First Thursday Happenings for Thursday, October 2, 2014

Fabric Workshop Museum1214 Arch Street / Seventh Floor

Philadelphia, PA 19107 215.561.8888


Mother and Child Reunion - Kazumi Tanaka  

Opening Reception: Thursday, October 2, 2014 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm

Exhibition: August 1, 2014–November 9, 2014 

This exhibition presents an accumulation of memories, customs, and traditional Japanese fabric processes that tells a story of family, tradition, and one’s self. Kazumi Tanaka is known for creating detailed and finely-crafted objects using a variety of materials such as wood, hair, metal, and Japanese fabrics. Recently, the artist produced a series of miniature Tansu (traditional Japanese storage cabinets) inspired by her memories of her childhood in Japan. The initial idea for her project at FWM was to examine what is typically put into and taken out of these bureaus. However, as Tanaka states in her exhibition journal Mother and Child Reunion, “When I am looking for something, often I find something else along the way. It catches my attention completely and I forget what I was originally looking for. Ultimately, this discovery leads me to find what I am really looking for…”
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Fleisher/Ollman
1616 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA

Anthony Campuzano: Slow Movies and Mark Mahosky: Paper View 
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 2 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Exhibiton: September 26th - November 15th, 2014

Two exhibitions opening this fall at Fleisher/Ollman explore the printed word from different vantage points. In Paper View, Mark Mahosky paints over newspaper pages, creating abstract compositions that evoke the evolution of abstraction in the early 20th century. For Slow Movies, Anthony Campuzano appropriates texts and images from popular culture, transposing them into handmade advertisements that proclaim his love of particular subjects, in this case, Hollywood film. Reception: Thursday, October 2, 6-8pm Exhibition dates: September 26 – November 15, 2014.

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FWM Lectures

Mario Ybarra @ Fabric Workshop

Mario Ybarra, Jr.: Books Of Drawings, Beyond Our Dreams, Blame Our Dads, Brains On Drugs, Better Off Dead

August 30, 2013–Fall 2013

Opening Reception:

Friday, October 4th, 6:00–8:00 pm
Press & Members Preview: Artist talk by Mario Ybarra, Jr. at 5:30 pm

The Fabric Workshop and Museum (FWM) presents an exhibition of new work by artist-in-residence Mario Ybarra, Jr. whose work involves examining hidden histories of U.S. street culture through large-scale, mixed media installations. Ybarra, Jr.’s collaboration with FWM serves as a vehicle for telling a creative, visual narrative of his former street crew B.O.D., established in 1990.

Bio
Born 1972, Wilmington, California. Lives and works in Wilmington.

Mario Ybarra, Jr. received an MFA from the University of California, Irvine (2001) and a BFA from Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles (1999). Recent solo exhibitions include Double Feature at Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles (2013); Mario Ybarra Jr.: The Tio Collection at the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum (2012); Wilmington Good at the Cardi Black Box, Milan, Italy (2011); Silver and Blacks at Michael Janssen Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2010); Take Me Out…No Man Is An Island at the Art Institute of Chicago (2008); and Black Squirrel Society at Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York (2008). Ybarra, Jr. has been included in such group exhibitions as Made in L.A., the Los Angeles Biennial organized by the Hammer Museum in collaboration with LAXART (2012); Invisible Cities at the Instituto Cervantes, Madrid, Spain (2010); the Whitney Biennial, New York (2008); Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles (2008); Prague Biennale 3 in Prague, Czech Republic (2007); The World as a Stage at the Tate Modern, London, UK, as well as the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2007); the California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach (2006); and Alien Nation at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK (2006).