@ Vox

Tim Portlock

SEPTEMBER 7 - 30, 2012

Julianna Foster, PLM Associates, Tim Portlock, Earth and Artifice

FRIDAY @ VOX POPULI

Julianna Foster
Swell

Foster’s new exhibition, Swell, depicts a fantastic event that allegedly occurred last year in a small coastal town. As the story goes, a nor’easter was forming in the Atlantic Ocean from the remnants of a hurricane when several residents reported seeing something they had never witnessed before—and have never seen since.

Like Kirkwood, Foster’s previous series of images that explored a similarly unexplained phenomenon that took place in that small suburban community, Swell operates on several levels to recount the stories of what happened through a series of photographs.

Julianna Foster lives in Philadelphia and teaches at The University of the Arts, Photography Program and MFA Book Arts and Printmaking Department, where she received her MFA in 2006. She has been a member of VoxPopuli since 2006, Swell is her fourth solo exhibition.

PLM Associates
Parallax View

Working in a multidisciplinary practice that includes graphic design, drawing, video, and installation, artists Anita Allyn & Mauro Zamora probe the dark side of international business practices with Parallax View. Posing as PLM Associates, Allyn & Zamora’s fictional private contracting firm provides end-capital solutions for wealthy individuals, multi-national corporations and governments.

Using the office table as a visual connection to historic timetables along with marketing material (posters and commercials) and relevant corporate documents, PLM’s boardroom serves as a defunct stage. Allyn and Zamora offer the boardroom as the locus of abstraction; where campaigns, schemes, meetings and covert planning take place. Through this project the artists aim to reflect corporate rhetoric and values to call attention to the impermeable facade of the capitalist structure while highlighting a rupture of capitalism itself.

Of special note on September 23 at 2pm, PLM Associates will host a performance by Ina Polis: PLMA’s Davenport Predator Material Transfer Agreement. Followed by a discussion with Mary Ebeling, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Drexel University.

Tim Portlock
Sublime Light of Fortune

For his newest exhibition, Tim Portlock presents images based on the foreclosed buildings and arrested building constructions of Las Vegas using the conventions of 19th century American landscape painting.

Tim Portlock was born in Chicago which inspired his lifelong interest in the dialogue between place and the formation of identity. Educated primarily as a traditional visual artist Portlock has worked in the past as a community-based muralist as well as a studio painter. His current body of work is created using 3D gaming technology to simulate real world and imagined spaces.

Todd Keyser, Erin Murray and Jason Urban
Earth and Artifice

The premise of the exhibition engages the concept of artifice in relationship to natural environments, the landscape and physical structures that inhabit, form and comment on the nature of these spaces. The three artists, Todd Keyser, Erin Murray and Jason Urban all work with imagery that directly relate to the ideas of constructed realties through printmaking, photography, painting, drawing and installation.

AT FOURTH WALL
DiscordiaFilms Presents
VideoSur III

Inspired by the spirit of exchange in the Americas, DiscordiaFilms’ VideoSur programs present Latin American video art to U.S. audiences. VideoSur III explores how South American artists use digital media to communicate their experience of urban environments. Whether working in their cities of origin, travel destinations or temporary places residence, these artists comment on the transitory and connective realities of Latin American communities. Fully immersed in a globalized, visual culture, the videos highlight artists’ unique perspectives and creative approaches. Featuring work in animation, stop-motion and video-performance, VideoSur III depicts vast cityscapes, zoomed-in views of city life, and the rapid exchanges that result from migration.

Complete info here.