Tyler School of Art Grads

Critical Dialogues Lecture Added

2009-11-11T17:51:00.005-05:00

Monday, November 16th
Corin Hewitt
will be speaking about his work at 11am in Auditorium B04

this event is presented by the Critical Dialogues Lecture series and is free and open to the public.

Tyler School of Art
Temple University
2001 N. 13th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19122

THE INTERNET AS A PLAYGROUND AND FACTORY a conference on digital labor

2009-11-06T21:03:00.001-05:00

NOV. 12-14

Eugene Lange College

The New School

New York, NY

Illuminated Manuscripts: Alexandre Singh's "Assembly Instructions"

2009-11-05T17:58:00.002-05:00

Image: Alexandre Singh, collage from Assembly Instructions (Tangential Logick), 2009

The metaphor of the brain as a database (or, if you prefer, the database as a brain) flatters and anthropomorphizes the machine more than it explains the mind. Gray matter doesn't seem to be organized in a way that makes the storage and retrieval of information easy; rather, the classification and categorization that characterize the database are pre-digital technologies invented to manage the ever-increasing amounts of information that civilization requires citizens to master. Cicero used a "memory palace" when delivering orations. As he spoke, he would imagine moving through a house where each room and object represented points he needed to make in his speech and the supporting evidence he needed to make them. The antithesis of such memory systems might be the dream, the mind's nightly refresher that reconfigures the day's events and data in disjointed, symbolic narratives. Both the memory palace and the dream are based on irrational elements: subjective experience, arbitrary connections, and word play. That the memory palace is created under the thinker's deliberate control only highlights the conscious mind's eagerness to do what the unconscious mind does automatically. Even as Cicero publicly performed the constructs of reason, his brain was circumventing them.

Image: Alexandre Singh, slide from Assembly Instructions Lecture (Ikea, Manzoni, Klein, et al), 2009

Last July, in a New York University faculty residence on West Houston Street where Picasso's sculpture and I.M. Pei's architecture face off in a courtyard invisible to Google Earth, Alexandre Singh delivered an installment of his Assembly Instructions Lectures, a series of talks illustrated by a pair of overhead projectors. After introducing his audience to Matteo Ricci, a sixteenth-century Jesuit missionary who taught the memory palace technique to Chinese officials to convince them of the superiority of Western (and by extension, Christian) thought, Singh launched into a detailed recounting of a dream he supposedly had, in which Ingvar Kamprad, founder and principle shareholder of Ikea, announced that the master floor plan implemented in every Ikea store around the world encodes a classification of all human knowledge. For instance, the arrangement of shoes, hangers, and sweaters in a display closet, as Singh demonstrated, represented the kingdoms and phyla of life on Earth. What's more, the Ikea system of Singh's dream world does not merely encode--it controls. If something changes in a store--say, a new couch model is introduced for the new season, or a passing child moves a prop coffee-table book around a fake living room--the fabric of reality is altered.

(read more: http://rhizome.org/editorial/3045#more)

Monday, November 9th

2009-11-02T15:36:00.006-05:00

Critical Dialogues
Lecture Series Presents:

Michael Jones McKean
November 9th, 2009
11 am, Auditorium B04

http://www.michaeljonesmckean.com/index.html

Lectures are free and open to the public.

Tyler School of Art
Temple University
2001 N. 13th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19122

The Possibility of Men and River Shallows, 2007

Critical Dialogues 11/2 Cancelled

2009-11-01T11:19:00.002-05:00

Unfortunately, Taylor Davis will no longer be speaking tomorrow, November 2nd.

Our next speaker- Michael Jones McKean will be here next week, November 9th - 11AM

Critical Dialogues Fall 2009

2009-10-23T23:18:00.007-04:00

Critical Dialogues Lecture Series Presents:

Taylor Davis
Monday, November 2nd
11am, Auditorium B04

http://www.taylordavissculptor.com/

Lectures are free and open to the public.

