First Friday Gallery
Openings
Every
first Friday of the month art galleries are open to the public in Philadelphia.
It’s a free must-see cultural art experience for students to engage with the
contemporary art scene. Here’s a listing of somerecommendations for current First Friday galleries for Friday, September 5th.
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ARTIST RECEPTION: Friday, September 5, 6:30 -
8:30 PM
Logical Thinking; Illogical Thoughts Simeen Farhat - Sculptures & Installation
Transferable Views
Franco Mueller - Paintings, Works on Paper & Installation
Franco Mueller - Paintings, Works on Paper & Installation
There is a dialogue that exists within the works of
Franco Mueller. It is a quiet conversation between shape and space. These
paintings and works on paper depict how space holds a shape and how shape holds
the space. A partially illuminated background is silent. Mueller builds
his paintings with layer upon layer of thin acrylic paint and his works on
paper with layers of charcoal and acrylic paint. As each layer permeates on
another, a “disturbed surface structure” begins to evolve.
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ARTIST RECEPTION: Friday, September 5, 6:00 –
11:00 PM
Vox Populi is an artist collective that works to support the challenging
and experimental work of under-represented artists with monthly exhibitions, gallery
talks, performances, lectures, and related programming.
Elisa Gabor, Sanaz Mazinani, Anna Neighbor, Sarah Palmer, Elisabeth Tonnard
Room for the Whole Wide World offers five artists’ findings from the field of abstraction,
using ideas rooted in photography as a starting point. Within these artworks
abstraction is a viable method for discovering larger truths and mapping our
desires.
Still Wearing Each Other When Alone
Jordan Artim, Anthony Cudahy, Aimee Goguen, Matt Morris, Mathew Parkin
Jordan Artim, Anthony Cudahy, Aimee Goguen, Matt Morris, Mathew Parkin
Be my Jordan, and I’ll be your
Pippen. Be my Mulder, and I’ll be your Scully. Be my Jenko, and I’ll be your
Schmidt. Be my Bill, and I’ll be your Ted. Be my residue, and I’ll be your
mirror.
“…we shall find out when the
light returns what the new season means / when others’ interpretations have
gotten back up onto the pedestals we gave them / so long as we are still
wearing each other when
alone”
-Frank O’Hara
Between a rock and a hard place.
Laura Bernstein, Lydia Hardwick, Rachel Rotenberg
Laura Bernstein, Lydia Hardwick, Rachel Rotenberg
Between a rock and a hard place.
offers a sculptural conversation between three female artists. Their works
operate as the remnants from an otherworldly archaeological dig, marked with
the indelible imprint and purposeful grace of their three makers. At their
core, these are non-functional yet social objects: acknowledging or denying the
body, embodying complex human relationships, and birthed through intuition and
memory.
Errata
Micah Danges, Luke Stettner
Micah Danges, Luke Stettner
Errata
is a two-person show. Stettner’s work for this exhibition includes small
photographs, fruit pits, drawings on blackboard surfaces, graphite-rubbed wood
frames, and paintings that reference an enigmatic and nearly recognizable
grammatical language. Each is a study in essentialism. Danges’ work for this
exhibition includes several photo-based collages that explore surface, texture
and placement, and are each derived from one of two single images of a
greenhouse.
Fourth Wall
Fourth Wall at Vox Populi presents new works chosen by a group of professionals from various locations and backgrounds. Each month, one of these curators will present the work of an experimental artist working in video, film, animation, or new media in the Vox Populi Project Space.
Fourth Wall at Vox Populi presents new works chosen by a group of professionals from various locations and backgrounds. Each month, one of these curators will present the work of an experimental artist working in video, film, animation, or new media in the Vox Populi Project Space.
Harvest
Chaja Hertog, Nir
Nadler - Video
An abnormal phenomenon occurs in an olive grove as one of the trees
evokes an uprising. Inspired by the ancient olive harvesting methods in which
aggression and cultivation come together, the film portrays the absurdity of
enforced ideologies and the impossibility of taming the wild.
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devynn emory’s Personal
Public: On Gender Variance in Performance Art
September’s exhibition examines the
importance of asserting gender identification in art, particularly in
performance art where the body is a fundamental part of the work and the artist
invites the viewer into this personal, physical space. In conversation with and
through investigation of the work of devynn emory, a dancer and choreographer
based in New York, the exhibition considers queer performance and its influence
on social structures.
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ARTIST RECEPTION: Friday, September 5, 6:00 – 10:00
PM
The title of the exhibition references
Guy de Maupassant’s short story in which the protagonist witnesses the passing
of a strange ship along a familiar waterway, and begins to experience haunting
hallucinations. Written in diary form, Le Horla chronicles the anxiety of an
individual whose perception of reality has become ungrounded. With an inability
to control his most intimate settings, familiar objects and spaces become
actors in discorporate narratives.
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Andrew Brehm
Hominine takes viewers cave-deep into a
prehistoric lovers-stalemate through sculptures and live audio works. Hominine is
installation as a sitcom of objects, each part humorously lampooning the
eternal struggle of long-term relationships, investment strategies, and
modernization. Join the artist for two live-reading performances on opening
night or enjoy the sculpture as a recording throughout the month of August.
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ARTIST RECEPTION: Friday, September 5, 6:00 – 10:00
PM
Jenny McGee Dougherty, Selena Kimball, Tyler Starr
McGee Dougherty's subtle works transcend the
parameters of both fiber and paper by collecting marks, scruffs and
textures. She then translates these impressions into a visual narrative
of her surroundings. “I read the paper every morning but never finish
it.” admits Selena Kimball. Instead
she reworks the pages’ images, texts, crinkles and stains to fashion new
histories from the recent past. Tyler Starr's mixed media works
investigate the history of geographical sites where an unsolved tragedy has
occurred. Basing his collages in research gathered from sensationalized
journalism.
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Locks Gallery
600 Washington Square South
Philadelphia, PA 19106
ARTIST RECEPTION: Friday,
September 5, 5:30 – 7:30 PM
Locks gallery exhibition program presents new works by
mid-career artists while introducing the work of emerging artists to a national
audience. Survey and thematic exhibitions of work by essential artists of the
20th-century including Louise Bourgeois, Robert Motherwell, Louise Nevelson and
George Segal, are regular highlights of the gallery exhibition program.
Virgil Marti
Marti will bring together new works with other
recontextualized projects, highlighting his own investigation of the sublime
and romanticism throughout history. Marti’s art merges his passion for
Americana with his distinctive explorations of the world of domestic interiors.
