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VOX VI, JURIED BY WILLIAM POWHIDA AND JENNIFER DALTON
EXHIBITION DATES: July 9 - August 1, 2010
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, July 9 from 6 - 11pm
GALLERY HOURS: Wednesday - Sunday 12 - 6pm
GALLERY TALK: With artists and jurors, Sunday, July 18 at 3 pm
Vox Populi is pleased to announce VOX VI, juried by artists William Powhida and Jennifer Dalton. This is Vox Populi's sixth annual exhibition of emerging artists and features 33 national and international artists, including many from the greater Philadelphia area. The artists were selected from a pool of over 425 applicants and exhibit works in a variety of media: painting, sculpture, photography, drawing, installation, video, animation, and ceramics.
This year's exhibition features Derya Altan (Pontiac, MI); Clint Baclawski (Jamaica Plain, MA); Joshua Bienko (College Station, TX); Caetlynn Booth (Highland Park, NJ); Nicole De Brabandere (Columbus, OH); Piper Brett (Philadelphia); Susan Marie Brundage (Mifflinburg, PA); Sally Dennison (New York); Lauren Dombrowiak (Philadelphia); Amber DuBois (Brooklyn, NY); Lindsay Foster (Bergen, Norway); Katelyn Greth (Pottstown, PA); Jordan Griska (Philadelphia); Megan Hays (New York); Jim Jeffers (Lowell, MA); Matt Kalasky (Philadelphia); Sarah Knouse (Lewisburg, PA); Diedra Krieger (Philadelphia); Janet Macpherson (Columbus, OH); Dustin Metz (Philadelphia); Kelli Miller (Brooklyn, NY); Sanford Mirling (Troy, NY); Erin Murray (Philadelphia); Nightmare City (San Francisco); Manuel Pena (Rochester, NY); E. Elizabeth Peters (Staatsburg, NY); Constanze Pirch (Philadelphia); Aidan Rumack (Philadelphia); Nora Salzman (Philadelphia); Libby Saylor (Astoria, NY); Samantha Simmons (Philadelphia); Joshua Weibley (Brooklyn, NY); and Sheila Whitsett (Philadelphia).
ABOUT THE JURORS
William Powhida received an MFA from Hunter College in 2002 and currently lives and works as an artist and critic in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Powhida is known for tackling controversial subject matter addressing the nature of the contemporary art industry. His writings have been included in The Brooklyn Rail, Artnet.com, Circa and Permission magazines, and he has had solo exhibitions most recently at Charles James Gallery, Schroeder Romero Gallery, and Platform Gallery. [website]
Jennifer Dalton received an MFA from Pratt Institute in 1997 and currently lives and works as an artist in Brooklyn. She uses her work to cast a critical eye on the art world's fashions and expectations, creating two ongoing bodies of work examining the role of art auctions and the influence of the press. Her most recent solo exhibitions were at Winkleman Gallery, Smack Mellon Gallery, and Plus Ultra Gallery, and her work has been written about in the New Yorker, New York Times, Modern Painters, ArtNews, and Art in America, among others. [website]
Read Edith Newhall's review in The Inquirer.
Read Roberta Fallon's review in Philadelphia Weekly.
Read Libby Rosof's review at theartblog.
IN THE VIDEO LOUNGE:
Jennifer Campbell, Point No Point
Set against the iconic landscape of the Pacific Northwest, Point No Point documents performances staged specifically for the camera that offer novel contexts for the mind and body. This set of videos continues to explore Jennifer Campbell's subversion of the body through absurd and explicitly physical actions. These projected videos portray the artist’s body emulating, inciting or re-imagining different beacons, signals, and forces of nature. In these works a sense of awe for the Sublime can come as both homage and parody. Whether it’s trudging through the ocean to become a human lighthouse, triggering Mt. Rainier to erupt or spouting water from a head, the body becomes a medium for experimentation often employing a tragic humor akin to that of commedia dell’arte grotesque or physical theater. Similar to the intrigue and frustration of watching a cat chase its tail, these performances point, or don’t point, to the absurd dualities that exist in our actions and reactions. [website]
Image: Piper Brett, Large Bow, 2009. Powder coated sheet steel. 42 x 72 x 72 inches.
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