Sean Riley (MFA '04) showing SHARP & BLURRY at the Beehive in Boston

In his second Boston-area exhibition this year Sean Riley will be displaying work in the group show SHARP & BLURRY at the Beehive. Please attend the opening if you are in the area, the opening will have live music.


Opening: Tuesday Sept 24 6:30 - 8:30
On view: Sept 24 - Dec

THE BEEHIVE - 541 Tremont St, Boston, MA
More information here. 

Julia Barbosa Landois (MFA '07) solo installation and performance, 'Buried, Not Dead', at Artpace in San Antonio, TX

Inspired by the toil and tunneling of ants on display in an ant farm, artist Julia Barbosa Landois presents Buried, Not Dead in Artpace’s Main Avenue storefront windows. Her installation creates parallels between the paths of ant constructions and of one’s ancestors' migration through history and geography. Landois will perform live at the exhibition opening at 7:30 pm on September 12th, telling the story of a transcendent experience in ant farming, accompanied by musician Erik Sanden on guitar. The exhibition runs throughDecember 29th.

Buried, Not Dead
Opening: Thursday, September 12th, 6-9 pm, 

Performance at 7:30 pmOn View: September 12 - December 29

Artpace
445 N. Main Avenue
San Antonio, TX 78205
http://artpace.org

Julia Barbosa Landois (MFA '07) featured in 2013 Texas Biennial

Video and performance works by Julia Barbosa Landois will be featured in this year's Texas Biennial exhibition, an independent survey of contemporary art in Texas curated by Bill Arning, René Paul Barilleaux, Christian Gerstheimer, K8 Hardy, Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler, Annette Lawrence, David Pagel, Bárbara Perea, Christina Rees, Dario Robleto, Noah Simblist, Jeremy Strick, and Clint Willour. Her video, Star-Crossed II, is on view at the Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum in San Antonio, TX until November 9th. Landois will also perform Culo de Oro/The Golden Ass, a multimedia piece about sex work on the Texas/Mexico border, at Centraltrak in Dallas, TX on September 21st.

2013 Texas Biennial
http://www.texasbiennial.org/tx13.html


Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum
116 Blue Star
San Antonio, TX 78204
http://bluestarart.org


Centraltrak - The Artist Residency of the University of Texas at Dallas
800 Exposition Avenue
Dallas, TX 75226
http://www.centraltrak.net

Jacolby Satterwhite (MFA '10) and Jane Irish Exhibiting at Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, Sept 15 - Nov 12

Ethan Cohen Fine Arts presents M | I | C /A || THEN / NOW, a two-part exhibition featuring the work of Maryland Institute College of Art alumni, at Ethan Cohen Fine Arts in Chelsea and Kunsthalle Beacon (KuBe). This exhibition is curated by Barry Nemett, Chair of the Painting Department at MICA. All alumni in the New York Tri-state area are invited to attend one or both openings.

Opening: Sept 15, 1-5pm

On View: Sept 15 - Nov 12

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Sarah Anderson (MFA '12) presents in the SENSEI Exchange Series, NYC

Sarah Anderson’s first project with Sensei includes a two-channel video, sculpture, and encaustic paintings. Anderson’s work frequently deals with the intimate re-scaled to envision a public life punctuated by the erotic.

Characters in literature often embody disparate aspects of a single consciousness. Romancing: The Head and the Whale attempts to do something similar in video, painting, and sculpture. Together, the three sets of works propose multiple viewpoints that form a cohesive perspective on the relationship between destruction, language, and desire.

On View: Sept 12 - Oct 1

Closing: Oct 1, 8-11pm

Location:

SENSEI Exchange Series @ "The Cellar" of Little Fox Cafe

62 KENMARE STREET NYC 10012 (BTWN MOTT & MULBERRY)

Wilmer Wilson (MFA '15) opening a solo show at Connersmith Gallery in DC, September 21st 6-8pm

Wilson shoots with ladders.

In a new body of work featuring live performance, photographs, and sculptural installation, Wilson explores intersections between cultural desire and black masculinity. Taking Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s German romantic literary masterpiece Faust as a point of departure, Wilson brings to life a contemporary quest for metaphysical ascent, a cultural climb replete with the temptations and distractions of an urban landscape. The artist queries claims to truth in art and narrative progression, while blurring lines between documentation and artifice in performance-based work. Using ladders, lottery tickets, and emergency Crisco lanterns, Wilson will interact with the spaces occupied by his audience as his durational performance unfolds in the gallery.

