Philadelphia's Hiro Sakaguchi at Nancy Margolis Gallery

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FLOWERING A GROUP SHOWNancy Blum, Lynn Braswell, Maya Brym, Ryan Cobourn, Eloise Corr Danch, Lucy Fradkin, Meghan Howland, Hir FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FLOWERING A GROUP SHOW Nancy Blum, Lynn Braswell, Maya Brym, Ryan Cobourn, Eloise Corr Danch,  Lucy Fradkin, Meghan Howland, Hiro Sakaguchi 6/19 - 8/1/2014 RECEPTION 6/19 6-8PM Nancy Margolis Gallery is pleased to announce its summer exhibition, FLOWERING, will open to the public Thursday, June 19 from 6-8pm through August 1, 2014. FLOWERING defined literally is a plant in bloom, metaphorically rich, in a full stage of development. The paintings by the eight accomplished artists in this exhibition fit these definitions, and were selected for their engaging personal expression and styles. Their genre, unalike and varied, runs from realism, abstraction, narration, decoration, patterning, and embellishment. Flowers throughout history have been a universal mode of expression to convey feelings of love, grief, forgiveness, pleasure, joy, and celebration, so it is fascinating to see how each artist in his and her individual voice integrates the FLOWERING theme into their work. Nancy Blum, inspired by 17th century botanical drawings, is known for her obsessive wonderlands of bold, monumental flowers rendered on paper in ink, colored pencil, graphite and gouache, either as floral clusters or single huge erotic blooms. Blum received a M.F.A.f rom Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI; BA, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. The artist has participated in many solos and group exhibition in the US, and has work in important public and private collections, including The Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID, and The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ. Lynn Braswell mixes luminous reds, oranges, bright blues, yellows, and carefully crafted subtle contrasting tones to make her floral compositions. The paint, layered onto the canvas with short staccato strokes sets up a gavotte of color and form. From a distance the canvas reveals an array of floral that gradually molt into abstraction as the eye moves closer to the painting on the canvas. Braswell received her MFA from City College, CUN2, New York; Attended the New York Studio School; BFA, and from Pratt Institute, New York. Braswell divides her time between New York City and Maine, exhibiting in both locations, and placing her work in many of the private collections in these two areas. Traditionally trained, Ryan Cobourn works from observation, memory and intuition. His subject is not about specificity as much as an idea, or thought, executed with dreamy colors, free gestural brushwork ultimately evolving into luscious reconstructed abstract expressionist paintings. Cobourn received his BFA from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and MFA from Indiana University. He is currently living and working in Brooklyn, New York. He has exhibited in New York, California, Georgia, and Louisiana in group and solo shows. His work has been featured in numerous publications including, Painting Perceptions, Painters-Table, Hyperallergic, Zagat and John Yau’s essay, “Twenty-Five Painters Under Thirty-Five”. Maya Brym Spanning the genres of still life painting, and abstraction, Brym’s paintings intertwine artificial elements to reveal an uneasy beauty in the synthesis. Nature and the way humans interact with it remains the artist’s major source of inspiration. Brym received a MFA in painting from the University of Pennsylvania; BA in Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT. The artist has participated in many group exhibitions in the Metropolitan, New York, and Brooklyn areas. Eloise Corr Danch, born and raised in Chicago, is a versatile freelance artist who now lives and works in New York City. After an early focus on painting and illustration, she has expanded into paper sculpture, creating paper flowers, paper dresses and a various other paper props and sets for a variety of clients and publications. Eloise graduated with a Master of Arts in Illustration from the Fashion Institute of Technology in 2007. Before FIT, she studied at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and studied fashion illustration in France at the Paris American Academy. Eloise received a BFA in Painting and Drawing from The University of Montana-Missoula. Meghan Howland’s remarkable figurative paintings have a knock your socks off punch. Coalescing an edgy mood, idiosyncratic theme and composition with beautiful sultry painting the artist’s subjects suggest yearning, loss, and disaster. Relying on shocking contrasts as oppositional foils the artist births fresh pink toned female beauties surrounded by voluptuous pastel flowers, and ominously present, scary black birds. Meghan Howland lives and works in Portland, Maine. She received her BFA from New Hampshire Institute of Art, and exhibiting widely has established herself as an up and coming artist. Lucy Fradkin explores color, pattern, and diversity in her luminous portraits. Lush rich colors, intricate ornamentation, collage, and pencil blend together characteristically in her work. Contemporary, yet stylistically naive, she takes influence from folk, Indian and Persian miniature painting. Fradkin’s interiors of intimate domestic settings convey and depict stories of daily life. Self taught, Fradkin has shown in galleries in the United States, and abroad including Italy, China, and Japan. She is a 2011 recipient of the prestigious Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Space Grant and the 2009 Pollock-Krasner Grant. Hiro Sakaguchi’s work is influenced by two diverse cultures, Japan where he grew, and the US, where he now resides. The paintings depict autobiographical elements, an amalgam from memory and everyday life, creating a story in which emotions can dwell and depart. Hiro Sakaguchi lives and works in Philadelphia, PA. He received his MFA in 1996 from Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and BFA in 1993 from the University of Arts in Philadelphia. He has exhibited paintings in a number of galleries throughout the United States. Please contact the gallery for more information at margolis@nancymargolisgallery.com   ©2014 Nancy Margolis Gallery | 523 West 25th St. New York NY 10001

