Jamie Diamond (Lecturer) interviewed in Dummy Magazine

Jamie Diamond, a Lecturer in the UPenn Undergraduate Fine Arts Department has an interview by Olver Gehrs examining her work as it relates to the theme "Family" in the German publication, Dummy. The magazine is a monothematic publication curated by an art director. This issue's theme was "Familie" and in it she discusses her work "Created family" where Diamond posts personal ads on the internet looking for different family members in order to create family portraits.

An excerpt from the interview:
Dummy: How would your perfect family look like? In which of your pictures would you fit, do you think?
JD: The starting point for all of the portraits were my own memories and experiences, I have folders of our own family portraits that inspired me. It's strange, I feel each family portrait I created is a representation of my own family and I could fit into any of them. Each shoot was such a personal experience and I was part of all of the families for as long as they existed, from when they met to when they parted. The family only existed in that space and I was the creator of it all.

Click below for a full sized scan of the interview in press (in German):

Tetsugo Hyakutake (MFA 2009) in show at ICA Singapore

"Videologue” is a neologised term from the words ‘video’ and ‘dialogue’ – suggesting the form of communication through video art. Conceptualised by visual artists Urich Lau from Singapore and Cheng Guangfeng from Beijing, the first exhibition was held in Beijing on March 2011, hosted by Sunshine International Art Museum. In the upcoming exhibition, Videologue - Video Art Exhibition / Exchange: Beijing – Singapore – Tokyo, it explores issues and situations of the human dilemma and dissociation produced by geological, territorial and cultural shifts in contemporary life, as interpreted by the participating artists.

Artists: Urich Lau, Lim Shengen and Teow Yue Han (Singapore), Cheng Guangfeng, Han Tao, Li Ning and Shen Shaomin (China) and Tetsugo Hyakutake (Japan).

Nate Wilson (MFA '10) and Micah Danges (UPenn Photo Technician) in show at Bunker Hull opening 12/3

Micah Danges (Photography Technician @ UPenn), Nate Wilson (MFA '10), HMS Dooley Hayes, Dan Murphy and Marc Zazack will exhibit work in a show "Simulacra & Simulation" at Bunker Hull 2021 Memphis St in Philadelphia opening this Saturday on 12/3 from 7-10pm.

Bunker Hull's new Tumblr here.

Undergrad Thesis Preview Exhibition opening tonight 12/1 in Addams Gallery

Fine Arts Senior Thesis Preview Exhibition

December 1 – 8, 2011

The Charles Addams Fine Arts Gallery

Alex Remnick, Allison Zuckerman, Weiren Liu, Connie Ko, Amanda Murphy, Rebecca Bailey, Alexander Hovnanian, Jillian Blackwell, Tenaya Anue, Lynda Brody, Elise Wrabetz, Sarah Shults, Quintin Marcus, Sayra Lopez, Jesse Rappaport, Alexandria Goree, Claire Niebergall

University of Pennsylvania School of Design

Undergraduate Program in Fine Arts

200 South 36th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104

215.573.5134

www.thesis2012.upennfinearts.com

Alec Soth "Somewhere to disappear" screening at PPAC tonight

The Philadelphia Photo Arts Center is pleased to host a film screening of Somewhere to Disappear, a film by Laure Flammarion and Arnaud Uyttenhove starring American photographer Alec Soth.Somewhere to Disappear is a film about the desire to run away.

For his most recent project Broken Manual, Soth investigates the places in which people retreat to escape civilization. Soth photographs monks, survivalists, hermits and runaways, but this isn't a conventional documentary project on life "off the grid." Why do people run and hide? The young European filmmakers followed Soth over the course of two years for answers. The film is about men, America, Alec Soth and the dream to disappear.