A second component of Wilson’s performance will occur across the city of Washington, D.C. Beginning at 10:30am Monday, September 16, Wilson will walk carrying a ladder for three to four hours, from one of D.C.’s least affluent spots to one its wealthiest, traveling on foot from Marvin Gaye Park to the Georgetown Waterfront, via Benning Road, C Street, Massachusetts Avenue and K Street.

Opening: Sat Sept 21 6-8

On View: Sept 21 - Nov 2

Gallery info: 1358 FLORIDA AVE, NE - WASHINGTON DC 20002

Press Release Here

Tara White (MFA '13) is in an upcoming group show at Kustraum Kreuzburg in Berlin

But will tomorrow be the future tomorrow?

Tara White will be in an upcoming group show filled with art stars and those of the names you should know. The opening is tomorrow, Friday September 6th.

TOMORROW It's TIME FOR THE FUTURE shows young talents from Berlin and New York, two of the most interesting art cities. The exhibition focuses on the close relationship and the rain transnational exchanges between artists on both sides of the Atlantic, from the community of artists projects or even adult can. Berlin is among the creators of New York as an art mecca of the 21st century and is frequently referred to as the "sixth district" just behind Manhattan and Brooklyn. Side by side with lesser-known names, the exhibition includes works by established and successful in the art market protagonists, which emerging artists inspired and place in an art-historical context. "Tomorrow it's time for the future" thus allows an overview of generations of artists as well as an outlook on the future of art, it focuses on their potential for development. Where do artistic ideas? What are themes that recur on both sides of the Atlantic and stand? The result is an exhibition of painting and performance, sculpture and video, in which is seen as forms and ideas spread both across generations and across continents and continue to develop.

Opening: Friday, September 6th at 19:00

On View: September 7th - October 20th

More information here.

Mark Dilks (MFA '13) will have collabrative work on view at Vox Populi in Careful With That Brain, Sept. 6th

This is your brain. This is your brain on art.

Careful With That Brain, a collaboration between Mark Dilks, Ted Carey, & Marc Zajack will open this Friday at Vox.

Often capitalized: a state of things, chances are paramount; particular: the establishment of various forms of unregulated state of confusion in front of the original article – Compare the universe: In complex natural behavior of the system (such as the atmosphere, boiling water, or the heart of the unpredictability inherent)

: This is directed through a complex maze procedure or difficulties, particularly things: an evidence leading toward solving one of the problems

Opening: September 6th, 6-11

On View: September 6th - 29th

More info here.

MFA Class of 2014 to open a Fall Show at Charles Addams Gallery, Friday Sept. 6th

Is she truly all sugar and spice? 

The second year MFA class will present their fall show on the Penn Campus, this Friday September 6th at the Charles Addams gallery. If you are in the area, please come out and have some snacks on the university's dime while you see what we are up to.

And, if you do come, please grab an MFA student and introduce yourself.

Opening: September 6th, 5-7
On View: Through September 26th

Daniel Gerwin (MFA '08) in the Fleisher Art Memorial's Wind Challenge Exhibition, Opening September 6th

Daniel Gerwin uses trompe l’oeil painting to simulate wood grain, alluding to floors, doors, window frames, and furniture. In some cases he paints directly onto salvaged domestic items such as rocking chairs, mirrors, and dresser drawers, using painted marks to transform these objects, like insects isolated in amber. Gerwin does not seek to illustrate or directly describe our relationship to the domestic, but rather to abstract it. In his work, trompe l'oeil folds in on itself to become a language of imagination and psychological resonance.

Opening: September 6th, 6-8

On View: September 6th - October 26th

More information here.

Trawick Bouscaren (MFA '12) to co-curate and present in upcoming exhibitions at "My Future Ex" in Buffalo, NY

On September 17th, "My Future Ex", will have a soft gallery opening at the Center for the Arts, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY.

Focused on the celebration of temporary relationships between people, materials and places, "My Future Ex" presents a diversity of contemporary approaches to the practice of installation and performance art. Curated by Tra Bouscaren (MFA '12) and Sandra Q. Firmin, the exhibition features an ambitious mixture of local, national, and international talent in a kaleidoscopic series of installations and events, spanning 11 locations across the city of Buffalo throughout the Fall season. The exhibition includes PennDesign MFA graduates including Tamara Suber (MFA '11), John Schlesinger (MFA '11), and Tra Bouscaren (MFA '12).

