Gabriel Martinez, Samson Solo Exhibition

Artist's Reception:
Friday, Sept. 9th from 5 - 8PM

450 Harrison Avenue / 29 Thayer Street
Boston, MA 02118
T 617 357 7177

GALLERY HOURS:
Wednesday to Saturday 12 to 5PM
& by Appointment


For his 2nd solo exhibition with Samsøn, Cuban American, Philadelphia-based multidisciplinary artist Gabriel Martinez addresses the complex intersections at the core of contemporary, gay male sexual identities. The exhibition, a diverse mix of new works, questions male power dynamics; subverting and making reference to a wide range of cultural products at the heart of socio, political and sexual discourses on masculinity. In Martinez’s hands, these elements, playful at first, belie deeper meanings about sexual desire among men, reclaiming and bringing what seems to exist at the margins' full center.

Brent Wahl ‘Group Show’ at VOX

Opening Friday May 6 - 29

Vox Populi presents the fourth solo exhibition from Brent Wahl, entitled ‘Group Show’.

In Group Show, Wahl refocuses his interest in abstraction in full force. Drawing on his fascination with the optical and spatial shifts that happen between three-dimensional structures imaged in two-dimensions (via photography), he embraces a playful and experimental stance with this work. Collaborating with himself, he compiles a “group show" of imagery that is at once thematically linked and visually diverse.

brentwahl.com

TRUTH OR DARE

Current Nexus Exhibition: Juried and Curated by Gabriel Martinez.
Truth or Dare

Dates: February 10th, March 4th, 2011
Hours: Wed - Sat 12-6pm
Location: Nexus
2nd Thursday Reception: February 10th, 2011, 6 - 9 PM

Tasha Doremus & Gabriel Martinez in group exhibition at Nexus

Image: Gabriel Martinez


Image: Tasha Doremus


Closing Reception: Friday, February 4, 6-9pm.

Nexus Foundation for Today’s Art is celebrating 35 years as a co-operative of Philadelphia-based multi-disciplinary artists with an Alumni Invitational showcasing the diversity of those who have made and formed NEXUS over the last 35 years. Founded in 1975 as space for challenging, innovative and compelling art exhibitions, it has a rich tradition of stimulating creative thought and dialog among the artists and the public regarding the meanings and methods behind today’s art. NEXUS members have a history of challenging artistic tradition, investigating new mediums and re-exploring old concepts. The opportunities NEXUS provides have attracted many of Philadelphia’s most significant experimental artists. Since the inception of NEXUS, member artists have received nine Pew Fellowships in the arts, ten Independence Foundation Fellowships, and seven Leeway Foundation Emerging Artist awards. The Alumni Invitational articulates the diversity of NEXUS and will include painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, performance, installation and video work by 26 of its past members.

Becky Young: "A Body of Light"

Francesca Pfister's "Subterranean Spaces" in show at Stedman Gallery at Rutgers


Seeing Voices: The Visual Voice

Camden Center for the Arts at Rutgers -- March 15 - April 24, 2010

Maria Anasazi, Bob Bickery, Virginia Baich, Agnes Bolt, Ethan Breckenridge, Virginia Derryberry, Martha Gelarden and Adam Lazar, Aris Georgiades, N.Sean Glover, Lyn Godley, Robert Goodman, Jeanine Hill, Alex Kanevsksy, Larry Litt, Liz Magic Laser, Jim Lee, Catherine Martens-Betz, Elizabeth Mackie, Margaret McCann, Kirk McCarthy, Ayanah Moor, Mamiko Otsubo, Francesca Pfister, Nina Sarnell, Bill Scott, Holly Smith, Kasper Sonne, Robert Straight, Jackie Tileston, Blaise Tobia, Garth Weiser

Seeing Voices focuses on the relationship between the artist, the work of art and the audience and how the artist's “visual voice” influences the content and subsequent reading of their work. If the artist's voice derives from the sum total of an artist's visual and conceptual strategies, what is the role of an artists' intentions, ethnic background, gender, age, and larger culture in forming that voice? In a post modern era is an artist's voice as likely to be a persona as an authentic voice, and how is this affected by technology, fashion, artistic tradition and the art market?

Work by 32 artists working in a variety of media/formats. Curated by Margery Amdur and Bruce Garrity and presented by the Rutgers/Camden Department of Fine Arts and the Camden County Cultural and Heritage Commission in cooperation with the Rutgers- Camden Center for the Arts. The exhibition is presented at the Stedman Gallery and the Hopkins House Gallery of Contemporary Art.

