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HERE: What is the role of “place” in art?
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idea of “regionalism” as an unfashionable term that references only the
parochial or the provincial, and highlights, instead, the fact that many communities
have begun to place greater importance on how history and place
define them in a globalized world. By presenting a diverse range of compelling
artistic practices seen through the eyes of curators who live and work
in the regions, HERE provides a platform for artists from six regions and
opens a broader discussion about what regionalism can mean to American
art today.
Artists represented in the exhibition are: Lewis Colburn, Jennifer Levonian,
Megawords,Tim Portlock / Michael Krueger, Erika Nelson, Aaron Storck,
Whoop Dee Doo / Bunk News, Paul Coors, Terence Hammonds, Katie
Parker and Guy Michael Davis / Liz Cohen, Scott Hocking, Chido Johnson,
Abigail Newbold / Elsewhere Collaborative, Harrison Haynes, Stacy-Lynn
Waddell, Glenda Wharton / Sue Chenoweth, Postcommodity, Aaron Rothman,
and Gregory Sale.
The exhibition curators are: Julien Robson, Curator of Contemporary Art
at PAFA; Christopher Cook, Director and Curator at the Salina Art Center,
Salina, Kansas; Mark Harris, Director of the School of Art at the University
of Cincinnati; Rebecca Hart, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the
Detroit Institute of Arts; Claire Schneider, Independent Curator; and Teka
Selman, Assistant Director of the MFA in Experimental and Documentary
Arts at Duke University
The William Penn Foundation is the presenting sponsor of
HERE. Support for the HERE catalogue is provided by the
Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation.
PAFA’s special exhibitions in 2011-12 are supported by
generous contributions from Max N. Berry, Esq, Donald R. Caldwell, and Jonathan L. Cohen.
Photo: Barbara Katus
Photo: Tom Crane
Michael Krueger, Night Falls, 2011, Colored pencil on paper, 40 x 30 in., Photo courtesy the artist
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Samuel M. V. Hamilton Building
Environmental Perspectives, A Landscape Show
Now on View in PAFA’s Alumni Sales Gallery
On view in PAFA’s Alumni Sales Gallery through October 23 is Environmental Perspectives, A Landscape
Show. This group exhibition features works by Alton Bowman, Philip Cohn, Beth Clark, Kevin Broad, Paul
Metrinko, John Pacer, Andrea Packard, Ben Pines, Sunny Ra, Judith Thomas, Elizabeth Wilson, and Julie Zahn.
The PAFA Alumni Sales Gallery celebrates the work by 12 artists who studied at the Academy from 1946-
2011. The Academy has a long history of artists who were inspired and influenced by landscape including
representation in its permanent collection by alumni Louis Sloan, Thomas Dougherty, and T. Alexander Harrison.
This exhibition focuses on work of varying perspectives and subjects from around the country. On view will be
Alton Bowman’s Wildflower Desk, reflecting his involvement in restoring and building marquetry furniture and
his passion for preservation of the native prairies in his hometown of Flower Mound, Texas. Andrea Packard
builds her piece, Dreaming of Redon, from collected papers and fabrics using memory and her reference for
nature.
Paul Metrinko, Philip Cohn, and Elizabeth Wilson employ a romantic and sensual approach to their subjects.
Metrinko, who is the recipient of the PAFA Purchase Prize for 2011, uses his paint to transform a dumpster into
a beautiful, colorful form. Cohn romanticizes the Philadelphia Waterworks with idyllic figures basking on the
grass. Wilson uses light, color, and form to create atmosphere of calm and solitary reflection.
Sunny Ra, Judith Thomas, and Beth Clark use memory and their medium to make unique landscapes that
transcend place and delve into the psychological and emotional. Passion for color is evident in most of these
artists’ works; however, Julie Zahn’s print and Ben Pines’s oil paintings exude a mysterious quality as well. And,
John Pacer’s Falling Sky, is playful and somber at the same time. Kevin Broad explores the balance between
color and shape to create a beautiful new reality.
Environmental Perspectives, A Landscape Show was juried by Bill Scott, a painter and printmaker who lives
in Philadelphia. Mr. Scott studied at PAFA in the 1970s and has been teaching there since 2006. He is represented
by the Hollis Gallery, New York, where he will have a solo exhibition in fall 2011. Pat Stewart is Adjunct
Associate Professor in Liberal Arts at University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Ms. Stewart teaches courses on
20th century and contemporary art and has published several articles.
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Judith Thomas, 2002-07, Cromarty (detail), 2010, 7.5 x 13.5 in., oil
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