John Moore Retires; Joshua Mosley Steps In

John Moore

"One of the greatest achievements during Moore’s tenure was the establishment of the Locks Foundation Distinguished Artists Program, which brought to campus the renowned artists and critics Alex Katz, Robert Storr, Robert Hughes, Chuck Close and Eric Fischl from 2003 to 2006, thanks to a generous gift from the Locks Foundation, headed by PennDesign Overseer and Locks Gallery owner Sueyun Locksand her husband Gene Locks. While transforming PennDesign’s MFA department, Moore has had four one-person shows in New York, and one each in Texas, Philadelphia and Maine. Along with Moore, PennDesign’s MFA students and alumni are exhibiting regularly and receiving international acclaim, a wonderful legacy for a chair who has had a deep and lasting impact on the fine arts at Penn."
--PennDesign Annual

As the school searches for a permanent Chair for the program, Joshua Mosley has agreed to serve as acting Chair for this next Fall (and possibly Spring) semester. Joshua has been an Associate Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania's undergraduate and graduate program since 2000. He teaches animation, video and digital design, and is an inspiring and energetic professor and fellow artist. Josh has been exhibited and screened at the 2007 Venice Biennale and at the Museum of Modern Art, NY. He has received a Pew Fellowship and will be showing at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia and at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX later this year.

Joshua Mosley

Jamie Diamond (MFA '08) featured in Philadelphia Inquirer Review

A recent Philadelphia Inquirer review of ID a show organized at Projects Gallery by the founders of Philadelphia's beloved Artblog: Roberta Fallon and Libby Rosof, mentions our recently graduated Jamie Diamond whom:

"...offers the strangest - and most fascinating - contribution with her staged 'family' photographs of 'families' whose members she selected herself (solicited in ads and through friends), and then posed together in various hotels." (Edith Newhall, The Inquirer, June 19th, 2008)

ID runs through June 26th, 2008 at Projects Gallery

click on image to read article.

Jamie has also recently launched her website: www.jamiegdiamond.com

How'd This Happen???

Penn MFA "Happy Endings" opens in Chelsea this Thursday.
Join us for the Opening Reception: June 12th. 6-9pm

Happy Endings
Micheal Steinberg Fine Art
526 West 26th Street
Suite 215
New York, NY

Show runs:
June 10th - 21st
Tues-Sat 11-6pm

Brent Wahl (MFA '06 ) in a group show at the Dumbo Arts Center: opening June 14th

Brent Wahl, The Phantom Limb (video stills), 2006-08

Brent Wahl, former MFA graduate and photography lecturer at UPenn's Undergraduate Fine Arts Dept., will be in a group show entitled Holy Holes: Absolute Stalls at the Dumbo Arts Center in Brooklyn. The show has been curated by Denise Carvalho. Brent is a member of the artist collective, Vox Populi in Philadelphia.

HOLY HOLES: ABSOLUTE STALLS is a multimedia exhibition exploring different viewpoints on the relationship between religion, power and economics. This show looks at religion from a humorous, poetic and critical perspective, subverting traditional expectations and inviting the viewer to interact, transform, or reflect on the relationship between religious rituals and consumerist everyday practices.

Dates of exhibition: June 14 - August 3, 2008
Opening Reception: June 14, 2008, 6 - 9 PM
Hours: Wednesday - Sunday, 12 - 6pm or by appointment

Dumbo Arts Center
30 Washington Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
T. 718.694.0831

For more info: www.dumboartscenter.org

See more of Brent's work at: www.brentwahl.com

Jane Irish talk at PAFA this Friday

You are invited to a talk and reading at the with Jane Irish, W.D. Ehrhart,hosted by Academy Curator of Modern Art, Robert Cozzolino


At the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
June 6, 2008 at 6 p.m.
Morris Gallery, Historic Landmark Building (Broad and Cherry, Philadelphia)

In conjunction with exhibition:

Spot Check : Academy Contemporary (runs through June 8)

Since 2004 the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts has set aside a portion of its acquisition funds to purchase work by emerging artists. This Morris Gallery focus installation spotlights over a dozen objects that have entered the Academy’s collection through the Contemporary Art Development Fund. Spot Check: Academy Contemporary will showcase art that engages in a wide range of current practices.

