Senior Fine Arts PREVIEW Exhibition.
"Retrospect" by Elizabeth Cunningham.
"Fence" from "Ways of Looking" by Brittany Binler.
"Junie and Ivy" from the series "Committed" by Olivia Coffey.
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
INFORMATION
Senior Fine Arts PREVIEW Exhibition."Retrospect" by Elizabeth Cunningham.
"Fence" from "Ways of Looking" by Brittany Binler.
"Junie and Ivy" from the series "Committed" by Olivia Coffey.
Friday, December 4, 2009
Photography show goes ‘from mild to wild’
Monday, November 30, 2009
XXY
"XXY: this is not pornography"
Elizabeth Ansell
Olivia Coffey
N. Evelyn Cooke
Elizabeth Cunningham
Clare Din
Ayasha Guerin
Alex Remnick
Kateryn Silva
Hersh Singh
Opening Reception:
Thursday, December 3
4:30-6:30PM
Special Performance Event
by Kalina Isato
5:30-6PM
Philomathean Art Gallery
Philomathean Society
of the University of Pennsylvania
College Hall, 4th Floor
34th & Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104
www.philomathean.org
www.photoupenn.blogspot.com
Gallery Hours:
Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays:
11AM-1PM, 5-9PM
Tuesdays and Thursdays: 7-9PM
Saturdays: 12-5PM
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Sam Belkowitz and Micah Danges (Penn Photography Staff) Curate and Exhibit in Show at Little Berlin, Opening Saturday, November 7, 6:00 - 10:00
Sam Belkowitz, Penn's Photography Facilities Manager, has curated and will show in an exhibit called Heaven on Earth at Little Berlin Gallery in Philadelphia. The show includes Micah Danges, the MFA Photography Technician, among the eighteen participating artists. The show tackles the ambitious task of mining one’s search for utopia. In this exhibition, Belkowitz asks each artist: where do you find perfection? Are the ideals of utopia even possible or attainable? These works coalesce into an environment without limits at Little Berlin, providing the viewer with a series of vantage points from which to experience the paradoxical nature of utopian dreams.
This exhibition will include video, installation, painting, sculpture, and photography. Featured artists include: Sam Belkowitz, Helen Cahng, Michelle Chong, Micah Danges, Joy Feasley, Richard Harrod, Nadia Hironaka, M. Ho, Aaron Igler, Eugene Lew, Tristin Lowe, Jacob Lunderby, Naomi Reis, Josh Rickards, Mary Smull, Matthew Suib, Paul Swenbeck, Artie Vierkant, and Linda Yun.
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 7, 6:00 - 10:00pm
Exhibition Dates: November 7 - 28, 2009
Special musical performances:
Saturday, November 14, 8:00pm: agup b
Sunday, November 22, 4:00pm: Zurgunruhe sounds + Shake the Sky
Little Berlin
119 W. Montgomery Ave.
Philadelphia, PA 19122
610-308-0579
berlin.little@gmail.com
www.littleberlin.org
To see more of Sam's work, visit www.sambelkowitz.us
To see more of Micah's work, visit http://micahdanges.org
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Next: Emerging Philadelphia Photographers, Matthew Thomas Cianfrani...
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
2009 International Photography Awards Announces Winners of the Competition
Tetsugo Hyakutake was awarded in the International Photography Awards Competition. International Photography Awards (IPA) has announced the winners of 2009's competition.
Tetsugo Hyakutake was Awarded: 1st place in Architecture - Bridges category for the winning entry "Post- Industrialization."
ABOUT IPA:
The 2009 International Photography Awards received nearly 18,000 submissions from 104 countries across the globe. IPA is a sister-effort of the Lucie Foundation, where the top three winners are announced at the annual Lucie Awards gala ceremony. The Foundation's mission is to honor master photographers, to discover new and emerging talent and to promote the appreciation of photography. Since 2003, IPA has had the privilege and opportunity to acknowledge and recognize contemporary photographer's accomplishments in this specialized and highly visible competition. Visit www.photoawards.com
Thursday, September 3, 2009
...or is it?
