Jeremy Deller: Joy in People at the ICA

September 19 through December 30, 2012

OPENING NIGHT EVENTS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2012:

5PM EXHIBITION WALKTHROUGH WITH CURATOR RALPH RUGOFF, ICA MEMBERS AND DONORS ONLY
6:30PM ARTIST TALK BY JEREMY DELLER, FREE FOR ALL
7:30-10PM PARTY, FREE FOR ALL

The ICA is pleased to present Jeremy Deller: Joy in People, the first mid-career survey of this unpredictable, generative, and vibrant artist. Hugely influential, Jeremy Deller (b. 1966, London; lives London) has helped to rewrite the rules of contemporary art over the past two decades by putting people at the center of his work. Operating as forums for discussion, display, and social interactions of all kinds, this work is disarmingly democratic in its muddling of class and cultural hierarchies. The sheer delight Deller takes in various forms of sub and folk cultures—Goth style, Manchester music, pro wrestling, street parades, and historical reenactment societies—transmits itself with a sense of awe at the creativity and zeal with which people resist mainstream values and patterns of consumption. His work explores compelling social territories, while the artist himself variously assumes the roles of artistic producer, publisher, filmmaker, collaborator, curator, parade organizer, and cultural archivist. Joy in People offers an important opportunity for American viewers to experience the work of one of Britain's most significant artists.

PPAC Philly Photo Day, October 26, 2012

Andrew Weiss for Philly Photo Day, 2011

Philly Photo Day 2012 will take place on October 26th.  On that day, everyone in the city is invited to take a photograph of whatever you like.  We’ll print and hang every single picture for a unique exhibition capturing a day in the life of Philadelphia.

This year, we’ll reach out to local community centers, providing cameras and teaching artists to a wide range of people.  These artists will teach photography basics like lighting and composition, help participants select their best photos and submit them to PPAC, ensuring widespread access to Philly Photo Day.

And it gets even better.  Select images will be placed on Septa buses and trains and even on billboards.  One of those images could be yours!

There are only three rules to Philly Photo Day.

1. 1. The photograph MUST be taken on October 26, 2012.

2.2. The photograph MUST be taken in Philadelphia.

3.3. You may only submit ONE photograph per person.

You’ll upload your photograph right here on our website, but you won’t be able to do it until October 26th.

MFA Class of 2013 Exhibition at Charles Addams Gallery, UPenn

Mohammadreza Mizaei (MFA '14) Exhibits Work in Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography, Switzerland

Mohammadreza Mizaei, The Encounters, 2007–2008

Mohammadreza Mirzaei (MFA '14) has been selected to participate in the Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography in Switzerland.  The works that have been brought together under the theme of “see and be seen” explore photography’s ambivalent dialogue with the voyeuristic and exhibitionist gaze.This 16th edition of the festival shows various aspects of the intrusive gaze that is inherent to photography.

Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography runs from 09.07.12 --09.30.12. 

Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography
Seevorstadt 71
2502 Biel 
Switzerland

For more information on the show and Mirzaei, please visit
 http://2012.jouph.ch/en/exhibitions.178/se-and-be-seen.211.html  or www.mrmirzaei.com

Ceaphas Stubbs (MFA '13) in Group Show at Eponymy, Brooklyn

Ceaphas Stubbs, Apparition Reclined No. 2

Photographs by Ceaphas Stubbs (MFA '13) will be included in the group show Works at Eponymy in Brooklyn. Works presents various two-dimensional work from seven artists located throughout the country.  The exhibition explores the cross-section of experimentation, abstraction and a sensibility to move beyond conventions in both art and society.

Works was curated by Amani Olu and also includes the work of Conor Backman, Teresa Christiansen, Melanie Flood, Thomas Jackson, Anthony Smith, and Julia Staples.

Works opening reception will be on 09.12.12 from 7-9 pm.  The show runs through 08.31.13.

Eponymy
466 Bergen Street
Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY

Francesca Pfister at The Print Center

86th Annual International Competition: 

Photography Online Exhibition 

on view through March 2013

http://www.printcenter.org/pc_comp.html

Julie Saecker Schneider exhibit opening

Julie Saecker Schneider
Artifacts, Massacres, and Dinner Parties
Opening Reception

May 18, 4:30–6:30pm

Location

Charles Addams Fine Arts Gallery
200 South 36th Street Philadelphia, PA
(Southwest corner of 36th and Walnut)
215 573 5134

Gallery Hours

May 18 to June 22, 2012
Monday–Friday (Saturday by appointment)

Julie Saecker Schneider is a painter/drawer and a member of the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Schneider received her B.S. and M.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in the United States. She directs the undergraduate program, teaches painting, drawing and senior seminar. In 2000 Schneider completed a residency at the International School of Art in Montecastello di Vibio in Italy, in 2005 a residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada., and in 2007 a residency at the Tyrone Guthrie Center in Anamakerrig, Ireland. She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards.

