Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Friday, July 24, 2015
Thursday, July 23, 2015
NINE HUMAN HEADS
Nine Human Heads
The Icebox Project Space is pleased to present Nine Human Heads, on view July 21st through 23rd at 1400 N. American St. This group exhibition is the culmination of a seven week conceptual and material exploration by the artists of the Tyler School of Art Summer Painting and Sculpture intensive 2015, a post-graduate summer residency.
Peer into the minds of a surfer, a politico, a cemetery supplier, a mother, a rambler, a survivor, a businessman, a vaudevillian and a dreamer through their art in this exercise in anti-curation. These nine diverse individuals open their heads to give you a glimpse inside their creative processes, while questioning the limits of definition and the obscuring of our natural assumptions with sculpture, painting, installation, drawing and video.
Xingyang Cai seeks to create a separate space and environment, to reflect on the relationship between the things themselves and reproductions. These artworks also act as traditions in the industrial era. Anthony Tamburro focuses on the ideas of voyeurism, eroticism and pleasure coupled with the affects of trauma as a way to “laugh in the face of danger”. This manifests in videos recording small, repetitive and obsessive actions. Claire Brill frames and investigates distortion and reflection:the possibility of controlling natural, impermanent moments and how we capture the ephemeral. Natalie Sundeleaf Sept looks to decontextualize labels, identity and representation while exploring portraiture. Her immense figures go from wall to floor with a unique flour drawing experiment. Jay Hartmann is also interested in symbols and uses abstract gestural painting to investigate malleable tropes from comic books while conveying multiple layers of content from those symbols.
The artwork of Su A Chae is an investigation into her own “mindscape”. These paintings seek to understand ontology and the expression of feelings and thoughts with abstract color and fluid imagery. Allison Anderson uses thin layers of paint and medium to move within the boundaries of feminine textures, colors and expressive, dynamic mark making. Sofia Macht draws in three dimensions by manipulating traditional art materials, fabrics and household objects. Fueled by rhythmic, repetitive action, she pulls apart and stitches together until these parts form a cohesive texture. Marc Yearsley's recent sculptures orbit ideas of uselessness and consider what comes after: things - both made and found - without value, purpose, or utility; structures that don't support, substances that don't mix, substrates out of place and objects that don't belong.
A special thank you to Memphis Tap Room for their generous donation of hot dogs and burgers to provide for all attendees. Beer also will be served gratis.
Nine Human Heads
The Icebox Project Space at Crane Arts, 1400 N. American Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19122
Artists: Allison Anderson, Claire Brill, Xingyang Cai, Su A Chai, Jay Hartmann, Sofia Macht, Natalie Sundeleaf Sept, Anthony Tamburro, Marc Yearsley
On view: July 21-July 23rd
Opening reception: 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, July 21st
Hot dogs, hamburgers, beer and other refreshments provided.
Gallery hours: noon to 6p
Article in The Philadelphia Inquirer!
Nine Human Heads, our final show, got a write up in the Philadelphia Inquirer!
http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/20150719_Jawnts__Nine_in_Tyler_art_residency_to_display_work.html#5H5KyAuYZR74lVP5.01
Jawnts: Nine in Tyler art residency to display work
JAKE BLUMGART POSTED: Sunday, July 19, 2015, 1:08 AM
Every summer since 2008, Temple's prestigious Tyler School has held a seven-week program for visiting artists and sculptors. The intensive course sends its participants careening around the art museums and galleries of Philadelphia and New York, all while experimenting with their own styles, and undergoing regular bouts of assessment and review.
In addition to regular field trips, Temple puts the participating artists through a critical crucible, as visiting blue-chip artists and Tyler professors analyze their work every week. The rigorous program combines the intensive feedback and critical discourse of grad school (without the grades) with the tight focus on production of a traditional residency program.
"Over the course of seven weeks, everyone's work changes drastically," says program director Erica Prince. "We really encourage risk-taking and experimentation in their work - try new things, encourage them to fail and keep going. It's a little scary."
Beginning this week, the nine members of the 2015 residency program will show their work at the Icebox Project Space in Kensington. The exhibit promises to be an exercise in "anti-curation," although it might be more clearly described as democratic curation. The participants will select their own work and organize its display themselves.
This year participants include artists from as far afield as China, South Korea, and California, as well as regional talent from New Jersey and Maryland. Few of them are full-time artists: Their backgrounds range from finance to politics to literature and media.
The opening reception for the exhibition is 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at the Icebox Project Space, 1400 N. American St. Free food and drink will be offered. The show runs through Thursday.
Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/20150719_Jawnts__Nine_in_Tyler_art_residency_to_display_work.html#6Ob7EPo5qyk5P36R.99
http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/20150719_Jawnts__Nine_in_Tyler_art_residency_to_display_work.html#5H5KyAuYZR74lVP5.01
Jawnts: Nine in Tyler art residency to display work
JAKE BLUMGART POSTED: Sunday, July 19, 2015, 1:08 AM
Every summer since 2008, Temple's prestigious Tyler School has held a seven-week program for visiting artists and sculptors. The intensive course sends its participants careening around the art museums and galleries of Philadelphia and New York, all while experimenting with their own styles, and undergoing regular bouts of assessment and review.
In addition to regular field trips, Temple puts the participating artists through a critical crucible, as visiting blue-chip artists and Tyler professors analyze their work every week. The rigorous program combines the intensive feedback and critical discourse of grad school (without the grades) with the tight focus on production of a traditional residency program.
"Over the course of seven weeks, everyone's work changes drastically," says program director Erica Prince. "We really encourage risk-taking and experimentation in their work - try new things, encourage them to fail and keep going. It's a little scary."
Beginning this week, the nine members of the 2015 residency program will show their work at the Icebox Project Space in Kensington. The exhibit promises to be an exercise in "anti-curation," although it might be more clearly described as democratic curation. The participants will select their own work and organize its display themselves.
This year participants include artists from as far afield as China, South Korea, and California, as well as regional talent from New Jersey and Maryland. Few of them are full-time artists: Their backgrounds range from finance to politics to literature and media.
The opening reception for the exhibition is 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at the Icebox Project Space, 1400 N. American St. Free food and drink will be offered. The show runs through Thursday.
Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/20150719_Jawnts__Nine_in_Tyler_art_residency_to_display_work.html#6Ob7EPo5qyk5P36R.99
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
Wendy White was here!
Visiting artist Wendy White chilling out in the SPI/SSI office after studio visits.
Tyler alumnus and painter Jonathan Allmaier led us to a litany of lower east side galleries
Jonathan Allmaier is a New York based painter and shows at James Fuentes.
Jonathan's website
A shortlist of galleries that we visited:
chapter NY, mesler/feuer, lesley heller, klaus von nichtssagend, ramiken crucible, feuer/mesler, essex st, invisible exports, eli ping, nicelle beauchene, jack hanley, marlborough, canada , callicoon, brennan & griffin, james fuentes, laurel gitlen, bodega, lisa cooley, thierry goldberg, rachel uffner, betty cuningham, lehmann maupin
Thanks Jonathan!
Jonathan's website
A shortlist of galleries that we visited:
chapter NY, mesler/feuer, lesley heller, klaus von nichtssagend, ramiken crucible, feuer/mesler, essex st, invisible exports, eli ping, nicelle beauchene, jack hanley, marlborough, canada , callicoon, brennan & griffin, james fuentes, laurel gitlen, bodega, lisa cooley, thierry goldberg, rachel uffner, betty cuningham, lehmann maupin
Thanks Jonathan!
Monday, July 13, 2015
Pictures from our recent visit to lower east side galleries with our tourguide, painter and Tyler alumnus Jonathan Allmaier!
Zach Feuer gallery
Jane Corrigan's paintings at Zach Feuer
Judith Linhares at Kerry Schuss! Thanks for visiting us Judith!
Felix Gonzalez-Torres candy pile at Essex Street. Goin' for it.
The crew at Essex Street. That jacket that you can barely see on the left draped over the chair belonged to Felix Gonzalez-Torres.
Visiting Artist Wendy White
Wendy White will visit us tomorrow to give a lecture about her work and conduct studio visits. Hooray!
Wendy White is an American Artist who lives and works in New York City. She shows with David Castillo gallery and has had many solo exhibitions including at Leo Koenig, Inc. in NYC and most recently at Sherrick and Paul in Nashville, TN.
From David Castillo gallery's website:
Wendy White organizes her paintings like the fractured language they often depict. The artist's large scale canvases and painting installations are punctuated by movements like those of film credits, the urban environ of advertising and posters, or the frenetic energy of pop-up ads. They are quakes in global power structures brought on by the semiotics of professional sports. Mining a range of vocabularies from athletic gear to the history of abstraction for color, geometry, texture, and mark-making, White is essentially a maker of palimpsests — she is called to write, carve, spray or tape, redefining the limits of perception and sensory experience. As a result, her paintings are both articulate and spontaneous, with compelling forms and urgent fragments that open a possibility for space. White's paintings are dispositifs that make visible the relation of discursive behaviors in which they also participate.
