Jump Cut
Fjord Gallery
June 19 - July 30, 2017
Opening reception: Friday June 19, 6-9
Secondary reception: Thursday July 13, 2017 6-9
Jump Cut
Fjord Gallery
June 19 - July 30, 2017
Opening reception: Friday June 19, 6-9
Secondary reception: Thursday July 13, 2017 6-9
Threshold
Vox Populi Gallery
May 5 - June 25, 2017
Opening reception: Friday May 5, 6-9
Secondary reception: Friday June 8, 6-9
Artist's talk moderated by members of Ulises: Sunday June 25, 3-5
Space to Fill
November 6-29, 2015
Vox Populi Gallery
Opening reception: Friday Nov 6, 6-10
Artist’s talk moderated by Alex Klein: Sunday Nov 22, 3-6
“Non-stop re-enactment not only legitimises the conditions and ideologies that it embodies: it is a way of making real-- of making architecture’s innate syntheticness seem natural.” --Sam Jacob, from Make It Real: Architecture as Enactment, 2012
Space to Fill represents a search for meaning within the built environment, and deploys the intense focus of representational drawing in an attempt to understand our most common and iterative architectural habits; that which represents our most basic instincts as we naturalize our surroundings. Diluted forms, holding both the whisper of their origin and new meanings conferred by material and context--seemingly too ubiquitous to merit much attention--are here given an undue amount.
The limits of such understanding are also explored, using the medium of drawing again to "resolve the unresolvable," exposing the lack of information and loss of knowledge which is an inevitable condition of our landscape and lived experience. In fact, this lack of knowledge -- translating to a sense of mystery and wonder -- can be a casualty of a practice based on relentless looking, and so is reclaimed here.
Failing to find meaning, meaning is conferred. Based on the certainty of the integral relationship of architecture and the human body, the work here attempts to enforce a sense of empathy, wonder, humor and affection that is representative of our personal relationships to the things we construct.
DREAM HOUSE brings to limited realization a long abandoned architectural dream, surfacing an alternate timeline for a family since fractured.
In a way, a gift to the architect.
In another way, his soul laid bare.
In fact, my soul laid bare.
"...proud to present DRAWING NOW PHILADELPHIA, highlighting leading local artists who exemplify the versatility of drawing by stretching the traditional boundaries of the genre. DRAWING NOW PHILADELPHIA will feature 14 Philadelphia-based artists whose work is at the forefront of the medium: Ruth Scott Blackson, Astrid Bowlby, Amze Emmons, Alexis Granwell, Daniel Heyman, Sharka Hyland, Colin Keefe, Erin Murray, Michelle Oosterbaan, Serena Perrone, Mia Rosenthal, Hiro Sakaguchi, Caroline Santa, and Samantha Simpson. By exhibiting a well-rounded variety of artistic practices, concepts and visions related to drawing, DRAWING NOW PHILADELPHIA offers a glimpse into the latest directions and developments in drawing and works on paper."
The work of these five artists relates to and addresses ideas of habitat, environment, the natural, notions of the sublime, and home. The concept of a garden serves as a helpful frame for viewing the diverse works collected in this show. Generally speaking, a garden is a demarcated space that is tended to and cared for, which also includes elements of the natural. An odd zone that is both artificial and natural. In this way, the work in this show can be said to look at the world, through the lens of a garden. That is say, the world is no longer considered infinite, but evenly proportioned and tended to by differing populations and forces. The artists’ lenses vary, some offer more optimistic visions of the future, others less so. [In]finite Gardens serves to raise questions about our current relationship and understanding to one of our most shared experiences and resources, the land.