September 17th

UB Art Gallery
201 Center for the Arts
Buffalo, NY 14260-6000

More information here.

On September 14th, Tra Bouscaren (MFA '12) will open a solo exhibition at the Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia, PA, entitled, "New Works"

TRA BOUSCAREN: NEW WORKS
September 14 – October 19, 2013
Levy Gallery for the Arts in Philadelphia
Tra Bouscaren’s large-scale, site-specific installation utilizes video, painting, sound and kinetic sculpture to create an ominous, hallucinatory environment that speaks to the darker side of technology and human nature.

Opening: September 13th, 6-8

On View: September 14th - October 19th

Galleries at Moore College of Art & Design are located at 1916 Race Street Philadelphia, PA 19103.

Trawick Bouscaren (MFA '12) is participating in the Echo Art Fair, September 7th in Buffalo, NY

On September 7th, Tra Bouscaren (MFA '12) is one of 12 artists who have been chosen to develop a site-specific installation project for the Echo Art Fair in Buffalo, NY.  

His installation has been sponsored by a grant from the Oishei Foundation.  

The jury which chose his work was comprised of the following people:

 

John Massier, Visual Arts Curator, Hallwalls

Scott Propeack, Chief Curator, Burchfield Penney Art Center

Holly Hughes, Curator, Albright Knox Art Gallery

Sandra Firmin, Curator, University at Buffalo Art Galleries

Cori Wolff, Director/Curator, Buffalo Arts Studio

Brooke Leboef, Project Coordinator, Beyond/In Western New York 2010

Linnea Paskow (MFA '02) showing at Honey Ramka in Brooklyn, NY

Slippery Wharf, 6"x8", 2013

Linnea Paskow will be exhibiting in a solo show, Bardo, at the project space in Honey Ramka. Honey Ramka is a new artist run gallery in the infamous Bushwick neighborhood. The paintings will be on view through October 6th. 


Opening: Friday, September 6, 6-9
On View: September 6 - October 6

Honey Ramka
56 Bogart St, First Floor
Brooklyn, NY

http://honeyramka.com/

UPenn Alumnus and Faculty Member, Deirdre Murphy, has an Upcoming Show at Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia

Grand Passage,  11"x36", Acrylic on Panel

In her upcoming show, Murmurations, at the Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia, Deirdre Murphy explores the collective intelligence of the flock, drawing on the common energy, pulsing changes, and unconscious cooperations of bird migrations as inspiration. A murmuration is a murmuring sound, but the term can also be used to refer to a flock of starlings which gather in astonishing numbers and form awe-inspiring constellations of fluid moving black masses, accompanied by a constant squawking that combines into a low running sound, a thick murmur. 

Opening: Friday, September 6, 5-7pm
On View: September 6- October 20, 2013
Philadelphia Open Studio Tours: Oct 5 & 6, 12-6pm
Closing: October 4, 5-7pm
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 12-5

Painted Bride Art Center230 Vine Street, 19106
215-925-9914
In conjunction with POST, Philadelphia Open Studio Tour.
www.deirdremurphyart.com

Tiger Strikes Astroid, Bushwick presents 'Passage' a collection of paintings by Andrew Prayzner (MFA '05)

Jefferson, oil on canvas, 16"x20".

The paintings in Passage begin with text and gestures that are collected from conversations, notes, choreography and subconscious physical movement such as tapping, shaking, flicking and are drawn with tape into the substrate of the painting. Then, images taken from random photographic sources are painted over the layer. The tape is removed and the images are “interrupted” or “cancelled” by text and gestures, building competing systems of signs that renders different interpretations of the painting. Documenting the process of making modes of representation and abstraction visible to the eye, and referring to the dictionary definition of the word, Passage is a passing of time, an opening through a space, a notation of a text, or in the Cubist sense, a technique to break up spatial relationships in painting.

Opening: September 7, 7-10
On View: September 7 - October 13

TSA, Bushwick location
44 Stewart Ave, #49
Brooklyn, NY 11237

Alexis Granwell (MFA '07) has upcoming shows in Connecticut and Maryland

Narrow Time, 48"x65", Drypoint and Monotype on Kozo Paper, 2012.

