest of Philadelphia. The gallery’s program is focused on connecting artists and artist communities through exhibitions that pair artists from different regions.

Opening Reception: Saturday, March 5th, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, March 5th - Saturday, April 2nd

MACAS
25 West Mt. Airy Avenue
Philadelphia PA, 19119
267.270.2787
info@mountairycontemporary.com
http://www.mountairycontemporary.com/
Gallery Hours: Saturdays 1:00 - 4:00pm

Tetsugo Hyakutake (MFA '09) in Exhibition at Gallery 339, Opening March 8th

Gallery 339 is pleased to present "Ephemeral Existence", an exhibition by Tetsugo Hyakutake (MFA '09). In "Ephemeral Existence", Hyakutake explores the contradictions inherent in the Japanese landscape and how those contradictions offer clues to understanding Japan today. Hyakutake’s work focuses primarily on industry and the infrastructure of modern society (bridges, railroads, highways), through which he seeks to decipher recent Japanese history and culture. Hyakutake’s conflicted relationship with these sites comes across in his ambiguous images. The grandeur of the structures suggests his admiration for the role that industrialization played in making the Japan of today: a manufacturing superpower, the second largest economy in the world, a country rebuilt from the ashes of the Second World War. Yet the images are not robust celebrations of national pride. There is an uncertainty to these structures. They have an ephemeral quality, as if they might disperse in the night air—beautiful dreams rather than steel and concrete. Hyakutake’s industrial photographs are also more than cold documents; they are suffused with a surprising sense of humanity, evoking the lives and toil that stand behind these monuments. The industrial miracle of the post war era clearly returned Japan from defeat to a remarkable economic victory, but Hyakutake ponders whether the price was too high and the victory too fleeting.

Opening Reception: Friday, April 8th, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Exhibition Dates: Tuesday, March 8th - Saturday, May 7th

Gallery 339
NE corner of 21st & Pine Streets
Five Star Parking Garage is located between 20th and 21st Streets on Lombard Street
http://gallery339.com/html/

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