Consequential...
VOX POPULI
Brent Wahl, Arrivals and Departures
The rise and fall of culture nestled within the resilient and morphing context of nature is the musing of this multimedia installation. Playing off of his frequent use of architecture, illusion, and ephemeral materials, Brent incorporates motion, surveillance, and sound in this exhibition. Based loosely on a distant variation of both the model of the zoetrope, created in China around 180 AD, and the magic lantern of 1558, the artist has made a simple looped environment with a loosely connected, but dark narrative. Like the prisoners described in Plato's Cave, observers are privy to projections of imagery on a wall. Instead of reality being shifted as it is cast as shadow, a partially fabricated view of history and nature is cast as reality. In the brief, one-minute journey to the soundtrack of tropical birds and a distant battle, we visit an anonymous mountain terrain, a desolate but seemingly magical forest, various military bunkers, and Le Corbusier’s Unite d’Habitation in Marseille. See more at: www.brentwahl.com
September 4 - 27, 2009
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, September 4 from 6 - 11pm
GALLERY HOURS: Wednesday - Sunday 12 - 6pm
GALLERY TALK: With ICA Curator Jenelle Porter, September 27 at 3pm
THREE-ROOMS LAUNCH in Chelsea...
MORRIS GALLERY, PAFA: The Rockstar Diaries: Two Thousand Myspace Photos in Beijing
Monday, August 31, 2009
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Jessica Clauser (MFA 2009) featured in Boxing Gloves and Bustiers, NYC!
A group exhibition that explores the many faces of heroic female figuration. Curated by Kate Gilmore.
Boxing Gloves and Bustiers is an exhibition of works that explore the many faces
of heroic female figuration through the lens of contemporary video. The show,
which was curated by artist Kate Gilmore reflects a shift in women's
relationship to power and the subsequent critique this change entails.
The videos range from heroic narratives to short and snappy "music videos",
all of which evoke from the viewer empathy, intrigue and laughter.
Friday, July 24, 2009
Recent MFA graduates exhibit work at Michael Steinberg Fine Art, NYC
Friday, July 3, 2009
Manya Scheps featured on "The ArtBLOG"...
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Arthur Vierkant exhibits work at The Esther M. Klein Art Gallery
The Vitreous: Of Eyes and Optics will explore the science and technology of sight, vision and optics through contemporary art practices. The exhibition marks the Klein Art Gallery’s first open call for submissions for a juried exhibition in several years. The exhibition will be juried by members of the gallery’s advisory board. The Vitreous: Of Eyes and Optics exhibition is open to all artists working in all media though an emphasis will be placed on artwork that engages new media and/or emerging technologies.
Saraf Stolfa at Gallery 339
Gabriel Martinez performance in NYC...
Collaborative Performance Event
Roxana Pérez-Méndez & Gabriel Martinez
X Initiative's "NO SOUL FOR SALE – A Festival Of Independents"
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: X Initiative
548 West 22nd Street
New York, NY
"X will make available to each participant, for a one-hour period, a dedicated performance area on the ground floor in which participants can organize performances, presentations, discussions and music programs.”
Roxana Pérez-Méndez and Gabriel Martinez, both performance-oriented interdisciplinary artists, met at Skowhegan School of Sculpture and Painting in 2003 where they collaborated, with a fellow participant, on a two-part performance project- “Independencia.”
Feeling fierce and ready to attack, Pérez-Méndez and Martinez reunite to add Latino spirit to this “Festival Of Independents."
Brent Wahl & Micah Danges exhibit works in Portland, ME...
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
President Gutmann visits "EastWestSouthNorth"
Exhibit showcases student photos of China.
Read the article, "Penn Current: Latest News"
Matthew Thomas Cianfrani discusses his work with President Gutmann.
Group Portrait in front of Kira Simon-Kennedy's work.
Top row, l-r: Kira Simon-Kennedy, Arthur Vierkant, Nicholas Salvatore, President Gutmann, Jesse Harding, Julie Saecker Schneider.