Naomi Reis, class of 2005, at Mixed Greens NYC

"Planted," a new window project, opens next Thur May 29 at Mixed Greens. There will be some painted silhouettes of non-native foliage, real non-native foliage, and fake non-native foliage staged together (a bit awkwardly, as in life.) And some new collages will be available in the Flat File. Up through Aug 29 - please come say hello. 

Coming up this summer, "Back to Eden," a group show with many artists I admire, opens Thur June 26, 6-8pm, at the Museum of Biblical Image. On Tue Aug 5 at 6:30pm, Lina Puerta and I will talk with curator Jennifer Scanlan about "The Garden as Symbol." Participating artists: Lynn Aldrich, Anonda Bell, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Mat Collishaw, Sean Capone, Jim Dine, Mark Dion, Barnaby Furnas, Adam Fuss, Rona Pondick, Lina Puerta, Naomi Reis, Pipilotti Rist, Alexis Rockman, Dana Sherwood, Mary Temple, and Marina Zurkow,  and Fred Tomaselli. 

Links and press release below for more info. Thank you for your support and please keep me updated with your news! 

Planted
May 29 - Aug 29, 2014

Opens Thursday May 29, 6-8pm

Windows Project at Mixed Greens

531 West 26th Street, New York, NY

Back to Eden: Contemporary Artists Wander the Garden

June 27 - Sept 28, 2014

Museum of Biblical Art

1865 Broadway, New York, NY

MFAs in Berlin: "Das stille Leben des Sammlers Kempinskit"

Opening: Sat, May 24, 7-10 pm

Note: The exhibition is held at a private limited-time-only location in Berlin, accessible by RSVP only. Please email the gallery for location: rsvp@thisisexile.com
 
Das stille Leben des Sammlers Kempinski

You are cordially invited to the final exhibition project by Exile in Berlin and to the inaugural Private Viewing of the imaginary collection of Mr Kempinksi. This exhibition brings together works by over 60 artists, now presented for the very first time for collective viewing.

The New York-based curator Mr Miller and the Berlin-based Mr Siekmeier were asked by Mr. Kempinksi to create a collage of artworks that reflects upon the relationship between art and collecting.

The Kempinski collection is by definition fluctuant and can move freely from one context to the next.

Participating Artists:

Nadja Abt
Aggtelek
Joseph Akel
Peggy Ahwesh
Anonymous
Francisco Berna
Douglas Boatwright
Matt Borruso
Matthew Burcaw
Elijah Burgher
Luke Butler
Anders Clausen
T.M. Davy
Mark Dilks
Discoteca Flaming Star
Paul Gabrielli
Robin Graubard
Markus Guschelbauer
Teenie Harris
Frank Hauschildt
Adrian Hermanides
Dan Herschlein
Valentin Hertweck
Benjamin Alexander Huseby
Monika Paulina Jagoda
Stephan Jung
Vytautas Jurevicius
Renata Kaminska
Saman Kamyab
Brenda Ann Kenneally
Kinga Kielczynska
Lisa Kirk
Martin Kohout
Marcus Knupp
Ulrich Lamsfuss
Cary Leibowitz
Hanne Lippard
Mahony
Katharina Marszewski
Darrin Martin
Rachel Mason
Howard McCalebb
Kazuko Miyamoto
Bob Mizer
Erik Niedling
Hugh O’Rourke
Joel Otterson
Rob Pruitt
Johannes Paul Raether
Annika Rixen
Matteusz Sadowski
Salvor
Dean Sameshima
Pietro Sanguineti
Fette Sans
Wilken Schade
Jason Seder
Barbara Sullivan
Gwenn Thomas
Goran Tomcic
Rein Vollenga
Jan Wandrag
Fresh White
Tara White
Norbert Witzgall
Carrie Yamaoka

This is Exile's final exhibition project in Berlin before re-opening in a new location in New York's Lower East Side in September.