Continuing the tradition of printmaking at Penn, Alexis Granwell is pushing the medium by using intaglio techniques to create large, complex, layered mono-prints that connect formally with her background in painting and drawing. Ambitious in both scale and process, there is also a homemade, DIY quality to the work as Alexis makes her own paper for both the large prints and as material in her sculptures. 

Alexis has two shows upcoming, one in Maryland, and a second show in New Haven, Connecticut. If you are in the area, please attend.

Traces of Remains
Towson University, Towson, MD

Opening: September 12th at 6:30pm
Lecture: October 24th at 6:30pm
On View: September 12 - November 2nd
Click here for details.

Trace Maker,  mixed media, 2013.

Ghost Stories
Giampietro Gallery, New Haven, CT

Opening: October 11th, 5-8
Lecture: October 19th at 2pm
On View: October 11th - November 2nd
Click here for address/gallery information.

Mohammadreza Mirzaei (MFA '14) Lectured at Naghshe Jahan Art Research Center in Tehran, Iran

The poster for this event featuring artwork and Farsi.

Mohammadreza Mirzaei (among colleges simply Reza) gave a lecture this previous Thursday night, August 15th in the Creative Photography Institute in Tehran, Iran. At the event, named, "To Construct Reality," Reza discussed the presence of photography in literature, specifically concerning the works of Italo Calvino, Paul Auster and Reymond Carver, using these examples to address the complexities of reality and perception in contemporary photography. 

The artist and lecturer himself.

Afterwards in the second section, Reza presented some of his own works, concentrating on what the relationship between literature and photography means to him.  

The event was tweeted live from: https://twitter.com/akskhaneh


To Construct Reality: Lecture by Mohammadreza Mirzaei

Naghshe Jahan Art Reseach Center15 August 2013 , 7 pm. Next to Saei Book City, Vali-asr St. Tehran, Iran

Discussion with Rose Aslan and Nsenga Knight (MFA '10) at Artspace in Raleigh, NC on August 15th

Work from Nsenga's show Ritual and Revolution at Artspace.

Following a six month artist-in-residency position that wrapped up in July, Nsenga Knight has put up some recent work on exhibition at Artspace which she will be properly introducing with a short lecture on her work and a discussion with religious studies PHD candidate Rose Aslan. As of this posting, the event will take place tomorrow evening from 6-7:30pm. Event details below.

Nsenga's current exhibition, titled Ritual and Revolution, draws inspiration from pilgrimage rituals and the construction of communal narratives. As an emerging expert in her field, Aslan will augment the discussion of these themes in Nsenga's work by sharing her research on the historical roots and contemporary practices of the Hajj pilgrimage.

Event: Thursday, August 15th from 6-7:30pm

Artspace
201 E. Davie St. 
Raleigh, NC 27601

http://nsengaknight.wordpress.com/
http://artspacenc.org/events/artists-lectures-demonstration/

Paige Adair(MFA '11) has two upcoming shows in Atlanta at Eyedrum and The Welsh School Galleries

Paige Adair will be exhibiting her latest round of paintings in two upcoming Hotlanta shows. The first of the exhibitions will be held at the mixed-use music and arts space, Eyedrum, with the reception and music taking place on Friday August 9th at 6pm. The second exhibition is a juried alumni show at the Welsh School of Art and Design, with a reception on Thursday, September 5th. 

For those unfamiliar, Paige Adair makes animations and photographs in addition to her paintings, all exploring themes of wealth, privilege, and wacked-out animals using a previsionalist aesthetic, humor, and a dash of kitsch. For more of her work, please visit her new website at www.paigeadairartist.com.

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Opening: Friday August 9th, 6pm
Artist Talk: Sunday August 25th, 2pm
Closing Reception: September, 6th 7pm

Eyedrum Art and Music Gallery
115 MLK Jr. Drive SE
Suite 225
Atlanta, GA 30303

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Opening: Thursday September 5th, 5 - 8pm
On View: August 15th - September 27th, Hours 10-6 M-F

Georgia State University
The Welsh School Galleries
10 Peachtree Center Av. 
Atlanta, GA 30303
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Brian Zegeer (MFA '05) shown at Jakie Klempay in Brooklyn, NY

Artist Brian Zegeer was in a showing of the Torch Cinema series at Jakie Klempay this last Thursday night, July 11th. 

The screening culminated with an improvised video and sound performance by Brian and his art-partner, Baby Copperhead. In their artwork of the same title, they used an expansive repository of video clips, stop motion animations, sound recordings and circuit-bent instruments to riff on the 1959 Robert Frank/Alfred Leslie film, Pull My Daisy.