Bottom row: Gabriel Martinez, Matthew Thomas Cianfrani, Pernot Hudson, Tasha Doremus.
Read the article, "Penn Current: Latest News"
Matthew Thomas Cianfrani discusses his work with President Gutmann.
Group Portrait in front of Kira Simon-Kennedy's work.Top row, l-r: Kira Simon-Kennedy, Arthur Vierkant, Nicholas Salvatore, President Gutmann, Jesse Harding, Julie Saecker Schneider.
Bottom row: Gabriel Martinez, Matthew Thomas Cianfrani, Pernot Hudson, Tasha Doremus.
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
UPenn School of Design Awards recipients...
Congratulations.
Susan Cromwell Coslett Traveling Fellowship
Leigh Van Duzer
Leigh Van Duzer
Department of Fine Arts
Dedalus Foundation Award
and
Fulbright Grant
Antonio Eli McAfee
Dedalus Foundation Award
and
Fulbright Grant
Antonio Eli McAfee
The Toby Devan Lewis Foundation Prize
Tetsugo Hyakutake
Tetsugo Hyakutake
Undergraduate Fine Arts
Fine Arts Major Senior Award
Rachel Gogel
Fine Arts Major Senior Award
Rachel Gogel
Fine Arts Chair's Award
Manya Scheps
The Becky Young Photography Prize
Matthew Thomas Cianfrani
Matthew Thomas Cianfrani
Fine Arts Junior Photography Prize
Elizabeth Cunningham
Elizabeth Cunningham
Leigh Van Duzer's work featured in "Bubble 'n Squeak"
Leigh Van Duzer, Video Store 12Exhibition Dates: May 14-June 20, 2009
Rebekah Templeton Contemporary Art is pleased to announce Bubble and Squeak, a group exhibition highlighting the work of first year Master of Fine Arts students Fritz Horstman, Jennifer Jones-O’Neil, Jiwon Lee, Heather Ramsdale and Leigh Van Duzer, some of the Mid-Atlantic region’s most promising emerging artists.Leigh Van Duzer’s photographs detail an interior space rich with narrative and engorged with structural decay. Her photographs deal with the detritus of human activity. Van Duzer’s recent series involves photographing a bankrupt video store as a ‘container of history’.
NEXT: Emerging Phildelaphia Photographers, June 26 Deadline for entry
The Philadelphia Photo Arts Center will open this August with its inaugural exhibition NEXT: Emerging Phildelaphia Photographers. Juror: Ariel Shanberg, Center for Photography at Woodstock Selected entries will be exhibited in PPAC's new exhibition space in the Crane Arts Building from August 18 - November 29, 2009. First, second, and third prize winners will receive, $500, $300, and $200 gift certificates respectively for digital services at PPAC. The competition is open to all subject matter and photographic processes.
Tetsugo Hyakutake participates in PhotoEspaña 2009.
PhotoEspaña 2009 is a Festival of Photography and Visual Arts that
will take place from 3 June to 26 July with Madrid, Lisbon, and Cuenca
as its host cities. The event will comprise of 72 exhibitions spread
across a total of 60 exhibition spaces, with 248 artists and creators
of 40 nationalities participating. As part of the festival, Tetsugo Hyakutake has been invited to participate in Descubrimienos PHE Madrid.
"Pathos and Irony: Industrial Still-Life in Japan #12"
will take place from 3 June to 26 July with Madrid, Lisbon, and Cuenca
as its host cities. The event will comprise of 72 exhibitions spread
across a total of 60 exhibition spaces, with 248 artists and creators
of 40 nationalities participating. As part of the festival, Tetsugo Hyakutake has been invited to participate in Descubrimienos PHE Madrid.
"Pathos and Irony: Industrial Still-Life in Japan #12"Sunday, May 3, 2009
Howard A. Silverstein and Patricia Bleznak Silverstein Abroad Studio in Photography: BEIJING/CHINA/2009
Micah Danges (MFA Photo Technician) in Group Exhibition at Gershman Y...
