Osorio, a professor of art and co-chair of the Community Arts Program at Tyler—as well as a 1999 MacArthur Fellow, former social worker, and internationally celebrated artist—roots his artistic process in community. For decades, he has been committed to a dialogical approach to art-making that explores the cultural, political, and social contexts in which we live, with participation a key aspect of his work.
Read MoreDisrupting our sense of sight and ability to touch, Kip suggests that constructing the familiar is a habit of our senses. In upsetting our patterns, he causes us to acknowledge that we build our worlds through objects that nourish the tendencies of routine.
Read MoreDave Heath (b. Philadelphia 1931) was abandoned by his family at an early age, growing up in the Philadelphia foster care system. This lack of a true sense of belonging clearly shaped both his need to connect with the world through photography and the sense of longing and solitude that hovers thick in the air around his work.
Read MoreLarry Clark’s Tulsa is as shocking today as it was over 40 years ago. How society raises its children is beyond the scope of this review. But it is worth seeing this show to stir up thoughts about the issue.
Read MoreFor many middle-upper class people who experienced (or have relatives who experienced) the booming financial glory and suburban development of post-WWII USA, Becky Suss’ paintings may look just like home. Or, for anyone in love with mid-century modern design, they may look like your dream home.
Read MoreBayside Revisited is Gabriel Martinez’s elegy, and perhaps also his eulogy, to a rare place and to a community where gay men were free openly to express their sexuality in the early 1980s. The exhibition is a celebration of that place and that freedom, tragically punctuated by the devastating epidemic of AIDS, which killed thousands of gay men in the decade that followed and derailed an emancipating sexual revolution that had flourished with promise in the 1970s.
Read MoreThe Master of Science in Surface Imaging program at Philadelphia University is excited to host a Surface Imaging Symposium as part of DesignPhiladelphia 2015.
Read MoreEnter Bridgette Mayer Gallery–a space well known for its contemporary displays of landscape, photography, and the modern medium–and home to Experience of Place. The current exhibition highlights the works of Eileen Neff and Sharon Harper (Bridgette Mayer veterans), Jessica Backues, Michael Eastman, and Brea Souders, and creates a dialogue between five different artists translating their vision of place.
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