Vox Populi Gallery. 319 North 11th Street, 3rd Floor Philadelphia, PA 19107

Bellwether, curated by Shannon Stratton

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EXHIBITION DATES: July 5 – 27, 2008
OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, July 5 from 6 - 11pm
GALLERY HOURS: Wednesday - Sunday 12 - 6pm
GALLERY TALK: Sunday, July 27 at 3pm

Vox Populi is pleased to welcome the group exhibition, Bellwether, curated by Shannon Stratton, chief curator of ThreeWalls Gallery, Chicago.

Bellwether represents one half of Vox’s yearly gallery exchange with an alternative art space. In May and June 2008, Merge or Fade, an exhibition curated from the membership of Vox, was on view at ThreeWalls. The exhibition opens on Saturday, July 5.

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BELLWETHER

A bellwether is a herald or a harbinger. ThreeWalls brings a group of artists, all based in or formerly based in Chicago, whose work imparts a kind of warning or predication. Riding the line of disaster prophesy, the work suggests both decline culturally and environmentally, as well as simultaneously deconstructing the meaning of art or the avant-garde as a pilaster of faith in the abstract. Positioning a group of artists whose work creates disruption within the accepted narrative of modern art alongside work that proposes a menacing or hesitant narrative, Bellwether is both a document of current doubt and anxiety in the face of cultural disrepair, as well as a provocation from a group of artists working from outside the traditional poles of the avante-garde.

Featuring work by Josh Mannis (Los Angeles), Jenny Walters (Los Angeles), Joseph Kohnke (Los Angeles), Bill O’Brien (Chicago), Lisa Boumstein-Smalley (Chicago), Chelsea Tonelli Knight (Chicago), Duncan McKenzie (Chicago) with Christian Kuras (London), Daniel Anhorn (Chicago), David Coyle (New York), Ann Toebbe (Chicago), Caleb Jones Lyons (Chicago) and Heather Mekkelson (Chicago). Curated by Shannon R. Stratton, Director and Chief Curator of Programs at ThreeWalls.

ThreeWalls is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization dedicated to contemporary art practice and discourse. Through the residency program, SOLO project and quarterly publication Paper and Carriage, ThreeWalls aims to provide opportunities for experimentation, chance, critical dialogue and context for artists, curators and writers who are at pivotal points in their careers.