2011
IN THE STUDIO: HONORING MOE BROOKER
October 1 – November 12, 2011
An exhibition of colorful large-scale works by Moore Professor of Fine Arts Moe Brooker.
JAUNE QUICK-TO-SEE SMITH: I SEE RED, PAINTINGS AND PRINTS 1992-2005
September 24 – December 10, 2011
An exhibition that surveys the work of 2011 Visionary Woman Award recipient and acclaimed artist Jaune Quick-To-See-Smith. Elaborating on her native heritage and worldview, Smith's richly layered juxtapositions of text and imagery address contemporary tribal politics, human rights and environmental issues with a sophisticated combination of humor and wit.
An internationally renowned painter and printmaker of Salish, French-Cree, and Shoshone heritage, Smith was born in 1940 in St. Ignatius, Montana, and raised on the Flathead Reservation. She earned a BA in Art Education from Framingham State College, Massachusetts, and an MFA from the University of New Mexico. Smith has been awarded three Honorary Doctorates from Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Pennsylvania Academy of the Arts and Massachusetts College of Art.
In addition to lecturing at over 185 universities, museums and conferences around the world, Smith has also shown her work in more than 90 solo exhibitions. Her work has been reviewed by The New York Times, ArtNews, Art in America, Art Forum, The New Art Examiner, among many other notable publications. She has curated numerous Native American exhibitions and serves as an activist and spokesperson for contemporary Native art. She is in many private and public international collections, most notably: The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; The Museum of Mankind, Vienna, Austria; The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; The Museum of Modern Art, Quito, Ecuador; and The Museum of Modern Art, NY.
Perhaps the most acclaimed Native American female artist of the late twentieth century, Smith has received the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters Grant, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women’s Caucus for the Arts, the College Art Association’s Committee on Women in the Arts Award, the 2005 New Mexico Governor’s Outstanding New Mexico Woman’s Award, and the 2005 New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts (Allan Houser Award). In 2012, the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum will present a retrospective of Smith’s paintings and works on paper to be exhibited as part of the museum’s internationally recognized “Living Artists of Distinction” series.
JANE’S CAROUSEL: THE MAKING OF A NEW YORK LANDMARK
September 24 – December 10, 2011
An exhibition that follows the dedicated efforts of Jane Walentas, a Moore alumna and 2011 Visionary Woman Award recipient, who spent more than two decades restoring an historic carousel now housed in a Jean Nouvel-designed pavilion in New York’s Brooklyn Bridge Park.
DESIGNLAB: GABRIEL BOYCE + PRESTON LINK, ROCK
September 10 - November 26, 2011
Using cutting-edge design programs and advanced fabrication methods, Boyce and Link collaborated with staff at Philadelphia’s NextFab Studio to create a 500-pound replica of a rock created through digital rendering and nearly 200 layers of laser-cut, multi-colored acrylic sheets.
Featuring the collaborative work of artists Gabriel Boyce and Preston Link, this exhibition showcases their application of new technologies through a recent partnership with NextFab Studio in University City. Using cutting-edge design programs to redevelop a two-year-in-the-making, ongoing project, the artists use advanced fabrication methods to realize a progressive interpretation of Rock – an ever-evolving concept that was grown out of a cell phone image taken in January of 2009. With the assistance of Lewis Colburn and Stephanie Koenig, staff members and working artists at NextFab, Boyce & Link create a 500 pound replica of their ‘rock’ through digital rendering and the assembly of nearly 200 layers of laser-cut, multi-colored acrylic sheets.
Gabriel Boyce received his MFA from Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2002 and Preston Link received his BFA from Pennsylvania State University in 2005. They have been working collaboratively for over 3 years and have recently shown together in Breaking News at Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA; Works on Paper at Arcadia University, Glenside, PA; Pailling Around with Socialists at U-Turn Art Space in Cincinnati, OH; and they maintain an ongoing web-based photography project at www.citysecrets.info.
NextFab Studio is a membership-based, high-tech workshop and custom fabrication center located in Philadelphia’s University City Science Center. With equipment ranging from traditional machining and woodworking to computer-controlled milling and 3D printing, NextFab provides members and clients with expert instruction and problem-solving to meet their fabrication needs. This project is made possible through the studio assistance of NextFab staff members Lewis Colburn & Stephanie Koenig.
SIGNE WILKINSON: THE WORLD IN LINE!
August 20 – October 15, 2011
This exhibition celebrates the work of Signe Wilkinson, a 2011 Visionary Woman Award recipient and the first woman to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize (1992) for cartooning. The show includes a selection of editorial cartoons produced by Signe for the Daily News for the past two decades, as well as works from Family Tree, her daily comic strip following a family's attempts to live green in modern, chemically dependent America.
GRADUATE THESIS EXHIBITION
August 6 – September 10, 2011
Featuring final thesis work by candidates in Moore's graduate programs: MA in Art Education with an Emphasis in Special Populations, MFA in Interior Design and MFA in Studio Art.
CISSIE LEVY: FROM MY POINT OF VIEW
June 25 – Oct 12, 2011
Capturing figures on the beach in multiple perspectives, Moore alumna Rochelle Levy’s (’79) recent large-scale oil paintings are figurative landscapes that function as meditations on perception.
DESIGNLAB | KARL ALLEN + JACOB KEHS: THAT HOTEL
May 28 – August 27, 2011
Influenced by modern methods of taxidermy, the science of botany and human interaction with the animal kingdom, this life-sized diorama is a collaboration between exhibition designer and technician Karl Allen and Philadelphia-based artist Jacob Kehs.
