Industrial Park//Grizzly Grizzly

PSYCHEDELPHIA @ Pageant Soloveev

First Friday//July 5th

Tiger Strikes Asteroid//Ezra Masch

Vox Populi Gallery//VOX IX//Annual Juried Exhibition

Oliver Herring Lecture//Wednesday

Oliver Herring 
July 3, 12 p.m.

Born in Heidelberg, Germany, in 1964, Oliver Herring currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. His early works were woven sculptures and performance pieces in which he knitted Mylar, a transparent and reflective material, into human figures, clothing and furniture. These sculptures are Herring’s homage to Ethyl Eichelberger, a drag performance artist who committed suicide in 1991. Since 1998, Herring has created stop-motion videos and participatory performances with people “off the street.” Herring has received grants from Artpace, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Joan Mitchell Foundation. He has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Kyoto Art Center.

Gerald Nichols Lecture//Monday

Gerald Nichols
July 1, 12:30 p.m.

Fine Arts Professor Gerald Nichols’ undergraduate study was at the Cleveland Institute for Art, followed by graduate and post-graduate study at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was TA to Neil Welliver, teaching Louis Kahn’s architecture students figure drawing and perspective systems. As a founding member of Nexus Gallery Collaborative, he exhibited installations annually, which led to a solo exhibition at the Morris Gallery of the Pennsylvania Academy, to a improvisational group performance with Bricolage Theater Company, and to residing and exhibiting in NYC while teaching at the Philadelphia College of Art, now the University of the Arts.

Penn State School of Visual Arts MFA Exhibition @ Crane Arts

Penn State School of Visual Arts MFA Exhibition on Show at Crane Arts in Philadelphia

The Penn State School of Visual Arts (SoVA) is excited to announce an MFA exhibition, Novis Oculi, taking place at Crane Arts in Philadelphia from July 3 – 20, 2013. The exhibition features interactive works of art, installation art, ceramic and photographic series, and more. We invite you to attend the public reception Thursday, July 11, 2013, from 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. at the gallery.

Novis Oculi features SoVA’s current and recently graduated MFA students. Guest curator, New Jersey-based artist Kimberly Camp, chose the titleNovis Oculi because the work, for her, “represents new eyes, fresh perspectives framed in the knowledge of the past and the need to experiment, try the new, depart from what is known....”  “Novus Oculi is an exhibition that blends tradition and experimentation,” said Camp.  “By pushing, pulling and even blurring the lines of what we understand to be the boundaries of contemporary aesthetics, these twenty seven artists are finding their voice and shouting out loud with new indignation, irony, and celebration.”

In acknowledging the role graduate students play in helping us to see things differently, Graeme Sullivan, director of SoVA, says “it is important that our students take up their responsibility as cultural change agents and to achieve this they need to continually put their work in full view of the public.” Novis Oculi is the first in a series of SoVA graduate exhibitions that will be selected by a guest curator and shown in a major urban arts center every two years.

Novis Oculi presents the work of twenty-seven artists, including Nouf Alhamdan, Cassie Berringer, Dengke Chen, Sidney Church, Christina Erives, Jenna Ferraraccio, Matthew Hall, Dana Harper, Kiana Honarmand, Katie Hovencamp, Gabriel Ibias, Gabe Kenney, Margaret Kinkeade, Jennifer Kirkpatrick, Hyunji Lee, Roberto Lugo, Charles Mankey, Anna Margush, Laura Mecklenburger, Kevin Mercer, Oliver Brooks, Jesse Rafalko, Michele Randall, Steven Read, Kevin Reilly, Sarah Swist, and Danyel Woodring. 

To follow event details and onversations about the show, visit:https://www.facebook.com/events/454348404661887/

New Wine Bottle @ Fleisher/Ollman

June 13th - August 30th, 2013

New Wine New Bottle

Kate Abercrombie
Anthony Campuzano
Chris Corales
The Dufala Brothers
Jennifer Levonian
Isaac Tin Wei Lin
Tristin Lowe
Mark Mahosky
Dan Murphy
Nick Paparone
Paul Swenbeck

Fleisher/Ollman’s second exhibition in its recently- opened Arch Street location showcases new work by a selection of gallery artists. While the exhibition highlights a wide range of distinct practices, when seen collectively surprising resonances and inter-relationships come forward, putting into relief ideas such as the urban landscape, mythologies of popular culture, art and narrative, contemporary abstraction, and the primordial.

The Dufala Brothers and Dan Murphy explore what we might call the urban forlorn, looking to the postindustrial landscape of Philadelphia for inspiration. The Dufala Brothers engage ideas of consumption, re-purposing, and use-value, particularly evident in their sculpture and drawing, while Murphy trains his camera lens on both the intentional and accidental manner in which urban environments offer themselves to be read.

How popular culture is received and digested informs the practices of Nick Paparone and Anthony Campuzano—Paparone’s sculputures play with the manner in which goods are branded for different types of consumers, while Campuzano’s drawings revel in the idiosyncrasies of how we transform and personalize the messages of the mass media. Like Campuzano, Jennifer Levonian is attuned to how narratives form our identities. Working in cut-paper animation, Levonian engages with everyday life by focusing on events that often go unnoticed, transforming them into humorously bizarre narratives.

Isaac Tin Wei Lin, Kate Abercrombie, Mark Mahosky, and Chris Corales each have their own particular take on abstraction, but none are standard-bearers for abstraction with a capital “A.” Lin investigates the realm where representation and buzzing abstraction meet using invented calligraphic scripts and colorful patterns. Mark Mahosky presents a group of striped, abstract paintings on panel and newspaper. Their raw imprecision serves as a foil to Abercrombie and Lin’s more exacting methods. Chris Corales’ collages upend our usual assumptions about the medium as a more-is-more strategy by creating minimal works from a variety of scavenged papers that underline a kinship with abstract painting.

Tristin Lowe and Paul Swenbeck share a mutual interest in the primordial, myth, and the occult. In this exhibition, Swenbeck showcases new sculptures that combine his signature ceramics with wire and magnet spine-like forms that suggest animal/plant hybrids. Lowe has long pursued a certain life-giving rationale in his art making, breathing life into mythological and cartoonish inflatable sculptures. In New Wine New Bottle, Lowe examines the origins of life itself with a neon comet. Once considered heresy, scientists are now embracing the idea that life on earth originated from organic molecules inside a comet’s icy core which were released into Earth’s primordial seas billions of years ago upon impact with our planet.

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