Tyler School of Art
Temple University
2001 N. 13th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19122

untitled, black walnut plywood, oil paintings, 29" x 25" x 25", 2008

2009-10-16T11:41:00.002-04:00

2009-10-14T19:45:00.000-04:00

CALL FOR ARTISTS: All Current Masters of Fine Arts Candidates

Postmarked by: Friday, November 13, 2009

MFA Annual Juror: Raphaela Platow, Director and Chief Curator, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
The Open Studios Press sponsors 6 juried competitions per year. Winners receive full-color spreads in our nationally distributed periodical, New American Paintings. We have divided the country into 5 regions (Northeast, South, Midwest, West, and Pacific Coast), each of which is the focus of an annual competition, and have recently added a sixth competition for students enrolled in a US based MFA program.

All styles and media are welcome, as long as the work is singular and two-dimensional. Candidates must be currently enrolled in a school located in the US.

Submission Checklist:

· Send Four (4) 35mm slides OR 8.5 x 11 in. printouts of current work, each labeled with your initials, the work's title, medium, and dimensions (no disks)

· Current résumé

· Self-addressed, stamped envelope for the return of your materials AND notification

· $40 entry fee (check made payable to "The Open Studios Press") SPECIAL OFFER:
Subscribe to New American Paintings for $89/1-yr and waive the $40 entry fee! Simply enclose your $89 payment and shipping address with your entry.

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Critical Dialogues 10/19

2009-10-11T18:54:00.002-04:00

2009-10-08T11:05:00.005-04:00

The Graduate Students of the Tyler School of Art would like to invite you to our Open Studios on October 15, 2009, 7-9pm. This is a great opportunity to check out the new Tyler Building on Temple Main Campus and see the Graduate work at Tyler!

We are looking forward to seeing you next Thursday.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

2009-10-07T11:35:00.003-04:00

Happeningz: Event Series

Proof Gallery is now accepting proposals for events from artists working in time-based, live, performative or other ephemeral media for the series Happeningz.

Happeningz is an events series dedicated to enriching and bringing together audiences within Boston’s arts community. As a non-profit experimental gallery space, Proof features work unbound from commercial considerations, providing a platform for emerging, unknown and established artists, thinkers and doers. Our unique perspective and small local space obliges us to take risks.

Happeningz hopes to begin conversations, make connections, encourage community, ask questions and maybe even laugh out loud on occasion.
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To propose

Interested parties should submit the following:

PROJECT PROPOSAL
-Description of proposed project (may include the work in question, current/past works, or any combination of this). Please be as specific as possible. Refer to the floor plan at left for site sensitive proposals.
-Date(s) and duration of project. Can this occur concurrent with an exhibit already hanging?
-Materials list pertaining to proposed event. Please note that Proof is unable to provide equipment or materials aside from space and basic lighting. For specific enquiries, contact proof.gallery(at)gmail.com or williamatproof(at)gmail.com.
-Samples of previous work, supporting media and/or other documentation relating to the project denoted in the proposal. Media can range from sound and video to notebook excerpts or other forms of drafts

WRITTEN STATEMENT
-Artist’s statement OR a short bio.

C.V. OR ARTIST’S RESUME
-Include name, address, telephone number(s) and email.

Submissions will be accepted by:
-DVD/CD-ROM mailed/dropped off at the gallery
-Link to personal website or other internet hosting site
-Email to williamatproof(at)gmail.com

2009-10-06T13:57:00.000-04:00

2009-10-06T11:36:00.000-04:00

West Philadelphia exhibition featuring two Alums!

2009-10-05T18:42:00.000-04:00

Bookish is a project that documents the literary works being read by those creating, curating and looking at art in Philadelphia.
It will be printed in its first edition as a light-weight zine for the B.Y.O.T.Y Book Fair at Little Berlin, and will be distributed in galleries and alternative art spaces throughout Philadelphia.

As a catalogue of the readings on your bedside table, Bookish aims to help spark conversation and cross-pollination of literature influencing the community.
Anyone can contribute to Bookish, simply tell us what you're reading using the form on the website.