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Animated Architecture presents: Glass House, an outdoor, dual projection video art installation by Daniel O'Neill, curated by Sean Stoops.
WHEN: Thursday - Saturday May 8-10, 8pm - 10pm each night

LOCATION: North Leopard St. just above East Girard Avenue.  The video projections will be visible from the Girard El train platforms and other nearby spots on street level, such as the Seven Eleven.
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In 'Glass House,' video artist Daniel O’Neill presents an invented "x-ray view" of a private home. Two site-specific animated video projections depict imaginary scenes on the top floor exterior walls of the building's deck. The video projections will be visible right after sunset, from the nearby Girard "El" train stop (as trains leave and enter the station) from the north side of the platforms.The project explores privacy and voyeurism in a dense urban community. The inside view is based on memories of the artist’s own childhood home. Nostalgia for a familiar place is projected on the urban landscape.

Animated Architecture: 3D Video Mapping Projections on Historic Philadelphia Sites is a festival of site-specific, outdoor/indoor video art events, usually held at night and screened at various Philadelphia buildings, opening in fall 2013. In spring 2012 Animated Architecture was named as one of thirty-five art project award winners to receive grants from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, as part of its Knight Arts Challenge, which funds innovative projects that engage and enrich Philadelphia’s communities. www.animatedarchitecture.org

HEART'S GYMNASTICS Curated by Yevgeniya Baras in NY

HEART'S GYMNASTICS 

EJ Hauser, Melissa Brown, Erin Lee Jones, Yevgeniya Baras, Jackie Tileston, Anna Schachte, Fabienne Lasserre 

Curated by Yevgeniya Baras

Opening: Sat May 31, 6-9 PM

Exhibition Duration: Saturday, May 31-Sunday, June 29th

Oupost

1665 Norman St,

Ridgewood, NY 11385

(Halsey Stop on the L Train)

(Please see the list of other exhibitions I am in below)

"HEART'S GYMNASTICS"

EJ and Yevgeniya had breakfast and talked about Gymnastics. 

Yevgeniya Baras: Heart’s Gymnastics is risking by taking the heart places where upon first consideration it should not go. When looking at work I am interested in someone who is consistently pushing themselves.

EJ Hauser: This makes me think about the fact that I admire artists who are able to be vulnerable, which is a huge requirement to make good work. If you don’t risk something, the return is not going to be the same as if you say: ” I am willing my heart to go places it shouldn’t or knowing it shouldn’t be going there and still willing to do it.”

EJH: A figure doing a back flip in my painting comes from a reoccurring dream I have when I am standing with you in my dream, we are talking, and I am like: “Hey Yevgeniya, look at this and I jump up in the air, flip, and land back on my feet. Then when we think about dreams being in touch with words: “Do back flips” is an expression. “I did back flips over that painting”, for example, or “head over heals”.

YB: I think this idea of gymnastics as an activity most of us don’t usually do but it’s a stand in for a kind of emotional and intellectual stretching; a flexibility.

EJH: It has been said, that a good artist has to be willing to be naked in public. And when we think about the idea of subject matter and content, you have to be willing to put something out there and know that the meaning that someone else gets out of the work belongs to them, and that could be frightening. You have to think about how your broadcast is being received. 

YB: How much great music, theater, amazing art has been misread? What kind of revolutions have certain cultural products caused that they were initially not encoded to cause. They were picked up by other people and their needs.

A Painting, a sculpture, a song, throws up a mirror for you to consider your own experience.

EJH: One may fear to do heart gymnastics.

YB: But the only studios I am actually interested in is where we will talk about color pink but then we will talk about your mother. 

EJH: One of the first things you said about the artists in the show have in common is that it’s about your appetite, for what you want to see, what you want to be contextualized with, your experience of the contemporary conversation and I think that this idea of the flexibility of the heart. There is a great song by McGarrigle sisters : “Heart like a Wheel”. The line is: “You can bend it but you can not mend it”. The wheel runs a little off kilter because it has been harmed a few times. I think there is something really beautiful in your belief in the heart, your belief in the flexibility of the heart and the necessity of the heart being able to take you places. 

YB: Thank you. It is learning to be awake.

