Rose Wylie @ UArts

Rose Wylie

Oct 2—Nov 20 2012

Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery

"Lawn Tennis" by Rose Wylie, 1999, oil on canvas

Rose Wylie is an English septuagenarian painter whose theatrical and expressionist canvases have recently gained critical acclaim. Wylie often takes ideas from recent film stills and art history and has been influenced by artists as diverse as Philip Guston and Jean-Michel Basquiat. She was selected to represent the United Kingdom at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., exhibition "Women to Watch 2010."

Recent exhibitions: Thomas Erben, NY (2010); Timothy Taylor, London (2010); Turner Contemporary Open, U.K. (2009); Kate Mac Garry, London (2008); Transition Gallery, London (2008); EAST International, Norwich Gallery, Norwich (2007).

Recent solo exhibitions include Michael Janssen Berlin (2011) and Regina, Moscow (2012). Wylie is represented in the U.S. by Thomas Erben Gallery and in London by Union Gallery.

Anderson Hall

313 South Broad Street

Philadelphia, PA 19102

United States

Eileen Neff @ Bridgette Mayer

Bridgette Mayer Gallery

Eileen Neff, Blue 1 and Blue 2 (installation shot), 2012. C-Prints on Plexi, 51 x 76 1/2 inches each.

Eileen Neff
Three or Four Clouds

October 3–27, 2012
Opening: Friday October 5, 6–8:30pm

Bridgette Mayer Gallery
709 Walnut Street 

Philadelphia, PA 19106

www.bridgettemayergallery.com

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The Bridgette Mayer Gallery is pleased to announce its first solo exhibition of work by artist Eileen Neff.  Three or Four Clouds will be on view from October 3–27, 2012 with an opening reception Friday October 5th from 6–8:30pm. The exhibition will feature Neff’s new photographs. There will be a catalogue available for the exhibition featuring an essay by Helen Westgeest.

Three or Four Clouds marks Eileen Neff’s inaugural exhibition with the Bridgette Mayer Gallery.  As an expression of her interest in both the landscape and interiors as sites for her deeper investigations of presence and perception, Eileen Neff’s Three or Four Clouds brings focus to the conflating of her experiences in the studio with those conditions at work in the gallery.  Her fascination with installation concerns also informs and refines her photographic decisions within this new body of images.  With these works, the studio has become a vantage point, as well as the place of heightened attention Neff so values.  She lives and works on the 29th floor of a Philadelphia apartment building in a space as carefully composed as her work itself.  Neff has, for this occasion, used this aerie-like perspective as the primary source of what is her most diaristic work to date. From her studio she sees clouds pass, birds visit, and she reflects upon the play and beauty of natural light.  Neff’s work captures, in alternate turns, the poetic and the sublime. The artist uses the strategies of her photographic practice to transform her daily pleasures into the work for this exhibition.

Eileen Neff received her BA in English Literature from Temple University, BFA in Painting from Philadelphia College of Art and her MFA in Painting from Tyler School of Art. Recent solo shows include Locks Gallery in Philadelphia, The Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin Ireland, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, among others.  Neff lives and works in Philadelphia. Her work is held in many important institutions and private collections including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pew Charitable Trusts, The Fabric Workshop and Museum and The Dietrich Foundation among many others.

Gallery hours are Tuesday–Saturday 10–6pm & by appointment. For additional information please contact Bridgette Mayer at T 215-413-8893 / F 215-413-2283 or email at bmayer@bridgette.mayergallery.com.

Alexis Granwell @ TSA

Alexis Granwell: Lean To

October 5 - October 28, 2012

Opening Reception: Friday, October 5, 2012, 6pm - 10pm

PHILADELPHIA‐

Tiger Strikes Asteroid is pleased to announce the opening of our October exhibition, Alexis Granwell: Lean To.  Granwell, a founding TSA member, will be presenting sculptures and monumental prints made during a summer residency at one of the only ten foot-presses in the country, at AS220 in Providence.  A recent video interview conducted in Granwell’s studio can be found on the website Gorky’s Granddaughter.