Deadline for inclusion in the first edition is October 15th, 2009.

BREAKING NEWS

2009-10-03T15:36:00.010-04:00

Gabriel Boyce and Preston Link
Opening Friday October 2nd 6-11pm

Runs through October 31st

for more info visit:
http://littleberlin.org/exhibitions/

Critical Dialogues Lecture Series Presents

2009-10-02T13:51:00.007-04:00

William Lamson
Monday, October 5th, 2009
11 am, Auditorium B04

William Lamson is a Brooklyn based artist who works in video, photography, performance and sculpture. Since graduating from the Bard MFA program in 2006, his work has been shown at P.S.1, The Brooklyn Museum, Franklin Art Works in Minneapolis and the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe among others. Currently, he is preparing for a second solo show at Artspace, New Haven.

http://www.williamlamson.com/

Lectures are free and open to the public.

Tyler School of Art
Temple University
2001 N. 13th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19122

2009-09-30T23:42:00.001-04:00

Arcadia University Art Gallery

Arcadia University Art Gallery seeks works on paper by
Philadelphia-based artists for its 25th presentation of

Juror: João Ribas
Curator of Exhibitions at the MIT List Visual Arts Center
(formerly Curator at The Drawing Center, New York)

Click here for Exhibition Guidelines (PDF)

Open to artists living within a 40-mile radius of Glenside, Pennsylvania, "Works on Paper" is distinguished by a selection process in which the juror reviews actual artworks brought to the gallery (as opposed to 35mm slides or digital representations). There are no size restrictions on works brought to the gallery.

Works can be hand-delivered on October 29, 30, 31, and November 1, 2009. Entry fees are $15 for one work; $20 for two; $25 for three. View guidelines for more schedule details and further information.

Cash prizes totaling up to $2,500 will be awarded to selected entries. Additional prizes include the Philadelphia Museum of Art Award (selected for purchase consideration) and a purchase award for Arcadia University’s permanent collection. Artist’s included in this year’s “Works on Paper” exhibition will also be eligible for consideration for “A Closer Look 8”.

This year’s exhibition will be juried by João Ribas (born 1979, Braga, Portugal). Until last month, Ribas was Curator at The Drawing Center (New York City), a position he began in February 2007. This fall he starts his new position as Curator of Exhibitions at the MIT List Visual Arts Center (Cambridge, Massachusetts). His final exhibition at The Drawing Center is a landmark survey of the drawing-based work of Ree Morton (1930-1977). Entitled "Ree Morton: At the Still Point of a Turning World," it will remain on view through December 18, 2009.

Feel free to share this e-mail with friends and colleagues. If you would like to receive printed copies of the exhibition guidelines, please phone Jamar Nicholas at 215-572-2133 or write to him at nicholaj@arcadia.edu.

MORE INFORMATION

2009-09-30T23:41:00.001-04:00

HIGHWIRE GALLERY - CALL FOR ARTISTS

Highwire Gallery is actively seeking artists across multiple disciplines including, but not limited to, painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, installation, performance, and digital media. We are looking for vibrant new members in any stage of their career who are flexible, motivated and dedicated to their work and to being a part of this artist run co-operative gallery.

Please send your Artists Statement, Bio, and 3-5 images (JPGs or a link to your website or other web based images) to highwiregallery@gmail.com.

After your
information has been reviewed, you may be invited to bring a selection of original works to the gallery where you will have the opportunity to meet our members, discuss yourself and your work.

Highwire Gallery is a non-profit co-op arts venue in the Fishtown section of Philadelphia, featuring monthly visual art exhibits as well as live music, video and performance art. We strive to provide the community with artistic variety and interactive shows to explore the creative process, free of restrictions often found in commercial galleries.

MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS
• 2 person exhibition every 18 months
• A minimum of 2 group exhibitions per year
• 0% commission on sales
• Access to exhibition opportunities and calls for entry
• Experience with gallery preparation and arts administration

MEMBERSHIP RESPONSIBILITES
• $150 initiation fee
• $65 monthly dues
• One day a month of gallery staffing
• Five hours of gallery-related work each calendar quarter
• Attendance at membership meetings
• Attendance at artist membership reviews

ELIGIBILITY
• Applicants must live within a 50 mile radius of Philadelphia and cannot be presently enrolled in any undergraduate programs.

GALLERY INFORMATION
Highwire Gallery
2040 Frankford Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19125
215.426.2685
www.highwiregallery.com

2009-09-30T14:00:00.001-04:00

Arden Bendler Browning
Pattern Language
October 2 - 31, 2009
Opening: Friday October 2nd, 6-10pm

AHN|VHS is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new large-scale works by Arden Bendler Browning. The Philadelphia based artist takes her influence from the city's “dichotomous landscape”. Interweaving imagery of architectural decay and rampant flora, her dynamic compositions emulate the violence and euphoria embedded in the city itself. Bold colors and sharp gestural lines whirl together creating a delicate balance of utter chaos and control. Incorporating the physical elements of construction / destruction sites, these epic works are painted and drawn on Tyvek.
Reflecting on the timeless tensions between the built environment and the natural world, these works depict the point of climax in the battle between the two; snapshots of the decisive moment in the most profound conflict, where every line between destruction and creation is blurred.
Bendler Browning says she is attracted to cities for their “density, activity, variety, their layered contradictions... the opposite of the picturesque landscape.” Taking inspiration from her immediate urban environment, Bendler Browning spends much of her time taking countless snapshots of the city, capturing the myriad “visual hypocrisies” discovered along these daily explorations. “A silhouette of a blue tarp can become a vibrant colored square rather than mundane construction material; highlighted chips of wall paint from an upturned building add energy rather than depicting gloom.” There is no assigned protagonist or villain here. By highlighting the contradictions inherent in the urban landscape these works evoke the grace and vulgarity of all things contained therein; man-made or organic, both forces hold the potential for good and evil, and both are simultaneously neither/nor. Bendler Browning's images are a lens through which we may watch this puzzle unfold.

Arden Bendler Browning received her MFA from the Tyler School School of Art in 2003. Her work was featured in the 2009 edition of New American Paintings. Recent solo exhibitions include “Solo Series 2009” at the Abington Art Center in Jenkintown, PA, curated by Sue Spaid, and “Urban Reef” at the Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia, curated by Sean Stoops. Her work has also been included in exhibitions at The State Museum of Pennsylvania, the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, and Fleisher Ollman Gallery.

Inquiries to info@ahnvhs.com. More information and images at www.ahnvhs.com

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About AHN|VHS: Gallery owners Julianne Ahn and Lauren van Haaften-Schick are Philadelphia-based artists and arts professionals. In addition to monthly exhibitions AHN|VHS features a curated flat file of works on paper, and editions in all media on our store shelves. All artwork is available for viewing and for sale in the gallery and at www.ahnvhs.com.
To submit work to the flat file or for our shelves, please write to info@ahnvhs.com

2009-09-26T23:43:00.001-04:00

OCTOBER 3 THROUGH NOVEMBER 14, 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 3rd, 4:00 – 6:00 PM
"Talkabout" Gallery Discussion: Saturday, October 24th, from 1:30 to 2:30 PM

The Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial presents the first exhibition in the thirty-second season of the three-part Wind Challenge Exhibitions at Fleisher — the Delaware Valley's premier juried artist exhibition program. This season's nine Challenge artists were selected from a field of 368 applicants to exhibit in one of three three-person exhibitions. The first of this year's Challenge Exhibitions features a sculpture by Joshua DeMonte, drawings by Sharka Hyland, and an installation Keiko Miyamori.

The exhibition begins on Saturday, October 3rd, with an opening reception from 4:00 to 6:00 PM, and continues through November 22nd, 2008.

