Old Masters Redux, New Photography, Synthetic Biology

A selection of faculty and alumni exhibitions now on view in Philly and beyond.
 
Organize Your Own: The Politics and Poetics of Self-Determination Movements | Through February 17 | Brodsky Gallery of the Kelly Writers House, Philadelphia

Fine Arts Lecturer Matt Neff shows risograph prints in an exhibition of new work by contemporary artists and poets responding to the history of the Black Power mandate to “organize your own” community against racism. Organize Your Own opened in Philadelphia and travels to Chicago (Bernard Leviton Gallery, Columbia College, March 3 through April 9, 2016).

Sarah Gamble: Vibraspace | Through March 26 | Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia

Alumna Sarah Gamble (MFA’01) plumbs the realm of dreams and mythology with a range of remarkable characters and foreboding landscapes. The paintings in this solo exhibition showcase her synthesis of patterned abstraction and representation, playing with suggested narrative.

Journeys | March 2 - April 16 | Savery Gallery, Philadelphia

Fine Arts Lecturer Andrea Hornick’s work is informed by the history of painting, issues of collecting and reproduction, historiography, post-feminism, and shamanism. This exhibition focuses on animal-spirit guides to Old Master portraits with altered paintings in addition to performance, collage, and text. 

By the Book: New Photography Publications | Through April 23 | The Print Center, Philadelphia
Assistant Professor of Fine Arts David Hartt is among seven artists examined in this exhibition who move between making photographic prints as art objects and compiling images in books. Hartt's work is drawn from a series of images shot inside the office spaces of Johnson Publishing Company, the iconic Chicago-based publisher of Ebony and Jet magazines.

Eclipse | Through April 10 | Henry Art Gallery, Seattle

Alumnus Demetrius Oliver (MFA’04) creates a visual and conceptual link between otherworldly astronomical events and the mundane through a grid of sixteen photographs, each depicting a white jet of steam hitting the top of Oliver’s head in his studio.

Wetware: Art | Agency | Animation | Through May 7 | Beall Center for Art + Technology, Irvine

Assistant Professor of Fine Arts Orkan Telhan is among nine artists using laboratory methods in the context of synthetic biology featured in Wetware, an exhibition that explores art, agency, and animation within convergent living technologies.