HOLY HOLES: ABSOLUTE STALLS
Curated by Denise Carvalho

June 14 - August 3, 2008

Opening Reception: June 14, 2008, 6 - 9 PM Hours: Wednesday - Sunday, 12 - 6pm or by appointment

Artists: Brent Wahl, Dylan Mortimer, Grady Gerbracht, Hadassa Goldvicht,Jenny Marketou, Joseph Bennett, Adriana Varella, Angela Freiberger, Gearóid Dolan, Tobaron Waxman, Kimberly Simpson, Karin Giusti, Marcia X, Meirav Leshem, Kwabena Slaughter, and Neil Beloufa.

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image:The Phantom Limb, 2006, video and animation

If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? Around the world geeks have been putting together Ignite nights to show their answers... and now it has come to Philadelphia!

IgnitePhilly is free and open to the public, and will be buzzing with speakers bound to ignite Philadelphia's creative class. Speakers include: Sean Buffington of the University of the Arts, Brian Lang of the Food Trust, Chad Ludeman of the 100K House, Mindy Watts and Leah Murphy of the Interface Studio, Randy Schmidt, Chris Conley & Jason Trembley of iSepta, Sara Selepouchin of Etsy, Alex Hillman of Indy Hall, Marisa McClellan & Scott McNulty of Fork You, Kristin Thompson of the Future of Music, Blake Jennelle of Philly Startup Leaders, Rick Banister of P'unk Avenue, Jeff Stockbridge, Slavko Milekic of the University of the Arts, Robert Cheetham of Avencia, Don Miller aka NO CARRIER, Pete Tredish of the Prometheus Radio Project, Russell Meddin of Philly Bike Share, Evan Malone of Fab@Home, and Jeff Burk of Neat Receipts. June 11th, 6pm @ Johnny Brenda's, Girard and Frankford Aves.
06/04/08

Snacks!

04/15/08

Submit your animations for Vox Populi's Action.Stop.Action exhibition in our Video Lounge, juried by Joshua Mosley, Associate Professor of Fine Arts in the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Submissions Deadline: Friday, May 23rd

04/15/08

Next week, Philadelphia is holding the largest city-wide clean up effort the city has ever seen. To learn how to help out, CLICK HERE and download the Cleanup Registration Form.

It's your city. Keep it clean.
03/29/08

Vox is now accepting applications for its 4th annual juried show, guest juried by Adelina Vlas and Sarah McEneaney.

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Adelina Vlas, the Assistant Curator for Modern and Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, has an M.A. in Art History and a Curatorial Diploma in Visual Culture from York University in Canada, as well as an M.A. in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art in London where she co-curated the exhibition Public Smog and Various Small Fires. Previously, Adelina worked at the National Gallery of Canada.

Sarah McEneaney, visual artist, has lived and worked in Philadelphia for more than 25 years. Awards received include a Pew Fellowship in the Arts (1993), a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant (2000) and an Anonymous Was A Woman award in 2004. McEneaney’s paintings are in many private and public collections including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Rhode Island School of Design and The Neuberger Museum. In 2004 The Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia mounted a mid-career exhibition of McEneaney's work. McEneaney is represented by Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NY where she had solo shows in 2006 and 2008. Upcoming solo shows include Locks Gallery, Philadelphia in Fall 2008.
03/21/08

Please join us for a gallery talk and tour of the current exhibitions at Vox Populi. Irene Hofmann, Executive Director, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore will lead the discussion.

More on the Contemporary Museum here:

Virginia Commonwealth University's up-and-coming graduate painting and printmaking program, currently ranked 10th in the nation, is home to fifteen diverse and innovative artists. Please join us for a brief presentation of their work, exploring, among other things: sexy bears, static, landscape distortion, obsessive and intimate sharing, the beauties of burnt sienna and the horrors of sky blue.
03/10/08

Vox Populi presents exhibitions by Vox Populi members James Johnson, Julianna Foster and Corey Antis. Window by Sarah Zwerling is screened in the Video Lounge and Guest Artist, Jason Schiedel, installs his two month long exhibition, So Long (Philly).

Corey Antis
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Corey Antis is an artist whose current work focuses on painting, drawing and objects. These works are propositions of sites and structures that explore the subjective experience of space, both psychological and material.

In addition to Vox Populi, he has held solo exhibitions of his work at the Booster and Seven Gallery in Chicago as well as participating in group shows at the Stray Show (Chicago), the D.C. Arts Center, and SPACE (Pittsburgh), among others. He lives in Philadelphia.

Julianna Foster
In a Vale

The new work presented in this exhibition at Vox Populi includes a series of images that represent distinct narratives; which are informed for the most part by Foster�s interest in cinema and its relationship to photography. The selected images reflect her ongoing investigation into the ways that the photographic image can portray a psychological relationship between the characters in each image or series of images and of course between the viewer and the subject.

Each story forms something of a larger narrative that continues to reveal itself in a variety of forms, be it a photograph, book or video. All of which rely on the fundamentals of narrative to examine and comment on the human experience.

