Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Eleanor Antin Lecture!

ELEANOR ANTIN
B1 Meyerson Hall

Lecture Series event featuring performance artist, filmmaker, and installation artist Eleanor Antin

Hosted by the Department of Fine Arts

Supported by the Spiegel Fund

Plaisir d’Amour (after Couture)

Eleanor Antin was born in New York City in 1935. An influential performance artist, filmmaker, and installation artist, Antin delves into history as a way to explore the present. Antin is a cultural chameleon, masquerading in theatrical or stage roles to expose her many selves. Her most famous persona is that of Eleanora Antinova, the tragically overlooked black ballerina of Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. Appearing as Antinova in scripted and non-scripted performances for over a decade, Antin has blurred the distinction between her identity and that of her character. In her 2001 series The Last Days of Pompeii, Antin lingers behind the camera to stage the final, catastrophic days of Pompeii in the affluent hills of La Jolla, California. Eleanor Antin received a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 1997 and a Media Achievement Award from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture in 1998. She has had numerous solo exhibitions, including an award-winning retrospective at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1999. This lecture is a Speigel Distinguished Artist Lecture Series.

Thursday, January 21, 2010

"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.


Tuesday, January 12, 2010

8 x 10 and Under: Small Landscapes at Gallery 339 featuring Tetsugo Hyakutake























From November 20, 2009 through January 23, 2010, Gallery 339 is pleased to present 8x10 and Under: Small Landscapes. The exhibition is presented as a counterpoint to the enormity that characterizes much contemporary photography, particularly landscape photography. 8x10 and Under includes work from 11 artists from across the country: Linda Connor, David Freese, David Graham, Tetsugo Hyakutake, Richard Kagan, Michael Kenna, Christine Laptuta, Edward McHugh, Andrea Modica, Stuart Rome, and Jerry Spagnoli.

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

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.