Other exhibitions I am in:

"By Invitation Only" 

Kinz + Tillou Fine Art

Opening: Tuesday, May 20, 6 - 9 pm 

59 Cambridge Place
Clinton Hill, Brooklyn

Curated by:

Renee Riccardo, Mickalene Thomas, and Andrew Gori

"Meanwhile, Back at The Farm" : 

Suzanne Goldenberg, Maria Britton, Shanna Maurizi, Clare Grill, Yevgeniya Baras, Mike Olin
Opening: Friday, May 30, 2014

195 Morgan Ave

Bushwick, NY

Curated by Melanie Parke and Justine Frischmann

Group Exhibition
Honey Ramka
Opening: Fri, May 30, 2013
56 Bogart St.
Brooklyn NY 11206

Penn MFA Thesis show in Vienna! Opening Tuesday, May 27th at the Franz Josef Kai gallery space

Penn MFA Thesis Show in Vienna, Austria - May 26th-June25th

Philadelphia Connection
»an ocean in between the waves«
young art positions of the Penn MFA program

Laura Bernstein, Carousel, 2014, Newsprint, papier-mâché, cardboard, Dimensions variable 

Press Conference: Monday, May 26, 2014 10.30 am 
Opening: Tuesday, May 27, 2014, 6 - 10 pm 
Venue: FRANZ JOSEFSKAI 3, 1010 Vienna 
Duration: May 28 - June 25, 2014 
Monday - Saturday, 2 – 8 pm (closed on Whit Monday) 

FREE ADMISSION 

(Vienna/Philadelphia, May 8, 2014) The idea that travel forms an integrative feature of artistic 

praxis and creates an essential component of both experience and knowledge production, 

comprises the conceptual origin of the exhibition. In particular, a change of place in the 

paradigm of a globalized cultural geography contributes to the broadening understanding as 

well as the relativization and even the transformation of one’s own work. 

With the move from places of origin to new social and cultural contexts, different conditions 

automatically cause shifts in meaning-making, a process in which local conventions of reception 

also play a role. 

From this paradigm, the young artists from the interdisciplinary Fine Arts Department at the 

University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia developed an independent model for presenting 

their latest work. For six months, they collaborated with curator Roland Schöny, and created an 

exhibition that fundamentally differs from any conventional student showcase. 

 We acknowledge that the artists have produced a large volume of work that embody 

discursive densities and represent a variety of visual strategies. Nevertheless, rather than 

merely displaying already finished works, the artists both selected individual pieces through a 

dialogic process and created new works according to the physical layout of the gallery space. 

As such, the project is situated in a transitional zone that lies between an institutional 

dependency and a continuation of the experimentation with articulations of form. Therefore, 

the exhibition space at FRANZ JOSEFSKAI 3 is the stage. 

Although the group of young artists from the Penn MFA program consider themselves 

personally connected through the production of internal alliances and collaborations that allow 

for critical confrontations and mutual exchange, the difference in their approaches through 

photography, video, painting, or performance, is significant for their work. In parts the art 

scenes of New York influences many of the artists. At the same time works manifest the 

narratives of actual pop culture such that the viewer can discover the sediments of filmsettings 

or specific class and gender codes as embedded in fashion. Some works raise personal 

questions regarding the reconstructions of political history while others visually interpret 

transculturally shaped forms of personal memory and biographical narratives through the 

media of photography and video. The experiences of migration and origins, from Santiago de 

Chile or Tehran, for example, influence such processes. Other artists explore the sense of 

emancipation through the theme of urban space as a field of action. While transmedial 

strategies are conspicuous throughout the exhibition, only few works focus on one visual 

format. Moreover, the potential of the gallery space has been questioned in many ways. As 

such, the artists open the architectonic features of the gallery’s interior space to the outside 

through visual links, which oftentimes reflects their political and critical consciousness. 

After MFA students participated in similarly structured exhibition projects that took place in 

Los Angeles and Berlin in 2013, this group of 13 students decided for themselves the location 

of this year’s show after receiving a mandate. Among their many options, they finally decided 

on Vienna as an approach to a significant European center of contemporary art. 

Artists: Marie Alarcon (*1978 Rhinebeck, NY), Laura Bernstein (*1987 New York City, NY), 

Claire Bidwell (*1988 Los Angeles, CA), Anthony Bowers (*1984 South Bend, IN), Sam Mapp 

(*1985 Chicago, Ill), Scotty Menesini (*1975 Pittsburgh, PA), Mohammadreza Mirzaei (*1986 

Tehran, Iran), Theo Mullen (*1979 Denver, CO), Evan Nabrit (*1982 Columbus, OH), Daniel 

O'Neill (*1979 Providence, R. I.), Maria Paz Ortuzar (*1985 Santiago, Chile), Gordon Stillman (*1984 

Poughkeepsie, NY), Joshua Zerangue (*1988 Lafayette, Louisiana)

Curator: Roland Schöny teaching position at Digital Arts Department of University of Applied 

Art Vienna, structured a public art programme as a permanent cultural initiative of the city of 

Vienna 2004 - 07, realized exhibitions in cooperation with ICA in SOKOL Moscow (2014), at OK 

Center for Contemporary Art Linz (2002-04) or Künstlerhaus Vienna (2000). As author 

cooperations with Centre Pompidou, Vancouver Art Gallery, Kunstmuseum Luzern or TBA21. 

