November
13, 2009 – January 8, 2010
InLiquid Art
+ Design Video Installation
Leslie Rogers’
Chinnin' Out
A installation by performer and visual artist Leslie Rogers
featuring unscripted video monologues by "chin puppets" who,
with their identities scantily removed, attempt to make meaning
of the world.
November
13, 2009 – January 8, 2010
Penn Abroad
Photo Contest
The annual Penn Abroad
photo contest is a showcase of University of Pennsylvania students'
interpretation of the host communities where they lived, studied
and explored. The photos capture beautiful, often insightful
images experienced outside of their home country.
January
15 - March 6, 2010
InLiquid Art
+ Design Video Installation
Homeland curated
by Colette Copeland
The term “Homeland” has
historically been defined as a specific physical place –one’s
native land or a region/territory that is closely identified
with a particular people or ethnic group, connoting nostalgia,
yearning and alignment with personal identity. Since the development
of the US Homeland Security Act, this definition is called into
question. In thinking about this issue, I was interested in
how video artists question/challenge/explore/redefine the notion
of homeland in an age of in/security. – Colette Copeland
January
15 - March 6, 2010
Radiologic
Images
In conjunction with The
Medical Film Symposium, Art @ International House
features an exhibit of medical photography by InLiquid Art +
Design Executive Director Rachel Zimmerman and John Boyko.
These two heads are of
infants, without any pathology. Enlarged to 50” x 50” the skulls
become something quite different. Not only are they out of scale
and larger than life, they are profoundly beautiful. X-Rays
are a dying technology in neuroradiology; once so common and
now out of date. These images are also a combination of the
old and new - skulls of infants who are now adults printed on
an older medium (canvas) using a newer printing method (archival
ink jet print). – John Boyko and Rachel Zimmerman
March
8 - March 14, 2010
The Women's
Caucus for Art
WOMEN: An International
Women's Day Exhibition
In conjunction with the
International Women's Day Panel, this exhibit showcases work
from WCA Philadelphia members including Alison Altergott, Ellen
Bonett, Timothea Canny, Molly Crowley, Veronica Gledhill, Marie
Elcin, Deborah McCarthy, Bonnie MacAllister, Marcelle Pachnowski,
Sonia Sherrod, and Michelle Wilson. Through diverse mediums,
these artists chronicle their experiences through imagery of
women at work, cultural representations of the feminine, and
abstract goddess depictions. WOMEN: An International Women's
Day Exhibition, is a partnership between the Women’s Caucus
for Art of Philadelphia, the African Studies Department at the
University of Pennsylvania and One Book, One Philadelphia for
the celebration of the text, Persepolis.
The Women's Caucus
for Art, founded in 1972 in Philadelphia in connection with
the College Art Association (CAA), is a national member organization
unique in its multi-disciplinary, multicultural membership of
artists, art historians, students, educators, and museum professionals.
March
15 - July 3, 2010
PAFA
This exhibit features
current Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts students and IHouse
residents with works of traditional drawing, painting, sculpture
and printmaking to the more contemporary forms such as installation.
PAFA is the oldest art school in the US and International House
Philadelphia is the first IHouse in the world. At PAFA and International
House, talented artists who come from all over the world, unite
their unique visions in a setting which is celebrated for its
cultural diversity in all forms of art.
March
12 - July 3, 2010
InLiquid Art
+ Design Video Installation
Selected Portraits
by David S Kessler
Straddling the lines
between gallery art and documentary film, David S Kessler has
been exploring and manipulating the form of documentary film
to create short works for a gallery context. While maintaining
simple formal properties of traditional documentary film, Kessler’s
videos eschew information, opinion, judgment and often-pertinent
details such as names and faces in exchange for tone and character,
allowing the work to remain ambiguous in its subject and subject
matter. Kessler’s work functions more as subjective snapshots
than as objective depictions of specific places and events.
Selected Portraits represents
Kessler’s exploration in documentary portraits beginning with
Bookmaking at Evangelical Manor from 2006 where a group of anonymous
elderly residents describe the things that keep boredom at bay
as they craft their own scrapbooks. Other works include later
episodes of Kessler’s serialized project Shadow World,
which document encounters with strangers under the El track
in Northeast Philadelphia and World of Products, which portrays
P'nina with her passion for selling catalogue items for the
home and her husband, Joel, an amateur inventor.
David S Kessler received his BFA in painting from Montclair
University in 2001. In addition to making short films, he continues
to paint and is currently working on a large body of sculpted
and cast silicone work. Kessler also work in special fx and
puppetry and is CEO and director of the video production company,
Studioscopic, specializing in videos for arts organizations
and non-profits.
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