Invented: (un)Realities, In Two Parts.
Vox Populi Gallery at the Gershman Y
Exhibition Dates: Part 1 - April 23-June 6, 2009
The two-part exhibition Invented: (un)Realities, In Two Parts,
examines the duality of constructed landscapes and fabricated
architectural environments. The work selected for this exhibition
demonstrates the investigation into ‘artificial’ places and spaces,
which are found in the modification of the natural world or human
constructed/architectural surroundings. The artists in this
exhibition, in order to better suit their mission, rebuild, piece
together or manipulate these established constructs. These fictitious
environments, literally and figuratively, reflect our own experiences
and human interactions between real and illusionary surroundings.
The artists presented in Part 1 are particularly interested in
imaginary landscapes, constructing objects of flora and fauna and
creating images that depict an illusion between interior/exterior
spaces through installations, paintings and photography/video.
Artists Kate Stewart, Amy Adams, Kara Crombie, Micah Danges and Eva
Wylie all use the natural world (and the departure from the natural
world) as the genesis of their work.
Organized by Vox member and UArts Faculty, Julianna Foster
and Vox Member, Josh Rickards
Gershman Y
Borowsky Gallery
401 South Broad St.
Philadelphia, PA 19147
Eileen Neff at Weatherspoon Art Museum...
Eileen Neff: Between Us
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
May 24–August 16, 2009
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
May 24–August 16, 2009
After originating at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, and traveling to the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland, "Eileen Neff: Between Us" makes its final stop at the Weatherspoon Art Museum, in Greensboro, NC. 
Eileen Neff
A Goat in the Field, 2009, c-print mounted on aluminum, 66 x 65 inches
Eileen NeffA Goat in the Field, 2009, c-print mounted on aluminum, 66 x 65 inches
Artforum, May 2009
Alec Soth critiquing undergraduate work...
Soth reviews Daniel Schwartz's photographs.
Alec Soth, Karen Rodewald and Undergraduate Photography Students.
A discussion between Clarence Din and Soth.images: Brent Wahl.
Monday, April 13, 2009
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Monday, February 9, 2009
REMINDER- Imperfect Moments: Mapplethorpe and Censorship Twenty Years Later
Self Portrait, 1975Symposium Sponsored by the Institute of Contemporary Art.
Thursday-Friday February 12-13
No pre-registration required. Seating is limited and available on a first come, first served basis.
for more information: http://www.icaphila.org/events/mapplethorpe.php
Patti Smith, 1987Performance and discussion, Thursday, February 12th.
5:30pm, B1 Meyerson
Co-Sponsor: Institute of Contemporary Arts
Host department: Undergraduate Fine Arts
This is a ticket event. While free and open to the public, you will require a ticket to attend. Tickets will be distributed starting at 4PM in the Meyerson Lobby.
Sunday, February 8, 2009
EXTRAVAGANZA WINNERS!
Michael Soo
Elizabeth Ansell
Jayde Stewart
Esther Kim
Rebecca Goldman
Elise Wrabetz
Thanks to everyone for your participation.
Over 500! votes were collected for...
The Amazing Photo 1 EXTRAVAGANZA!
All participants can retrieve their prints this week.
1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners can collect their prizes in the Addams Photo Faculty Office starting Tuesday at noon.
1st Place Prize: a "Besfile" Archival Binder With Rings &
Your Heiress Diary:Confess it all to Me, Paris Hilton.
2nd Place Prize: Seizing the Light: A Social History of Photography, Robert Hirsch.
3rd Place Prize: The Heart of Haiti, Andrea Baldeck.
Elizabeth Ansell
Jayde Stewart
Esther Kim
Rebecca Goldman
Elise Wrabetz
Thanks to everyone for your participation.
Over 500! votes were collected for...
The Amazing Photo 1 EXTRAVAGANZA!
All participants can retrieve their prints this week.
