Select Past Exhibitions and Programs at Temple Contemporary
Edgar Heap of Birds
Heads Above Grass
Thursday November 15, 6pm, FREE
This illustrated talk delivered alongside recent works made by Edgar Heap of Birdswill present historical art and culture from Native American communities. In addition to these works, Heap of Birds will be discussing public art messages deployed throughout the world including a new genocide banner project in London, art interventions for the 2007 Venice Biennale, a collaborative Aboriginal project from Australia, as well as drawings, paintings and prints executed in Heap of Birds' Oklahoma City studio.
Hock E Aye Vi EdgarHeap of Birds is a Tyler School of Art graduate and his work is currently included in the exhibitionFull Spectrum: Prints From the Brandywine Workshopat the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Prior to Heap of Birds receiving his Master of Fine Arts from TylerSchool of Art, Temple University, in 1979, he earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. He also undertook graduate studies at The Royal College of Art, London, England. Heap of Birds was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degree from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Massachusetts (2008)
This event is made possible through the generous support of Tyler School of Art's Dean's Office, the Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture Department, and Temple Contemporary.
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Image courtesy of the artist: "Dead Indian Stories" mono type series, 2011
Gibbs Connors:Human Font Book
Wednesday November 14, 3 pm, FREE
Temple Contemporary and Mural Arts are restoring old building graphics that are still in use to promote existing small businesses in Philadelphia. We have invited signmaker Gibbs Connors to help restore the sign for Hermann Henssler Locksmith at 13th and Girard, a family-owned business in its third generation since 1898. Connors will demonstrate the traditional craft of signmaking.
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Image: Tyler Painting student Oliva Menta
FulFill
Tuesday, November 13,
6 pm
Pay what you can $15-$25
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FulFill is a micro-granting initiative inspired by community-based organizations such as Sunday Soup in Chicago and Philly Stake in Philadelphia. In exchange for a donation between $15-$25, you will be served a delicious, locally sourced meal in dishware made specifically for the meal by the Tyler School of Art Ceramics and Glass Departments. Once the bowls and seats are filled, three non-profit community-based organizations in Philadelphia -- Philadelphia Urban Creators, Street Tails Animal Rescue, and Warrior Writers--will talk with the gathered diners about their purpose and impact in Philadelphia communities. All of the money raised will be evenly re-granted that night to support these three charitable organizations. The dishware will be washed and given back to the diners to take home with them as amementoof our evening together.
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** Election Night Balloon Drop with King Britt **
Tuesday, Nov 6, FREE
Doors Open 8pm
Balloon Drop 10pm
Temple Contemporary invites you to a historic election night party, featuring Philadelphia’s own King Britt. The biggest balloon drop in Philly will fall as the election results are announced. Join us on this unforgettable evening. Free refreshments will be served!
One of the top D.J.s in the world, King Britt recontextualizes the past into the present by fusing his knowledge of music history with electronic compositions.
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Image courtesy of Russell Edling
Handwriting with Sandy Purvis
** Postponed until Monday, November 12, 6pm FREE **
Even in this computer age, handwriting is a crucial life skill.Handwriting expert
Sandy Purvis is joining us at Temple Contemporary to host a conversation, workshop, and demonstration on the history of writing by hand. Purvis, co-founder of Hand-RIGHTing Ink, will remind us to dot our i’s and cross our t’s during a hands-on penmanship lesson.
Sandy will begin the evening by presenting some examples of penmanship dating back 4,000 years, and 19th century repetitive handwriting exercises. The event will culminate with Purvis providing individual instruction to each registered guest as we are taught the art of good penmanship.
Sandy Purvis received her Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and completed nine months of fieldwork experience in physical disabilities, psychiatry, and pediatrics. In addition, she conducts summer camps and private lessons for children and adults who need remedial help with handwriting.
Sandy Purvis has much knowledge to give on a subject that affects all of our daily lives and communication.
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Image courtesy of Russell Edling
Mierle Laderman Ukeles
Thursday November 8, 7pm, FREE
For over forty years Mierle Laderman Ukeles has dedicated her life to creating social change through artistic means. Since 1977, Ukeles has been the unsalaried Artist
in Residence at the New York City Department of Sanitation creating artworks that address the never-ending maintenance work and associated values of public service. Ukeles' free lecture will outline her continuing work in public service including her recent transformation of closed landfills, including Fresh Kills, into urban parks.
Ukeles' visit to Temple Contemporary at Tyler School of Art is part of a residency initiative co-presented by the Community Arts Program and Temple Contemporary. Together we connect leaders in the field of community arts and social practice with Temple University and the Greater Philadelphia area.
In 1969, Ukeles wrote her manifesto entitled “Maintenance Art” and declared herself a “maintenance artist”.Her maintenance inspired artworks have been the subject of numerous exhibitions and performances for over thirty years in a range of public places including city streets, parks, and museums.
A selection of Mierle Laderman Ukeles’ works will be on displayed at Temple Contemporary to accompany her discussion. This event is sponsored by the Deans Office.
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image: Mierle Laderman Ukeles,Touch Sanitation,1970-1980
Mass Incarceration in America: Advocacy, Art, and the Academy
Thursday, November 29, 9am - 6pm
Although crime rates nationwide are falling, the industry of mass incarceration continues to expand. As we spend more on prisons than we do on education, the purpose of this teach-in is to educate the general public on the impact this industry is making to our urban communities, public health, and sentencing laws. Through illustrated lectures by nationally renowned scholars and inmates including Dan Berger, Todd Clear, Ernie Drucker, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Marie Gottschalk, Kay Harris, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Donna Murch, Melanie Newport, Raphael Sperry, Heather Ann Thompson, and Tyrone Werts we will discuss the industry of mass incarceration through a range of perspectives that are grounded in the interests of Temple’s local communities. This free daylong event will also highlight the implications of race, prison labor, and private industry within this important national debate.
The day is broken into three sessions and bookended by a keynote address and closing remarks. There will be multiple information sharing opportunities throughout the event and contemporary artworks by Aja Beech, Mary DeWitt, Laurie Jo Reynolds, Emory Douglas, Jackie Sumell, and Herman Wallace will take a prominent role in steering the discussion.
Mass Incarceration in America: Advocacy, Art, and the Academy is supported by The Pennsylvania Humanities Council, Tyler School of Art, The Architecture Department, The History Department, The Department of Sociology, The African American Studies Department and The Criminal Justice Department of Temple University.
Image courtesy of Urban Archives, Temple University "The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, Febraruy 10, 1947, How the Desperados Escaped!"
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LONG-TERM PROGRAMS AND WORKS
Tom Friedman
Untitled
On View Through Februrary 2013
Tom Friedman’s impulse to create work that approaches the invisible reflects a philosophical method to making sculpture described as anti-monumental. Installed at Temple Contemporary this month, Friedman'sUntitled, a tiny bee made from materials such as clay, wire, and fuzz, exposes a painstaking rendering that presents a chasm between illusion and reality. Gathering his materials from drugstores, candy shops, and the supermarket, Friedman’s ability to transform common objects into something new enables him to elevate the ordinary to the status of art.
Image courtesy of Emily Assiran
Lizzie Ridout
Welcome
On View Through February, 2013
British artist Lizzie Ridout creates work that stems from a desire to discover: a fact,
a story, an object, an image, a ritual, a process, a history. In Welcome, Ridout explores the movement of the viewer after they traipse through the dusted invitation at their feet. The visible and invisible traces left behind create a drawing of repetitive vestiges to document the everyday.
Temple Contemporary has placed Welcome at the threshold of our door. We invite you to tread through this piece to record your own presence.
Spencer Finch
Shadow (Inside Goethe’s window, Nov. 27, 2007, noon)
Through February, 2013
Spencer Finch’s installation Shadow (Inside Goethe’s window, Nov. 27, 2007, noon)has been cast across our wall. Inspired by Geothe's theory of the effect of light and dark on the human eye, Finch produced an accurate chromatic replica of the shadow cast in the house where Goethe wrote his “Theory of Colour“ (1810), and performed his experiments on colored shadows.Shadowwill be on view at Temple Contemporary through February 2013.
** Interested in learning how to use the Publication Studio at Temple Contemporary? Come in any time Wednesday - Saturday 11am - 6 pm for a tutorial, or contact us to make an appointment. **
Publication Studio Workshops
Tuesday October 2,5-7 pm Free
Wednesday October 3, 4-6pm Free
“Publication Studio is a laboratory for publication in its fullest sense — not just the production of books but the production of a public. This public, which is more than a market, is created through physical production, digital circulation, and social gathering. Together these construct a space of conversation, a public space, which beckons a public into being.”
Temple Contemporary will be opening a free Publication Studio in the gallery! Publication Studio will conduct workshops on October 2nd, 5-7pm, and October 3rd, 4-6pm. Refreshments will be served.
The Studio is available free of charge for publishing needs throughout the year to whomever is trained to use it. If you would like to print, bind, or make a book with Publication Studio on either of these days – please register for one of these free public workshops.
There are currently six Publication Studios spread throughout the United States and Canada in Portlands Oregon and Maine, as well as Berkeley, Vancouver, Boston, and Toronto.
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Adam McEwen
Untitled (Stephanie), 2011
On view through December 14
As Temple Contemporary rolls up its sleeves to begin the burial of a Philadelphiarow home we are inspired by the celebratory and funereal work of British artist Adam McEwen. As a former writer of obituaries for London’s Daily Telegraph,McEwen turned his day job into an art form – creating obituaries of celebrities andpoliticians, including Bill Clinton, Madonna, and Macaulay Culkin.
McEwen’s work isexhibited internationally; he is represented by Gagosian Gallery.
Image courtesy of Gagosian Gallery
2012 OCTOBER PROGRAMS
Saskia Sassen
The Global Street
Tuesday October 23, 7pm FREE
As the oldest street and square grid in the United States, Philadelphia has long been an active participant in the “rhetorical and operational openings” enabled by city public spaces.On a macro level of media visibility- urban streets have become global stages for enacting political change.However, on a micro level many of these same urban thoroughfares have themselves been engineered to segregate communities leading to increased civic unrest, economic disinvestment in urban centers, and a booming car culture.How can we reconcile the uses of urban streets to collapse these disparities of scale?
Saskia Sassen, will be addressing the question of how we can best occupy “the global street” for civic, environmental, political, and economic global gain.
Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, is one of the world’s leading authorities on the social consequences of globalization. Her meticulous and far-reaching work has encompassed immigration, new networked technologies, the dynamics of global cities, the changes within the nation-state caused by the “transnational” economy and the feminization of labor. Her work is characterized by the “unexpected and the counter-intuitive”, and she uses her research to cut through established “truths” that may not be what they seem.
The Global Streetis co-organized by Temple Contemporary and Next American City.This event is sponsored by Temple University’s Film and Media Arts Department, Temple University Lectures and Forums Committee, and Temple University Libraries.
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Image courtesy of Perry Paegelow
Psychoanalyze the City: Philly On The Couch
Wednesday, October 24, 6pm FREE
What would happen if we got Philadelphia “on the couch?” Join us as we psychoanalyze the City of Brotherly Love withpsychoanalytic therapist Bob Kravis, PsyD; andJeffrey Ray, senior curator of the Philadelphia History Museum at the Atwater Kent.
How did Philadelphia transform itself over the past two hundred years from a precocious city of visionaries to its current condition and perhaps renaissance? Diagnosing this city as one might an afflicted patient, Ray and Kravis will use their historic knowledge and psychoanalytic skills to determine Philadelphia’s current state of health. Through their interpretations of selected historic and contemporary objects they will diagnose the city and offer possible treatments for its future wellbeing.
This event is inspired by questions raised by Temple Contemporary’s Advisory Council on the idea that Philadelphia was born as a city of ideals.
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Setting the Table: Discussing Childhood Obesity in Philadelphia
Tuesday, Oct16, 6-8 pm
Sit down to a city-wide dinner to discuss Philadelphia’s ongoing efforts to cure childhood obesity. Leaders from the Philadelphia School District, The Food Trust, the Center for Obesity Research and Education, and the Vetri Foundation for Children will be leading this discussion that will take place at The View on the top floor of People for People on 800 North Broad Street. The dinner will be served according to Eatiquette, the Vetri Method for transforming the school lunch experience.
** Seating is extremely limited and reservations for this dinner are required. **
The Vetri Foundation for Children works to reverse this trend by helping kids experience the connection between healthy eating and healthy living. Eatiquette, the Vetri Method for school lunch,aims to transform a child's lunch from the traditional cafeteria assembly line to an environment where children gather around round tables, pass plates of food to one another, and experience social interaction and communication.
Temple University’s Center for Obesity Research and Education (CORE) is a university-wide group of investigators dedicated to excellence in obesity research. Its mission is to facilitate interdisciplinary research on the etiology, consequences, treatment, and prevention of obesity.
Image courtesy of Bryan Satalino
Irving Sandler
From the Avant-Garde to the Post Avant-Garde
Thursday, October 18, 6pm FREE
In partnership with the Art History, and Painting Departments at Tyler School of Art, Temple Contemporary is proud to welcome back Temple alumnus and renowned art critic Irving Sandler.Nationally regarded as one of the most influential writers of the New York art scene, Irving Sandler’s books including The Triumph of American Painting: A History of Abstract Expressionism (1970), The New York School: The Painters and Sculptors of the Fifties (1978), American Art of the 1960s (1988), Art of the Postmodern Era: From the Late 1960s to the Early 1990s (1996) stand as the most lucid and critical examinations of the New York art world ever written.
Sandler’s lecture, focusing on the radical art world shift from Modernism to Post-Modernism in the early 1970s, will be complemented by objects selected from his personal archive. Sandler’s books includingThe Triumph of American PaintingandThe New York Schoolare widely considered some of the most influential texts ever written on twentieth century art.Sandler's illustrated lecture will be positioning this change into an historical context of cultural and political events that continue to be relevant to the discourse of contemporary art.
This lecture is co-sponsored by The Tyler Alumni Board, The Art History Department (as part of the Distinguished Faculty Alumni and Scholar Lecture Series), The Department of Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture, Temple University Student Activities Fees, Temple Contemporary,Temple University Libraries,and Temple University's Lectures and Forums Committee.
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image: Irving Sandler by Phong Bui
Dennis Baron
#twitterrevolution—destabilizing the world, 140 characters at a time
Wednesday, October 10, 6pm FREE
The written word has long been a revolutionary agent: manifestos can change the course of history and topple governments. Temple Contemporary welcomes University of Illinois Linguistics Professor Dennis Baron to discuss the impact of mass digitization. He’ll also address the implications that unfettered authorship through venues like Twitter have an impact as commercial expressions, not just as personal and political statements.
This lecture will be complemented by a display of objects relating to topics raised by Professor Baron. These objects include Henry David Thoreau's pencil, the first pencil ever invented, and Thomas Jefferson's copying machine. These objects have been kindly loaned for display from the Concord Museum, The Faber-Castell Museum, and The American Philosophical Society.
Dennis Baron is a Professor of English and Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author ofA Better Pencil: Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution(2009), andGrammar and Gender (1986). His writing has also appeared inThe New York Times,The Washington Post, and theLos Angeles Times.
This event is supported by The Foundations Department at the Tyler School of Art, and the Geography and Urban Studies Department at Temple University.
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Richard Birkett and Martin Beck
The Artist in Social Communication
Tuesday October 9, 6pm FREE
Artists Space curator Richard Birkett and artist Martin Beck will discuss their common interests in the politics of exhibition display. Considering how curatorial and artistic practice functions to mediate information, and how the exhibition space functions in relation to mechanisms of power and control.The conversation will cover projects produced by Martin Beck and Richard Birkett individually, and recent collaborations.
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Keya Dannenbaum
Thursday October 4, 6pm, FREE
Keya Dannenbaum will be visiting Temple Contemporary to discuss the democratic motives behind her company ElectNext and its efforts to fix voter apathy. ElectNext was recently created to help people vote better. Their work is committed to increasing poll turnout while giving voters a greater awareness of the positions held by local and national candidates. Run much like eHarmony, ElectNext asks prospective voters to choose three issues most important to them. You are then asked a series of questions about those issues. Once answered ElectNext uses that data to create your own individual voter profile and matches this profile to the compatible views of eligible candidates. The results – cutting through party lines and campaign hyperbole are often surprising—but inevitably lead to greater awareness, voter confidence, and a politically informed public.
This event is inspired by questions raised by Temple Contemporary’s Advisory Council of how technology can be used to affect political action.
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Cornelia Parker
Through October 31
Breathe with Cornelia Parker as she imagines fireworks in this month's Silence, through the end of the month.