Wendy White was born in Deep River, CT and lives and works in New York, NY. White received her BFA from Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah, GA and her MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts in 2003. Among White's solo and group exhibitions are The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan; Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah, GA; The University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, TN; Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, and many others. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Modern Painters, Art Papers, Artforum, Art in America, New York Magazine, and others. White had received awards and fellowships from the Segal Foundation and New York Foundation for the Arts. White has lectured extensively at institutions including Pratt Institute, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Hunter College, Cranbrook Academy, School of Visual Arts, Rhode Island School of Design, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Bard. Among White's institutional collections are the ARCO Foundation, Madrid, Savannah College of Art & Design, and the UBS Collection.
Wendy's website
Article about a recent show titled, "Madrid Me Mata," on BlouinArtInfo
A 2015 interview by Jason Stopa for Art in America
Wendy White is an American Artist who lives and works in New York City. She shows with David Castillo gallery and has had many solo exhibitions including at Leo Koenig, Inc. in NYC and most recently at Sherrick and Paul in Nashville, TN.
From David Castillo gallery's website:
Wendy White organizes her paintings like the fractured language they often depict. The artist's large scale canvases and painting installations are punctuated by movements like those of film credits, the urban environ of advertising and posters, or the frenetic energy of pop-up ads. They are quakes in global power structures brought on by the semiotics of professional sports. Mining a range of vocabularies from athletic gear to the history of abstraction for color, geometry, texture, and mark-making, White is essentially a maker of palimpsests — she is called to write, carve, spray or tape, redefining the limits of perception and sensory experience. As a result, her paintings are both articulate and spontaneous, with compelling forms and urgent fragments that open a possibility for space. White's paintings are dispositifs that make visible the relation of discursive behaviors in which they also participate.
Wendy White was born in Deep River, CT and lives and works in New York, NY. White received her BFA from Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah, GA and her MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts in 2003. Among White's solo and group exhibitions are The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan; Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah, GA; The University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, TN; Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, and many others. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Modern Painters, Art Papers, Artforum, Art in America, New York Magazine, and others. White had received awards and fellowships from the Segal Foundation and New York Foundation for the Arts. White has lectured extensively at institutions including Pratt Institute, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Hunter College, Cranbrook Academy, School of Visual Arts, Rhode Island School of Design, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Bard. Among White's institutional collections are the ARCO Foundation, Madrid, Savannah College of Art & Design, and the UBS Collection.
Wendy's website
Article about a recent show titled, "Madrid Me Mata," on BlouinArtInfo
A 2015 interview by Jason Stopa for Art in America
Wednesday, July 8, 2015
Program Coordinator Alex Echevarria included in exhibition at the Berman Museum of Art
June 4 – September 6, 2015
Wayfarers asks whether the primarily visual act of looking at paintings can also become a multi-sensory experience. Playing off the idea of synesthesia, or a “union of the senses,” the exhibition is a selection of contemporary paintings that together might evoke a breezy, sun-soaked world—the smell of SPF, the sound of Don Henley’s “Boys of Summer” straining from a distant radio or crickets after dark, the taste and texture of salt water taffy, the tickle of a wave around your toes, the start of a sunburn, an innocent sexual tension. Covering a broad spectrum of styles and forms, from the narrative and figurative to the wildly abstract and experimental, the works on view in Wayfarers are by both established and emerging artists, including several for whom the exhibition will be their museum debut.
Opening Reception
Thursday, July 9, 4:00 – 7:00pmThe Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College601 East Main StreetCollegeville, PA 19426
Visiting Faculty member Susan Moore
From Tyler's website: Susan Moore lives and works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Moore has
been the recipient of numerous grants including the BaderFund
Fellowship, four Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowships, a
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Mid-Atlantic NEA.
Moore’s work is in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum
of Art, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC, The Pennsylvania
Convention Center in Philadelphia and the New York Public Library. She
is represented by the Locks Gallery in Philadelphia where she has had
four solo exhibitions since 1995. Other solo exhibitions include the
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, LaSalle University Art Museum and the
University of Lincoln in England. Moore has been included in numerous
group exhibitions including shows at the Drawing Center, the
Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Smithsonian.
Susan's website
Susan's website
Tuesday, July 7, 2015
Seminar leader Risa Puleo
Risa Puleo is a writer and curator. She was assistant curator for American and Contemporary art at the Blanton Museum of University of Texas Austin.
Collection of Puleo's writings for Modern Painters
Puleo on Amanda Ross-Ho
While at the Blanton Puleo also curated a show featuring Tyler faculty member Lisi Raskin
Collection of Puleo's writings for Modern Painters
Puleo on Amanda Ross-Ho
While at the Blanton Puleo also curated a show featuring Tyler faculty member Lisi Raskin
Monday, July 6, 2015
Visiting Artist Sheila Pepe
This week Sheila Pepe will be visiting us to tell us about her work and conduct studio visits.
From her website:
Sheila Pepe is best known for her large-scale, ephemeral installations and sculpture made from domestic and industrial materials. Since the mid-1990s Pepe has used feminist and craft traditions to investigate received notions concerning the production of canonical artwork as well as the artist’s relationship to museum display and the art institution itself.