On Saturday, 24 May 2014 from 2 until 7 pm the artist Laura Bernstein roams with her 

performance "Finding The Fall" streets in the inner districts of Vienna (a parachutist in search 

of the causes of landing here). 

The opening will take place in cooperation with Projektraum Viktor Bucher, Prater Street 13/1/2, 1020 

Vienna (Finissage of the exhibition "Dance with us", www.projektraum.at). 

  

Exhibition Participants 

Roland Schöny, Contemporary Art Curator and Author, Vienna 

Joshua Mosley, Professor and Chair of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania 

Ken Lum, Professor and Director of Undergraduate program, University of Pennsylvania 

The artists will be present. 

Press Conference: Monday, May 26, 2014 10.30 am 

Opening: Tuesday, May 27, 2014, 6 - 10 pm 

Venue: FRANZ JOSEFSKAI 3, 1010 Vienna 

Duration: May 28 - June 25, 2014 

Monday - Saturday, 2 – 8 pm (closed on Whit Monday) 

FREE ADMISSION 

Information http://www.pennmfathesis.com 

Contact for inquiries Roland Schöny 

roland.schoeny@artfile.at 

+43 664 815 61 14 

Penn MFA Program 

The Master of Fine Arts program at Penn is focused on the professional development of visual 

artists. Through workshops, seminar courses, international residency opportunities and 

interactions with curators, writers and artists, the program provides an open intellectual 

framework to foster independent methods of artistic research. In addition to seminars within 

the Fine Arts department, graduate students are encouraged to pursue topics of science and 

the humanities through an impressive selection of courses offered across the university. 

Download the PennMFA Program Catalog 

http://www.design.upenn.edu/files/PennDesign_MFA_Catalog.pdf 

For program inquires, contact: mfa@design.upenn.edu or (215) 898-8374 

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

A Celebration of Terry Adkins to be held Monday May 19th from 6-9pm at the Harlem Stage Gatehouse - RSVP Required.

To Labor With Love, a group show curated by Elisa Gabor (MFA '13) opens on Friday May 2nd at FJORD and features many current MFA's

To Labor With Love is a curatorial project and group exhibition focused on art works that indulge in or otherwise communicate their process in their presentation. The show is curated by recent graduate Elisa Gabor and will feature many current Penn students and staff, including:

Lydia Rosenberg (MFA '15)
Gordon Stillman (MFA '14)
Sam Mapp (MFA '14)
Micah Danges
Anthony Bowers (MFA '14)

Opening: Friday May 2nd, 6pm
Location: FJORD
2419 Frankford Ave. Philadelphia PA


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Sonic Measures performance at Second Site in The Print Center, Friday, April 18th at 6pm

Sonic Measures is a seminar course in sound that was designed by former Professor Terry Adkins. As an artist Professor Adkins was interested in exploring the limitations of sculpture and sound. This crossover made sound as visceral as sculpture and sculpture as ephemeral as sound. As a part of the programing for Second Site, the physical capabilities and sonic qualities of sound will be explored in a live performance of selected works from this course.

Second Site is an ongoing curatorial project within University Lecturer Matt Neff's solo show, Second Sight. 

The event will feature sound performances by:

Marie Alarcon (MFA '14), Edward Cohen,
Charles Hall (MFA '15), Daniel Haun (MFA '15),
Sam Horn, Martina Merlo, Paz Ortuzar (MFA '14),
Derek Rigby (MFA '15), and Evan Silverstein

Performance Time: Friday, April 18th, 6pm

Location: The Print Center
1614 Latimer Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103

The class and performances are being run by UPenn Lecturer Marc Blumthal (MFA '10).

Scott White (MFA '00) exhibits Bike pARTS at Philadelphia City Hall through June 13th

University of Pennsylvania Alumnus and Lecturer, Scott White, will be exhibiting his electric all weather tricycle design in the Philadelphia City Hall Art Gallery. His innovative design promotes a safe all-weather alternative to automotive transportation and promotes Philadelphia's city wide infrastructure of bike paths.

Bike pARTS will be on view through June 13th


Opening: April 9th, 5-7pm
Location: City Hall Art Gallery, 2nd floor NE corner in Room 116

Paz Ortuzar (MFA '14) to be featured in a group exhibition at the Parsons New School in New York, opening Thurs, Apr 3rd

Picture from installation by Paz Ortuzar.

Paz Ortuzar's 2013 work, Did someone see the halley comet? will be featured in the upcoming group exhibition curated by Ilyn Wong, Maricruz Alarcón, and Pieter Paul Pothoven.