Candy Class with Ryan and Eric Berley
Tuesday September 25, 7-8:30pm
Come to this FREE hands-on demonstration with the owners of Shane Confectionery (America's Oldest Candy Store) and The Franklin Fountain - Ryan and Eric Berley. Employing some oftheir vast collection of confectionerytools, curiosities, and candies, Ryan and Eric will beginwith an illustrated lecture onthe historic and industrial arts of Philadelphia's confectionery past. After that it's straight to the sugar! We'll be pulling taffy, learning about lozenges, and casting candy from their antique metal molds. Each participant will take home a "clear toy" of rock hard candy cast from molten sugar.
Candy Class has been coordinated to address questions of the continuation of Philadelphia’s industrial heritage raised by Temple Contemporary’s Advisory Council.
Always sporting his iconic mustache, Eric Berley has always been the “Ice Cream Brother” while Ryan has conquered candy. Eric’s passions include historic architecture and business leadership. This year, he recently added beehives to the Shane Confectionery roof and hopes to be involved with the creative side of sweets menu planning for Franklin Fountain.
Ryan Berley was born and raised in Media, in suburban Philadelphia. After a number of years in the antiques business, he started The Franklin Fountain, an early 1900s soda fountain & ice cream saloon, with his brother Eric in 2004. Six years later, they purchased Shane Candies and embarked on a full-scale restoration spanning over 18 months, re-opening as the Shane Confectionery in December 2011, celebrating the history of America’s Oldest Candy Store since 1863.
A display of the Berley Brothers confectionery collection will be on view at Temple Contemporary through October 12, 2012.
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Allison Smith: Traditional Crafts, Memory, and Identity
Monday September 24, 5pm (NEW TIME!)
Allison Smith’s artistic practice uses craftwork to address constructions of national identity and gender. Invoking various forms of public convocation such as battle reenactments, peddlers’ markets, quilting bees, military musters, parades and craft fairs, Smith uses a range of tactile media such as textiles, ceramics, printmaking, and wood furniture to produce performative sculptures, interactive installations and artist-led pubic events that redo, restage, and refigure our sense of collective memory.
At Temple Contemporary, Allison Smith will be discussing her artistic practice of collective making, which often re-introduces lost and forgotten crafts in an effort to form new publics that can now share a common skill. During Smith’s stay she will be meeting with local communities and small business leaders to shape a new public project inspired by Philadelphia’s industrial past.
Allison Smith’s visit is co-sponsored by the Foundations Department at Tyler School of Art inspired by questions of Philadelphia’s manufacturing history raised by Temple Contemporary’s Advisory Council.
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William Labov: The Changing Patterns of Philadelphia English; White, Black and Latino
Thursday, September 20, 7pm
How does Philadelphian differ from other dialects across the United States? Learn about Philadelphia’s place in American English with internationally renowned linguist William Labov. What natural misunderstandings stem from the Philadelphia dialect and how is our accent changing in response to higher education and immigration?
Come early to test your linguistic knowledge with an interactive language display designed by Hive76 that features accents from across Philadelphia and the United States. Also on display will be linguistically related works by Rachel Perry Welty and Sean Monahan.
William Labov is a University of Pennsylvania linguist who has been studying the Philadelphia dialect for the past 25 years.Widely regarded as the founder of variationist sociolinguistics, his 1960s studies of African American Vernacular English remain some of the most respected linguistic research of the 20thcentury.
The Changing Patterns of Philadelphia English is scheduled to address questions of how Philadelphia talks to itself that were raised by Temple Contemporary’s Advisory Council.
This event is co-sponsored through generous support of Temple University’s Departments of Spanish and Portuguese, Library Services, Anthropology, American Studies, Geography and Urban Studies, General Student Activities Fund, and Tyler School of Art.
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A Conversation With Jon Rubin
Tuesday September 18, 7 pm
Sit down withJon Rubinfor a conversation about his recent artworks. A selection of Rubin's works will be installed at Temple Contemporary, including102.9 Sounds You Never Hear,Eternal Happiness Flying Through The Sky, andHERETHEREHERE.
Jon Rubin creates interventions into public life that reinvent social and political conditions.These interventions create new platforms for agency, participation, and exchange.His projects include starting a radio station in an abandoned steel town that only plays the sound of an extinct bird, developing a hypnotized human robot army, running a barter-based nomad art school, operating a restaurant as a live talk show with its customers, and operating another take-out restaurant that only sells food from countries the United States is in conflict with.
Rubin was Pittsburgh's Artist of the Year in 2011. He has exhibited at The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Mercosul Biennial, Brazil; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver; The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard, New York; The Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico; The Rooseum, Sweden; The ParkingGallery, Tehran, Iran; Nemo Film Festival, Paris; as well as in backyards, living rooms, and street corners.
Rubin's visit to Temple Contemporary is sponsored by Tyler School of Art's Department of Paintings, Drawing, and Sculpture as well as the Temple University Student Activities Fees.
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Free Bike Tune-Ups with Neighborhood Bike Works
Thursday September 13, Noon-3 pm
Pedal on over to Temple Contemporary for a free tune-up offered by North Philly's Neighborhood Bike Works. These bicycle tune-ups will be accompanied by a selection of biking posters designed by our friends at Canary Project and Green Patriot Posters, videos from bike helmets documenting the infractions of our fellow motorists, and Haley Ticycles' Piano Bike. Why not take a spin while playing your song!
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Working Hard or Hardly Working
Mary Smull
On view through September
In Working Hard or Hardly Working, Smull's couch intervention presents a series of hand-stitched polar fleece blankets that pay homage to Sol LeWitt, On Kawara, and Robert Morris - artists whose Conceptual approaches address the parameters of artistic labor.
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Artist Talk and Conversation with Ashley Hunt:
Questions of Art, Participation and Social Engagement
Monday, September 10th, 7-8:30pm
FREE
Ashley Hunt is an artist and activist who uses video, photography, mapping and writing to engage social movements, modes of learning and public discourse. Among his interests are structures that allow people to accumulate power and those which keep others from getting it. Rather than seeing art and activism as two exclusive spheres of agency, he approached them as complimentary, drawing ideas of social movements and cultural theory alike. This has included investigations in the prison system, the demise of welfare state institutions, war and disaster capitalism. His recent performance, Notes on the Emptying of a City, explores the first-person politics of being in New Orleans with a camera after Hurricane Katrina. Here he engaged with community activists to research the city's refusal to evacuate the New Orleans Parish Prison.
This event is initiated as a collaboration of Live Arts, the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program and muraLAB, Tyler School of Art's Department of Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture, and Temple Contemporary. Artworks on display at Temple Contemporary address questions of mass incarceration raised by Temple Contemporary's Advisory Council.
Philip Glahn, Assistant Professor of Critical Studies and Aesthetics at Tyler School of Art will facilitate a group discussion with Ashley Hunt about his current artistic practice. This conversation will be complemented by a selection of Hunt's artworks exhibited at Temple Contemporary and that will be used to ground the discussion firmly in his practice.
Participate in Ashley Hunt’s free performance, Notes on the Emptying of a City at Broad Street Ministry, 315 South Broad Street, on Tuesday, September 11 at 7pm.
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The State of the Philadelphia Public School System
Thursday September 6, 6-8 pm
FREE
Dale Mezzacappa, editor and contributor of the Philadelphia Public School
Notebook, will moderate a panel discussion designed to shed light on the options
Philadelphians have to educate our children.
Panel participants include Nijmie Dzurinko, previously Executive Director of
the Philadelphia Student Union, an organization that develops youth leaders by
addressing school reform issues; Scott Gordon, CEO of Mastery Charter Schools, a
growing non-profit charter school network recognized nationally for their work
in school turnarounds and dramatic student achievement gains; and Miriam Hill, a
reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer, as well as the creator Raising Philadelphia, a
blog focusing on the pleasures and challenges of raising a young child in the city.
This open discussion with the audience will address the ways charter schools are
changing the public school system, how the closures of public schools affect the
surrounding neighborhoods, and what are all the options young parents living in
Philadelphia have for their children’s education.
To complement this discussion, Temple Contemporary has commissioned
Philadelphia artist Katrina Ohstrom to take School Portraits of Drew Elementary,
Fitzsimons High, and Harrison Elementary. These three schools were permanently
closed this past summer as a result of the Department of Education’s restructuring.
Ohstrom’s portraits will be on display at Temple Contemporary from September 5 –
October 6, 2012
The first thirty people to register for this event through Temple Contemporary’s
website will receive a limited edition School Portrait by Katrina Ohstrom.
Katrina Ohstrom has been photographing Philadelphia’s changing urban landscape
for over a decade. Her photographs and essays have appeared in publications
including Megawords Magazine, Hidden City Daily and East Village Radio.
This event has been produced in partnership with Hidden City Philadelphia.
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RACE BETWEEN CLASSES OFFICE CHAIR RELAY RACE
TUESDAY AUGUST 29th, 3-5pm
The 2012-13 school year started out with some healthy competition. The second annual Race Between Classes was a fun-filled event, with students from each department compteting against their peers through a straw bale-lined obstacle course in the gallery! Little Baby's Ice Cream and Qdoba provided nourishment before and after the race to keep our athletes in tip-top shape.
The lads from the Photography department took top honors, with the classy gals from the Glass department coming in second place for the second year in a row!
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TYLER SCHOOL OF ART 2012 MFA EXHIBITIONS
March 21 - May 12, 2012
Join us in the upcoming weeks for numerous MFA solo exhibition presented by graduate students in the Ceramics, Fibers and Material Studies, Printmaking, Glass, Photography, Painting, Sculpture, Jewelry/Metals/CAD/CAM, and Graphic Arts and Interactive Design departments.
There will be an opening reception from 6 - 8pm every Friday to mark the weekly rotation of the exhibitions. Gallery hours throughout the week are Wednesday - Saturday, 11am - 6pm.
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PIETRA RIVOLI
THE TRAVELS OF A T-SHIRT IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
TUESDAY FEBRUARY 21st, 12:30 - 2pm
Pietra Rivoli is a professor of finance and international business at Georgetown University and author of award-winning book, The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy. Join us for a lecture about her book, where Rivoli will discuss and explain issues in the global economy, and trace the production and sale of t-shirts from cotton farms in Texas to used clothing vendors in Tanzania.
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DISSENT IN AMERICA TEACH-IN:
TEMPLE'S PROTEST HISTORY
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 17th, 3-4:30pm
This is a weekly forum examining the historical background and context of contemporary issues. Architectural historian and Tyler faculty, Alicia Imperiale, and Associate Professor of Sociology at Temple, Dr. Mary Stricker, will be discussing Temple University's protest history from 1968 to the present.
This week's Teach-In will be hosted by Temple Gallery at Tyler School of Art. Featured in this discussion will be examples of alternative student run presses from 1968 through the early seventies.
These items are loaned from Paley Library's Special Collections.
This event is sponsored by Department of History, CLA, Department of Exhibitions and Public Programs, Student Activities Fees, and Paley Library Special Collections
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JAMES CASTLE:
AN ILLUSTRATED DISCUSSION
BETWEEN JOHN OLLMAN AND ANN PERCY
TUESDAY FEBRUARY 14th, 2-4 pm
James Castle, Untitled (Self-Portrait), Date Unknown
At 2pm on February 14, Temple Gallery will welcome John Ollman and Ann Percy for an illustrated discussion on the works of James Castle (1899-1977). Born profoundly deaf in a small town in Idaho, Castle was a self-taught artist who had very little means of communicating. He created drawings and assemblages using found materials such as soot, saliva, hand-made tools, packaging papers and discarded mail, and depicted interiors, buildings, animals, and people based on the places he lived and visited. This informal discussion will be complemented by a small selection of works made by Castle that will be shown at Temple Gallery. John and Ann will talk about the inventive processes and unconventional materials Castle used to create his unique artistic style through necessity.
John Ollman has been the director of The Fleisher/Ollman Gallery since 1970, and the sole owner since 1997. In 1970, the gallery began to focus predominantly upon American self-taught artists. Shortly thereafter the gallery collaborated with Herbert W. Hemphill, a founding member of New York's Museum of American Folk Art, on a series of survey exhibitions exploring the work of twentieth-century American self-taught artists.
Ann Percy, curator of Drawings at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, organized the exhibition James Castle: A Retrospective. This marked the first comprehensive museum exhibition of the work of James Castle, and consisted of some 300 drawings, color wash pieces, handmade books, assemblages, and text works.
LOOKING IN PHILADELPHIA
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 9th, 4 - 6 pm
Arden Bendler Browning, Roadtrip: Philadelphia, Archival marker on rag paper, 2009
This panel brings together multiple and new perspectives on Philadelphia's spaces, as they are imagined, lived, and reborn. It features:
The panel will be moderated by Kenneth Finkel, Distinguished Lecturer in Temple's American Studies Program.
Temple Gallery will be displaying a range of artworks, artifacts, and city planning materials to complement the discussion.
DISCOVER THE HIDDEN AND FORGOTTEN
WATERWAYS OF PHILADELPHIA
WITH ADAM LEVINE
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 16th, 6:30 - 8pm
As you walk on many of Philadelphia's sidewalks, beneath your feet is a hidden world of streams that once crisscrossed the city. Join us for a fascinating illustrated lecture including rare artworks and artifacts drawn from the archives of the Philadelphia Water Department that will uncover part of Philadelphia's history that few people ever think about - the drastic changes made in Philadelphia's landscape since its founding in 1682. Historian and archivist Adam Levine has been digging into the history of the city's sewers and drainage systems since 1998, and his talk will focus on the systematic obliteration of hundreds of miles of surface streams. Buried deep underground in pipes as large as 20 feet in diameter, these former streams - some of which had watersheds that covered thousands of acres - became main drainage arteries in the city's 3,000 mile sewer system. These massive alterations to the landscape, undertaken over two centuries, have environmental repercussions that are still being felt today. This lecture is guaranteed to reveal a side of the Philadelphia you have never seen, and change the way you think about our sprawling urban environment.
Registration for this FREE event is required. Please click here to reserve your seat.
BIG BOOTY BEATS Y'ALL
RAMA HOFFPAUIR
THROUGH FEBRUARY 25th
Temple Gallery's fifth and final desk project of the year is now on view. Rama Hoffpauir, an artist and farmer from New Auburn, WI, has created a micro-world within an office desk. Sit down and enjoy a snack as you rifle through the drawers of this artwork. Materials are provided to make a rolodex drawing, as you think about places other than the place you are. This installation is intended to make you take that fifteen minute break from the office, call a friend, and smile.
BLUEREDYELLOW Natural Dye Workshop
FRIDAY JANUARY 27th, FEBRUARY 10th, FEBRUARY 24th
2-5pm
Join us for the first of a three-session workshop with Philadelphia-based design and natural dye house, BLUEREDYELLOW. During these sessions, BLUEREDYELLOW will demonstrate how to prepare fabric for natural dyes, prepare an indigo fermentation vat, as well as discuss plant dyes, resist and over-dye methods.
The other scheduled workshop dates are Friday, February 10, and Friday, February 24, from 2-5pm. You will register one time for the entire three-session workshop. Space is limited, so please click here to reserve your spot.
Elissa Gwen Meyers and Mira Sophia Adornetto are BLUEREDYELLOW. By growing and harvesting local dyes, the intention of BLUEREDYELLOW is to provide comfortable, natural, chemical-free textiles with the smallest environmental footprint possible. Visit their website for more information.
SILENCES: TAPE 342
THROUGH JANUARY 31st
Our January Silence comes from the Nixon Presidential Library. In February 1971 on,President Nixon's orders, the Secret Service installed an extensive voice recording system throughout the White House office complex. The silence playing in the gallery, found on tape 342, took place during a meeting on June 20, 1972, three days after the Watergate break-in. On this day, Nixon and his Chief of Staff, H.R. Haldeman, were in Nixon's office having an urgent conversation. They were discussing the arrests of five men affiliated with Nixon's campaign who were caught trying to bug phones in the offices of the Democratic Party's National Committee at the Watergate Hotel in Washington D.C. As Nixon and Haldeman talk, their conversation is suddenly replaced by 18 minutes of silence broken only by electronic-sounding clicks and hisses. Nixon's secretary ended up taking the blame for the erasures, claiming that she accidentally pressed the wrong button while transcribing the tape.
I <3 CZ
SUSIE BRANDT
THROUGH FEBRUARY 14th, 2012
In celebration of Valentines Day, Temple Gallery has commissioned artist Susie Brandtto create an artwork led by love. Brandt's response is I <3 CZ. CZ refers to the late fiber artist Claire Zeisler. Based in Chicago for much of her life, Zeisler (1903-1991) was internationally known for her draped forms of braided and knotted threads. These "Cousin It" like sculptures are the inspiration for Brandt's commission. Made from 120 skeins of red Red Heart yarn, Brandt's commission will spill over the gallery couch and floor in a loving tribute to Claire Zeisler.