The Torch Cinema series is an ongoing project exploring what we watch and how we watch it, as organized by Michael Perrone (MFA '04). There was also said to be barbecue at the event.

Jakie Klempay
81 Central Ave (1A)
Brooklyn, NY 11206
www.jackieklempay.com

Shanti Grumblin (MFA '05) exhibiting in a print show at Planthouse Gallery

Shanti's new work using the NY Times.

Artist Shanti Grumbine is currently exhibiting at a summer print show, HOW ARE YOU GONNA GET BACK TO JERSEY? at Planthouse Gallery in Manhattan. Planthouse is a new gallery hosting its first annual summer printmaking show.

Shanti also recently partnered with a group of female poet veterans, Warrior Writers, to host an event at the AIR Gallery on Sunday, July 14th. The goal of the event was to help bridge the gap between civilians and veterans by using the gallery as a common ground where diverse truths and experiences can be witnessed and valued.

Planthouse Gallery show

Opening: July 10th from 6-9
On View: July 10th through August 28th

Planthouse Gallery
107 W 28th St
New York, NY 10001
www.planthouse.net

www.shantigrumbine.com

Sarah Tortora (MFA '13) in "Exposed." a group exhibition at the Helen Day Art Center in Vermont

"Drift," plywood and pressure treated lumber, 2013

Sarah Tortora's piece "Drift" will be on view at the Helen Day Art Center from July 13th to October 15th. The group show, Exposed., is an annual outdoor sculpture exhibition hosting national and international artists throughout the town and grounds of Stowe, VT.

Opening: July 13th 4-7pm
On View: July 13th - October 15th

Helen Day Art Center
90 Pond St
Stowe, VT 05672

More information online here.

Sarah Tortora (MFA '13) and Tadashi Moriyama (MFA '06) in a summer juried exhibition at Venice Arts Center

Photograph of Non-Place by Sarah Tortora

Recent graduate Sarah Tortora and recent Los Angeles transplant Tadashi Moriyama are both being featured in a juried exhibition titled, "Place/Non-Place: Locality in the Digital Age."

Based on the notion of “non-place,” a phrase coined by anthropologist Marc Augé, the 2013 Summer Juried Exhibition features 28 artists, each exploring how non-place—those locations of seeming anonymity devoid of time, such as freeways and airports—can unearth instances of humanity, storytelling, and belonging often associated with the particularities of “place.” 

Non-place can be anything and anywhere: the haunting stillness of a hospital room, the front seat of a van, or even our own bodies in transit. Join us as we investigate Augé’s phrase, considering the various interpretations the concept of “non-place” may hold, and all of the meanings that can be discovered through those interpretations.

See more online at, http://www.venicearts.org/index.php?view=sets&id=30255.

Opening: Saturday June 28th 5-8pm
On View: June 29th - August 16th

Venice Arts Center
1702 Lincoln Blvd, 
Venice, CA 90291

Linnea Paskow (MFA '02) and Sarah Gamble (MFA '01) in group show at Grizzly Grizzly in Philadelphia, Opening July 5th

Love's Industrial Park, 9x13, 2012 - Linnea Paskow

This upcoming weekend, Brooklyn based alumnus Linnea Paskow (MFA '02)will have work on view at Grizzly Grizzly in Philadelphia's bustlingest arts building. The group show, titled "Love's Industrial Park" will also include Philadelphia based artist Sarah Gamble (MFA '01) along with three New York artists.  

Whether working in two or three dimensions, each of the featured artists actively investigates the materiality of art, employing expressive processes that invite intuition and transformation. 

Artist, Linnea Paskow sees a psychological connection between the works on view, noting a shared “dream work of the unconscious” in these evocative works as they hover between figurative and the abstract. In keeping with that observation, Linnea's work explores the inner-mind while using color and light to evoke emotional content. Similarly lingering between the perceptual and the abstraction, Sarah's paintings use spontaneous mark-making to show a process of visual exploration through action that explores a shared unconscious.

Both artists will be in attendance at the opening on Friday night, July 5th.