1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners can collect their prizes in the Addams Photo Faculty Office starting Tuesday at noon.
1st Place Prize: a "Besfile" Archival Binder With Rings &
Your Heiress Diary:Confess it all to Me, Paris Hilton.
2nd Place Prize: Seizing the Light: A Social History of Photography, Robert Hirsch.
3rd Place Prize: The Heart of Haiti, Andrea Baldeck.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Michael Bryant, UPenn Photo Faculty, photographs the 2009 Presidential Inauguration
Barack Obama takes the oath of office while his wife Michelle holds the bible and Chief Justice Roberts administers the oath.
(Michael Bryant/Philadelphia Inquirer Staff Photographer).
(Michael Bryant/Philadelphia Inquirer Staff Photographer).
Presidential Inauguration, January 20th, 2009.
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Tetsugo Hyakutake (UPenn Photo MFA 09) at Gallery 339
Friday, January 16, 2009
Imperfect Moments: Mapplethorpe and Censorship Twenty Years Later
Co-presented by the Institute of Contemporary Art and the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative at The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, this two-day symposium commemorating the 20th anniversary of Mapplethorpe's exhibition brings together world-renowned artists, critics, and scholars to examine the legacy of the culture wars of the 1990s on the arts in the United States, as well as, the issues that artists and art institutions face today.
No pre-registration required. Seating is limited and available on a first come, first served basis.
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Senior Preview Thesis Show
Opening Reception
Monday, December 1, 5–7pm
Charles Addams Fine Arts Gallery
Exhibition Open
November 24–December 5, 2008
10am–5pm | Free and open to the public
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Amazing Exhibition at the Ross Gallery!
KINGS, CHIEFS AND WOMEN OF POWER: IMAGES FROM NIGERIA
PHOTOGRAPHS BY PHYLLIS GALEMBO
Image courtesy of the artist
PHYLLIS GALEMBO
PHOTOGRAPHS BY PHYLLIS GALEMBO
Image courtesy of the artistPHYLLIS GALEMBO
Monday, October 27, 2008
Pittsburgh UPenn Fine Arts Trip, Seats are very limited!
UPenn, Department of Fine Arts, Bus Trip to Pittsburgh,
Saturday, NOVEMBER 8TH.
Bus Trip to visit:
The Andy Warhol Museum
The Mattress Factory
Carnegie International
Saturday, NOVEMBER 8TH.
Bus Trip to visit:
The Andy Warhol Museum
The Mattress Factory
Carnegie International
Friday, October 24, 2008
Monday, October 20, 2008
THROUGH YOU EXTENDED by Popular Demand!
Installation Composite (Addams Gallery)
"Through You: Photography Selections from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection" will be extended until Noon, Thursday, October 30th, 2008.
This will be your last chance to enjoy this amazing exhibition.
Friday, October 17, 2008
PHOTO CHINA UPENN
Abroad Studio: CHINA
Applications are also available in the Fine Arts office in 114 Addams and require a portfolio.
Applications due: Noon, MONDAY, October 27th, 2008.
Please submit your completed application with accompanying portfolio (CD) to Donna Fee in the Undergraduate Fine Arts Office by noon.
You can also obtain further information & an application here:
Info:
2-page Application Form:
Applications are also available in the Fine Arts office in 114 Addams and require a portfolio.
Applications due: Noon, MONDAY, October 27th, 2008.
Please submit your completed application with accompanying portfolio (CD) to Donna Fee in the Undergraduate Fine Arts Office by noon.
You can also obtain further information & an application here:
Info:
2-page Application Form:
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Edith Newhall reviews "Through You: Photography Selections from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection" for the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Goldin, Nan
"Marlene, Colette, and Naomi on the Street, Boston, 1973"
Gelatin silver print
50.8 x 40.6 cm
Courtesy the artist and Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
"Student curators give Penn photography show pizzazz"
An excerpt:
"One of the show's many treats, besides its collisions of strange, memorable images and presentation of works not easily seen in person (early black-and-white photos by William Eggleston and Cindy Sherman, for example), are the students' essays. These are inquiries into practices assessed by art historians many times over in catalogs and books, but written with a sincerity and freshness that are as provocative as the photographs themselves."