Susie Brandt is an artist who worked at the Claire Zeisler Workshop in Chicago over the summer of 1986. Now living in Baltimore, Brandt's work has addressed issues of domesticity, consumption, abundance, time, and devotion. Her work has been included in numerous solo and group exhibitions both nationally and internationally. Brandt is on the faculty of the Fiber and Foundation Department at Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore.
In response to our interests, the advisory council, and the recent eviction of Occupy Philly at City Hall, we are showing some footage in the gallery of the eviction on November 30th.
This video was made and distributed by Gangs In Blue, a YouTube user who strives to show evidence of police brutality. This video shows the Occupy Philly eviction from City Hall during the early morning hours of November 30th, 2011. The footage shows how police came onto the scene with nearly every mode of transit available: busses, cars, bicycles, and officers on foot in both uniforms and riot gear. While the majority of the footage shows evidence of peaceful protest, it also shows altercations between a number of police officers and occupiers. Approximately 50 people were arrested during the eviction which has led to further peaceful protests and a lecture by Professor David Harvey at the Philadelphia Roundhouse Jail to express solidarity.
The Occupy Wallstreet Movement began in New York City on September 17th, 2011. Hundreds of citizens occupied Zucotti Park to protest social and economic inequality, high unemployment, corporate greed, and corruption. The movement quickly spread to other cities, both within the United States, and internationally. To date, over 4,200 people have been arrested in association with the Occupy Movement and protests worldwide.
http://occupyphillymedia.org/
TIM BELKNAP, SPACE STATION
THROUGH DECEMBER 16th, TEMPLE GALLERY
Over the 30 years of its history, the space shuttle has had an indelible impact on America. The United States' spaceship of choice for three decades helped build the largest space station in history, revolutionized science with the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, and inspired generations who dreamed of riding the shuttle into the sky. Since NASA's 135th and final flight in July of this year, NASA has privatized space travel.
Philadelphia artist, Tim Belknap, has created a life-like Space Station set to ignite the imaginations of local school children. The artist will be suspended within the structure to simulate zero gravity as he performs as an astronaut in space. A live video feed connecting the Space Station to a Philadelphia elementary classroom will allow the students to interact with the artist.
The purpose of this performance is to inspire and educate children about space exploration and travel. Because of NASA's recent loss of government funding, the enchantment and mystery surrounding space travel will be absent from our young generation's consciousness.
A cup for a can: Coffee Monday collaborating with Philadbundance
MONDAY DEC 12th, 7:45-9:45 am
TEMPLE GALLERY
National Canstruction Competition Winner
Participate in our CofFREE Monday inspired food drive in collaboration with Philabundance by bringing a canned food to exchange for a free cup of coffee!
Red Alert items needed this holiday season are: Tuna, Green Beans, Corn, Fruit, and Breakfast Cereal.
TEMPLE GALLERY'S 5000th VISITOR!
CONGRATULATIONS to MFA Photography Student JULIA STAPLES who was our 5,000th visitor this semester! Julia received warm applause and a Marcellus Shale drinking cup for shattering Temple Gallery's previous attendance figures last semester of 1,600 people.
TESTING SOME BELIEFS with GREGG BORDOWITZ
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28th, 6pm
TEMPLE GALLERY
Image courtesy of the Print and Picture Collection of the Free Library of Philadelphia
Gregg Bordowitz writes, "I believe that art can change the world. I believe that art and freedom are necessarily related. There are no facts to support these claims. Still, I carry these beliefs formed decades ago. How do some beliefs remain and what do I gain by believing? At risk of sounding ridiculous, I will try to explain."
With these themes in mind, Bordowitz will present an extemporaneous talk that responds to both the audience and the specifics of the context. For this performance, Bordowitz has selected ten pieces of art to be exhibited in the gallery. These works, on loan from the Print and Picture Collection of the Free Library of Philadelphia, were produced and supported by the Works Progress Administration in the 1930's.
Gregg Bordowitz is an artist and writer and is currently the Chair of the Film, Video, New Media, and Animation Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and he is on the faculty of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.
Starting on November 23rd, Temple Gallery will be screening Bordowitz's 1993 video, Fast Trip, Long Drop.
This event is supported by Temple University's Departments of Film and Media Arts, and Art History, as well as the Pennsylvania Council On The Arts.
MARTHA MADIGAN on ANA MENDIETA
MONDAY DECEMBER 5th, 11:30am
TEMPLE GALLERY
Join us on Monday, December 5th at 11:30 am as Tyler Photography Professor, Martha Madigan, contextualizes Ana Mendieta's work in relation to contemporary photography and feminism. Mendieta and Madigan were friends. Madigan's gallery conversation will draw from the influence of this relationship.
In Ana Mendieta's Silueta Series (1980-1992), the artist explores her relationship with the earth as she represents the female silhouette using nature as both her canvas and her medium. By making "earth body" sculptures with her own body and various types of land, Mendieta explores her own physical place within the natural world.
Ana Mendieta (1948-1985) was a Cuban American photographer, performance artist, sculptor, and video artist. Mendieta's work was autobiographical and focused on themes including, violence, life, death, place and belonging.
For more than twenty-five years Martha Madigan has been creating photograms that refer to, record and/or transform aspects of nature and the human figure. She has been a professor at Temple University's Tyler School of Art since 1979.
ACT UP PROTEST EPHEMERA
THROUGH DECEMBER 16th
TEMPLE GALLERY
Banners and posters from theWilliam Way Community Center and Philadelphia Fight, of ACT UP Philadelphia demonstrations are on view in Temple Gallery through December 16th. ACT UP Philadelphia's coalition is recognized as the last remaining active chapter in the U.S.
ACT UP stands for the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power. They are a diverse, non-partisan group, united in anger, and committed to ending the AIDS crisis through direct action. ACT UP Philadelphia holds meetings every Monday night, 6-9pm in the St. Luke's Church Basement at 330 S.13th Street. Interested in getting involved? Right now, ACT UP Philadelphia is campaigning to force the City of Philadelphia to end the waiting list for housing for people living with HIV/AIDS. Click here to learn more and sign the petition.
The exhibition of protest ephemera coincides with the 30th Anniversary of World AIDS Day, December 1st, 2011. You can show your support for people living with HIV on World AIDS Day by wearing a red ribbon, the international symbol of HIV awareness, and learning the facts about this disease.
CLASS OF 1986 by S. MARK GUBB
THROUGH NOVEMBER 30th
TEMPLE GALLERY
Take a seat at S Mark Gubb's desk entitled Class of 1986. This is the latest in our commissioned series of new front desks at the gallery. Gubb is a British artist who often re-appropriates information and found objects to reuse them within a gallery context. For example, he recently catered a gallery dinner in which all of the options on the menu were comprised of last meal requests from inmates on death row.
Class of 1986 will be up for another two weeks before being replaced with a new desk commission by Brooklyn-based artist Katarina Jerinic.
SILENCES: SOLAR ECLIPSE
THROUGH NOVEMBER AT TEMPLE GALLERY
November Silence: Solar Eclipse
If you happen to find yourself in the Southern Hemisphere this Friday November 25th, you'll get to experience the fourth, and final, solar eclipse of 2011.
During the month of November, we've been playing our newest audio track, Solar Eclipse, from our ongoing Silences series. By reducing the impact of a solar eclipse to an audio event, this recording allows the listener to experience a primarily visual natural phenomenon as an auditory episode.
Curious animal activity during solar eclipses has been observed since at least 1544 when observers noted that "birds ceased singing." In 1932, the Eclipse Behavior Committee conducted a large-scale observation project in which members of the organization and of the general public recorded animal behavior during a total eclipse.
Among their numerous findings, witnesses noted a significant increase in cricket chirping, whole swarms of honey bees retreat into their hives, and flocks of multiple types of birds going silent and returning to their usual resting place. In the recordings, compiled by Tyler's own Olivia Menta, you can hear the songs of birds grow faint with the coming and then passing of a solar eclipse.
Click on the image above to hear Solar Eclipse.
BEING DIRT: An artist talk by Corin Hewitt
MONDAY NOVEMBER 7th, 4pm
TEMPLE GALLERY
Corin Hewitt is a sculptor and photographer. He was born in Burlington, Vermont and the plot of his family's land in Vermont has been a continuing source of inspiration and material for his artistic practice. Corin will be speaking about the soil from this plot of land and its influence on not only his own work, but that of his father's art as well.
Hewitt graduated from the Milton -Avery Graduate School for the Arts in 2007 and attended Skowhegan in 2004. Before teaching full-time at VCU Hewitt taught part-time at Tyler School of Art. A solo exhibition of Hewitt's work just opened at Laurel Gitlen in New York. He has also recently had solo shows at Western Bridge in Seattle (2010), The Firehouse Center in Burlington (2010), The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center (2009), The Seattle Art Museum (2009), and The Whitney Museum of American Art (2008).
He has received a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, The Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, and was the project recipient for In the Public Realm, Public Art Fund.
ENDANGERED LANGUAGES: LOCAL AND GLOBAL TRENDS
LECTURE BY DAVID HARRISON
MONDAY NOVEMBER 14th, 4pm
TEMPLE GALLERY
David Harrison with Panau speakers in Papua New Guinea
Photograph by Chris Rainier
This lecture will introduce the global language extinction crisis from the perspective of a scientist who has spent a decade interviewing last speakers of the world's most endangered languages. In video clips, we will hear directly from linguistic survivors about they value their languages, and why we should too. Efforts and new technologies supporting language revitalization will also be explored.
K. David Harrison is associate professor of linguistics at Swarthmore College and co-leads the Enduring Voices project at National Geographic. He received his doctorate from Yale University. As a linguist and specialist in Siberian Turkic languages, he has spent extended periods in Siberia and Mongolia working with nomadic herders and studying their languages and cultural traditions. He has also worked in India, the Philippines, Lithuania, Paraguay, and the United States with speakers of endangered languages. Harrison's work includes not only scientific descriptions of languages, but also storybooks, translations, and digital archives for the use of the native speaker communities. Harrison is widely recognized and consulted as a leading spokesman for endangered languages. He makes frequent appearances before college, high school, and other public audiences, and in media such as NPR, BBC, Good Morning America, and the Colbert Report. He co-stars in the Emmy-nominated documentary film The Linguists, which documents him and fellow linguist Greg Anderson traveling around the world to track down and interview last speakers of nearly extinct tongues. His latest book, The Last Speakers: The Quest to Save the World's Most Endangered Languages, was published in fall 2010 by National Geographic Books. Harrison is a National Geographic Fellow.
BERN PORTER AND ECOPOETICS: A DISCUSSION WITH CA CONRAD AND JENA OSMAN
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 15th, 3:30-5:00 pm
TEMPLE GALLERY
Untitled, Self Portrait.
Published on the back cover of Bern Porter: See(MAN)TIC
Temple Gallery will host a discussion of Bern Porter's poetry and its relationship to ecopoetics, followed by a found-making workshop.
Ecopoetics addresses the environment in all of its complexity; it includes both the butterfly and the bulldozer. Although the term "ecopoetics" didn't exist when Bern Porter started writing poetry, it is a term that now helps us to better understand his projects. Porter started out as a scientist and worked on the Manhattan Project, which created the first atomic bomb. After the bomb was detonated, he quit his job and devoted his life to making art. Porter is perhaps best remembered for his founds, which were spare collages that recontextualized words one can find in everyday places like fashion magazines or junk mail. During the course of this event at Temple Gallery, participants will listen to Bern Porter poetry (read by CA Conrad), discuss entropy and recycling in relation to Porter's work, the idea of waste as an essential component of energy, and the notion of permaculture. Additionally, participants are asked to bring a non-precious piece of paper with text (from a magazine or newspaper, or perhaps selected randomly), which will be incorporated into a collective found and hung in the Temple Gallery at the culmination of the workshop.
ABOUT OUR GUESTS:
Jena Osman's latest book of poetry is The Network (selected for the National Poetry series in 2009 and published by Fence Books). Other books include An Essay in Asterisks and The Character. She co-edits the Chain Links book series with Juliana Spahr, and she teaches creative writing and literature in the English Department at Temple University. You can read Osman's essay Bern Porter: Recycling the Atmosphere by clicking here.
CA Conrad is a recipient of a 2011 Pew Fellowship in the Arts. He is the author of A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon: New (Soma)tics, (Wave Books, 2012), The Book of Frank (Wave Books, 2010), Advanced Elvis Course (Soft Skull Press, 2009), Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull Press, 2006), and a collaboration with poet Frank Sherlock titled The City Real & Imagined (Factory School, 2010). He has taught poetry at St. Mark's Poetry Project, CUNY Graduate Center, Naropa University, Goucher College, and elsewhere.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT: VETERAN'S ARTWORK & THE TIES THAT BIND
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 9th, 6-8 pm
TEMPLE GALLERY
Warrior Writers and Temple University's Tyler School of Art and Veteran Task Force will host a unique dinner party for veterans and people interested in veterans' issues. Temple Gallery will be showcasing a special exhibit of visual art created by Philadelphia veterans. The veterans' artwork will act as conversation starters for attendees. We invite you to discuss the importance of understanding veterans' issues and how they impact the entire Philadelphia community. This event will also be an opportunity to learn more about veteran services provided in Philadelphia and the upcoming Our City, Our Vets mural project.
Warrior Writers is a Philadelphia-based national nonprofit organization whose mission is to create a culture that articulates veterans' experiences, provide a creative community for artistic expression, and bear witness to the lived experiences of warriors.
Temple Gallery at the Tyler School of Art provides a visual context to inform and inspire public discussions of contemporary social concern. These discussions are collaboratively developed to address issues of local purpose and international significance.
The Office of Veteran Affairs at Temple University has convened a University Veterans Task Force to plan and implement programs that will provide educational and social events to help Temple veterans students succeed at the university.
Contact info@warriorwriters.org for more information.
** Please RSVP by reserving your seat at the table for this FREE meal and discussion of veterans issues by clicking here **
Temple Gallery is supported in part by the Friends of Temple Gallery, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Tyler School of Art Alumni Association.
Tyler School of Art MFA 2011 Thesis Exhibitions
Click here to view the exhibition website.
Each spring, Temple University's Tyler School of Art Masters of Fine Arts candidates participate in a series of solo thesis exhibitions, occurring weekly. The thesis exhibitions are the culmination of each student's two-year career at Tyler and represents, for many, their first professional one-person exhibition. The series includes students from all Tyler departments and an array of media: painting, sculpture, glass, printmaking, metals, graphic design, fibers, photography, ceramics, and more.
Unless otherwise noted, receptions take place every Friday from 6 - 8 pm during this exhibition series.
Exhibition Schedule
Mar 16 - 19
Space 1: Emily Rooney (Photography)
Mar 23 - 26
Space 1: Ben Chetta (Photography)
Space 2: Craig Rempfer (Painting)
Mar 30 – Apr 2
Space 1: Emily Davidson (Painting)
Space 2: Matt Ziemke (Ceramics/Glass)
Space 3: Ashlee Ferlito (Painting)
Apr 6 – 9
Space 1: Dan Schein (Painting)
Space 2: Amber Cowan (Glass)
Space 3: Giles Hefferan (Sculpture)
Apr 13 - 16
Space 1: Matt Kalasky (Sculpture)
Space 2: Stuart Lorimer (Painting)
Space 3: Theo Uliano (Ceramics)
Apr 20 - 23
Space 1: Lindsay Wraga (Painting)
Space 2: Leslie Friedman (Printmaking)
Space 3: Sijia Chen (Painting)
Apr 27 – 30
Space 1: Daryl Bergman (Printmaking)
Space 2: Tim Rusterholz (Sculpture)
Space 3: David King (Ceramics/Glass)
Atrium: Erica Finkowski (Metals/Jewelry/CAD-CAM)
May 4 – 7
Space 1: E. Brooke Lanier (Painting)
Space 2: Vanessa Long (Sculpture)
Space 3: Loo Bain (Fibers)
May 11 - 14
Katharine Mangels (Graphic Design)
Christine Fajardo (Graphic Design)
Jack Myers (Graphic Design)
Nina Reck (Graphic Design)
May 18 - 21
Space 1: David Bruce (Ceramics/Glass)
Image credits, top: Amber Cowan, The Revelation of a Serqet, 2010, glass and mixed media. Photo: David Fonda. Middle: Matt Kalasky, Still from Valley Dwellers project trailer, 2010. Image courtesy of the artist. Bottom: Theo Uliano, Untitled, 2010, ceramic and charcoal. Image courtesy of the artist.
