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.

Spaces of Material Gestures opening in Addams Gallery 11/9 5-7pm

Opening tomorrow night: Wednesday, November 9th, 5 - 7pm
Spaces of Material Gestures

Ayasha Guerin, Christina Kerns, Alex Salsman,
Mary A. Valverde, Katherine West, and Raven Willis

With a performance by Mary A. Valverde from 5:30-6pm and an on-going performance by Ayasha Guerin throughout the evening.

Charles Addams Gallery
University of Pennsylvania
200 South 36th Street
Gallery hours: M-F 10-5pm
www.design.upenn.edu/fine-arts

"Inspiration Information" curated by Sam Belkowitz (Photo Labs Manager) features Jamie Diamond (Lecturer) And Jayson Musson (MFA '11)

(Sam Belkowitz, "Soft Power", archival inkjet prints, three 23 x 41 inch prints, 2011.)

Inspiration Information
Curated by Sam Belkowitz & Alex Gartelmann

Taking its title from a song by R&B artist Shuggie Otis, Inspiration Information is an open examination of the subconscious drives that inform our making practices. What made you become an artist? What ideas are at the core of your art practice? Like Otis’s soul-driven, dreamy expression of the happiness and inspiration one can get from true love, the show looks at the myriad of ways that our artistic interests and practices are deeply woven into our lives. The exhibition uses this song as a parallel for framing personally motivated practices in art making.

Inspiration Information opens on Friday October 21 at the Maas Building, 1325 Randolph Street, Philadelphia, and runs through November 12th, 6pm. This exhibition will include video, installation, painting, sculpture, and photography. Featured artists include: Isaac Lin, Jason Musson, Sam Belkowitz, Matt Pruden, Kim Walker, Jonas Sebura, Barbara Jenkins, Joel Parsons, Corkey Sinks, David Harper, Jesse Butcher, Alex Gartelmann, Jamie Diamond, and Lee Arnold.

First Friday Opening November 4, 2011 6-10pm
Performance: CIUTADELLA 5, 9pm.

Gallery Hours
Saturday November 12th, 2011 12-6pm