From the essay by Lauren van Haaften-Schick:

The ruin is a site of decay and remembrance – the armature that allows us to imagine life in a past or parallel time. Thus the ruin is always destroyed and re-creating itself in our individual psyches and collective culture. When archaeologists uncover a historic site, their first order of operation is to photograph every detail using black and white film, so that in the event that digital or advanced photographic technologies are not available, the images will be legible through the elementary act of holding the processed film to the sun. This is a logic appropriately developed by those who specialize in the lost, destroyed, discarded, decayed, and forgotten. It is crucial that these disinterested images capture the site as it was found, untouched and unexamined, revealing only fragmentary evidence; all that is seen is what lies at the surface, and the new skin that has come to envelop it. Clues are numbered, collected, classified, or their identity may be left unsolved. Sometimes additional pieces of the puzzle emerge, further illustrating the fiction and conjecture that has developed around this curious trove. It is typical that a complete history never emerges. 

The works in Lean To depict metaphysical structures that have an ancient quality. They are beginnings, an infrastructure leading to the next complete event.  Working concurrently on both sculptures and prints, Granwell has a developed a provisional city of two and three-dimensional imagery that convulsively expands, erases, and erupts. 

Alexis Granwell: Lean To
Tiger Strikes Asteroid

October 5 – October 28, 2012
Opening Reception: Friday, October 5, 6-10pm

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Ann Agee @ Locks Gallery

Ann Agee. Mother and Daughter 2012

Ann Agee 

The Kitchen Sink

LOCKS GALLERY

Sep 4 - Oct 13, 2012

Locks Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Ann Agee. The Kitchen Sink will be on view September 4 through October 13, 2012. There will a reception for the artist on Friday, September 7, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm.

For her second solo exhibition at Locks Gallery, Agee designed an installation of white porcelain sculptures, creating a visual conversation that touches on feminism, craft, labor and modern family life. The installation is a continuation of the Agee Manufacturing Co.shown at the ICA, Philadelphia in 2009.

Ann Agee’s work explores the region between decorative and fine art, playing with historical conventions of art as seen through contemporary eyes. Her use of white porcelain quotes both the eighteenth-century English porcelain, and chinaware found in second-hand stores. The milky gloss of the glazed porcelain accentuates the beauty of the material and the hand made quality. Quoting the artist, “for the sake of the labor, and the freedom to make variations,” she will carry forth concepts and motifs that continually develop in unforeseen ways. The resulting body of work resembles a range of fantasized objects that lie between the ideas of usefulness and decoration. On the walls, Agee’s large-scale paintings on paper often function as a backdrop for her installations by depicting the space of her Brooklyn studio—a creative cacophony in which all the pieces are produced.

Agee recently created major installations at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY (2012) and at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, (2010). Her work has been seen in prominent clay exhibitions “Dirt on Delight,” Institute of Contemporary Art, PA (traveled to the Walker Art Center, MN) and “Conversations in Clay,” Katonah Art Museum, NY. She has been a recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (2012), The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (1997) and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (1992, 1989), among others. Her work is in the collections of: The Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY; The Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA; The RISD Art Museum, RI; The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; The Henry Art Museum in Seattle, WA; The Kohler Art Center in Sheboygan, WI; The Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami, FL.

@ 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.

Rubens Ghenov @ TSA

Rubens Ghenov : The Silent H

TIGER STRIKES ASTEROID 
September 7 – September 30, 2012

PHILADELPHIA- Tiger Strikes Asteroid is pleased to announce the opening of our September exhibition, The Silent H, featuring works by TSA member Rubens Ghenov. This exhibition is Rubens Ghenov’s first solo show with the gallery. 

From the essay:
“In the Portuguese language the letter h in the beginning of a word is silent, thus the words history and story are phonetically identical. Without much of a profound exegesis, history connotes fact, while story, fiction. 

…If fact and fiction inhabit the two probable extremes in the line of truth, what kind of literature might reside in the middle? Could poetry occupy such a space? Could it somehow be the convergent moment between them?
…The story of Algia Adamus is found at this precise juncture where fact, fiction and poetry mingle muddily all ending in sound that turns silent.”

In The Silent H, Rubens Ghenov will exhibit a series of paintings which engage his research on an obscure poet named Algia Adamus. The research was sparked by the discovery of a shared appreciation for a Sergio Mendes record cover, depicting a painting by the artist Ivan De Moraes. Strangely, both Ghenov and Adamus disliked the record, but kept the cover for years as an instrument of inspiration in their respective studios. Adamus in later years began reciting her poems through a makeshift sound machine in order to make intelligible speech dissolve into sound. Adamus disappeared in 1975, leaving numerous compositions taped over a Sergio Mendes cassette tape, bearing the shared image. Sheltered in Adamus, Ghenov dissolves her words, methodology, eristic and