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New Work by Lead Pencil Studio
December 1, 2010 - February 26, 2011
Surface Deposit is the first Philadelphia exhibition of Lead Pencil Studio, a Seattle-based collaboration between Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo. Extending from a traditional training in architecture, Lead Pencil Studio works across multiple disciplines to explore spatial conditions, material, and form through large-scale installations. Surface Deposit is an exhibition of fragmented sculptural assemblages based on the analysis and research of digital data collected by a 3-dimensional laser over several months during the summer of 2010. Incorporating various materials, including remnants from Tyler School of Art's former campus in Elkins Park, PA, Lead Pencil Studio will explore notions of accumulation through elements of architecture that are not inherent to a structure's original design. Their practice is self-described as "architecture in reverse...our projects are everything about architecture with none of its function...spaces with no greater purpose than to be perceived and question the certainty posited by the man-made world."
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Select works by 2nd Year MFA Students
Tyler School of Art, Temple University
Curated by Candice Madey
February 9 – April 9, 2011
Hunter College Times Square Gallery
450 West 41st Street, New York, New York
Opening reception: Friday, February 11, 6 – 9 pm
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Master of Fine Arts program presents the exhibition Vagabondage at the 2011 College Art Association (CAA) New York Area MFA Exhibition. Curated by Candice Madey of On Stellar Rays, Vagabondage features the work of seven MFA candidates: Loo Bain, Daryl Bergman, Amber Cowan, Emily Davidson, Emily Rooney, Dan Schein, and Lindsay Wraga. Working in a variety of materials including painting, sculpture, glass, fiber, photography and video, Madey writes “works in Vagabondage embody the spirit of the vagabond. Myth and meaning is found on the periphery and only with the knowledge gained from a solitary quest…These works present a similar duality: alluding to social constructs and cultural rituals, yet simultaneously pushing against and evading such limitations.”
Vagabondage, along with the exhibitions of fellow New York area MFA programs, will be on view from February 9 through April 9, 2011 at the Hunter College Times Square Gallery at 450 West 41st Street, New York, New York. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 1 – 6 pm. An opening reception will take place on Friday, February 11, from 6 – 9 pm.
About the curator
Candice Madey is currently the director and owner of On Stellar Rays, a NY-based gallery with an interest in the intersection of and disruptions between performance and other media. Formerly she was director of Mireille Mosler, Ltd. in New York, and an independent curator and art consultant. She has 12 years of experience in the art world, including positions at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Christie’s, and galleries in the Midwest and in New York. She has a Masters in Business Administration, and Bachelors degrees in Art History and French from the Ohio State University.
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THE BRUCE HIGH QUALITY FOUNDATION AND CREATIVE TIME PRESENT TEACH 4 AMERIKA
March 31, 7 - 9 pm
Beury Hall 160, N. 13th St and Polett Walk (across from the Bell Tower)
Temple University
Register for a seat at http://tylerteachforamerika.eventbrite.com/
Exhibitions and Public Programs at Tyler School of Art is pleased to announce that it will host Teach 4 Amerika, a new project by The Bruce High Quality Foundation (BHQF), presented by Creative Time, the New York-based nonprofit public art presenter. Teach 4 Amerika is a five-week, 11-city, coast-to-coast road trip that crosses state lines and institutional boundaries to inspire and enable local art students to define the future of their own educational experience. Traveling the byways of America in a limousine painted as a school bus, BHQF will visit university art departments, art schools, art institutions, and alternative spaces across the nation, bringing together concerned educators, artists, arts administrators, and—most importantly—students to brainstorm on the future of art schools.
The project calls for a national rethinking of the current art education system, and will provide an opportunity for BHQF to present on the issues facing artists seeking an education, as well as catalyze discussions with students. With the multitude of institutionalized fine arts degree tracks throughout the country—which increase in number, enrollment, and cost each year—BHQF have been actively calling for students’ self-organization in New York City with their “unaccredited,” alternative, and completely free school, The Bruce High Quality Foundation University (BHQFU). The Teach 4 Amerika tour is a rallying effort to begin this conversation on a national scale and to encourage a new generation of students, artists, and educators to imagine what is possible for art education in America.
ABOUT THE BRUCE HIGH QUALITY FOUNDATION
The Bruce High Quality Foundation, the official arbiter of the estate of Bruce High Quality, is dedicated to the preservation of the legacy of the late social sculptor, Bruce High Quality. In the spirit of the life and work of Bruce High Quality, we aspire to invest the experience of public space with wonder, to resurrect art history from the bowels of despair, and to impregnate the institutions of art with the joy of man’s desiring. www.thebrucehighqualityfoundation.com
ABOUT CREATIVE TIME
Since 1974, Creative Time has presented the most innovative art in the public realm. The New York-based nonprofit has worked with over 2,000 artists to produce more than 335 groundbreaking public art projects that have ignited the public's imagination, explored ideas that shape society, and engaged millions of people around the globe.
Creative Time seeks to convert the power of artists’ ideas into works that inspire social change and stimulate public dialogue on timely issues, while initiating a dynamic conversation among artists, sites, and audiences. A vanguard presenter of public art in New York, Creative Time recently began presenting national and global projects and initiatives, making it the only public arts organization with programs that have reached from New York to New Orleans, Haiti to Hanoi, and Dubai to Denver. These projects further Creative Time’s belief in the importance of artists in society and the power of art to raise consciousness, expose injustices, and imagine a better world. For more information on Creative Time and its projects, visit www.creativetime.org.
SUPPORT
Lead project support for Teach 4 Amerika is provided by John Bader and Peggy Jacobs Bader.
Exhibitions and Public Programs is joined in support of this event by the Temple University General Activities Fund and the following departments: Foundations and Painting, Drawing, Sculpture at Tyler School of Art; and the Film and Media Arts in the School of Communications and Theater.
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Transformazium
Presentation followed by discussion
Tuesday, March 15, 6 pm
Tyler School of Art, Lower Level South B004
Based in Braddock, Pennsylvania, Transformazium is a comprised of four artists—Ruthie Stringer, Dana Bishop-Root, Leslie Stem, and Caledonia Curry. Originally based in New York, Transformazium has worked together on public and socially engaged projects since 2001, relocating to Braddock in 2008. Their practice expanded from issues of the democratization of public space to include the following: “examine systems of value; make room for new systems; use the tools of the artist to call attention to existing wealth and strength; use the established social value of art to amplify voices and direct resources; use art and design methods to meet practical needs for information and communication in our neighborhood; speak to multiple audiences and facilitate communication between neighborhoods and communities.” Transformazium’s experiences living in Braddock have resulted in the art projects Points of Interest and Family Portrait Project, as well as deconstruction education, local farm initiatives, the exploration of creative economic models, the initiation of an Artist in Residency program, a neighborhood Screen Printing Shop, and a opportunities for artists and curators to get involved with the rebuilding of what was once a thriving economic city of over 20,000, and is now a Rust Belt town being redefined by its 2,600 residents. Learn more about Transformazium at transformazium.org.
*Note: this presentation will feature Ruthie Stringer, Dana Bishop-Root and Leslie Stem. A discussion led by graduate students in Philip Glahn's "Theories of Visual Representation" will follow the presentation.
Additional reading:
Braddock, PA website
www.15104.cc
Halpern, Sue, “Mayor of Rust,” New York Times, February 11, 2011.
www.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/magazine/13Fetterman-t.html
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Temple Gallery will participate in several programs related to the current controversy surrounding the removal of an excerpted version of David Wojnarowicz's film A Fire in My Belly from the exhibition Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, on view at the National Portrait Galley in Washington.
Eleven Seconds out of 113 Years: An(ant)tomy of a Conflict
A Lecture with Dr. Jonathan Katz
February 16, 2011, 4 pm
Tyler School of Art, Temple University
12th and Norris Streets, Lower Level, B004
Tyler's Art History Department presents a lecture by Dr. Jonathan Katz, co-curator of the exhibition Hide/Seek and Chair of the Visual Studies Doctoral Program, SUNY, Buffalo. For more information about this lecture, please call (215) 777-9165 or email arthisto@temple.edu.
David Wojnarowicz's A Fire in My Belly
February 14 - 15, 10 am - 5 pm
Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art
Image: Still from David Wojnarowicz, A Fire In My Belly (Film In Progress) and A Fire In My Belly Excerpt, 1986-87. Super 8mm film transferred to video (black and white and color, silent), 13:06 min. and 7:00 min. Courtesy of The Estate of David Wojnarowicz and P.P.O.W Gallery, New York and The Fales Library and Special Collections/ New York University.
Tyler's Department of Art History and Temple Gallery are joined in support of these events by the departments of American Studies; Art and Art Education; the Beasley School of Law; the Center for Humanities at Temple; Faculty Senate Lectures and Forums; Foundations; General Activities Fund; the Graduate Art History Organization; LGBT and Women's Studies; Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture; Tyler Student Life; and Undergraduate Art History Guild.
SURFACE DEPOSIT PROGRAMS
A Gallery Talk with Jane Rendell on Surface Deposit @ Temple Gallery
Thursday, February 24, 12 pm
Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art
Site-Writing: The Architecture of Art Criticism
A Lecture with Jane Rendell
Thursday, February 24, 6 pm
Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art
Lower Level South, B004
Cosponsored by the Department of Architecture, Tyler School of Art
Jane Rendell will read from her new collection of essays, Site-Writing: The Architecture of Art Criticism (published February 2011) against a backdrop of visual images. In Site-Writing, Rendell proposes the idea that the practice of site-writing configures what happens when discussions concerning situatedness and site-specificity extend to involve art and architectural criticism, and the spatial qualities of writing become as important in conveying meaning as the content of the criticism. In operating as mode of a practice, site-writing is a kind of criticism which questions the terms of reference that relate the critic to the work positioned ‘under’ critique, and which instead proposes alternative positions. Rendell thinks of these positions as configurations which write the sites between critic and work, text and reader, including sites which are material, emotional, political and conceptual, as well as remembered, dreamed and imagined.
Professor Jane Rendell is Director of Architecture Research and Vice Dean of Research at the Bartlett, UCL. She is author of Site-Writing (2010), Art and Architecture (2006), The Pursuit of Pleasure (2002) and co-editor of Pattern (2007), Critical Architecture (2007), Spatial Imagination (2005), The Unknown City (2001), Intersections (2000), Gender, Space, Architecture (1999) and Strangely Familiar (1995). Her talks/texts have been commissioned by artists such as Daniel Arsham and Bik Van Der Pol, and galleries like the Hayward, the Serpentine, the Tate and the Whitechapel. She is on the editorial board of ARQ, The Happy Hypocrite, The Issues and Journal of Visual Culture in Britain.
Beyond the Surface: A Conversation Between Art and Architecture
Wednesday, February 2, 2011, 6 pm
Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art
Organized by David Bruce and Alex Fromm
Extending from seminal texts including Rosalind Krauss's "Sculpture in The Expanded Field" and Jane Rendell's "Critical Spatial Practice," Beyond the Surface is a panel discussion aimed at exploring the work of artists and architects engaged in spatial practices. Panelists will include Olympia Kazi, Executive Director of the Van Alen Institute; Donald Kunze, Professor of Architecture and Integrative Arts at Penn State, and Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo of Lead Pencil Studio.
Surface Deposit Film Series @ Temple Gallery
Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo of Lead Pencil Studio selected several films that have been influential to their practice and demonstrate built environments, atmospheres, and other worlds. All screenings will take place in the Exhibitions Seminar Room, located through the Temple Gallery at Tyler School of Art, 12th and Norris Streets, Philadelphia. Refreshments will be served.
Friday, January 21, 12 pm
Miracle in Milan (Vittorio De Sica, 1951, 100 minutes)
Found in a cabbage patch, this tale follows orphan Totò into the home of a kind, adopted mother, and later to an orphanage, and eventually into Milan. Inspiring those around him, Toto is given a magical dove which he uses to grant wishes to those around him. The film won numerous honors, including the Cannes Film Festival Grand Prize.
Friday, January 28, 12 pm
Dark City (Alex Proyas, 1998, 111 minutes)
A man wakes up to discover the world he exists in is controlled by mysterious beings (known as the Strangers) who alter the memories of all of the city’s inhabitants. Struggling to find his identity and unravel the mystery of the Strangers, the dark city is easy to get lost in, as it is a pastiche of different eras of architecture that could almost be any city in a palette of grays, greens and blacks. Dark City was nominated and won several international film awards and was cited by critic Roger Ebert as the best movie of the year.
Monday, January 31, 6 pm
Chungking Express (Kar Wai Wong 1994, 102 minutes)
Dual stories about two lovesick policemen pining for lost love unfold in the Chungking Mansion district of Hong Kong and the restaurant Midnight Express. Symbolism, rich visual textures, and nods to other auteurs, director Kar Wai Wong establishes his own unique style with this cerebral film. Described as both a screwball comedy and gangster thriller, Chungking Express went on to win several Hong Kong Film Awards.
Friday, February 11, 12 pm
Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1983, 125 minutes)
The Russian writer Andrei Gortchakov is nostalgic for home, while researching the life of a famous Russian composer who lived in Italy. His time in Tuscany is inhabited by a mysterious character named Domenico, a mystic or a madman, and the temptation to have an affair with Eugenia, his guide and translator. Nostalghia won several awards at the Cannes Film Festival.
Monday, February 14, 6 pm
The Fifth Element (Luc Besson, 1997, 126 minutes)
Set in New York City in the twenty-third century, flying taxi cab driver Korben Dallas finds himself on a mission to save humanity from the Great Evil, which attempts to destroy life throughout the universe every 5,000 years. With the help of a priest, a singer, an interstellar celebrity, and the personification of the Fifth Element in the form of a human woman, Korben must collect the five elements in time to preserve civilization.
Still from One Week
Friday, February 25, 12 pm
Conical Intersect (Bruno Dewitt and Gordon Matta-Clark, 1975, 18:40)
Gordon Matta-Clark’s contribution to the 1975 Paris Biennale was Conical Intersect, an antimonument using two 17th-century buildings scheduled for demolition to create the void of a twisted cone.
One Week (Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton, 1920, 19 minutes)
A newly wedded couple are given a build-it-yourself house as a wedding present. Unfortunately, the gift poses many challenges, including the malicious renumbering of the packing crates by a rejected suitor, a fierce storm, and pesky train tracks.
Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, 1943, 14 minutes)
An experimental psychological film using a circular narrative, Meshes of the Afternoon follows a young woman as she nears and enters her home and pursues a hooded figure. Using symbolic imagery, different points of view, and creative editing, this surrealist piece has influenced many contemporary filmmakers.
A Lecture with Lead Pencil Studio
Wednesday, November 17, 12 - 1 pm
Tyler School of Art, Temple University
Lower Level South, Room B004
Cosponsored by the Department of Architecture, Tyler School of Art
Working collaboratively on projects since 2002, Lead Pencil Studio's interdisciplinary practice investigates the social and perceptual aspects of spatial conditions. They have received many prestigious awards and grants including the New York Prize by the Van Alen Institute (2009-10), the Artist Trust Fellowship (2009), the Founders Rome Prize in Architecture from the American Academy in Rome (2008), and Creative Capital (2006). They have exhibited their work internationally and in solo exhibitions at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (2011), Boise Art Museum (2008), Weatherspoon Art Museum (2008), and the Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington (2005).
Programs at Temple Gallery are supported in part by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Friends of Temple Gallery, and Temple University's General Activities Fee.
Reception with the artists of Lead Pencil Studio
Friday, December 3, 6 - 8 pm
Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art
Cosponsored by Qdoba Mexican Grill on Broad and Cecil B. Moore
Lecture and Discussion: Yevgeniy Fiks: Post-Soviet Without Shores
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
LECTURE, Paley Lecture Hall, 5:00 PM
Introduction by Temple Gallery guest curator Stamatina Gregory
Russian-born Yevgeniy Fiks discusses the influence of text and politics on his art, which faces head-on the Post-Soviet dialog in the West. Fiks draws influence for many of his politically poignant works from books with projects such as Lenin for Your Library? in which the artist sent V.I. Lenin’s Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism to 100 corporate libraries, documenting and archiving the responses to his mailing. A later project, Ayn Rand in Illustrations, attempts to add a visual component to three of the author’s major books: We the Living, The Fountainhead, and Atlas Shrugged. Join the Libraries and Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art as this intriguing artist shares the process and product of his work.
DISCUSSION, Temple Gallery, 12th and Norris Streets, 6:30 PM
Following his lecture, Yevgeniy Fiks will participate in a public discussion about his work and its relationship to art and politics, Cold-War legacy, and more. Students from Tyler School of Art professor Philip Glahn’s Topics in Contemporary Art course will lead the discussion.
Yevgeniy Fiks: Post-Soviet Without Shores is supported in part by the Friends of Temple Gallery, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and Temple University Libraries.