The exhibition, titled I scarcely have the right to use this ghostly verb, explores notions of cultural memory through the lens of a generation whose experiences and identities are directly shaped by historical events to which they did not bear witness. Borrowing from a Borges short story, the project highlights the problematic nature of claiming historical narratives for any generation as a whole —wary that these claims may, in fact, co-opt forms of persisting hegemonies.

Originally from Santiago, Chile, Paz Ortuzar's work often touches on the forfeiture of history and communal memory. Her personal and touching installations offer a chance to reflect on cultural loss and how memories are constructed as well as preserved.

The exhibition also features the works of Mounira Al Solh, Firelei Baez, Tatiana Istomina, Reena Katz and Pablo Gómez Uribe, Heather M. O'Brien, María Paz Ortúzar, John Albok, and David Wojnarowicz.

Opening: Thursday, Apr 3rd, 6-8pm

Public Events: Friday, Apr 11th, 7pm

Venue: Parsons New School

Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries

66 Fifth Ave at the corner of 13th St.

More information at: http://www.newschool.edu/parsons/currentExhibitions.aspx?id=100720

Caroline Claflin and Jacob Rivkin (MFA '13) curate group show 'lover, Bird of Prey' opening at FJORD Gallery, Apr 4th

Left: Bayne Peterson, IV-X-6236 Right: Kyle Mowat, Still from Ballpit

Dipping their toes into the Philadelphia curation scene with a tender splash, recent MFA alums Caroline Claflin and Jacob Rivkin are pleased to announce the opening of their show, lover, Bird of Prey, at FJORD Gallery. 

Both artists explore the complicated exchange between objects and animation in their own work and have continued that conversation in this curatorial project. There is a contradiction inherent to the exchange of the material presence possible in three dimensional stillness verses the two-dimensional flatness of a screen that allows for a 'bringing to life' of objects in animation. The nature of that contradiction is sure to be explored in interesting ways through the works of artists:

Sarah Anderson (MFA '12)
Lauren Gregory
Kyle Mowat
Bayne Peterson
& Caleb Wood

More information at http://www.fjordspace.com/.

Opening: April 4, 6-10pm
On View: through April 26

FJORD Gallery
2419 Frankford Ave.
Philadelphia PA

Philadelphia International Airport selects Deirdre Murphy’s (MFA '00) Sky Paintings for Yearlong Exhibition

Deirdre's work will be on view at PHL for a full year!

The Philadelphia International Airport has selected Deirdre Murphy's series, Sky Paintings, for a yearlong exhibition. Deirdre is an accomplished alum and fine arts lecturer at University of Pennsylvania in painting and drawing.

The collection featuring paintings that explore the patterns, murmurations and energy of bird flocks, her career-long artistic focus, and will be on display in late January 2014 and run through the end of the year. The exhibition, which will be located between Terminals C and D, near the moving walkway across from the Star Alliance Lounge, marks one of Murphy’s most visible exhibitions to date.

The airport as a venue for Murphy’s artwork is a natural fit. Her love of travel combined with her artwork, which features an exploration of birds and the human connection to the larger natural world, makes the airport a perfect location to display her dynamic, colorful artwork. "Philadelphia International Airport is thrilled to show Deirdre Murphy's Sky Paintings series in 2014,” said Leah Douglas, Director of Exhibitions at the airport. “Her paintings, with their themes of nature and in particular, the skycapes accentuated with birds and kite-like elements in flight, are a perfect fit for the airport traveler. Her exhibition features work with color-filled compositions, rooted in a sense of motion, that will captivate travelers as they ready themselves fort their own experiences in flight."

Peter Schenck (MFA '09) opens a solo painting show at Sunshine Art + Design Gallery on April 4th in Lancaster, PA

Open Wide by Peter Schenck

Peter Schenck's solo show, One More Slice will be on view at Sunshine Art + Design Gallery from April 4th through April 30th. In a graphic style Peter's paintings investigate the intersection of shirt and slice with a pop palette and subtle humor. 

Opening: April 4, 6-10pm
On View: April 4 - 30th
Venue: Sunshine Art + Design Gallery
104 West King Street
Lancaster, PA

Alumnus and Penn Professor Matt Neff (MFA '05) opens a show at the Print Center in Philadelphia, Apr 3rd

Neff reflects on the nature of medium in his work "Four of Us".

Alumnus and Penn Professor Matt Neff (MFA '05) will be opening a show at the Print Center in Philadelphia, Apr 3rd with prints from Terry Adkins portfolio made in collaboration with the Common Press.

Matt Neff's exhibition, Second Sight, features prints, photographs and sculptural works characterized by a complex layering of process, medium and concept and an experimental use of materials. The exhibition is curated by The Print Center’s Executive Director, Elizabeth Spungen.

