first, then, next, finally.
20th Annual Juried Show
Curated by Lane Timothy Speidel
Saturday, July 5, 2025 – Sunday, August 3, 2025
Opening Reception: Friday, July 11, 2025 | 6-9pm | Free-To-Attend
Presented in Gallery One, Gallery Two, Gallery Three and Black Box
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
As I move through the sequence in the pages of a book, I forget and remember. As I turn the page, I cover over the last one; the book blinks. I must hold the previous page in my mind to order the next. I must move through the order to create the meaning and appreciate the form. Even if I open the book in the middle, or start from the end, or read it backwards, this remains true. In first, then, next, finally, Vox Populi Gallery’s 20th annual Juried Show curated by Lane Timothy Speidel, we are presented with steps; the works are ordered. Books, zines, photographs, weavings, animations, quilts, drawings, games, videos, and sculptures are ready for us. What can we gain from following the sequence? What can we find if we choose another route? How was this sequence decided? Does it matter? There’s only so much explanation to provide.
FEATURED ARTISTS
Adrianne Huang
Anastatia Spicer
Anika Steppe
Bryan Martello
Cha Tori
Char O'Dair-Gadler
Chris Combs
David Sackett
Emma Bergman
Emma Mohrmann
Emmy Thelander
Francesca Lally
Gianna Santucci
Imogen Gosnell
Izabela Cookson
Jacob Davidson
Jill Adler
jordana perrie bernstein
josh graupera
Kailey Mackenzie Brown
Kathryn Lien
Lydia Smith
Michael Thron
Misha Wyllie
Min Baek
Nicole Rodrigues
Olivia Fredricks
Olivia Smith
Rylie Kelley
Samantha Herman
Sophie Lee
Solomon Brager
Sumin Hwang
Sue O'Donnell
Tommy McShane
Virginia Fleming
Virginia Walcott
Zane Schultz
ABOUT THE CURATOR
Lane Timothy Speidel is an artist living in Philadelphia with their partner and cat. They permit their art, curatorial, and writing practices to express indiscriminately. Their journey is an infinitely collapsing spiral staircase and their output is a patchwork of found materials and trash. Queer as in oddity and asking questions and straying. Trans as in changing form and moving towards opposite. Disabled as in looking for ways to do things that feel good. They are interested in beauty and are currently learning to appreciate mistakes. They are firmly placed in the city of Philadelphia, beginning with attending Tyler School of Art, being an artist member of Vox Populi Gallery. They have performed and exhibited their artistic and curatorial practices all over the city and beyond. They received the 2024 Leeway Transformation Award. They publish art writing, poetry, short stories through body joke press. They curated a show of trans abstraction at Vox Populi in 2024 called Transcendent Mess. Their music projects include the bands, Saggy and MENERGY, which celebrate friendship and improvisation. They enjoy washing, mending, and folding the clothes of people they love, riding buses between cities at night, reading the dictionary, and talking about notebooks and pens.