Gallery Talk: Red Scare and Blacklists: Communism and the Arts
Friday, October 8, 12 - 1 pm
Temple Gallery
Take an in-depth look at Yevgeniy Fiks: Communist Conspiracy in Art Threatens American Museums with Dr. Gerald Silk, Chair of the Art History Department of Tyler School of Art, Temple University. Dr. Silk will discuss some of the historical figures, events, and artists Fiks refers to in this exhibition, including Congressman George Dondero's condemnation of Modern Art and Communism, the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the treatment of political art by museums in relation to the art historical canon, and individual artists such as Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, Diego Rivera, and Joseph Kosuth. Audience members are invited to participate in discussion.
Image: Detail from Yevgeniy Fiks, Stalin's Directive in Modern Art, 2010
Dr. Gerald Silk has written widely about modern and contemporary art and has curated and lectured internationally. He has a particular interest in art and politics and in censorship, controversy and the arts, including editing an issue of Art Journal entitled "Uneasy Pieces: Controversial Works in the History of Art, 1830-1950" and authoring book chapters such as “Censorship and Controversy in the Career of Edward Kienholz," in Suspended License: Essays in the History of Censorship and the Visual Arts, and “’Il Primo Pilota’: Mussolini, Fascist Aeronautical Symbolism, and Imperial Rome,” in Donatello Among the Blackshirts: History and Modernity in the Visual Culture of Fascist Italy.
Red Scare and Blacklists: Communism and the Arts is supported in part by the Friends of Temple Gallery, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and Temple University General Activities Fee.
Communist Tour of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
October 15, 2010, 5:30 pm
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Free with museum admission*
*free museum admission for Tyler School of Art students with ID
A performance by artist Yevgeniy Fiks, taking the form of a tour of the Philadelphia Museum of Art's permanent collection, uncovers connections between Modern artists and the twentieth century Communist movement. Meet in Gallery 161, first floor (Resnick Rotunda), at the entrance of the Modern and Contemporary Art Galleries. Click here for a PDF download of the tour.
Image: Yevgeniy Fiks, Communist Tour of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2010. Image courtesy of the artist.
This program is supported in part by the Friends of Temple Gallery, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. We would like to thank Adelina Vlas, Assistant Curator for Modern and Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, for her support.
Communist Conspiracy in Art Threatens American Museums Film Series
In conjunction with Communist Conspiracy in Art Threatens American Museums, we'll look at three different genres tied to Communism and the Cold-War themes: pro-Soviet films from the early 1940s, Red Scare films from the 1950s and 1960s, and recent works by filmmaker Jim Finn. All screenings will take place at Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art, at 12th and Norris Streets, Philadelphia and begin at 6 pm.
Monday, September 20
Mission To Moscow (Michael Curtiz, 1943, 123 minutes)
Based on the memoir of the U.S. ambassador to Russia, Joseph H. Davies, this controversial drama was produced at the request of Franklin D. Roosevelt in an effort to drum up support for the Soviet Union during World War II. The US and the USSR were comrades during the fight against Hitler and Mission to Moscow is a fascinating look at early American-Soviet relations.
Image: Mission to Moscow still courtesy of Warner Bros.
North Star (Lewis Milestone, 1943, 108 minutes)
Criticized when it was released in 1943 as being a pro-Soviet propaganda film, North Star is a war film about the resistance of Ukrainian villagers, through guerrilla tactics, against the German invaders of Ukraine. The film was rereleased in 1957 under the title of Armored Attack with several scenes deleted including idealized portrayal of Soviet collective farms and references to the 1956 Hungarian Uprising.
Monday, October 4
Introduction and discussion led by Dr. Gerald Silk, Chair, Art History, Tyler School of Art
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel, 1956, 80 min)
Bizarre behavior stirs up trouble in a small California town when people suspect that there may be human clones living amongst them. When released in 1956, this film was widely viewed as a covert indictment of McCarthyism.
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick, 1964, 94 min)
Setting the stage for an impending nuclear Armageddon, this classic black comedy brilliantly skewers the nuclear age and takes passing shots at numerous Cold War attitudes.
Image: Invasion of the Body Snatchers still courtesy of Allied Artists.
Monday, October 18
Introduction and discussion led by Paul Swan, Professor of Film and Media Arts, Temple University
La Trinchera Luminosa del Presidente Gonzalo (Jim Finn, 2007, 60 min)
La Trinchera Luminosa del Presidente Gonzalo is a recreation of one day at the Canto Grande prison in Peru, following women guerrillas from the Maoist Shining Path movement in their morning marches to their bedtime chants. Kept isolated in their own cellblocks, the guerrillas refused to acknowledge that were imprisoned. Their cellblocks were another front in the People's War: "shining trenches of combat". This film shows the intense indoctrination and belief system of the brutal Latin American insurgency.
The Juche Idea (Jim Finn, 2008, 62 min)
This experimental satire examines what happens when a South Korean filmmaker sojourns into communist North Korea to breathe new life into that country's flagging, propaganda-driven movie industry. Believing that cinema can prop up North Korea's Juche (pronounced choo-CHAY) Idea of self-reliance, mad dictator Kim Jong-Il pulls out all the stops to help the young émigré produce appropriate films. Translated as self-reliance, Juche is a hybrid of Confucian and authoritarian Stalinist pseudo-socialism.
Image: Jim Finn, still from La Trinchera Luminosa del Presidente Gonzalo, 2007. Image courtesy of the artist.
This film series is supported in part by the Friends of Temple Gallery, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and Temple University's General Activities Fee. We would like to thank Swank Motion Pictures, Inc. and Video Data Bank for their assistance.
Stamatina Gregory
Thursday, May 6th, 6 pm
Tyler School of Art, Lower Level South B004
Free and open to the public
In conjunction with the Tyler School of Art MFA 2010 Thesis Exhibitions, guest lecturer Stamatina Gregory, an independent curator and critic based in New York, will speak about her curatorial work.
In 2005-2006 she participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program, and from 2007-2009 she was the Whitney Lauder Curatorial Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, where she organized projects including Carlos Motta: The Good Life; Odili Donald Odita: Third Space; Kate Gilmore; and Tavares Strachan: Orthostatic Tolerance.
She has taught art history and writing at Hunter and Baruch Colleges, CUNY, and at the University of Pennsylvania. Her work has been reviewed in Art Info, Art Nexus, Art Papers, Bidoun, The New York Times, The New York Sun, The Philadelphia Enquirer, and The Philadelphia City Paper.
Gregory holds a BA from New York University in European Studies and German, and is a doctoral candidate at The Graduate Center at the City University of New York, writing on contemporary landscape photography, militarism, activism, and the media.
Learn more about her current projects at www.stamatina.net
Image credit: Day 19, Portrait 6, 11 min., Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present, Photo by Marco Anelli. © 2010 Marina Abramovic [0400MOMA0178].
Public Opening of Philagrafika 2010: The Graphic Unconscious
Temple Gallery
Opening: Friday, January 29
2 - 5 pm: Remarks by Curators Sheryl Conkelton and Jose Roca and artists Carl Pope, Francesc Ruiz, Barthélémy Toguo and YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES
Superflex in Conversation with Karyn Olivier
Tuesday, January 26, 6 pm
126 AUDITORIUM / Temple University Architecture building
1947 North 12th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122
Free and open to the public
The Danish artists' group Superflex, participants in The Graphic Unconscious at Temple Gallery, speak about their work and engage in a conversation with artist and Tyler School of Art professor Karyn Olivier. Superflex examines the dynamics and dependencies created by economic systems and develops tools to be used in constructive transformations. Many of their works propose solutions to real problems, such as developing local and efficient alternative fuel sources, or initiating a network of local television stations to directly engage users in the creation of content. This program is supported in part by the Friends of Temple Gallery, the General Activities Fee, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.
YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES
Tuesday, February 2, 6 pm
126 AUDITORIUM / Temple University Architecture building
1947 North 12th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122
Free and open to the public
YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES is a Seoul based web-art group formed in 1998. Its C.E.O., Young-hae Chang (Korea), and its C.I.O., Marc Voge (USA) will discuss their practice and their new piece MY PRETTY PEACENIK created in conjunction with Philagrafika 2010: The Graphic Unconscious at Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art.
YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES is yhchang.com. YHCHI has made work in 16 languages and presented much of it at the following institutions: New Museum, New York; Tate, London; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Whitney Museum, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Getty Center, Los Angeles; the Moderna Museet, Stockholm; the Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona; the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; the Venice Biennial; the Fukuoka Asian Art Triennial; the São Paulo Biennial; the Kitakyushu Biennial; and the Istanbul Biennial. This program is supported in part by the Korea Foundation, Friends of Temple Gallery, the General Activities Fee, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.
A lunchtime chat with Carl Pope and Mari Hulick
Thursday, March 4th, 12 - 1 pm
Exhibitions seminar room, Temple Gallery
Tyler School of Art, 12th and Norris Streets
Space is limited; please RSVP at exhibitions@temple.edu
Free and open to the public
In conjunction with Philagrafika 2010: The Graphic Unconscious at Temple Gallery, artist Carl Pope will present The Wall Remixed: The North Philadelphia Small Business Advertising Campaign along with collaborator and designer Mari Hulick. Bring your lunches and learn about this major billboard campaign on view through March 2010 in North Central Philadelphia.
About The Wall Remixed: The North Philadelphia Small Business Advertising Campaign
Carl Pope’s billboard project brings the scale of public advertising to the small businesses that define the North Philadelphia neighborhood surrounding Temple University. Collaborating with students from the Mural Arts Program and local business owners in North Philadelphia, Pope and Hulick combined the existing visual identities of the businesses with drawings generated by the children to create a visual statement for the neighborhood. By mixing the existing businesses with children's drawings (utilizing local talent and enterprise), the two have helped mark out a visual identity for the area that makes it unique and personal to the neighborhood. While each business maintains it's own identity, the children's drawings now thread the entire neighborhood into a unique whole. The project replaces the marketing images of multinational corporations with resonant images of local businesses by local residents. Insinuating neighborhood anchors with great local significance into these commercial spaces, Pope and Hulick celebrate the dynamics of community and substitutes their productive values for the easy consumption usually offered in these such advertisements.
About the speakers
Carl Pope received his MFA from Indiana State University, and also studied at the prestigious Skowhegan School of Painting. Pope’s work has been widely exhibited including at the Whitney Biennial 2000, the Soap Factory in Minneapolis, MN, Momenta Art, New York, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Renaissance Society in Chicago, as well as in citywide projects including The Mind of Cleveland. Pope was an Assistant Professor at The State University of New York at Stony Brook, The University of Illinois at Chicago, and a Hanes Visiting Lecturer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also was a Fellow at the Humanities Institute at Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland School of Art. He currently lives and works in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Mari Hulick is the Chair of Communication Design at The Cleveland Institute of Art and runs the design consultancy, "the studio", creating Information and Spatial Graphics as well as collateral design. She has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, University of California (Los Angeles), and Parsons School of Design in New York. Her client list includes Houghton Mifflin, The Corcoran Group, The Museum of Natural History in New York, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art and The Internationals Public Schools Campaign.
Print in the Public Sphere
Thursday, April 8
Tyler School of Art, B004
12th and Norris Streets, Lower Level South
Free and open to the Public
Temple Gallery's exhibition Philagrafika 2010: The Graphic Unconscious focuses on print in the public sphere along with issues of accessibility, collaboration, and audience. Sheryl Conkelton, co-curator for The Graphic Unconscious, will talk with artists Swoon and Jordan Seiler about their artwork and its placement beyond the gallery.
About the speakers
Sheryl Conkelton is an independent curator based in Philadelphia. A member of the curatorial team that organized the key exhibitions for Philagrafika 2010, she has held senior curating positions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art and the Henry Art Gallery and, most recently, was Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs at Tyler School of Art.
Jordan Seiler lives and works in New York. Inspired by his surroundings and public spaces, Seiler founded the Public Ad Campaign, which acts on the assumption that public space and the public's interaction with that space is a vital component of a city's health. By visually altering and physically interacting with the public environment, residents become psychologically invested in their community. www.publicadcampaign.com
Swoon lives and works in New York. Her life-size, wheat-pasted prints of people, architecture, and motifs often occupy the building walls of urban neighborhoods. Her recent collaborative projects include the Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea and Miss Rockaway Armada, and she has exhibited her prints and installations internationally, including at the Yerba Buena Center, Brooklyn Museum of Art, P.S. 1, and the Museum of Modern Art.
Image: NPA City Outdoor/Public Ad Campaign Collaboration, Sunset and Parkman Street, Los Angeles 02-12-10. Image courtesy of Public Ad Campaign.
This program is supported in part by the Friends of Temple Gallery, the General Activities Fee, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.
Superflex: Copy Light Sale
Saturday, April 24, 1- 3 pm (in conjunction with the North Philadelphia Arts and Culture Alliance's Treasures of North Philadelphia Open House)
Temple Gallery
Tyler School of Art, Temple University
12th and Norris Streets
Copy Light is a workshop that produces paper-shaded hanging lamps, each printed with the image of a famous copyrighted lamp design. Conceptually, the lights occupy a position somewhere between an original and a copy, in the words of the artists "an in-between mode of working that has the potential to disrupt convention." Like earlier Superflex projects, Copy Light has been conceived to provoke thinking about proprietary rights and the exclusions and contradictions that they produce.
Proceeds will go to the Electronic Frontier Foundation http://www.eff.org/
$25 PER LAMP. CASH ONLY; ALL SALES ARE FINAL.
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Public Opening
Thursday, October 1, 6 - 8 pm
Temple Gallery, 12th and Norris Streets, Philadelphia
Lecture by Prize Winner
Friday, October 23, 1 pm
Tyler School of Art, Lower Level B04, Philadelphia
Space is limited; RSVP at myowlspace.com
Docent Tours
Every Friday in October at 12pm
Join Stacey Wujcik, a Tyler Master of Arts & Art History candidate, for an in-depth look at the Wolgin Prize Exhibition artworks and each artist's practices. Meet at the front desk of Temple Gallery. The guided tour is approximately 20 minutes.
SANFORD BIGGERS: FILM SERIES
Sanford Biggers selected four films to be screened in conjunction with his Temple Gallery exhibition. These films approach African American identity in American history, from the 1930s through the present day, through cultural mediums including music, dance, film and religion. Screenings take place Wednesdays at 7pm and are free.
September 30
Strange Fruit, 2002 (57 minutes)
Temple University, Paley Library, Lecture Hall
Introduction by Diane Turner, Curator of the Charles L. Blockson Collection, Temple University
The documentary Strange Fruit explores the history and legacy of its namesake song made famous by Billie Holiday. The film follows this influential protest song's evolution and tells the story of America's radical past and the forces that would lead to the Civil Rights Movement.October 7
How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It), 2006 (85 minutes)
Temple University, Paley Library, Lecture Hall
Introduction by Diane Turner, Curator of the Charles L. Blockson Collection, Temple University
How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It) is a documentary chronicling the life and career of Melvin Van Peebles, who is best known for his film "Sweet Sweetback's Badasssss Song" (1971). This biography shows him as father, lover, political provocateur, artist, businessman, trickster and intellectual. It is a record of American racism and one man's crafty, angry and resourceful responses to it.October 14
Elevator to the Gallows (Ascenseur Pour L'echafaud), 1957 (92 minutes)
Tyler School of Art, Lower Level, B04
Cohosted by STOOP, Tyler School of Art
Louis Malle's Elevator to the Gallows or Ascenseur Pour L'echafaud is a "film noir" suspense thriller set to a Miles Davis soundtrack. A man who has fallen in love with his boss' wife plans a murder to look like suicide so he can be with his love, but nothing goes as planned.October 28
Kim Ki-duk's Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring, 2003 (103 minutes)
Temple University, Paley Library, Lecture Hall
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring from writer, director and star Kim Ki-duk, tells a story about the human spirit using each season to represent a stage in the main character's life, moving from innocence, through love and evil, to enlightenment and finally ending with rebirth.
P.opular S.ky (section ish):
PANEL DISCUSSION ON THE WORK OF RYAN TRECARTIN
Wednesday, October 7, 5:30 pm
Temple University, Paley Library, Lecture Hall
Ryan Trecartin's artwork advances understandings of post-millennial technology, narrative and identity. The combination of assaultive, nearly impenetrable avant-garde logics and equally outlandish, virtuoso uses of color, form, drama and montage produces a sublime, stream-of-consciousness effect in his films that feels bewilderingly true to life. Discussed from a variety of perspectives, scholars and artists will examine issues of social media and networks; gender and aesthetic themes in video art; and more. Participants include Temple University's Gerard Brown, Chair of Foundations, Tyler School of Art (moderator); Scott Gratson, Director of the Communications Program and SCT Undergraduate Studies; Aaron Smuts, Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy; Elisabeth Subrin, Assistant Professor in the Department of Film and Media Arts; and Andrew Suggs, Executive Director of Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia.