Opening: July 5th 6-10pm
On View: July 5th - 27th

Grizzly Grizzly
319 N 11th Street, 2nd Flr
Philadelphia, PA
Hours: Saturday and Sunday, 2-6pm

Jacob Rivkin (MFA '13) is participating in the juried exhibition "Working it Out" at the Patinting Center in NY

Working Station #22, Ink on Government Bond Paper

Jacob Rivkin (MFA '13) is participating in the juried exhibition "Working it Out", at the Painting Center in Chelsea.  This exhibition features artists of all disciplines who begin their creative process with preparatory drawings. 

On View: June 18 – July 27, 2013

Opening Reception: Thursday, June 20, 6:00 – 8:00pm

The Painting Center

547 W 27th Street, Suite 500

New York, NY 10001

Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 11:00 – 6:00pm

For more information visit http://www.thepaintingcenter.org.

Sarah Gamble (MFA '01) has work on view at Edward Thorp Gallery in NYC, Opening June 13th

Sarah Gamble is participating in the group show, Season Review, at Edward Thorp Gallery in Chelsea. The opening is this evening, Thursday, June 13th, and the show is on view until August 9th.

Season Review is a survey of work by artists previously shown at Edward Thorp and will include art works in a variety of mediums.


Opening: Thursday, June 13th
On View: June 13th - August 9th

Edward Thorp Gallery
210 Eleventh Ave, 6th Fl, NY, NY

Rebecca Rutstein (MFA '97) at George Billis Gallery in Los Angeles, on view through July 7th

Rebecca Rutstein is participating in a group show on view at the George Billis, Los Angeles gallery through July 7th. 

Rebecca's large scale paintings use geometric abstractions based on geography as a metaphors for the erosion and upheavals that shape her own life experiences and relationships. Her paintings gradually become complex layered typographies that play with scale and the relationship of micro to macro views. Through that process of layering and invention, her paintings become landscapes of systems, uninhibited by familiar rules of place, perspectival relationships, and gravity.

On View: June 1st - July 7th, 2013
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 1st, 5 -  8 PM


George Billis Gallery
2716 S. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90034

For more information visit:
http://www.georgebillis.com/exhibitions1.html

Dan O'Neill (MFA '14) is hosting a "Coffee and Conversation" lecture in the ICA Excursus space, Saturday, June 8th

Enjoy a cup of complimentary La Colombe coffee and join PennDesign MFA student Dan O’Neill for an intimate conversation about questions of appropriation, copyright, republication, and documentation, prompted by the ICA exhibition Excursus IV: Primary Information currently on view.

Saturday, June 8th at 2pm

Institute of Contemporary Art

118 S 36th St. Philadelphia, PA 19104

Demetrius Oliver (MFA '04) in "11 Dimensions" at Louis B. James in NY

Louis B. James announces the opening of 11 Dimensions, a collaborative exhibition featuring works by Titus Kaphar, Wardell Milan, and Demetrius Oliver.  The installation will mark the third time that the artists have juxtaposed their work beginning with their 2006 residency at the Studio Museum in Harlem. 

In this age where quantum physics plays an increasingly prominent role and theoretical mathematicians posit seemingly incomprehensible proofs of alternate dimensions, the three artists use the simple tools of their respective trades to create images and objects that feel paradoxically justified by the logic of some unknown dimension. The eleven recent works by Kaphar, Milan, and Oliver seek to explore the complexity and pliability of time in ways that upend our understanding of history and speak to the implausible through the poetic use of diverse materials.
 
In Oliver’s prints and sculptures, the terrestrial becomes cosmic, forcing us to reckon with the inability to depict the infinite through finite means. Relying on the prosaic and quotidian, materials are transformed in unexpected ways to describe distant phenomena. Using photography, painting and sculpture, all three artists collectively imagine a complex world where time and space are malleable.
 
During their year-long residency at the Studio Museum, the artists developed a strong friendship as a result of an unexpected synergy between their artistic pursuits. After their residency, they relocated to a shared studio in Chelsea, where they continued their exchange, inspired and challenged by each other.


Louis B. James is located at 143b Orchard St, NY.  
For more information please email info@louisbjames.com or call 917 593 4086.

Opening Reception: Friday June 7, 6-8pm

Evan Nabrit & Dan O'Neill (MFA '14) are both exhibiting in "5 into 1," an annual juried sculpture show at Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia, PA

Dan O'Neill installing his art work.