Featuring the collaborative work of exhibition designer & technician, Karl Allen and Philadelphia-based artist, Jacob Kehs, this exhibition presents a life-sized diorama that bridges their mutual interest in natural history. Influenced by modern methods of taxidermy, the science of botany and human interaction with the animal kingdom, the pair present an environment where identities become blurred in the translation of what is real and imagined. The result is a display that reflects the world around us, where fantasy and reality intermingle through a technologically innovative, didactic and interactive display of visual oddities.
Karl Allen is currently an MFA candidate in the Museum Exhibition, Planning and Design program at The University of the Arts and received his BA in Theatre from Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York. Jacob Kehs is a Philadelphia-based artist currently working in mixed media, he received his BFA in Ceramics from Penn State University and co-directs STORAGE, an alternative artist-run gallery space in South Philadelphia.
SEEING THROUGH YOUNG EYES: INSIDE THE PHILADELPHIA CLASSROOM & COMMUNITY
May 25 – September 10, 2011
An exhibition of photographs and writing created by students participating in Learning Through Photography, Moore’s outreach initiative focusing on the impact of art education on learning and improving literacy for school-age youth.
PROJECT 35: REDUX
June 3 – July 30, 2011
Produced and circulated by iCI (Independent Curators International), Project 35 is an international video exhibition of historic and contemporary works selected by 35 curators from around the globe.
Project 35 is a year-long international video exhibition of historic and contemporary works selected by 35 curators from around the globe, where each was invited to select one artist’s video that they consider a vital addition to any contemporary audience’s repertoire. Shown in 4 parts over the past 10 months, this final installation of the series, curated by Gabrielle Lavin and Elizabeth Gilly, interim co-directors of The Galleries at Moore, will highlight and make arguments for a small selection of the original 35 videos to extend the dialogue about ideas on contemporary art video and its associated impact on a community, reaching beyond the cinematic formalities.
Project 35 is produced and circulated by iCI (Independent Curators International), New York. The exhibition and tour are made possible, in part, by grants from the Cowles Charitable Trust; Foundation for Contemporary Art; the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation; The Toby Fund; and iCI Benefactors Agnes Gund, Gerrit and Sydie Lansing, Jo Carole Lauder, and Barbara and John Robinson. Independent Curators International
FIVE INTO ONE
May 21 – June 18, 2011
Hosted annually by Moore and organized by Philadelphia Sculptors, Five Into One features work by recent graduates from BFA and MFA programs at five Philadelphia art & design schools, including: Moore College of Art & Design; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Tyler School of Art; University of Pennsylvania; and The University of the Arts.
SENIOR SHOW 2011
April 27 – May 15, 2011
An annual exhibition featuring work created by graduating seniors in Moore’s BFA programs.
ANNUAL FELLOWSHIP EXHIBITION & STUDENT SHOW
March 25 – April 16, 2011
An exhibition featuring work by third-year students competing for highly coveted travel fellowships, as well as work created by first, second and third-year students from all of Moore’s BFA programs.
DESIGNLAB 20/10: SARAH VAN AKEN + BRENNA MURPHY
February 7 – April 16, 2011
The final installation of the original DesignLab series in which emerging, Philadelphia-based fashion designers and artists collaboratively create an “environment” that incorporates the pair’s distinctive creative sensibilities.
MEL KADEL: SPACING AWAKE
January 29 – April 16, 2011
California-based artist and Moore alumna Mel Kadel (’97) creates detail-rich ink drawings that depict strong and defiant figures enduring and persisting through various trials and adventures in highly imaginative worlds.
INTRODUCTION ‘11: PROGRAM FELLOWS FROM THE CENTER FOR EMERGING VISUAL ARTISTS
January 31 – February 19, 2011
Organized by The Center for Emerging Visual Artists in cooperation with The Galleries at Moore, this exhibition is a first look at the work of CFEVA’s newest Career Development Program fellows.
FRANCES TROMBLY: EVERYTHING AND NOTHING
January 29 – March 15, 2011
Riffing on Duchamp’s notion of the readymade, Frances Trombly’s laboriously crafted sculptures are meticulous recreations of mundane objects that normally escape our attention.
JENNY DRUMGOOLE: REAL WOMAN OF PHILADELPHIA
January 29 – March 15, 2011
Philadelphia-based multimedia artist Jenny Drumgoole incorporates photography, performance, and video into extra-disciplinary actions that question our obsession with celebrity and desire, and probe the limits and illusions of individuality in popular culture.
Jenny Drumgoole is a Philadelphia-based multimedia artist who incorporates photography, performance, and video into extradisciplinary actions inserted into the public domain. Her video-based performance work involves the artist physically and virtually infiltrating competitive events with subversive art actions. From serving as a “wingette" at the annual Wingbowl in South Philadelphia to submitting how-to cooking videos for a Philadelphia Cream Cheese on-line recipe contest sponsored by Kraft Foods/Paula Deen entitled, “The Real Women of Philadelphia,” Drumgoole traverses art’s institutional boundaries to perform humorous, yet critical actions that raise questions about our obsessions with celebrity, desire, and the limits and illusions of individuality in popular culture. The exhibition at Moore will feature all nine of the artist’s video recipe submissions as well as documentation and ephemera related to her participation in the contest. Drumgoole received an MFA in Photography from the Yale School of Art in 2006. This is her first solo exhibition in Philadelphia.
DESIGNLAB: SHEILA FRANK + ANNE SCHAEFER
December 11, 2010 – January 29, 2011
A collaborative, site-specific installation that brings together the architectural silhouettes of fashion designer Sheila Frank and artist Anne Schaefer’s immersive geometric wall installations.
CONVERSATIONS: ANNUAL ALUMNAE EXHIBITION
January 29 – March 12, 2011
An annual juried exhibition featuring recent work created by Moore alumnae.