Upcoming, in conjunction with this exhibition, there will be an artist talk on Friday, June 6 that will occur on Academy First Fridays, and will start at 6 p.m. in front of the artist's work in the Morris Gallery. Academy Curator of Modern Art, Robert Cozzolino, artist Jane Irish, and poet W.D. Ehrhart (who will also read) will discuss the work together offering a dialogue about issues or questions that the piece provokes. Attendees will be able to ask questions and engage in a conversation, about Vietnam Veterans Against the War, poetry, painting, resistance, and history.

Friday, June 6: Jane Irish
Dewey Canyon III, 2003
Varnished egg tempera and gouache on linen; 116 x 65 inches
Contemporary Art Development Fund, 2004.25

This painting was begun in January 2003, completed in August 2003. Composed of paintings within a painting, like a play within a play, Dewey Canyon III includes smaller paintings, an inventory of heroic protest of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. These six paintings are set within a large image (allegorical) of wealth and opulence depicting a Robert Adams Rococo type interior composed by the artist from several images of high style décor.

Gianna Delluomo (MFA '08) in Group Exhibition at The Dorsky Gallery, LIC

"The World is a Handkerchief"
Opening Reception: Sunday, June 8th 3-5pm
June 8 - July 13, 2008
Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs
11-03 45th Ave
Long Island City, NY

Hunter Stabler (MFA '06) has solo show at Philadelphia's Pageant Soloveev gallery

Hunter Stabler, who graduated from PennDesign's MFA program in 2006, will have a solo show at Philadelphia's Pageant Soloveev Gallery. The show opens on June 12th at 7pm and will be up until the 3rd of August. Hunter also recently launched a new website.

See Hunter's work: www.hunterstabler.com
Visit Pageant: www.pageantsoloveev.com

MFA Thesis show written about on ARTBLOG

Damon Reaves, Entertaining, video, TV


In a Wed. May 28, 2008 post, Libby Rosof wrote about her visit to the MFA exhibition at The Icebox, Crane Arts Building. Rosof wrote extensively about Damon Reaves' work and included several of his images. She also included images and/or descriptions of the work of Ivanco Talevski, Jamie Diamond, Shanjana Mahmud, and Simon Slater. Rosof mentioned that she and Roberta Fallon chose to include Jamie Diamond in an exhibition entitled ID that is opening on the 6th of June, 2008 at Projects Gallery.

The MFA Thesis exhibition will be up until June 6, 2008.

See the post at:
http://fallonandrosof.blogspot.com/2008/05/philadelphia-art-schools-some-of.html

Daniel Gerwin (MFA '08) and Edward Carey (MFA '09) chosen for Vox Populi exhibition

Two PennDesign MFA students, Daniel Gerwin and Edward Carey, have been chosen to take part in Philadelphia's Vox Populi Gallery exhibition, SOLID GOLD.

The exhibition dates are June 6-27, 2008.
Opening reception: June 6, 2008, 6pm-11pm.

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

Kurt Freyer (MFA '09) part of Philadelphia Sculptors exhibition OPENING THIS WEEKEND (May 30th and 31st, 2008)

5 Into 1 + 1 exhibition FLUXspace Exhibition Dates: May 31th - June 15th, 2008 Open Hours: Saturdays 12pm-5pm and by appointment For Appointments Call: 610.764 7488 Opening Reception: Friday, May 30th - 6:30pm - 9pm, 2008 Moore College of Art and Design - Wilson Gallery Exhibition Dates: May 31st - June 15th, 2008 Open Hours: 10am-6pm Sunday - Monday Opening Lecture/Reception: Saturday, May 31st - 1:30pm-5:30pm, 2008 Philadelphia Sculptors is proud to present "5 into 1 + 1", in cooperation with Moore College of Art and Design. This is the ninth year for the annual student exhibition that showcases sculpture by outstanding senior and graduate students from Philadelphia area colleges. In a change from past shows, this exhibition will be divided into two parts. Moore College of Art and Design will host the primary exhibition, with the opening reception on Saturday, May 31, 2008 from 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. A second related exhibition of student work will take place at FLUXspace in Kensington, with an opening reception scheduled for Friday, May 30, 2008 from 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Both shows will run from May 31 – June 15, 2008. The exhibition is curated by recent graduates of Tyler School of Art, Joe DiGiuseppe and Chris Golas. The colleges and students represented are: Arcadia University: Katie Popelak, Dan Galloway and Julie McConnell. Moore College: Samantha Hill; PAFA: Ted Sare, Gregory Scott, Robert Scobey, and Tina Zavitsanos; Tyler School of Art: Brian Goodhart; The University of the Arts: Adam Bush, Max Hartley, and Nicholas Poyner; and the University of Pennsylvania: Kurt Freyer. for more information: http://www.thefluxspace.org/current.html

