West Collects 2012!!

Very excited and honored to be named a West Collection artist today!

Art Salad at the DCCA Thursday, April 5

Please join me at the DCCA in Wilmington on Thursday, April 5, 12-1 for a FREE lunchtime lecture. You bring the food, I'll bring the powerpoint.

SUPERstructure: Symposium at the DCCA

This weekend I will be participating in the annual Gretchen Hupfel Symposium at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts. Titled SUPERstructure, this year's symposium

"...will present interdisciplinary scholarship and examine artistic/architectural practice as a platform for discussion of the built environment, including the urban and domestic, the environmentally sustainable and unsustainable, the beautiful and repellant, and the permeable boundaries between design, craft, and fine art."

More details on the DCCA website!

High Low Density at Rowan University

HIGH LOW DENSITY

March 26- May 12, 2012

Reception: Thursday, March 29, 5:30-7:00 pm

Group show co-curated by Mary Salvante and Mark Campbell featuring artists: Kim Beck, Mark Campbell, Kara Crombie, David McQueen, Erin Murray, Peter Rose, Blaise Tobia and Anthony Angelicola.

"works...address themes relating to patterns pf settlement, urban/suburban contrasts, and the subsequent social, cultural meanings surrounding issues of concentration and dispersal within the built environment."

Rowan University Art Gallery

Westby Hall, 201 Mullica Hill Road Glassboro, NJ

New American Paintings #98

Hot off the presses is the latest edition of New American Paintings, featuring my work on pages 76-79.

Municipalia at The DCCA

I am excitedly looking forward to a solo exhibition at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts this March. Entitled Municipalia, I will be showing all new work which investigates the aging Modernist structures ubitquitous to our bureaucratic landscape and how they relate to and reflect human nature. The show will run from March 2 to June 3, with an opening reception and artist's talk on March 2 from 5-9. Hope to see you there!

Related events include a two-day symposium March 23-24 entitled SUPERstructure which serves as the larger theme for six individual but interrelated DCCA exhibtions taking place this spring, and an Art Salad lunchtime artist talk on April 5. More details can be found on the DCCA website.

Enfold at Nancy Margolis Gallery

New Yorkers and adventurous Philadelphians, I hope you can join me this Thursday, December 8, 6-8 pm at Nancy Margolis Gallery in Chelsea. I'll be exhibiting my drawings in the viewing room along with Tom Ngo, fellow fan of architectural absurdity. In the main gallery space will be Enfold, an installation by New York artist Harry Roseman.  Should be a great time!

LOOK! On Lancaster Avenue Public Art Project

On view from September 30 to November 30 will be my first foray into public art at 3601 Lancaster Ave, part of the LOOK! On Lancaster Avenue public art project which includes storefront installations by 13 artists, gallery openings along Lancaster Ave, and live music and performances during the opening party on September 30 from 6-10 pm. 

The idea behind my piece, Value Added:

The idea of transforming vacant or underused storefronts on the once bustling Lancaster Ave got me thinking about the evolution of economies along that route. Storefronts that once were in the business of selling goods and services to a community are now in the business of selling art and culture, and indirectly, real estate.

The term "Value Added" refers to the inarguable value and necessity of culture in a community but also hints at the uncomfortable commercialism that accompanies it.

Using the familiar scene of patched (subtracted) graffiti as a backdrop calls into question what kinds of art are deemed acceptable in the new culture economy.

 

Come see me and the finished work on Friday, September 30 from 6-10 for what should be a really fun opening party!

Upcoming Solo Series at Abington Art Center

I will be showing a series of new drawings this fall at the bucolic Abington Art Center

The show runs from September 10 to November 27. The opening reception is Sunday Sept 11, from 3-5

Other artists on view: Paul Rider, Sarah Becktel, and Joseph Leroux

Strata at Cerulean Arts

Strata

works by Erin Murray and Mashiul Chowdhury at Cerulean Arts Gallery

August 31-October 1

Opening Reception First Friday September 2 5:00-8:00

Meet the Artists September 18, 1-4 Gallery talk at 2:00

Hope to see you there!