Tony Ward at Fox Gallery, Opening Reception Thursday February 18th, 4-7PM

"Snow Traces" by Francesca Pfister at Burrison Gallery

Snow Traces

January 11 through February 19 2010

BURRISON GALLERY

The University Club at Penn, 2nd floor, 3611 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 7:30-5:00 Saturday–Sunday, 7:00–1:00

Francesca Pfister practices a form of visual archeology. Working in photography, video and installation, she explores the physical world around her in search for human presence. In Snow Traces she investigates a pedestrian’s experience of Philadelphia streets in the aftermath of a snowstorm. The photo installation composed by twelve diptychs testifies of Pfister's fascination with the transformative qualities of ephemeral marks and traces in the urban environment.

Sarah Stolfa this Friday at The Fleisher Art Memorial

Opening Reception of the 2nd Challenge Exhibition
January 15, 5:30 -7:30
The Fleisher Art Memorial presents the second exhibition in the thirty-second season of the three-part Wind Challenge Exhibitions at Fleisher - the Delaware Valley's premier juried artist exhibition program.
This season's nine Challenge artists were selected from a field of 368 applicants to exhibit in one of three three-person exhibitions.
The second of this year's Challenge Exhibitions features paintings by Abbey Ryan, photographs by Sarah Stolfa, and a textile installation by Heather Ujiie.

The Fleisher Art Memorial
719 Catharine St
Philadelphia, PA 19147
(215) 922-3456

Next: Emerging Philadelphia Photographers, Matthew Thomas Cianfrani...

August 18 – November 29, 2009

OPENING RECEPTION: September 10, 6:00 – 9:00 pm
Lecture by Juror, Ariel Shanberg, Center for Photography at Woodstock at 6:00 pm

The goal of the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center is to make Philadelphia a place where important photography gets made, shown and talked about. Emerging local photographers are essential to that goal. They will be our photo community’s next leaders and the source of important new work and new ideas. PPAC is therefore excited to launch our exhibition space with NEXT: Emerging Philadelphia Photographers. Selected entries will be exhibited in PPAC’s new exhibition space in the Crane Arts Building from August 18 – November 29, 2009.

Consequential...

Consequential - Fine Arts Faculty Exhibition

Wed. 9 September - Fri. 16 October

The Charles Addams Fine Arts Gallery - 200 S. 36th St. Phila, PA.

Including works by Photo Faculty:
Jamie Diamond, Luis Gispert, Gabriel Martinez, Francesca Pfister, Karen Rodewald, Sarah Stolfa, Brent Wahl.

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...

Ramis Barquet Gallery, 532 W 24th St, New York, NY 10011, New York, NY.

Jamie Diamond.



Matthew Thomas Cianfrani

Saraf Stolfa at Gallery 339

The Regulars Revisited
July 14 - September 5, 2009
In Conjunction with the publication of "The Regulars" by Artisan Books

Gallery 339
339 South 21st Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
215.731.1530
215.735.2839 (fax)

Edwin Curtis, 2005

Sarah Stolfa’s images were published in the November 2008 Russian edition of Esquire. The magazine featured 10 images from her series The Regulars.

Sarah Stolfa had a group of prints acquired by The Philadelphia Museum of Art and one print acquired by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

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...

EXPANDED MARKS
A SELECTION OF WORKS
FROM VOX POPULIMicah Danges

Space Gallery
538 Congress Street
Portland, ME
June 5—July 23, 2009

Eileen Neff at Weatherspoon Art Museum...

Eileen Neff: Between Us
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

Artforum, May 2009

Eileen Neff: "Things counter, original, spare" at Locks Gallery

January 2009, Philadelphia, PA – Locks Gallery is pleased to present Things counter, original, spare, an exhibition of new photographs by Eileen Neff, on view February 27–March 31, 2009. There will be a reception for the artist on Friday, February 27, 5:30-7:30 pm.

Eileen Neff’s newest photographs of found and altered nature are a continuation of her work in digital construction and abstraction. In Things counter, original, spare, Neff’s photographs reflect upon and pull imagery from one another. The layering and repetition of images encourages cross-referencing and offers multiple readings of individual photographs and of the installation as a whole.

Locks Gallery is located at 600 Washington Square South in Philadelphia, PA. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10am to 6pm. For additional information, please contact Locks Gallery at 215.629.1000 voice, 215.629.3868 fax, or info@locksgallery.com.
-Locks Gallery, Press Release.

Francesca Pfister, Community Outreach at 40th Street Artist in Residence Program

Francesca Pfister has just finished teaching a photography elective to middle school students at Penn Alexander School. The class explored identity in a school that includes multiple races, ethnicities and backgrounds.

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).

Presidential Inauguration, January 20th, 2009.

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