MFA Awards 2008

Graduating Student Awards (MFA'08):

Locks Fondation Post-Graduate Fellowship: Damon Reaves
Lawrence Shprintz MFA Award: Daniel Gerwin
Christopher Leland Lyon Memorial Fund: Travis Heck
Charles Addams Memorial Prize: Simon Slater
Toby Devin Lewis Foundation Prize: Jamie Diamond

Continuing Student Awards (MFA'09):

Lawrence Shprintz MFA Award: Tay Cha
Stuart Egnal Scholarship Award: Laura Shema
Dedalus Foundation Nominees: Peter Schenck and Antonio McAfee

Congratulations.

Happy Graduation

almost the class of 2008 outside of the morgan building

Update: MFA Thesis Exhibition Opening Reception Rescheduled

The UPenn MFA Thesis Exhibition Opening Reception has been rescheduled for Saturday, May 17th 6-9pm at the Crane Arts Building. Check the Crane website for more information.

University of Pennsylvania MFA Thesis Exhibition
Dates: May 16 – June 6, 2008
Reception: Saturday May 17th, 6-9pm
Location: The Ice Box, Crane Arts Building
Hours: Thurs-Sun 12-6 pm


www.cranearts.com
www.pennmfathesis.com

ICEBOX Project Space, the expansive, museum-quality visual arts gallery at the gateway of the North American Street corridor, will host the thesis exhibition of recent Master of Fine Arts recipients from The University of Pennsylvania. The exhibit runs from May 16- June 4, 2008. Penn Design is pleased to have William Pym as exhibition curator. Pym is an active contributor to the arts in Philadelphia as a curator, writer, and art dealer. He has recently collaborated with John Pym on “What one small film tells us about how we live now”, an essay and glossary about a minor TV film from 1978, and the Indian films of Merchant Ivory Productions, and will be a contributing essayist for the catalogue accompanying English artist Mark Leckey’s midcareer survey at the Kolnischer Kunstverein this fall.
The Artists: Monica Bodnar, Warren Corlett, Rita Crocker, Jamal Cyrus, Gianna Delluomo, Jamie Diamond, Daniel Gerwin, Travis Heck, Deb Hoy, Leejin Kim, Shanjana Mahmud, Damon Reaves, Megan Rogers, Simon Slater, Ivanco Talevski, Molly Winston, Anastasia Wong, Sarah Zimmer Expansive and challenging, the artwork presented in this exhibition deals with a diverse range of subject matter, realized in various media. Issues pertaining to ecology and destruction, otherness and foreign culture, hysteria and delirium, as well as anxiety, both corporeal and cultural bring a unique body of work together from an outstanding group of young artists.

Many of the eighteen emerging artists in this exhibition have already received special recognition from prestigious organizations for their endeavors. Several members of this year’s class have attended the Vermont Studio Center residency as well as the Skowhegan residency program. Many have exhibited throughout North America, Europe, and Asia including Canada, Italy, United Kingdom, Macedonia, Iceland, and Japan. Highlights of their collective accolades include a Thouron Award, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, and representation at the 2006 Whitney Biennial.

A Salute To the MFA Class of 2008, Goodbye and Good Luck

Art is long, Grad school is short...

www.pennmfathesis.com


Rita Crocker




Travis Heck



Warren Corlett



Gianna Dell'uomo



Ivanco Talevski



Anastasia M. W.

www.pennmfathesis.com