Pepe has exhibited widely throughout the United States and abroad in solo and group exhibitions as well as collaborative projects. Venues for Pepe’s many solo exhibitions include the Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts, and the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina. Her work has been included in important group exhibitions such as the first Greater New York at PS1/MoMA; Hand + Made: The Performative Impulse in Art & Craft, Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Texas, and Artisterium, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia. Pepe’s work was recently featured in the exhibition Queer Threads at the Leslie Lohman Museum of Lesbian and Gay Art in New York and the 8th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale. Upcoming exhibitions include a commission for the ICA/Boston’s traveling exhibition Fiber: Sculpture 1960-present, two solo exhibition projects in learning contexts, as well as Sheila Pepe: A Place for Looking with Paola Ferrario, Fabiola Menchelli and Julie Ryan at Joseph Carroll & Sons Art Gallery in Boston, Massachusetts.
Pepe is also known as an educator who likes to trespass the boundaries of fixed disciplines in art and design. She has taught since 1995—for many years as adjunct faculty in a variety of programs and schools including Brandeis University, Bard College, RISD, VCU, and Williams College—until 2006 when she took a full-time position at Pratt Institute as the assistant chair of fine arts. Her own artistic development was a mix of academic training and non-degree granting residencies: BFA, Massachusetts College of Art, 1983; Haystack School, 1984; Skowhegan School, 1994; MFA, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1995; and Radcliffe Institute, 1998–99. Pepe was a resident faculty member at Skowhegan School, 2013. She is now on the faculties of Pratt Institute and Rhode Island School of Design
Check out artist Ryan Johnson's take on Pepe's work on BOMB magazine
Sheila's website
Sheila discussing her work
From her website:
Sheila Pepe is best known for her large-scale, ephemeral installations and sculpture made from domestic and industrial materials. Since the mid-1990s Pepe has used feminist and craft traditions to investigate received notions concerning the production of canonical artwork as well as the artist’s relationship to museum display and the art institution itself.
Pepe has exhibited widely throughout the United States and abroad in solo and group exhibitions as well as collaborative projects. Venues for Pepe’s many solo exhibitions include the Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts, and the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina. Her work has been included in important group exhibitions such as the first Greater New York at PS1/MoMA; Hand + Made: The Performative Impulse in Art & Craft, Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Texas, and Artisterium, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia. Pepe’s work was recently featured in the exhibition Queer Threads at the Leslie Lohman Museum of Lesbian and Gay Art in New York and the 8th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale. Upcoming exhibitions include a commission for the ICA/Boston’s traveling exhibition Fiber: Sculpture 1960-present, two solo exhibition projects in learning contexts, as well as Sheila Pepe: A Place for Looking with Paola Ferrario, Fabiola Menchelli and Julie Ryan at Joseph Carroll & Sons Art Gallery in Boston, Massachusetts.
Pepe is also known as an educator who likes to trespass the boundaries of fixed disciplines in art and design. She has taught since 1995—for many years as adjunct faculty in a variety of programs and schools including Brandeis University, Bard College, RISD, VCU, and Williams College—until 2006 when she took a full-time position at Pratt Institute as the assistant chair of fine arts. Her own artistic development was a mix of academic training and non-degree granting residencies: BFA, Massachusetts College of Art, 1983; Haystack School, 1984; Skowhegan School, 1994; MFA, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1995; and Radcliffe Institute, 1998–99. Pepe was a resident faculty member at Skowhegan School, 2013. She is now on the faculties of Pratt Institute and Rhode Island School of Design
Check out artist Ryan Johnson's take on Pepe's work on BOMB magazine
Sheila's website
Sheila discussing her work
Pictures from group critique led by Mark Shetabi
The participants have been very busy....a good sign of things to come for the show at the Icebox! Check out the picture from the critique below.
Visiting Faculty Mark Shetabi
Faculty member and chair of the Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture department at Tyler, Mark Shetabi visited us last week to lead a group critique!
Mark shows with Jeff Bailey gallery
A review of Mark's work in Art in America
Mark shows with Jeff Bailey gallery
A review of Mark's work in Art in America
Thursday, July 2, 2015
Update in pictures from the last two weeks...fun fun fun!!!
We have been making art meeting artists and running' around Philadelphia
Fazzio's, where all things building related live
With Phong at the Brooklyn Rail HQ
With last year's director Bruce Pearson in his Brooklyn studio
With Lawrence Greenberg at Studio10
Chris Wool at Lurhing Augustine
Gregory Volk on Emerson and Art and Art
Material Run!
At Revolution Recovery and RAIR
Picnic behind the Barnes
Summer '15 crew looking' good
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