Alec Soth (b. 1969) is a photographer born and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His photographs have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the 2004 Whitney and São Paulo Biennials. In 2008, a large survey exhibition of Soth's work was exhibited at Jeu de Paume in Paris and Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland. In 2010, the Walker Art produced a large survey exhibition of Soth's work entitled From Here To There. Alec Soth's first monograph, Sleeping by the Mississippi, was published by Steidl in 2004 to critical acclaim. Since then Soth has publishedNIAGARA (2006), Fashion Magazine (2007) Dog Days, Bogotá (2007) The Last Days of W (2008) andBroken Manual (2010). In 2008, Soth started his own publishing company, Little Brown Mushroom. Soth is represented by Sean Kelly in New York, Weinstein Gallery in Minneapolis, and is a member of Magnum Photos.

Screening at 7:30 PM tonight (12/1) at the Philadelphia Photo Art Center, $5 admission

Chad State's "Cruising" book signing at PPAC 11/19

Launch Party for Chad States’ New Book Cruising

Saturday, November 19th, 2011
6:00 – 7:00pm

Sarah Stolfa's (Lecturer) PPAC is pleased to host a book launch party and signing of photographer Chad States’s first monograph Cruising.
The act of “cruising” has long since been a part of gay culture, in which men with common desires meet one another in public places such as parks, public rest rooms, and roadside wooded groves. Similar to the spaces themselves, they find each other hidden in plain sight with the use of silent signals and cues. States’s Cruising depicts these locations and the men who make use of them throughout the country.

From the Pacific Northwest to New England, States’s photographs portray hidden clearings, forest-lined parking lots, and other predetermined paths in which these encounters take place. By visually representing these public landscapes and the men who occupy them for private use, States’s Cruising exposes this transgressive tradition within the gay community, dragging it out of the woods and into the light of the public eye.
Chad States obtained a BA from Evergreen State College and an MFA from Tyler School of Art. States was an Artist in Residence at Light Work during the summer of 2009, and received the Emerging Artist Fellowship for the Delaware Division of the Arts in 2008. His work is included in the permanent collections of Light Work and the Julie Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art. States’s work has been exhibited nationwide in Hous Projects, New York; Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle; and FLUXspace, Philadelphia, among others. Chad States currently resides in Philadelphia, PA.
PPAC will be selling copies of States’s Cruising, published by powerHouse Books

Philadelphia Center for the Book "Book Paper Scissors" fair is this weekend

Parkway Central Library 1901 Vine Street, 11/19 10am-4pm

This festive book fair will feature an exhibit of prints, artists' books, handmade paper, zines, origami, and blank books, all made by local artists.

Free book-making workshops for all ages and artist levels will also be offered at the Library the day of the fair. Space is limited - please email events@philadelphiacenterforthebook.org to reserve your spot for a workshop. Walk-ins are welcome for the Kids & Families Pop-ups workshop.

Nigel Rolfe (former UPenn Graduate Critic) in "A Rocky Road" at Crawford Art Gallery

Nigel Rolfe, Into the Mire, production still 2011.© Nigel Rolfe

A Rocky Road, curated by Sean Lynch for the Crawford Art Gallery. 18 November 2011–14 January 2012

A Rocky Road is an exhibition investigating artistic production and its reception in Ireland. With an emphasis on the social realities that cultural invention has encountered in the country, several topics repeatedly arise: conservative reactions and protest to the growth of modern art, vandalism of artworks, and the newsworthy character of artists with their many creative ideas and schemes are all prominent.

www.crawfordartgallery.ie

Kelsey Halliday Johnson (MFA '12) Interviewed in UPenn's 34th Street Magazine

Kelsey Halliday Johnson "Sight Seeing"
Archival Pigment Print, 30x32", 2011

The issue of 34th Street Magazine hit stands 11/10/11, if you missed the print copy the full interview and an online feature video can be found here.

PPAC's Philly Photo Day Opening is tonight 11/10 6-9pm

Work from numerous UPenn photo student classes will be featured in the collection of photographs taken all over the city on 10/28 for Philly Photo Day at Sarah Stolfa's (UPenn Lecturers) Philadelphia Photo Arts Center. Opening from 6-9pm.