Julianna Foster moved to Philadelphia from North Carolina in 2002 and teaches at The University of the Arts where she received her Master�s of Fine Art in Book Arts and Printmaking in 2006. This is Foster�s first solo exhibition at Vox Populi where she has been a member since 2006. Other venues in Philadelphia where Foster has exhibited include The Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia Art Alliance and Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery. Most recent exhibitions include T�te -�- T�te, 5ive & 40rty Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC; Narrative Thread, Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, CA; Allegory in Spring, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy.

James Johnson
Some Rooms � Part 1 (Yours)

James Johnson�s primary interest lies in creating illusions. He makes objects, imagery, and participatory situations that are meant to be visually alluring but also somewhat confounding or perplexing to the people who encounter them. The work usually has two parts: a fa�ade and a back-end. The back-end contains the materials and equipment that create the illusion as seen by the viewer while standing in front of the fa�ade. Occasionally the back-end is left open for the viewer to explore.

Johnson is also interested � in a very pedestrian way � in certain aspects of the histories and practices surrounding photography, landscape, architecture, surveillance, voyeurism, computer automation, domestic space, renaissance painting, the internet, film, alchemy, and play. His studio practice consists of a great deal of tinkering � trying to utilize some of these interests and other, more vague ones, in support of the aforementioned illusions.

Johnson has a formal education in photography, his mother is a social worker, and his father is an architect. Much of the syntax and content of his work is the result of an attempt to reconcile these three very strong influences upon his life. They are the primary factors that determine how he sees and understands the world. They also have a lot to do with what he puts back into it.

GUEST ARTIST
Jason Schiedel
So Long (Philly)

So Long (Philly) is the second installment of a serial video project by Canadian artist, Jason Schiedel. Shown on a television tipped on its side, So Long features a video of a helpless man (played by the artist) falling or flying through a series of everyday landscapes. So Long plumbs the familiar nightmare of a complete loss of bodily control. Its protagonist zooms like a haywire missile past suburban shopping malls and downtown city streets, narrowly missing everything in his path. An ongoing project, So Long incorporates footage from every city in its exhibition history, gradually becoming a piecemeal portrait of the American landscape. A lo-fi disaster movie by way of Looney Tunes and Buster Keaton, So Long also transposes national anxieties about the world stage into our very back yard.

Jason Schiedel holds degrees from the Ontario College of Art and Design and Cranbrook Academy of Art. His work has been featured in exhibitions in the United States and Europe, including Foreign Body at White Columns, New York (2000), Animations at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center/MoMA (2001), Observatori: 7th International Festival of Contemporary Art in Valencia, Spain (2006), and recently, in Pull My Finger at Allston Skirt Gallery in Boston, Massachusetts (2007). Currently he is a research affiliate of MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies.

IN THE VIDEO LOUNGE
Sarah Zwerling
Sound by Hillary Zipper
Window

The view from the gallery window reveals traces of a shifting population and the decline of industry. As a visiting artist in Rome last year I worked on a series of collages that were inspired by the history, beauty and energy in and around the city. Now that I am back living in Philadelphia, I am continuing to investigate my reaction to places and their histories. In this particular location at Vox, I was immediately drawn to the contrast of the inside gallery space with the outside space. Window is a short work that refers to the window opposite of the monitor.

Sarah Zwerling received her B.A. from San Francisco State University and her M.F.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. Using blown sugar, silk, animated forms and video projection, installation artist Sarah Zwerling, translates acute human sensations into form, sound, and space. A visiting artist at The American Academy in Rome and the recipient of the Leeway Foundation grant and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Special Opportunity Award, her installations have been featured in a Challenge exhibition at The Fleisher Art Memorial, The University City Arts League, The American Academy in Rome, Blueroom in Rome and St. Marks Church in New York.

AT SCREENING
Deborah Stratman
In Order Not To Be Here

Deborah Stratman�s In Order Not To Be Here is an uncompromising look at the ways privacy, safety, convenience and surveillance determine our environment. Shot entirely at night, the film confronts the hermetic nature of white-collar communities, dissecting the fear behind contemporary suburban design. An isolation-based fear (protect us from people not like us). A fear of irregularity (eat at McDonalds, you know what to expect). A fear of thought (turn on the television). A fear of self (don�t stop moving). By examining evacuated suburban and corporate landscapes, the film reveals a peculiarly 21st century hollowness� an emptiness born of our collective faith in safety and technology. This is a new genre of horror movie, attempting suburban locations as states of mind.

Deborah Stratman is an award-winning filmmaker and artist based in Chicago. She received her M.F.A. from the California Institute of Arts and her B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Since 1990 she has completed more than a dozen film projects, both on sixteen-millimeter film and on video. These works have been shown at international film festivals�including the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, the Rotterdam International Film Festival in the Netherlands, and the Vienna International Film Festival in Austria�and at art institutions such as the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, and the San Francisco Art Institute.
02/02/08