Philadelphia Inquirer- Arts & Entertainment, Galleries, Sunday, October 12th, 2008.
Friday, September 19, 2008
Demetrius Oliver (UPenn MFA 2004), Observatory D’Amelio Terras, through Sept 27th, 2008.
Demetrius Oliver’s current exhibition Observatory at D'Amelio Terras receives four stars in this week’s Time Out New York and is noted as the Village Voice’s Best in Show.
Also, — Demetrius Oliver reviewed in the New York Times (Sep 08)
Time Out New York / Issue 677 : Sep 19–25, 2008
Review by T.J. Carlin
Demetrius Oliver, Observatory
D’Amelio Terras, through Sept 27
If epistemology were a visual rather than a philosophical study, it might take the form of Demetrius Oliver’s photographs. In his show, careful looking is balanced with a persistent consideration of the act of observation itself in a series of works that, through their subject matter, touch upon everything from the history of still life to self-portraiture.
Excepting an animated short and a slide show, the majority of the pieces are square, mounted prints taken with a fish-eye lens. The method is uniquely appropriate here, serving as a literal and metaphorical way of uniting myriad subjects, all of which relate to ways of seeing, whether through a telescope, a camera or the painstaking process of observational painting.
There are two main series: “Firmament” consists of interiors, while in “Ember,” lightbulbs hovering in darkness have those same interiors projected onto them. In the particularly striking Firmament #26, the artist bends over a stone fireplace with a poker, tending a pile of electric lamps.
A camera looms on a tripod between this scene and the viewer, as if to remind us of the limits of this particular reality. The photos are digitally altered and sometimes look as if they have been subject to years of water damage. The end result is a painterly surface hearkening to the sumptuous tones and subtle light of Chardin.
Oliver’s use of light and the camera as both medium and subject underscores the self-reflexivity in his oeuvre. The strength of these pieces is that they both show and tell, and are fulfilling both conceptually and aesthetically.
Also, — Demetrius Oliver reviewed in the New York Times (Sep 08)
Through You: Contemporary photos at Penn
Samaras, Lucas
Set Up 34, 2003
Pure pigment on paper
60 x 57.2 cm, ed. 1/5
© Lucas Samaras, courtesy PaceWildenstein, New York
Check out Libby Rosof's awesome recent post from the Philly "artblog"...
an exceprt from Libby's post:
"Through You exhibits 23 masters of photography showing 56 works, at the Charles Addams Fine Arts Gallery. In the nearby hallway is some student work reflecting the influence of these photographers; this youthful work also is worth a look. The two shows are up through Oct. 24.
The photographers deliver a multi-faceted essay on reality and unreality, subverting and manipulating the documentary voice of photography for their own purposes.
Although the exhibit has a mix of familiar and unfamiliar work, it still delivers surprises in how the photos talk to each other. The exhibit also serves as a reminder that photography is always asking questions about what's real and what it means to see something framed through a glass lens."
FOR MORE INFO
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
American Photo On Campus Student Showcase
Su-Yen Chae, 2007."In our November issue we invited readers to submit photographs for a prospective all-student issue, not at all convinced we would get enough work to do it. We got plenty, and then some. This issue’s Student Portfolios section is 22 pages long, our biggest ever. Remarkable work came in from all corners of the country, with a particularly impressive showing coming from the University of Pennsylvania."
-American Photo on Campus, 2007
Be sure to Click on STUDENT PORTFOLIO SHOWCASE
to view portfolios.
Former students represented:
Su-Yen Chae, Brent Wahl, Milana Braslavsky, Shayna McConville, Francesca Pfister, Chia-Lin Chen.
Monday, September 15, 2008
Juried Student Exhibition, Regional SPE Mid-Atlantic Photography Conference. Pittsburgh, PA. November 7-8th, 2008.
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