Within Second Sight is a project space titled Second SITE, where Neff will be in residence. It serves as an evolving studio, exhibition, meeting, performance and research venue for interaction with artists, curators, writers and community members. Second SITE will change weekly. This immersive gallery experiment opens up the often impermeable barrier between viewing and making and is sure to result in interesting conversations and creations. Go to www.printcenter.org for information on Second SITE programing. 

In conjunction with Neff's exhibition, The Print Center will be showing Terry Adkins & The Common Press: 7th Ward.

Terry Adkins (1953–2014) created the portfolio The Philadelphia Negro Reconsidered in collaboration with The Common Press at the University of Pennsylvania, which is directed by Matt Neff. The portfolio was inspired by The Philadelphia Negro - W.E.B. Du Bois’ pioneering demographic study of Philadelphia’s original 7th Ward, the neighborhood in which The Print Center is located. The exhibition is supported by the Department of Fine Arts, School of Design, University of Pennsylvania.

Gallery Talk: Matt Neff in conversation with Elizabeth Spungen, Thur Apr 3, 5:30pm

Opening: Thurs Apr 3, 6-8pm

On View: Through Jun 7th

On going programing for Second SITE available at www.printcenter.org.

Allen Bentley (MFA '00) has a show up at the F.A.N. Gallery in Philadelphia

Pillow Talk, oil on canvas, 36 x 30, 2013

On view through March 29th, Allen Bentley's painting show at the F.A.N. gallery explores the tangled nature of relationship though dance, pillow fights, and couples caught in the currents.

Venue: F.A.N. Gallery
221 Arch St. Philadelphia, PA

Marcin Ramocki (MFA '98) is curating a show 'Peristalsis' in Bushwick, Brooklyn that will include Penn Professor Matt Freedman

A view of Matt Freedman's 2002 work, Prosthesis

Marcin Ramocki is co-curating group show, Peristalis, with Paulina Bebecka which will include work by Mia Brownell, Sean Joseph Patrick Carney, Oasa DuVerney, Lucia Love, Wojtek Doroszuk, Matt Freedman, Kenneth Tin Kin Hung,Mimi Kim, Saeri Kiritani, Ronald Reyes and Jude Tallichet.



Peristalsis is a playful, cross-media examination of various cultural themes associated with food and nutrition. The opening will take place on Saturday, March 29, 7-9 pm and the show will be on display until May 11th.

Should you make it to the opening, you will also have the opportunity to enjoy the audience participation event “Conceptual Cake Party”.

Opening: Sat Mar 29, 7-9pm

Venue: Air Circulation

160 Randolf St.

Brooklyn, NY 11203

aircirculation.org

Sascha Hughes-Caley (MFA '15) will have video work in the Imperfectu International Film and Gender Studies Festival

Sasha's video Sportsman (Trophy) has been selected by Imperfectu International Film and Gender Studies Festival to be screened in Tijuana, Mexico, between April 1st -6th, 2014 and later again this year in Berlin, Germany (dates TBA).

Sasha's video and performance work investigates American male culture at large and it's relationship to sexual entitlement.

More information here: http://imperfectu.com/festival/ or on faceboook: https://www.facebook.com/imperfectu

Orlando de la Garza (MFA'13) is opening a show in San Francisco on Wed Apr 9th

Recent graduate Orlando de la Garza will be opening a show in his new home city of San Francisco at the venue, Aritsts' Television Access. The high-fructose show, Cream Pie Party, you left a hot mess promises to be as titillating as the title suggests. 

Orlando's imagist inspired fantasy paintings will be accompanied by the live music of Banda Sin Nombre at the opening on Wednesday night, April 9th. 


Opening: Wed Apr 9, 8pm

Venue: Artists' Television Access
992 Valencia St. 
San Francisco, CA 94110

www.orlandodelagarza.com

Terry Adkins featured in Artforum and in conversation with George Lewis

As many of you know, Terry Adkins' drum stacks are gracing the cover of Artforum this month. 

If you have not been able to snap up a copy yet, his featured interview with George Lewis is also available online, here.

Joan Oh (MFA '15) opens a group show "Synthetic Zero" at BronxArtSpace, Wed. March 5th 6-9pm

Joan takes a swipe at new technology in her video, Double Tap, Construe

Participating in Synthetic Zero Event at the Bronx Art Space, Joan Oh's video Double Tap, Construe examines iconography in relation to a newly augmented body language that we have inherited through the rise of digital practices. The touchscreen enables us to interact directly with history, creating an intuitive interaction that looks beyond the digital surface and peers into the details of iconic photographs and events.



