Paloma and Raúl in San Serriffe, a 16mm film and an accompanying sculptural installation by NEXUS alum J. Makary will
be on view March 12 through April 4, 2010, at Powel House Museum in Philadelphia. The result of a months-long collaboration with NEXUS member and composer Michael McDermott (Mikronesia), Paloma and Raúl in San Serriffe plays with period settings and characters and has a dance in it. A free public reception opens the show on March 12 from 5 pm to 9 pm — Mikronesia performs live at 6 pm!
Paloma and Raúl in San Serriffe is an Independent Project of Philagrafika 2010, Philadelphia’s international festival celebrating print in contemporary art, and is presented by the Philadelphia Society for the Preservation of Landmarks and Landmarks Exhibitions: Contemporary Projects.
Read more about San Serriffe here, and more about the project here.
Location and hours:
Powel House Museum
244 S. 3rd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
215-627-0364
www.philalandmarks.org
Thursday-Saturday, noon-5 pm
Sunday, 1 pm-5 pm
Monday, December 14th, 2009
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
Damon Reaves is participating in Shelter at the Painted Bride in Philadelphia. In this multimedia exhibition, 17 Philadelphia artists collaborated with ten Philadelphia households, whose homes were restored by volunteers from Rebuilding Together Philadelphia. The show runs from November 4th – December 16th, 2009 with an opening reception Friday, November 6, 5:00 – 7:00. Damon will be presenting a new performance piece at 6pm during the opening. For more info visit: http://paintedbride.org
Saturday, September 19th, 2009
Written up in theartblog.org/ (thanks Libby!)
Link
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
Janell Olah is participating in Soft Space: Architecture in Contemporary Art as part of the Seventh Annual Curators’ Incubator Program Exhibition at Maryland Art Place. The show runs from September 15 – October 24, with an opening reception on Thursday, September 24 from 5-9, and a gallery talk on Thursday, October 8 at 6:00. Soft Space: Architecture in Contemporary Art is curated by Margaret Winslow and also includes artists Ronald Longsdorf and Stephen Ruszkowski. Visit http://www.mdartplace.org/index.html for further details.
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
“Metanexus is multidisciplinary. Our aim is to promote collaborative research and dialogue between the arts, humanities, and the sciences within higher education. We currently have over 200 projects at universities in 42 countries. While Metanexus’ projects and The Global Spiral reach an international audience, we are locally based and hold events and lectures throughout the year for the Philadelphia region. Each monthly issue of The Global Spiral features original art in a forum that we call Visual Explorations.”
The direct link to the Visual Explorations page is: http://www.metanexus.net/magazine/tabid/68/id/10869/Default.aspx