The invisible enemy should not exist:
PANEL DISCUSSION ON THE WORK OF MICHAEL RAKOWITZ
Thursday, October 15, 5:30 pm
Temple University, Paley Library, Lecture Hall
Michael Rakowitz's practice is characterized by its exploration of and symbolic interventions with problematic urban situations. The invisible enemy should not exist, the focus of Rakowitz's exhibition at Temple Gallery, is an intricate narrative discussing the objects stolen from the National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad in the aftermath of the US invasion of April 2003. Panel participants include Temple University's Susan Feagin, Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Temple University and Editor of The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism; Philip Glahn, Assistant Professor in the Department of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture, Tyler School of Art; Dustin Kidd, Assistant Professor, Sociology; and Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss, Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture, Tyler School of Art.
EVENT SPACE@TEMPLE GALLERY
Ossatura
May 15, 2009 8pm
Temple Gallery, 259 N. Third Street, Old City Philadelphia
Ossatura, an experimental music and media ensemble from Rome, features Elio Martusciello (electronics and video), Fabrizio Spera (percussion and electronics), and Luca Venitucci (accordion and electronics). Their music encompasses standard and unconventional practices and their performances incorporate notated and improvised music. Their approach to sound and structure is creates a powerful and sensuous experience. For this performance they will joined by Gene Coleman (bass clarinet) and Evan Lipson (double bass). Produced in collaboration with Soundfield. Ossatura's concerts in the USA are promoted by Federazione CEMAT (SONORA), supported by the Italian Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Ministry for Cultural Affairs - Department for Performing Arts.
"Publics Stimulus Packages, Talk 1"
May 2, 2009 4 - 6 pm
Temple Gallery, 259 N. Third Street, Old City Philadelphia
In a panel moderated by Philip Glahn, Assistant Professor at Tyler School of Art, speakers Aaron Levy, Executive Director of the Slought Foundation; Scott Shall, Assistant Professor of Architecture at Tyler School of Art and artist whose city-wide installation, "Public Projections" opens at AIA on May 1; and Lily Yeh, Founding Director of Barefoot Artists, will discuss artistic public interventions and the ways in which they stimulate unpredictable relations and the participation of new and different audiences. This event is a collaboration with the International design Clinic and Working Arts Laboratories and has been funded by the Provost's Commission on the Arts/Office of the Provost, Temple University.
Act/Artefact
May 1, 2009 7 pm
Temple Gallery, 259 N. Third Street, Old City Philadelphia
This salon and exhibition feature images, language and performance constellated around the concept of "Artefact: the displaced elements of a technological age." The evening uses art to forge a multidisciplinary discourse on the ways meanings are manufactured, refracted and distorted through technological constructions. Participants include artists and writers of Working Arts Laboratory and others in the Temple University community who are exploring multimedia, multicultural and polyvocal approaches to the predicaments of our time. With Danny Snelson, Ellen Zweig, Rod Coover, Sarah Drury and special guests. Funded in part by Working Arts Laboratories.
Termite TV Installations
April 22 - 25, 2009 11 am - 6 pm
Temple Gallery, 259 N. Third Street, Old City Philadelphia
These installations will present recent selections from the collective's collage style TV shows and video installations of web projects Walk Philly and Life Stories. Walk Philly is a mobile media project with video walking tours that can be downloaded onto Ipods or Iphones for viewers to follow along in the actual location. Life Stories features people across the country telling their life story in five minutes. Installations designed by: John Petit, Sara Zia Ebrahimi, Deborah Rudman, Anula Shetty, Michael Kuetemeyer, Laura Deutch, Laska Jimsen, Joanna Raczynska, Dorothea Braemer, Carl Lee, Q Quintero & Meg Knowles.
Refuge/Refugee: Readings, Slide Shows, Soundscapes, and Performances
April 18, 2009 2 pm
Temple Gallery, 259 N. Third Street, Old City Philadelphia
A book launch for Refuge/Refugee, edited by Jena Osman. Poet/essayist Emily Abendroth will speak about the Lake Mattamuskeet Wildlife Refuge in North Carolina; artist Amze Emmons will present visual research on refugee architecture. Jena Osman will introduce with comments on the John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum.
Chai Found Music Workshop (Taiwan) with Ensemble Naomnesia (Philadelphia)
April 17, 2009 8 pm
Temple Gallery, 259 N. Third Street, Old City Philadelphia
This program features Chai Found Music Workshop in collaboration with Ensemble Noamnesia for the performance of Gene Coleman's "Future City", a work that creates a portrait in sound and vision of a virtual city. Chai Found Music is a Chinese Music Ensemble that performs and promotes traditional Chinese music, music and other musical forms, including contemporary music and media compositions by artists from Asia, the US and Europe. Ensemble Noamnesia is a group of ten musicians who work on a project-by-project basis playing new and experimental music in Philadelphia, Chicago, and New York.
Soundfield and Perpetual Movement and Sound
April 3, 2009 9 pm
Temple Gallery, 259 N. Third Street, Old City Philadelphia
An evening of music, movement and projected imagery, this sound art event presents some of Philadelphia's best interdisciplinary artists. The artists featured include the musicians Helena Espvall and Audrey Chen (cellos), Gene Coleman (bass clarinet) and Alban Bailly (guitar), and the members of Perpetual Movement and Sound: Emily Sweeney, Rebecca Patek, Zornitsa Stoyanova and Jil Stifel (movement), Bilwa and Mikronesia (microphones and electronics) and John J.H. Phillips (video projections).
STUDENT PROGRAMS
Produce Exhibitions: Lecture with Nick Paparone and Jamie Dillon
April 2, 2009, 11 am
Tyler School of Art, Lower Level B04
FIELD REPORTS: DOCUMENTS AND STRATEGIES FROM LAND ARTS OF THE AMERICAN WEST PUBLIC PROGRAMS
Land Arts Film Series
"Wednesday, February 25, 2009 6 pm
Tyler School of Art, Lower Level South, B04
Introduction by Jenna Price and Sarah Muehlbauer, participants from Performing Land Arts: The
Philadelphia Experiment.
ROBERT SMITHSON
Spiral Jetty
1970, 35 min, color, sound
NANCY HOLT
Sun Tunnels
1978, 26:31 min, color, sound, 16 mm film on video
"Monday, February 23, 2009 6 pm
Tyler School of Art, Lower Level South, B04
Introduction by Dr. Laura Toran, Weeks Chair in Environmental Geology, Temple University Department of Earth and Environmental Science
ART FROM A CHANGING ARCTIC
Directed by David Hinton, 2005, 60 minutes
"Thursday, February 19, 2009 6pm
Tyler School of Art, Lower Level South, B04
Introduction by Sandra McDade, Director, Office of Sustainability
CYNTHIA HOOPER
Opportunistic Vistas: 3 Videos About Industry
HEATHER ROGERS
Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage
2002, 19 minutes
A Lecture by Winifred Lutz
Tuesday, February 17, 2009 6 PM
Tyler School of Art, 2001 N. 13th Street, Room B004, Philadelphia
Winifred Lutz has created major site-integrated sculptural installations and permanent public works in the United States and Europe. Lutz has been the recipient of numerous awards and her work is represented in museum and private collections nationally.
Measures of Time, Travel, and Space: Exploring Land Arts of the American West
A Lecture by Chris Taylor
Wednesday, February 4, 6 PM
Temple University, Engineering Architecture Building, 1947 N. 12th Street, Room 126, Philadelphia
Chris Taylor is a Harvard-trained architect and the director of Land Arts of the American West at Texas Tech University, a program he has developed with Bill Gilbert of the University of New Mexico since 2002.
A Lecture by Kate Wingert-Playdon
Monday, January 12, 6pm
Temple Gallery, 259 N. Third Street, Philadelphia
Kate Wingert-Playdon is an architect with research and design areas addressing overlaps of architecture, site, and settlement. Her current work includes both research and on-site work focused on the role of community, the underlying cultural manifestation of place and the particularity of site.
Interpreting Anthropogeomorphology:
Programs and Projects of the Center for Land Use Interpretation
A Lecture by Matthew Coolidge
Friday, January 9, 6 PM
Matthew Coolidge, Founder and Director of Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) in Los Angeles, will talk about the current and recent activities of CLUI, and will discuss the methodology of examining culture by describing the physical features of the landscape.
Cosponsored by Temple University's Department of Geography and Urban Studies.
A Lecture by Thaddeus Squire
December 4, 6pm
Temple Gallery, 259 N. Third Street, Philadelphia
A curator, writer, scholar, conductor, sound artist, producer and Director and Founder of Peregrine Arts, Thaddeus Squire will discuss art and place, including transferable art practice, revising historical site-specific works, and the impact of site-specific works.
VOLUME ATTEMPTS: THE SPACE OF BOOKS PUBLIC PROGRAMS
Making the Book: A Documentary by Mélanie Scarciglia
Thursday, October 16, 7 pm
Temple Gallery
Join Temple Gallery for an informal talk on book design and publishing practice with Volume Attempts organizer Conny Purtill, a partner in the design firm Purtill Family Business. Recent projects by Purtill include the Whitney Biennial 2006 catalogue, and the publication series Matthew Ritchie: Incomplete Projects 01-07, which won the category of graphics in I.D. Magazine's 53rd Annual Design Awards for 2007. Clients include the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, Matthew Marks Gallery and more. Following the talk, Temple Gallery will premiere the documentary Making the Book. Created and produced by onestar press co-founder Mélanie Scarciglia, Making the Book 2002-2008, documents the projects by some of the artists that comprise the collection of onestar press.
Making the Book: A Documentary by Mélanie Scarciglia, 2002-2008
Wednesday, October 15, 7 PM
Tyler School of Art, President's Hall, Elkins Park
In conjunction with the exhibition Volume Attempts: The Space of Books, Temple Gallery is proud to premiere the documentary Making the Book. Created and produced by onestar press co-founder Mélanie Scarciglia, Making the Book documents the projects by some of the artists that comprise the collection of onestar press.
Inside Artist Books: the Collection of Paley and Tyler School of Art Libraries
Tuesday, October 7, 2008 6 PM
Temple Gallery
Presented in collaboration with Volume Attempts: The Space of Books at Temple Gallery, Tom Whitehead, Paley Library's Curator of Special Collections, and Andrea Goldstein, from Tyler School of Art Library will talk about significant books from their collections, and lead a discussion about the form and its history.
The Blessed Mutation and other zines: A Lecture with William Pym
Thursday, September 17, 6 pm
Temple Gallery
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Distribution of zines at Megawords Storefront
11th and Cherry Sreets
Art writer, curator and artist William Pym will speak on the zine, examining the physicality and assemblage of these publications, as well as the life they lead with their readers. Pym will present his own work, The Blessed Mutation, an examination of the force of male adolescent hormonal needs and the young zine writer. The event will continue at Megawords Storefront, located on the corner of 11th and Cherry Streets, where Max G. Morton, author of Indestructible Wolves of the Apocalypse Junkyard, and Matthias "˜Wolfboy' Connor, Life's Too Long, will distribute their own zines.
Matthew J. Bakkom: "Collective Investigation"
Saturday, June 7, 2008, 3 PM
Temple Gallery
Performed at various venues, including the Walker Art Center, "Collective Investigation" is a project that allows audiences to develop a collective method of looking at texts and select interesting or unusual bits of text or images, ending with a semi-guided group presentation.
Matthew Bakkom, an artist who lives and works in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has exhibited internationally and presented performances since 1995. A participant in the Whitney Independent Study Program in 1999, he has had solo exhibitions at the Queens Museum of Art and Artists Space, and has participated in group exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia and at The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
Pierre Leguillon: SLIDESHOW/SOIKETHPW/BOOKSTOPS
Friday and Saturday, June 6 and 7, 2008, 8 and 5 pm
Temple Gallery
Pierre Leguillon is an artist and critic based in Paris, France. He has screened Diaporama since 1993 around the world, including at La Maison Rouge, Paris; Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam; Kunst-Werke, Berlin; and Future Academy, Vistar, Bangalore, India.
MFA 2008 THESIS EXHIBITIONS PUBLIC PROGRAM
Ali Subotnick
April 3rd, 2008, 6 pm
Tyler School of Art, Presidents Hall, 7725 Penrose Avenue, Elkins Park, PA.
In conjunction with the MFA Thesis Exhibitions, Ali Subotnick, Associate Curator at LA's Hammer Museum, will participate in a Q&A. Her many accomplishments include cofounding the Wrong Gallery in New York, curating the 4th Berlin Biennale and founding editor of Charlie magazine, as well as contributing to Frieze, Parkett, Art News, and more.
DAMIAN MOPPETT: AFTER THE FALL PUBLIC PROGRAMS
A Conversation with Damian Moppett and Philip Glahn
Tuesday February 12th, at 5:30 PM
Presidents Hall at Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA
Damian Moppett is an artist based in Vancouver, Canada. He has shown his work extensively throughout Canada as well as internationally. His investigations encompass a wide array of modern, late modern and postmodern artistic practices. Both playfully and with considerable intellectual rigor, his studio-based projects have proposed an unlikely, handmade nineteenth-century antecedent. Philip Glahn is Assistant Professor of Critical Studies and Aesthetics in the Department of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture at Tyler School of Art.
STUDENT PROGRAMS
Produce Exhibitions: Zoe Strauss lecture
November 1, 2007
Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park
RE:PRINT RE:PRESENT RE:VIEW PUBLIC PROGRAMS
Exhibition Opening & Panel Discussion: Homage to Love and Memory
A Site-Specific Installation by Rachid Koraïchi
Saturday, October 13th, 1 - 3 pm
Church of the Advocate, 1801 W. Diamond Street, Philadelphia, PA
Panel includes: Salah Hassan, Curator; Kellie Jones, Art Historian; Rachid Koraïchi, Artist; Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Artist. Moderated by: Helen Shannon, Director of the Museum Education Program at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. In conjunction with Philagrafika.
Reception & Jazz Performance: Corner/Opera. Rethinking a Site.
A Site-Specific Installation by Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons
Saturday, October 13th, 4 - 8 pm
Paul Robeson House, 4951 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA
An intimate musical performance surrounded by Campos-Pons' installation. A jazz quartet will perform an original composition by Neil Leonard along with interpretations of songs by Paul Robeson.
Gallery Talk with Pepón Osorio
Saturday, October 20th, 2-3pm
Temple Gallery, 259 N. 3rd Street, Old City, Philadelphia, PA
Join artist Pepón Osorio as he reflects on Re:Print Re:Present Re:View and uses the exhibition as a springboard for a larger discussion of art, culture and his own artistic practice. Pepón Osorio is an award-winning artist and a professor at Tyler School of Art. His art is rooted in his experiences as a boy growing up in Puerto Rico, as a social worker in the Bronx and, now, as an artist living in Philadelphia.
Yevgeniy Fiks: Communist Conspiracy in Art Threatens American Museums
Curated by Stamatina Gregory
September 8 – November 6, 2010
Taking its title from a 1952 quote by former Michigan Congressman George A. Dondero—best known for his widely publicized claims that modern art was a Communist plot hatched to bring down the US—this exhibition explores the historical ties between modern art and twentieth-century communist movements. Comprising prints, drawings, sculpture, and reenacted speeches, Fiks’ installation imagines an artistic trajectory located between fact and fiction, between accusations from Washington and directives from Moscow, posing questions on the fundamental relationship between Communism and Modernism. Click here to visit the exhibition homepage.
Yevgeniy Fiks: Communist Conspiracy in Art Threatens American Museums Gallery Guide is available. Click here for a PDF download.
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March 24 - May 15, 2010
Temple University’s Tyler School of Art MFA thesis exhibitions are the culmination of each student’s two-year career at Tyler and represents, for many, their first professional one-person exhibition. The series includes students from all Tyler departments and an array of media: painting, sculpture, glass, printmaking, metals, graphic design, fibers, photography, ceramics, and more. **Please note that these exhibitions will be taking place at both Tyler School of Art and off-campus in Northern Liberties.**
Images: top, Strauss Bourque-LaFrance, Night Stick, 2010, installation view, variable dimensions. Image courtesy of the artist. Middle: Sarah Muehlbauer, Video Stills from ( PARA ), performance/video, 2009, dimensions variable. Image courtesy of the artist. Bottom: Lauren Dombrowiak and Rehmatullah Jaghoori at Tower Projects, March 31 - April 3, 2010. Image courtesy of Stuart Lorimer.
