Gallery Archive
Gabriel Boyce, Julianna Foster & Lori Spencer, Bryan Graf, Nike Desis, Ryan Trecartin
EXHIBITION DATES: May 7 - 30, 2010OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, May 7 from 6 - 11pm
GALLERY HOURS: Wednesday - Sunday 12 - 6pm
GALLERY TALK: Sunday, May 23, 3pm, with Janet Kaplan, Program Director Curatorial Studies, Professor of Art History, Moore College of Art & Design
Gabriel Boyce, Owning Cats
Boyce presents a grouping of new artworks using mixed media: Brio® blocks, pillow casings, drool, Sculpy®, leather, and string.
Boyce holds an MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and a BFA from Louisiana State University. He has shown his work nationally, and this is Boyce's fifth solo exhibition at Vox Populi.
Julianna Foster and Lori Spencer, Fair Ophelia
Fair Ophelia marks the first collaboration between Julianna Foster and Lori Spencer. While examining, interpreting, and elaborating on the life and death of the character Ophelia, the ideas generated from Ophelia's story will explore the myriad-layered portrayal of this woman seen through the eyes and perspective of the three fates from Greek mythology. The investigation of these characters will be realized through photography, video, and text.
Julianna Foster is a Senior Lecturer in the Media Arts Department at The University of the Arts. Lori Spencer is an Associate Professor in Printmaking at The University of the Arts. As a printmaker, Lori Spencer incorporates traditional print such as screen-printing and lithography with new innovative digital processes to create imagery that reveals an ongoing investigation into and with the medium. Focusing primarily on the photographic image, Julianna Foster's most recent work features distinct pictorial narratives. Drawing upon her interests in cinematography, Foster presents a combination or series of images--sometimes sequential, sometimes not--that take the form of framed photographs, a book, or video. This exhibition was made possible by a Faculty Enrichment Grant from UArts.
Nike Desis, Collect Call
Collect Call is the presentation of the life cycles of Philadelphia's artist run initiatives. Ephemera from the region's now-defunct spaces along with articles concerning collectivity, institutionalizing the alternative, and critical historical accounts will be on view. Assembled essays feature her own gossip, aphorisms, highlighted paragraphs, and borrowed epiphanies in the margins. In addition to diaristic memorabilia, Collect Call will allow visitors to connect with inspiring figures of Philadelphia's art scene. These cast of characters will be on-call during the first Friday reception and serve as hotline operators, for better or worse, for anyone who wishes to chat. The hotline roster includes Brandon Joyce (of Philadelphia Institute for Advanced Study), Sid Sachs (professor and critic), Jennie Shanker (artist and co-founder of Vox Populi), John Freeborn (of Space 1026 and 1Pixel), and Gerard Brown (professor and founder of EyeLevel), among others. All calls will be recorded and replayed throughout the remainder of the exhibition.
Nike's interest in researching artist run initiatives began as she entered her third year co-directing FLUXspace, a non-profit art space in West Kensington. In an effort to understand the struggles and define the successes of co-founding and running an art space, she decided to inquire into the field to gain some objective distance from her own work. Along the way she was fortunate enough to be involved in creating a comprehensive index of Philadelphia based artist-run initiatives from 1969-2009, a project which was conceived and led by Richard Torchia and initiated by Vox Populi for their publication We’re Working On It.
Bryan Graf, The Sun Room
The Sun Room is an exhibition that deals with the prismatic language of photography and how that language is utilized to define and interpret our environments.
Bryan Graf was born in New Jersey in 1982. He received his BFA from the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University in 2005 and received his MFA from Yale University School of Art in 2008. His work has been exhibited at The Wild Project in Manhattan, The New York Horticultural Society, and most recently at The Philadelphia Photo Arts Center. His photographs have been published in Blind Spot Magazine and The New York Times.
VIDEO LOUNGE
Ryan Trecartin, Roamie View (History Enhancement)
Vox Populi Video Lounge shows new work by Philadelphia-based video artist Ryan Trecartin.
SCREENING
Pat O'Neill, Horizontal Boundaries
Screening extends Horizontal Boundaries, by renowned avant-garde filmmaker Pat O'Neill. The film expands on O'Neill's unique form of image making, developed through a mastery of optical printing--the pre-digital foundation of cinematic special effects. More information at www.screeningvideo.org.
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