Openings: Wed Mar 5, 6-9pm 

               Sat Mar 15, 7-10pm

On View: W-Sat 3:30pm-6:30pm Mar 5 - 15
Synthetic Zero / BronxArtSpace 
305 E 140th St #1A
Bronx, NY 10454

More information at, http://www.bronxartspace.com/.

Joan Oh (MFA '15) participates in international group show "STATE ABED"

STATE ABED international exhibition & conference 

Following a feminist maxim THE PERSONAL IS POLITICAL, as well as relying upon our reasons why we deal with feminisms, what makes us publicly declare ourselves feminists, we have come up with the exhibition title STATE ABED. We would like to know how deep and in what ways the system, the state, the authorities and politics govern our life as well as to what extent and for what reasons they have the urge to enter and control our lives, bedrooms, bodies and minds. We would especially like to reveal the ways we accept or do not accept their seductions, kisses, orders and violences. We would like to strip off the system the way the system strips us off. We would like to hit the system back, or kiss it back. We ask for your ideas, concepts, works, your ways and your stories which will help us unravel this story and find out why we have the feeling that this lovemaking is actually an act of rape and what consequences it has on the personal. Which is political. Which is personal.

The show was on display from Feb 1st - 21st in Croatia.

Jessica Vaughn (MFA '11) included in Houston, Project Row Houses' Round 39: Looking Back, Moving Forward

Jessica Vaughn’s sound installation "Right-of-way-Acquisition" collected the sounds of the highways cutting through the Third Ward, infrastructure for the greater city that has also stifled economic development and social mobility in the neighborhood it crosses. A megaphone plays the recorded sounds for the visitor while also allowing the visitor’s sounds to be added into the piece through microphones placed throughout the room. Vaughn describes this as “call and response” where the archive continually expands from the depersonalized sounds of the highway to include more and more traces of individual human connection.

Unfortunately the exhibition was up until Mar 2nd, but more information on the project is available here, or follow this link for more about the organization Project Row Houses.

Ceaphas Stubbs (MFA '13) opens solo show, "...And Everything Will Be Created Here..." in California

Ceaphas Stubbs  "The Flesh is Weak"  2013

Recent graduate Ceaphas Stubbs has opened his first solo show in the Los Angeles marking his triumphant return to the city after his thesis exhibition there in Chinatown nearly a year ago. This exhibition also marks the christening of a new Culver City space for the Reginald Ingraham Gallery which is displaying Ceaphas' work until April 12th.

Ceaphas Stubbs' photographs are a exploration in narrative weight and meaning, as well as a complex practice. He layers ready made and found images and objects to construct luxurious still life scenes that challenge the viewer to examine relationships between physicality and desire. The painterly quality of Stubb's visual tropes is both a critique and a declaration of the power and value of iconography. The three dimensionality of the photographs is an invitation for conversation; an entry point to investigate associations and signifiers that subvert ritual and evoke nuance through color, space and imagery. The texture rich collages reference a shifting symbolism similary seen in Dali's playful surreal compositions, while being firmly grounded in the influential photographic considerations advanced by such artists as Zeke Berman and other luminaries in photography.

On View: Mar 1 - Apr 12

Reginald Ingraham Gallery
6021 Washington Blvd
Culver City CA, 90232

Marc Blumthal (MFA '10) included in Kohl Gallery's artNOW Philadelphia exhibition, opening Friday 2/7

Washington College's Kohl Gallery is opening a group exhibition featuring seven young artists of note in the Philadelphia area and our very own Marc Blumthal is among them. His unique brand of heart-felt, hand-crafted, appropriated formalism questions common conceptions of cultural and shared identities. His work will be featured alongside fellow up-and-comers Amze Emmons, Julianna Foster, Leslie Friedman, Rubens Ghenov, Ryan Kelly,and Tim Portlock.

Kent Gallery is located within Washington College in Chestertown, MD.

Opening: Friday, Feb 7, 5-7pm

On View: Through March 7th
Gallery open Wed - Sun 1-6pm

Location:
Kohl Gallery
Gibson Center for the Arts
300 Washington Ave
Chestertown, MD 21620

Full press release here.

Zoe Chronis (MFA '11) in Solo Exhibition at Scribe Video Center, Reception Thursday February 27th, 7 - 9pm

I Might Not Tell Every Body

This show features preparatory drawings, prints, and prototypes made from 2010 through 2013: the first steps in developing methods of disseminating text using various forms of public address. 

One video will screen at the reception.

More information about the Zoe's work is available on her website at, zchronis.info.


Reception: Thursday February 27th, 7 – 8:30 PM
On View: January 21 – February 21

Location: 
Scribe Video Center, 
4212 Chestnut St., 3rd fl.
Philadelphia, PA