Philadelphia Sculptors selected Adam Mazur to curate this year’s “5 into 1“ exhibition. Mazur chose work from graduating sculpture students, Aimee Gilmore and Marie Scavetti from Moore College of Art and Design, Jacintha Clark and Brian Artigue from Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Mitchell Kay and Mariah Couper from The University of the Arts, Evan Nabrit and Dan O’Neill from University of Pennsylvania, and Kevin Mack and Brett Williams from Temple University’s Tyler School of Art. Selections were based upon aesthetics, artistic merit, and concept to create a cohesive display of the energetic and diverse creativity of Philadelphia’s emerging artists. 

Offering a different focus to current art Director of Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Dr. Alex Baker will complement the exhibition with his presentation, “Gone Figurative: Contemporary Sculpture and the Human Form.” Asserting that sculpture has re-entered the vocabulary of contemporary art, Baker suggests that the proliferation of installation art may be beginning to subside as young artists return to traditional notions of sculpture, albeit in subversive ways. The public is invited to attend the free presentation at 1:30 PM and the opening reception, which follows from 3:15 – 5:30 PM. One student will be selected by Dr. Baker to receive the “Best in Show” award.

Moore College of Art and Design is located at 20th and the Parkway in Philadelphia. The exhibition will be open to the public from June 1 – July 20, 2013. Gallery hours during the exhibition: Monday-Friday at 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM, and Saturday 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM. The gallery is closed during all academic and regular holidays.

Additional support for this exhibition is provided by Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Tyler School of Art, The University of the Arts, and University of Pennsylvania.

For more information call 215-413-9126 or visit www.philasculptors.org, or call 215-965-4027 or visit www.thegalleriesatmoore.org

Opening Reception: Sunday June 9th, 3:15-5:30pm.

Sean Riley (MFA '04) included in ELLIPSES at Bakalar Gallery in MA

Sean Riley will be exhibiting in the upcoming show, Ellipses: Alumni Works in 3D. Ellipses is the second biennial juried alumni exhibition to be hel in the Bakalar Gallery at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Showcasing the breadth of talent and excellence embodied by MassArt's alumni, Ellipses features the work of 25 artists working in a range of three-dimensional disciplines -including sculpture, glass, site-specific installation, ceramics, fibers, and more.

Riley will be displaying, Eulogy, a double-sided quilt made from inherited family clothing that features hand embroidered text.

Massachusetts College of Art & Design

Sandra and David Bakalar Gallery

621 Huntington Ave

Boston, MA 02115

ON VIEW: June 10th - July 15th

RECEPTION: Wednesday, June 12th 6-8pm

Marc Blumthal (MFA '08) Exhibits: The Flame and The Flower at NAPOLEON, Philadelphia, PA

In his show, The Flame and the Flower, Marc Blumthal explores the nature of the Freudian “Id” and “ego” in the American psyche.  Photographs and silkscreens are abstracted to question the mythology surrounding cultural iconography.

The works are presented on aluminum referencing the slickness and immateriality of the computer screen that disseminates these images, also bringing to mind questions of a mass cultural sub-conscious.


ON VIEW: June 7th - June 28th
RECEPTION: June 7th, 6-10pm 

NAPOLEON
319 N 11th St., 2L
Philadelphia, PA

For more information visit:
www.marcblumthal.com/
napoleonnapoleon.com/

Jessica Vaughn (MFA '11) 2013 ISP Studio Exhibition, {TEMP} Gallery, New York, New York

Jessica Vaughn, Bundled Distribution. 81 images on vinyl, 2013

Jessica Vaughn will participate in the group exhibition for the 2012-13 Whitney Independent Studio Program.  Her latest project encompasses over 100 found images from the Internet, street corners in New York City, choreographed photographs taken in the studio, text and sculpture. 
 Over 50, 5”x7” images printed on vinyl will be exhibited for this installation.  Taking the format of a grid these postcard size images will sit alongside text documented during walks in New York City where she recorded sounds of vendors selling goods.  A sculpture wrapped in stretch plastic wrap will exist in proximity to this grid.  These images and text bring together the intimacies found in street hawkers who repurpose king size bed sheets into an object for selling and carrying faux luxury goods and cosmetics.  Found images of these street corners and vendors with their bundles next to constructed studio photographs (of plastic wrapped goods) are positioned together to reimagine competing histories of literal intimacy and a culture of resistance to normative forms of distribution in urban centers. 

ON VIEW: May 31st-June 16th  {TEMP} Art Space 57 Walker Street (between Broadway & Church) OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, May 31, 5-8pm

http://whitney.org/Events/2013StudioProgramExhibition

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