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Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Temple University
January 29 – April 11, 2010
Hours: Wed - Sat, 10am - 6pm*
*additional hours:
Sunday: January 31 (10am - 6pm), February 21 (10am - 4pm), and April 11 (10am - 6pm)
Friday: March 5, 26 and April 9 (until 8 pm)
The Graphic Unconscious is the core exhibition of Philagrafika 2010, Philadelphia's international festival celebrating print in contemporary art. Multi-sited, The Graphic Unconscious is at the following five venues: Moore College of Art & Design; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA); Philadelphia Museum of Art; The Print Center; and Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art.
Temple Gallery features the following artists: Thomas Kilpper (Germany), Carl Pope, (U.S., New York), Francesc Ruiz (Spain), Superflex (Denmark), Swoon (U.S., New York), Barthélémy Toguo (Cameroon/France), and YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES (Korea).
The history of print is intertwined with the history of public debate and an idea of shared or common public space. In the modern period, this common, public sphere was conceived of as a universal and rational space, capable of generating and mobilizing public opinion. More recently, with the development of social media and the shifting economies of globalism and its attendant manifestations, the public sphere can be understood as fragmented. Rather than a pre-existing, coherent space, it is an arena of different, overlapping social experiences and discourses, articulated through the continuous activity of publics and counter-publics.
At first glance, the works of Carl Pope and Francesc Ruiz may seem simply to provide public situations for hidden histories and marginalized populations (moving them from a state of invisibility to one of publicity), yet the discursive nature of their activist projects also proposes that these familiar objects—billboards and magazines—are avenues for participation as well as spectatorship. The projects of Thomas Kilpper and Superflex use the labor of making to articulate and open up for participation an opposition to dominant discourses and publicity structures: Kilpper literally inscribed a different, complex narrative of competing experiences into the material of an historic place, while Superflex challenges the neutral passivity of the gallery’s public space with a factory to provoke debate about property and ownership. The commanding spectacle of YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES engages our discrete reading imaginations in an expansive experience of cinematic dimension and dynamics, while the projects of Bartélémy Toguo and Swoon restore individuality and intimacy as invigorating public expressions of the unconscious and the local.
In addition to the forms and materials of printmaking, its dynamics and ethics—collaboration, communication, accessibility—support these new considerations of public-ness. The artists represented by the works in and around Temple Gallery have this in common; they have engaged print as a basis for their demonstrations of difference from official and exclusive narratives and structures. They have created interventions that not only provide entry points into public debate but open up new collectivities and flows in the spaces of public representation and the possibility of powerful new social experiences.
Sheryl Conkelton
Co-Curator, Philagrafika 2010
Thomas Kilpper
Germany; born Stuttgart, 1956; lives and works in Berlin.
State of Control—Out of Control, 2009
Video documentation
For State of Control—Out of Control, Kilpper used a floor at the former German Democratic Republic Ministry for State Security (also known as the Stasi) to carve a matrix for a huge composite print that reveals a history of surveillance in East Germany from the Nazi period to the present. Kilpper chose an emotional aspect of the reunification of the two Germanys by focusing on and reimagining history in this location where official East German narratives were constructed and enforced. Both the carved and inked floor and the component prints (which are installed like banners and show portraits, dramatic scenes and texts) propose a different and more complex history—fragmented, fragile and constantly shifting. Kilpper’s work expands political dialogue, not only to include previously excluded voices at a local level but also to integrate these stories into an international history of resistance.
Throughout his career, Thomas Kilpper has engaged history and the public sphere with artistic interventions that reveal hidden or obscured political and social significances. He immerses himself in research to create pictures of histories more complicated than official narratives. He conceives his works as installations or performances to develop the large-scale visibility that provokes public dialogue. Kilpper works with teams of assistants, using heavy tools to coax images from wood and then makes very large prints that achieve public and even monumental scale.
Additional support for Thomas Kilpper at Temple Gallery was provided by Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (IFA).
Carl Pope
United States; born Cleveland, Ohio, 1961; lives and works in Indianapolis.
The Wall Remixed: The North Philadelphia Small Business Advertising Campaign
Carl Pope and Mari Hulick with Homer Jackson
Billboards in various locations across Philadelphia during March 2010
Carl Pope’s billboard project brings the scale of public advertising to the small businesses that define the North Philadelphia neighborhood surrounding Temple University. Collaborating with students from the Mural Arts Program, he worked with business owners in North Philadelphia to develop a brand for each as well as advertising materials. He then developed generated large-scale designs for billboard ads, incorporating art made by the students. The project replaces the marketing images of multinational corporations with resonant images of local businesses by local residents. Insinuating neighborhood anchors with great local significance into these commercial spaces, Pope celebrates the dynamics of community and substitutes their productive values for the easy consumption usually offered in these such advertisements.
Engaging received ideas, prejudices, local humor and other imaginaries generated by printed ephemera, Pope develops his long-term projects in relationship to specific locations, talking with local people and uncovering community issues that inform his art. Taking existing forms such as the billboard, the broadside and the letterpress poster, Pope animates them with a cacophony of individualized and often opposing voices, transcribing local expressions as a complicated poetics that defines the public sphere.
Maps of the locations of The Wall Remixed: The North Philadelphia Small Business Advertising Campaign are available in the gallery or by clicking here (PDF).
This project was organized as part of Philagrafika 2010: The Graphic Unconscious in collaboration with Philagrafika and the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program. Additional support for Carl Pope was provided by City of Philadelphia Department of Human Services as well as The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The National Endowment for the Arts and Clear Channel.
Francesc Ruiz
Spain; born Barcelona, 1971; lives and works in Barcelona.
Newsstand, 2010
Wood, printed magazines and newspapers
Francesc Ruiz sees the local newsstand as a place to make new discoveries. In Newsstand, 2010, the arrayed magazines and periodicals construct serendipitous and compelling narratives; each is, in Ruiz’s words, both “a sculpture and an expanded comic.” Following a period of research in Philadelphia, Ruiz created dozens of covers for imaginary periodicals about the city. Arranged in a kiosk designed after a Philly newsstand, the covers reveal details about the city’s public life as well as generate new imaginaries for it.
Ruiz’s ongoing subject is urban subcultures, and his works activate the ideologies and psychologies that he discovers in the course of his research. Utilizing popular-culture idioms, especially comics, Francesc Ruiz creates subjective commentaries that explore narrative models and their distribution through public forms (billboards, advertising, magazines, the Internet). His works, which often incorporate performative elements, offer rich syntheses of drawings, photographs, printed materials and found imagery—collages that produce fantastical maps of social experience.
Additional support for Francesc Ruiz at Temple Gallery was provided by the State Corporation for Spanish Cultural Action Abroad (SEACEX) and the Directorate General for Cultural and Scientific Relations with the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Superflex
Denmark; a Copenhagen-based art collaborative formed in 1993 by Jakob Fenger, Rasmus
Neilsen and Bjørnstjerne Christiansen.
Copy Light, 2008/2010
Copy Light is a workshop that produces paper-shaded hanging lamps, each printed with the image of a famous copyrighted lamp design. The lights are constructed by students in the Tyler Foundations program, and hung in the gallery as they are made, gradually filling and illuminating the space. Conceptually, the lights occupy a position somewhere between an original and a copy, in the words of the artists “an in-between mode of working that has the potential to disrupt convention.” Like earlier Superflex projects, Copy Light has been conceived to provoke thinking about proprietary rights and the exclusions and contradictions that they produce.
In all of their projects Superflex examines the dynamics and dependencies created by economic systems and develops tools to be used in constructive transformations. The artists propose challenges to entrenched ways of thinking about various kinds of capital, as they say: not with “traditional critiques but with projects that expose the contemporary consciousness and our evolving relationship to global consumerism, environmentalism, the Internet and copyright.” Many of their works propose solutions to real problems, such as developing local and efficient alternative fuel sources, or initiating a network of local television stations to directly engage users in the creation of content. These socially conscious actions are liberatory rather than utopian, intended to produce individual and collective change, with the projects functioning as replicable models and tools made available through the free distribution of instructions.
Concept developed in collaboration with Copenhagen Brains. Cube design in collaboration with Blendwerk.
Additional support for Superflex at Temple Gallery was provided by the Danish Arts Council Committee for International Visual Art.
Swoon (Caledonia Curry)
United States; born Daytona Beach, Florida, 1977. Lives and works in New York.
Untitled, 2010
Woodcut prints
In different locations around North Philadelphia, Swoon has installed printed paper figures, meant to be discovered by accident. She surreptiously installs them and leaves them to be acted upon by their surroundings, to disintegrate and disappear in a process of morphing, ragtag beauty. Swoon draws her figures from her own experience, using her friends and people she observes around her as her subjects. The prints are made from life-size matrices; Swoon sometimes prints them by walking on the paper pressed to the carved surfaces. The papers are often also cut, providing loose ends that move in the air and animate their subject. They are gently provocative reminders that artifice and art can be found anywhere and everywhere. They are, as Swoon says, “a moment of recognition, a wink from another human presence which is there and not there.”
Swoon, whose life-size figurative prints first brought her art-world attention, works outside art’s usual situations and locations. She has pursued expansive collaborations and, in each, the process—from conceptualization through production—is predicated on the idea of art as an immersive, provocative and transformative experience for its participants. Although Swoon’s aesthetics can be seen as an outgrowth of street art, her engagement with the ethical aspects of art-making manifest a closer kinship to the idealism of off-grid, barter-based cultures and economies based on sharing. The impact of Swoon’s work resides in shared but individual experiences and awareness; these prints charge public space with new, alternative stories of community.
Maps of the locations of Swoon’s wheatpasted prints in North Philadelphia are available in the gallery or by clicking here (PDF).
Barthélémy Toguo
Cameroon; born M’Balmayo, 1967; lives and works in Paris and Bandjoun, Cameroon.
Heart Beat (Philadelphia), 2008/2010
Marked newspapers, printed cardboard, digital prints
A project well suited to installation in different places, Heart Beat examines the usefulness of information while proposing new imaginaries that enhance, contradict or reinvent. Responding to what he sees as information overload, Toguo, working with Tyler students, has marked up pages of the local newspaper to alter the local public discourse and a narrative “of record,” to remake and reclaim it as something differently meaningful. The gathered and altered materials allude to multiple simultaneous narratives and lived realities that exist as signs in the printed matter that surrounds us. The drawings draw attention to Toguo’s artistic presence, and manifest his role as the author of this experience. The photographic portraits represent leaders in all walks of life from the local neighborhood, drawing attention to their authorial presence and referencing the community in which this project is embedded.
Barthélémy Toguo’s art, which spans performance, installation, sculpture, painting and printmaking, engages personal and political geographies in the context of global migrations and cultural confrontations. Toguo is interested in individual perspective as it is bombarded with information and difference, and many of his works trace travel or transitions that bring new experiences and generate new narratives. He uses accumulations of objects and images to present these intersections, with his own drawings and paintings sometimes incorporated as playful counterpoint. His works are often theatrical and whimsical (freely drawn figures, oversized ordinary objects) as if to underscore optimism and human potential.
YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES
A Seoul-based Web art group formed in 2000 by Young-hae Chang and Marc
Voge.
My Pretty Peacenik, 2010
Original text and music soundtrack, HD QuickTime movie, scalable dimensions.
Running time: 16 min 04 sec.
This projected digital video features YHCHI’s signature animated type to offer a narrative about violence and poetry. The artists describe it this way: “It's about getting beat up in the street, watching the world fall apart, and wondering why turning the other cheek doesn't get you the girl. It's about bad behavior and how the public loves it in artists and poets. It's about how the smart guys have fucked up and the tough guys have no credibility, yet they have clout. Which leaves the artists and poets, who are lovable, irresponsible, harmless lugs. Or something like that.”
Using mostly jazz musical forms, a plain typeface (Monaco) and Flash animation technology, Chang and Voge have built a body of Web-based works that present seductive, acerbic and sophisticated narratives. Clicking on a title or a link activates a story that unfurls as type in the browser window, each work experienced at its own pace without stopping, providing an experience somewhere between a reading and watching a movie. Their work dispenses with the usual interactivity and other characteristics of Web-based media; most works are offered in several languages, and the sociopolitical consciousness of the text is emphasized via the screen’s material effects—type size and weight, velocity, and duration. The works engage modernist structures, the intelligibility of language, clashes of cultures and notions of text and subtext, and they both evoke and update print-based experiences. Their archived projects can be viewed at yhchang.com.
Additional support for YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES at Temple Gallery was provided by The Korea Foundation.
Major program support for The Graphic Unconscious was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support for artists projects at Temple Gallery were provided by the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) for Thomas Kilpper; the Danish Arts Council Committee for International Visual Art for Superflex; and the State Corporation for Spanish Cultural Action Abroad (SEACEX) and the Directorate General for Cultural and Scientific Relations with the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Francesc Ruiz.
Learn more about Philagrafika by visiting www.philagrafika2010.org.
October 1 - November 14, 2009
Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Temple University
Opening: Thursday, October 1, 6 - 8 pm
This annual award and exhibition showcases three emerging artists nominated by a jury of international art professionals. The inaugural exhibition features works by Sanford Biggers, Michael Rakowitz and Ryan Trecartin.
Click here to learn about more about the award and exhibition.
This on-line exhibition brings together artistic and critical projects that are establishing new imaginaries in cities undergoing rapid changes generated by globalization's dynamics. The site examines the role of photography, video and web-based imagery in the context of rapidly changing social, economic and political circumstances. In this first version of the project's website, sixteen artist pages present new manifestations of urban localities in five cities: Bangalore, Delhi, Durban, Johannesburg and Mumbai. The website also includes writings on each city as well as critical essays that develop theoretical and practical critiques of these multi-sited practices and their contexts. Curated by Sheryl Conkelton.
MFA Thesis Exhibitions 2009
March 18 - May 9, 2009
Temple Gallery
12th and Norris Streets, Philadelphia
Temple University's Tyler School of Art announces a series of solo Masters of Fine Arts thesis exhibitions. The thesis exhibitions are the culmination of each student's two-year career at Tyler and represents, for many, their first professional one-person exhibition. The series includes students from all Tyler departments and an array of media: painting, sculpture, glass, printmaking, metals, graphic design, fibers, photography, ceramics, and more.
Field Reports: Documents and Strategies from Land Arts of the American West
November 22, 2008 - February 28, 2009
Temple Gallery
259 N. 3rd Street, Philadelphia
Field Reports examines new developments in the study of landscape with documents and strategies produced by "Land Arts of the American West," a field program that combines art practices with the broader overlays of ecology, archeology, geography, performance, architecture, and science. Creating work both on site and in the studio, these interdisciplinary investigations encompass the natural forces that shape the land and the social and cultural dynamics that define place. This exhibition, which will include documents, photographs and videos, was organized by Chris Taylor, director of Land Arts of the American West at Texas Tech University. To learn more about the Land Arts program, visit www.landarts.org.
Performing Land Arts: The Philadelphia Experiment
January 16 - February 28, 2009
Temple Gallery, 259 N. 3rd Street
In conjunction with Field Reports: Documents and Strategies from Land Arts of the American West, exhibition organizer Chris Taylor and Kate Wingert-Playdon, a professor of architecture, Tyler School of Art, will work with university students to examine Philadelphia as a landscape and an interpretative site. For a week in January, the group will participate in a charrette, putting the working methods of Land Arts into action in Philadelphia. Participants will work collaboratively and on their own individual projects. Among the guest speakers will be Matthew Coolidge, Director of the Center for Land Use Interpretation in Los Angeles.
Students:
Gretchen Batcheller, Temple University, Fine Arts
Andrea Marie DeVico, Temple University, Architecture
Marisa A. Lopez, Temple University, Architecture
Sarah Muehlbauer, Temple University, Fine Arts
Jess Perlitz, Temple University, Fine Arts
Jenna Price, Temple University, Fine Arts
Nicole Rinier, Temple University, Fine Arts
David Rueter, Oberlin College, Political Theory
Marcello Lopes Schiffino, Temple University, Architecture
Kristina Simcic, Temple University, Architecture
Kaitlin Westphal McDonald, Temple University, Architecture
Xiao D. Zhang, Temple University, Architecture
Volume Attempts: The Space of Books
June 7 - October 25, 2008
Temple Gallery, 259 N. 3rd Street
An exhibition of and about books, Volume Attempts moves beyond the usual categories of books related to art"”art books, artist's books, or books about art"”and instead provides an environment that explores the conceptual and literal spaces of books that present or represent artistic endeavor. This exhibition was organized by the graphic designer Purtill Family Business.