Both the exhibition and the opening reception are free and open to the public. Gallery hours are 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Monday through Friday, with additional hours of 5:00 to 9:00 PM, Monday through Thursday, and 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM, Saturday.

About the Artists

Joshua DeMonte's work explores the relationship between architecture and environment by translating features of ancient architecture into jewelry and transforming the wearer into the site. His objects are intended to be worn and appreciated, but they are also meant to alter one's perception of the figure.

Mr. DeMonte received received both his B.F.A. and M.F.A. from Tyler School of Art, Temple University.

Image: Joshua DeMonte, Balcony and Curtains, 2008, glass-filled nylon, 7 x 4 inches

Sharka Hyland's paintings and drawings juxtapose her memory of the dense, overlapping European spaces in which she grew up against her experience of America's use of space — tentative, and largely undefined. In her work, Hyland explores how the emotional dimensions of built environments tell vague stories that leave room for speculation.

Ms. Hyland received her received her art history degree from École du Louvre and her M.F.A. from Yale University School of Art.

Image: Sharka Hayland, detail: New Jersey Mountain (II), 2009, ink on paper, 23 x 29 inches

For Keiko Miyamori, the charcoal rubbing not only captures a physical mark, but also transfers the “soul” of a natural object. Simplicity, quietness, and a sense of unity ebb and flow in Miyamori's objects and installations, which feature rubbings on Japanese washi paper and clear plastic. They are intended to inspire others to live in harmony with nature.

Ms. Miyamori received both her B.F.A. and M.F.A. from the University of Tsukuba.

Image: Keiko Miyamori, detail: Cosmos, 2007

Critical Dialogues Lecture Series

2009-09-18T21:36:00.002-04:00

The Critical Dialogues Lecture Series continues with a visit by artist Ester Partegas:

http://www.esterpartegas.com/

Monday, September 21st, 2009
11 am, Auditorium B04

Lectures are free and open to the public.

Tyler School of Art
Temple University
2001 N. 13th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19122

STOöP Film Series Begins

2009-09-18T19:12:00.004-04:00

On the eve of the 50th anniversary of Günther Grass' epic novel

STOöP films presents

The Tin Drum

a film by Volker Schlöndorff

Wednesday September 23rd, 7 pm
On the lawn of the Tyler courtyard

Critical Dialogues Fall 2009

2009-09-11T14:08:00.004-04:00

The first Critical Dialogues Visiting Artist Lecture will be this Monday, September 14th, 2009.

11 am, Auditorium B04

Nicole Cherubini --
Cherubini was born in Boston in 1970. She received her BFA in Ceramics from the Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA in Visual Arts from New York University, and later attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. She is a recipient of an NEA Travel Grant, a New England Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, and most recently an Art Matters Grant for travel in Mexico. Her work has been exhibited in group and solo exhibitions both internationally and in the United States; including the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA; Sculpture Center, New York; La Panadería, Mexico City; PS1/MoMA, New York; The Rose Art Museum, Boston; Samson Projects, Boston; and Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin. Last fall, she had concurrent exhibitions at Smith Stewart Gallery and D’Amelio Terras in New York. Cherubini lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Tyler School of Art, Temple University
2001 N. 13th St.
Philadelphia, PA. 19125

Tyler Craft & Cheese

2009-09-03T19:25:00.000-04:00

We want to invite you to visit the Stella Elkins Gallery (in the basement of the Tyler School of Art, 1201 N 13th St. Philadelphia, PA 19122) where the 2nd Year Grads in Glass, Fibers and Ceramics are exhibiting for the next two weeks.

Show is Open from Aug. 26 through Sept. 5 during Gallery hours: Wednesday through Saturday 11am to 6pm.

A Closing Reception will be held on Thursday Sept. 3, 5pm to 7pm.

Please come check out the work we made this summer!
Samantha, Seth, Kari, Sarah, & Lauren

2009-08-27T17:42:00.002-04:00

So Tyler School of Art's GAID department has a new website. CLICK HERE!