Concerned with recontextualizing myths and the physical description of memory, Schneider works primarily in graphite, creating large tightly crafted drawings of figures and dead roses, her metaphor for memory. The stories draw from many cultures but are primarily Middle Eastern and European in origin. Currently the political landscape informs the figurative work. Paralleling these and generated concurrently are the large drawings and porcelain installations of roses.

http://www.juliesaeckerschneider.com/

We want to wish Julie the best in her future endeavors as she steps down from her position as the Director of the Undergraduate Fine Arts Department here at UPenn. Thanks for all of your fabulous work!

UPenn MFA Thesis Exhibit 2012

May 10-27, 2012
Opening reception: May 10th from 6-9pm
Icebox Project Space at the Crane Arts Building
Free and open to the public Wednesday-Sunday 12-6pm

Featuring work by:
Sarah Anderson, Tra Bouscaren, Sarah Goffstein, Kelsey Halliday Johnson, Caitlin Lennon, Sari Moriizumi, Yoorim Park, Erik Reinholdz, Chloe Isadora Reison, Meredith Sellers, Woohyun Shim, Mary Valverde, Mikey Winsor

Read more about the exhibit here

PPAC College Photo Major Party 4/19th

PPAC College Photo Major Party

April 19th, 6-8PM

1400 N. American Street #103
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Call: 215-232-5678

Philadelphia Photo Arts Center will be hosting their College Photo Major Party taking place on April 19th from 6-8pm. They will be providing drinks, snacks, music and the opportunity for students to share their portfolios with industry professionals. UPenn is an official sponsor for this event, and all photo majors are encouraged to attend.

Last year, more than 125 students attended the 2011 College Photo Major Party, providing a great opportunity for students from different schools to network with one another and showcase their work. Don't miss this fabulous networking opportunity!

Krzysztof Wodiczko Lecture 4/19

Thu. 19 April, 6:30pm - 8:00pm

Meyerson Hall B1

Krzysztof Wodiczko (born 1943, Warsaw, Poland) has been creating site-specific slide and video projections both within galleries and using architectural facades and monuments as backdrops for nearly thirty years. These politically-charged works of art, which have been shown in over a dozen countries around the world, speak to issues of human rights, democracy, violence, alienation, and inhumanity, and using sound and motion often include testimonies of the people whose plights they address. Complementing these projections are Wodiczko's nomadic instruments, designed to empower marginalized members of society such as immigrants, the homeless, these who lost their closest to street violence and war, women, and children-survivors of domestic abuse, the war veterans and others.

Krzysztof Wodiczko emigrated twice, from Poland to Canada and then from Canada to the United States. He now shares his time between New York and Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he is a professor a head of Interrogative Design Group, and a director of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies and the at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Since 1980, has created over 70 Public Projections of still and video images that critically animate historic monuments and civic edifices. Public Projections with still images include: The Grand Army Plaza Memorial Arch, Brooklyn, NY (1983); The South African Embassy, London (1985); The Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C. (1988); The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1989),The Lenin Monument, Berlin (1990) and Arco de la Victoria, Madrid (1991). Public Projections involving sound and motion began with City Hall Tower, Krakow (1996) and later engaged the following monumental city symbolic structers: Bunker Hill Monument, Boston (1998); A-Bomb Dome, Hiroshima (1999); El Centro Cultural, Tijuana, Mexico (2001); facade of the National Gallery in Warsaw (2005) and the Kustmuseum Basel, Switzerald (2006). The Hiroshima Projection, was organized after Krzysztof Wodiczko was awarded the Hiroshima Art Prize.

Throughout his career, Mr. Wodiczko has also developed a series of tools and devices for urban interventions, such as Homeless Vehicle (1988-89), Poliscar (1991), as well as portable and wearable communication instrumentations such as Alien Staff (1992), Porte-Parole (1994), AEgis (2000) and Dis-Armor (1999-present). Dis-Armor, which was first developed for the City of Hiroshima, than was on view in the Triennial exhibition at the International Center of Photography and more recently in the exhibition the Interventionists at MASS MoCA.