The Unique Craft of Artist Books
August 13 - October 25, 2008
Paley Library, Mezzanine and First Floor, 1210 W. Berks Street, Philadelphia
Tyler School of Art Library, Penrose Hall, First Floor, 7725 Penrose Ave, Elkins Park
Presented in collaboration with Volume Attempts: The Space of Books at Temple Gallery, The Unique Craft of Artist Books is an exhibition exploring the content, aesthetic, and craft of artist books from the collections of Paley and Tyler Libraries. Guest curators from local organizations Taller Puertorriqueno, the Mural Arts Program, Art Sanctuary and the Wagner Free Institute of Science were invited to select and curate groupings of artist books from the libraries' holdings, many never before on view to the public. Click here to learn more.
MFA THESIS EXHIBITIONS 2008
This series of one-person shows gives each graduating MFA student the opportunity to present the work done for their thesis project. The series includes students from all Tyler departments and an array of media: painting, sculpture, glass, printmaking, metals, graphic design, fibers, photography, ceramics, and more.
Damian Moppett, After the Fall
November 17, 2007 - February 16, 2008
Temple Gallery, Old City
Vancouver-based artist Damian Moppett is well known across Canada for his material investigations of historical practices. Through wide-ranging and often deliberately mimetic sculptural fabrications, he explores previous artistic strategies, developing the latent material, pictorial and conceptual possibilities in other artists' languages, and opening up critical issues in relation to history and shifting notions of the avant-garde. Temple Gallery will present Moppett's latest project, a series of drawings and cast sculptures instigated by his research on modern sculpture. In it he engages the specific processes of molding and casting, and explores their potential for replication and repetition while using material to insinuate a critique of artistic hierarchies. His works form a loosely constructed personal art history that incorporates contradictions, anachronisms and serendipitous parallels"”an allegory of relationships assembled through his serial identification with Alexander Calder, Anthony Caro, Henry Moore, Hollis Frampton and others. Curated by Sheryl Conkelton.
(Re)print
September 7 - November 3, 2007
Temple Gallery, Old City
Organized in partnership with Philagrafika, a regional consortium that promotes printmaking and the printed image, Re:Print Re:Present Re:View features the works of three internationally renowned artists: Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Rachid Koraïchi and Berni Searle. Each artist's project will directly engage an aspect of Philadelphia's diverse and multiple histories, through a contemporary or historical episode or a site or neighborhood. The exhibition was conceived by guest curator Salah M. Hassan, who is Director of Africana Studies and Research Center and Professor of African and African Diaspora art history and visual culture in the Department of History of Art at Cornell University.
Manybody, a group exhibition
June 1 - July 21, 2007
Temple Gallery, Old City
Manybody is about artist multiples and multiples of artists"”that is, artist groups"”whose collective resources facilitate distinct social and political goals. Organized by Jesse Goldstein, an artist member of Space 1026, the exhibition comprises projects that offer different working examples of how politically motivated art forms engage people in thinking and acting collectively. The projects will include A/Way, Celebrate People's History: Poster Project, Project Hello, Tit Pin, the West Philadelphia Re-Signage Committee, and You Are Beautiful. Together, these projects construct a complex portrait of the multiplicity of creative positions in our social world. Each focuses on a different dimension of our shared humanity and, importantly, engages some artistic format as a platform for their message. In addition to their individual presentations, some outside the gallery, the groups will also produce collaborations among themselves and with organizations such as the University of the Poor's School of Arts and Culture.
MFA Thesis Exhibitions
March 14 - May 19, 2007
Temple Gallery, Old City
Penrose and Tyler Galleries, Elkins Park
This series of one-person shows gives each graduating MFA student the opportunity to present the work done for their thesis project. The series includes students from all Tyler departments and an array of media: painting, sculpture, glass, printmaking, metals, graphic design, fibers, photography, ceramics, and more.
Empathetic
November 4, 2006-February 17, 2007
Temple Gallery, Old City
Empathetic, curated by Elizabeth Thomas, brings together work by ten artists to explore themes of communication, empathy and understanding, and features drawings, installations, performances, videos and sound works. "˜Empathy,' the ability to share the experience of another, to perceive and relate to another's feelings and intentions, is the underlying subject or operation of each project. In this wide-ranging exhibition, the works do not always directly present or depict empathetic situations, but explore the ways in which personal identification and emotional understanding are provoked, and reveal aesthetics, social constructions and politics to be both the settings for and products of complex human relations.
This exhibition will feature several related events, including performances by Pedro Lasch and Pia Lindman, public lectures on the subject of empathy as well as about the art in the exhibition, and a series of talks in the gallery by local artists and professors.
Artists:
- Jennifer Allora (American, b. 1974) and Guillermo Calzadilla (Puerto Rican, b. 1972)
- CarianaCarianne (American, b. 1971)
- Paul Chan (American, b. Hong Kong 1973)
- Trisha Donnelly (American, b. 1974)
- Jesper Just (Danish, b. 1974)
- Pedro Lasch (Mexican, b. 1975)
- Pia Lindman (Finnish, b. 1965)
- Kalup Linzy (American, b. 1977)
- Rachel Owens (American, b. 1972)
MFA Exhibitions
March 15 - May 20, 2006
Tyler, Temple and Penrose Galleries
Professional solo exhibitions by 31 artists in the 2006 MFA class.
Mix
November 18, 2005 - February 18, 2006
Temple Gallery, Old City
The video works in this exhibit exploit the formal rhythms and social codes of various kinds of popular music in a wide range of presentations. Each mixes musical form with visual imagery, exploring the connection of pop music to identity, memory and narrative, and revealing the instabilities of structures that we easily take for granted. Featured artists include: Cory Archangel and Frankie Martin, Phyllis Baldino, Tony Cokes, Seth Price, Anri Sala, Althea Thauberger. Curated by Sheryl Conkelton.
Phil Collins, assume freedom
September 9 - November 5, 2005
Temple Gallery, Old City
This exhibition comprised a selection of recent video and photographic works by Phil Collins (b. Runcorn, Great Britain, 1970), an artist who creates participatory projects, often in places that have been tested by social or political conflict. This exhibition was organized by Exhibitions and Public Programs at Tyler School of Art and the University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach. It incorporated phil collins: they shoot horses, the exhibition organized by the Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University. While in Philadelphia, Collins photographed members of the regional art community to produce new pictures for his series you'll never work in this town again. Curated by Sheryl Conkelton and Mary-Kay Lombino.
summer friends with new roses: a painting installation by Joy Feasley in collaboration with Paul Swenbeck and Kait Midget
June 3 - July 23, 2005
Temple Gallery, Old City
Artist talk with Joy Feasley and artist Clint Takeda, "BYOP (bring your own pie)"
Reception, June 21, 2005
Inspired by Indian miniature niche paintings and domestic shrines, this Philadelphia-based artist Joy Feasley incorporated new panel paintings into an intricate architectural framework, and added dioramas by artist Kait Midgett and ceramics by Paul Swenbeck. A new letterpressed zine of the same title featured contributions by various local artists.
Double Monster in Excerpt, David Bunn
November 19, 2004 - February 26, 2005
Temple Gallery, Old City
David Bunn's project "Double Monster," was conceived while Bunn was an artist in residence at the Mutter Museum of the College of Physicians, Philadelphia, in 2000 at the invitation of the late Gretchen Worden. The project is one part of a decade-long series of works based on obsolete library card catalogs, in which the artists pairs a selected sequence of cards with the typed poem formed by the listing of their titles. Bunn engages a number of conceptual issues, such as the Surrealist notions embedded in the process of his "found poetry," and the constructed nature of his assembly of the numerous body parts that form the Mutter's collection (which, not coincidently, provokes the idea of Frankenstein's monster). A lecture "The Body in the Library," by Dr. Howard Singerman, associate professor in Art History at University of Virginia, will be held at the Arden Theater, February 7, 2005. An essay about the work by Jan Tumlir was reprinted in the exhibition brochure. Curated by Sheryl Conkelton.
A Declaration of the Necessity for the Public Good, Buster Simpson
September 1 - November 6, 2004
Temple Gallery, Old City
Buster Simpson organized a workshop project to engage Tyler students in the political symbolism of the fall 2005 presidential campaign. Basing his designs for public sculpture on the Windsor chairs depicted in engravings of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, he and Tyler students constructed chairs and benches from recycled wooden pallets in the gallery itself, transforming it during the first week of the exhibition into a workshop. Following Simpson's residency, the gallery provided a showroom for the pallet Windsors as well as some materials that reference the design and construction processes. The exhibition also comprised images and documents of some of Simpson's earlier projects that relate to public sites and seating, public discourse, and agitprop. Curated by Sheryl Conkelton.
The workshop was a collaboration with Tyler School of Art Sculpture department, the Wood Turning Center, and the John Grass Wood Turning Shop. A performance featuring an actor portraying King George III took place in the gallery during the First Friday opening in October.
Mixmaster Universe
June 4 - August 6, 2004
Temple Gallery, Old City
Co-sponsored with American Philosophical Society
Part of The Big Nothing, a city-wide initiative by the Institute of Contemporary Art, this exhibition presented works by artists who were commissioned to study the archives of John Wheeler (author of black hole theory) at the American Philosophical Society and produce work. Artists included: David Guinn, M. Ho, Thomas Lessner, Roxana Perez-Mendez, and Susan Patterson. Temple Gallery co-sponsored lecture at American Philosophical Society by Bruce Partridge, Professor of Astronomy, Haverford College.
Analog Click Click
February 6 - March 6, 2004
Temple Gallery, Old City
Analog Click Click was co-curated by Acting Director Nancy Lewis and Sam Fritch, Assistant Professor, Foundations Program, at Tyler, and featured recent computer-generated art that focused critical attention on the tactile"”and paradoxically, handmade"”qualities of the final object. Artists included: Hannah Barrett, Douglas Boehm, Lia Cook, Carl Fudge, Paul Ramirez Jones, Matt Haffner, E.J. Herczk, Aida Laleian, Mark Leuders. The exhibition was accompanied by an essay by Tamryn McDermott, a student in Tyler's Art History department.
Bernard Tschumi: Concepts vs. Contexts
November 7 - December 13, 2003
Temple Gallery, Old City
This exhibition was organized in conjunction with Temple's annual PSFS lecture on Modern Architecture, in a partnership with Loews PSFS Hotel. The exhibition featured two projects by the architect. The first, ”the University of Miami's School of Architecture," was presented along with process material that illuminated the design process, from concept sketches to on-site construction decisions. The exhibition also featured Tschumi's master plan for EXPO 2004, an international exposition that was ultimately never realized. This master plan explores the concept of "the image of the image" through pavilions, screens, bridges, walkways and agoras. An essay by John Hubert, Assistant Professor of Architecture, Temple University, accompanied the exhibition.
Oculus Photo Folio
October 10 - 25, 2003
Temple Gallery, Old City
An exhibition of work by students in graduate programs across the country, to accompany the publication of their work in a limited edition portfolio. Organized by the Oculus Photographic Arts Group, an association of students in Tyler's photography program.
Wheel of Life
September 5 - October 3, 2003
Temple Gallery, Old City
Wheel of Life was an installation created by Losang Samten, Spiritual Director at the Tibetan Buddhist Center of Philadelphia and recipient of the NEA's 2002 National Heritage Award. In the Temple Gallery, Samten constructed a Tibetan Buddhist Sand Mandala; Samten is one of only 30 people in the world who can perform this ancient practice of painting with colored sand. The exhibition ended when the artist destroyed the work by dispersing the sand into the Delaware river. An essay by Kurt Behrendt, Temple professor of Art History, accompanied the exhibition.
Peter Eisenman: Two Projects
November 1 - December 14, 2002
Temple Gallery, Old City
Peter Eisenman: Two Projects was the first exhibition to examine the Berlin Holocaust Memorial in the context of contemporary memorials to the victims of the Holocaust. Mining the exhibition's intersecting themes, a series of public programs brought the international Jewish community and the architectural professional together in discussions of events of tremendous historical import. The Eisenman exhibition was developed and produced in tandem with the Architecture Program and was held in conjunction with Eisenman's delivery of the 2nd Annual PSFS lecture. As part of this initiative, the Temple Gallery also collaborated with the Jewish Studies program in the production of an interpretive brochure for the exhibition, with an essay by noted scholar of Jewish visual culture, Shelly Hornstein.
Show Up and Show Show
June 7, 2002
Temple Gallery, Old City
The Cane Project by Martin Puryear
November 2 - December 15, 2001
Temple Gallery, Old City
Dreams in the Void: Post-Heroic Visions of Space
November 3, 2000 - January 13, 2001
Temple Gallery, Old City
Works by Stephen Antonson, Steven Brower, Kara S. Hammond, Yoshio Itagaki, Ellen K. Levy, Alexis Rockman, Karen Yasinsky, curated by Anne Collins Goodyear and Kevin Melchionne. This group exhibition featured works by contemporary artists examining the theme of space travel in the post-Apollo era.
Copper, Stone and Fire: James Metcalf, Ana Pellicer and the Artisans of Santa Clara del Cobre
September 1 - October 14, 2000
Temple Gallery, Old City
Focusing on the thirty-three year old dialogue of metal sculptors James Metcalf and Ana Pellicer with the copper smiths of Santa Clara del Cobre of Mexico, this exhibition will include copper work and jewelry. Works will be accompanied by photographic and video documentation of the artisans, their workshops, and classes at the Adolfo Best Maugard School of Arts and Crafts founded by Metcalf and Pellicer in 1976. Co-curators: Kevin Melchionne and Roy Skodnick
Place of Memory: An Archaeology of Site-Specificity, 1969 - 1999
November 4, 1999 - January 15, 2000
Temple Gallery, Old City
Historical survey of site-specific interventions in the Philadelphia area since the 1960's presented through photographic documentation of the work.
Amy Orr
December 4, 1998 - January 15, 1999
Temple Gallery, Old City
Paula Scher
January 27 - February 27, 1999
Temple Gallery, Old City
Beth B: Out of Sight / Out of Mind
September 6 - October 13, 1995
Temple Gallery, Old City
The Masks of Mexico
January 18 - March 10, 1995
Temple Gallery, Old City
Psychic Borders: Buzz Spector, Gene Gort, L.C. Armstrong
February 23 - March 18, 1994
Temple Galley, Old City and Tyler Gallery Elkins Park
Charles Burns
October 26 - November 23, 1994
Temple Gallery, Old City
Irwin
February 9 - March 18, 1990
Temple Gallery, Old City
WPA: A Philadelphia Retrospective
October 11 - November 19, 1988
Temple Gallery, Old City
Ofrendas: Spirituality and Celebration in Latin American Life
February 5 - March 19, 1988
Temple Gallery, Old City
Fumio Yoshimura
December 4, 1987 - January 23, 1988
Temple Gallery, Old City
Constitution: Exhibit by New York Artists' Collective, Group Material
October 2 - November 28, 1987
Temple Gallery, Center City
Ernie Kovacs
September 4 - 23, 1987
Temple Gallery, Center City
Robert Keyser: Ten Years (1977-1987)
April 24 - May 29, 1987
Temple Gallery, Center City
Co-organized with the Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania.
Influences: Printmaking
April 1 - 18, 1987
Temple Gallery, Center City
Works by printmakers and the people who influenced them: Daniel Dallman/Michael Mazur, John Dowell/John Cage, Richard Hricko/Evan Summer, Hester Stinnett/Cheryl Kolak Dudek, Rochelle Toner/M.D. Fierke.
Glass!
March 6 - March 27, 1987
Temple Gallery, Center City
Set up in conjunction with the Glass Art Society National Conference in Philadelphia.
Allan Wexler: Small Buildings, Furniture and Proposals for the Typical House
December 19, 1986 - January 31, 1987
Temple Gallery, Center City
Body Electric: Four Currents, Louise Bourgeois, Jody Pinto, Nancy Spero, Mia Westerlund Roosen
November 14 - December 13, 1986
Temple Gallery, Center City
Komar & Melamid
March 6 - April 19, 1986
Temple Gallery, Center City
Sources In American Culture: In Celebration of Black History Month
Works by: Robert Colescott, John Dowell, Bessie Harvey, Quentin Morris
February 7 - February 28, 1986
Temple Gallery, Center City
Small Monuments
December 18, 1985 - January 26, 1986
Temple Gallery, Center City
A group show of sculptural works by 14 artists that translate the power of the monumental into small scale commemorations: Louise Bourgeois, Phoebe Adams, Steven Beyer, Jon Clark, Brower Hatcher, Charles Fahlen, Bruno LaVerdiere, Donald Lipski, Carolyn Healy, Jack Wax, Mark Lere, John Parris, Wade Saunders, Barbara Zucker.
Inaugural Exhibit: Gregory Amenoff, Barbara Kruger, Martin Puryear, Nancy Holt, Earl Staley
September 27 - November 8, 1985
Temple Gallery at TUCC (1619 Walnut Street), Center City
