This November...

Join Manifesto-ish for a another thrilling online panel discussion:

Snap Happy is a video discussion regarding the effect of digital photography and social media on the field of photography.

The discussion will occur in mid-November

Discussion statement:

Photography has long been a medium of the masses. Accessibility alone has caused an immense proliferation of amateur imagery in this arena. Professional photographers have had a long row to hoe regarding differentiation between low and high skilled snapping. With the onset of digital imaging technology as well as social media, the aforementioned proliferation has sky rocketed. For those of us unfortunate enough to participate in the world of social media with regularity, we find ourselves bombarded by personal photography. I have spent many a misplaced minute scrolling through the Facebook photo albums of friends of friends (aka people I don’t know). Even beyond social media, the internet is photo-laced. These images often appear apart from context and origin.

It feels as though the photographic playing field has changed yet again. Manifesto-ish has invited a handful of photographers and artists to participate in this online discussion. At this point our roster includes:

Mark Havens
Stefan Znoskso
Sean Corbett
Matt Zigler
Lauren McCarty
Christopher J. Butler

Here's a link to the Facebook event:

https://www.facebook.com/events/450885008357860/

--Jessie Clark & the Manifesto-ish crew

www.manifesto-ish.com

'Making IT' Exhibition to Showcase Work by Recent UArts Alumni

Juried show, featuring the classes of 2003 through 2013, takes place October 10 – 26 in Hamilton and Arronson Galleries

"Vines" by April Field BFA '11 (Jewelry).

Making IT: Alumni Works '03-'13" is a juried exhibition of works by recent alumni. Over 150 works were submitted by UArts alumni from the classes of 2003 through 2013, including undergraduate and graduate alumni. The 57 works that were selected create a coherent and innovative exhibition, showcasing the excellence and artistic diversity of our recent alumni.

This is the first year the exhibit includes an invitational portion. This year's invited artists are Michele Kishita BFA '97 (Painting), MFA '10 (Painting) and John Souter BFA '12 (Crafts), whose work will be featured in Arronson Gallery.

Making IT will be on display October 10 – 26 in the lobby of Hamilton Hall and the adjacent Arronson Gallery (320 South Broad Street), with an opening reception scheduled for Friday, October 18 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

"Composite 1" by Mason Owens BFA '13 (Multidisciplinary Fine Arts).

Thank you to the Making IT jury for their time and expertise: alumna and faculty member Shelley Spector BFA '94 (Fine Arts); alumnae Veronica Cianfrano MFA '10 (Painting) and Jessica Clark MFA '10 (Painting), both co-founders and curators at CHER (CHampions of Empty Rooms); alumnus and faculty member Jordan Rockford BFA '00 (Photography); student and Gallery One President Sydney Andrews '15 (Multidisciplinary Fine Arts); and Christopher Sharrock, dean, College of Art, Media & Design at the University of the Arts.

The alumni show will coincide with DesignPhiladelphia, the nation's largest city-wide celebration of design being held October 10 – 18;Philadelphia Open Studio Tours, a program of the Center for Emerging Visual Artists October 19 – 20; and the University's Family and Alumni Weekend, which will take place October 18 – 20.

"Disconnected" by Crystal Shephard BFA '09 (Graphic Design).

2013 "Making IT" Selected Artists

Michael Barakat MID '11 (Industrial Design)
David Boyd BFA '12 (Illustration)
Lorenzo Buffa BS '12 (Industrial Design)
Samantha Castrale BFA '11 (Photography)
Jonathan Chase BFA '13 (Painting/Drawing)
Marianne Dages BFA '04 (Photography)
Cory Espinosa BFA '12 (Multidisciplinary Fine Art)
April Field BFA '11 (Jewelry)
Regina Flath BFA '09 (Illustration)
Gina Herrera MFA '12 (Studio Art)
James Kaminski BFA '12 (Illustration)
James Lincke BFA '08 (Illustration)
April Melchior BFA '12 (Illustration)
Kelsey Niziolek BFA '12 (Illustration)
Mason Owens BFA '13 (Multidisciplinary Fine Arts)
Nancy Gail Ring MFA '10 (Painting)
Leontien Rotteveel BFA '06 (Crafts)
Natalie Rzucidlo BFA '10 (Book Arts/Printmaking)
Susan Seaton MFA '04 (Painting)
Crystal Shephard BFA '09 (Graphic Design)
Lindsay Sparagana BFA '06 (Photography)
Timothy Walsh BFA '07 (Graphic Design)
Shannah Warwick BFA '02 (Printmaking)
George Wylesol BFA '12 (Illustration)
Keith Yahrling BFA '08 (Photography0
Matt Zigler MFA '10 (Painting)

Death Do Us Part: a collection of works by Texas based artist Marshall Harris (MFA '10)

Death Do Us Part 
October 12th-November 16th, 2013
Dallas’ Red Arrow Contemporary

Death Do Us Part brings an unprecedented collection of unusually large and startling artworks to Red Arrow Contemporary in Dallas on October 12. Artist Marshall Harris of Fort Worth, noted for his large-scale, hyper-realistic drawings, exhibits more than a dozen creations at his debut solo show.

Winner of the 2013 Hunting Art Prize, Mr. Harris combines a number of works in myriad media – including several of his distinctive graphite-on-Mylar drawings, photography, cast-resin sculpture and a video creation - comprising a multi-faceted perspective on death.

“The term death is most often associated with the end of something – life being the obvious example - but when considered in broader terms, it can be redefined as transition. The finish of something becomes the start of another. Death marks the transitional point from the arrival at an ending and departure to a beginning,” Mr. Harris says.

His compositions in works seen in Death Do Us Part examine the details found in such transitions. He believes that “death can be the moment when a loved one becomes a departed relative, or a functional item transforms into something uniquely familiar but no longer what it was. Life causes an instant and unalterable effect on everything around us– as does death.”

The centerpiece of Death Do Us Part, “Stripping the Flesh and Bone of this Mortal Coil,” is a 2-D/3-D installation. Among its components is a 25-foot-long cloudscape drawing in graphite on Mylar, untraditionally hung in the center of the gallery to allow viewing from both sides. Suspended above the drawing is an installation of thousands of obituary photographs of the dearly departed.

Another study of a subject in post-life, “9”, Mr. Harris’ series of a feline skull provides an illuminating view of a tiny subject, a look at crevices, cavities, teeth and the porous nature of bone in ways impossible to access in life.

A Fort Worth native, Mr. Harris earned his fine arts degree from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth and an MFA from University of the Arts in Philadelphia. While working on drawings, he teaches at TCU in Fort Worth.

Death Do Us Part continues until November 16

Red Arrow Contemporary
1130 Dragon St., Suite 110
Dallas, TX 75207
redarrowcontemporary.com

 www.marshallharrisstudios.com

AJ Bredensteiner and his Animal Friends

Check out the cutest of all web-based art projects:

http://theanimalfriends.com/

Zac Pritchard @ Dick Blick

check out the work of a current MFA grad student  

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What I'm Thinking: Sculptural Drawings by Zachary Saloman Pritchard

This month at Dick Blick, sculptor Zac Pritchard explores his two-dimensional side with a number of 

" Large, Small, Colored, and Black and White drawings."

Dick Blick

1330 Chestnut Street

Philadelphia, PA 19107

The show runs for the length of October. Here's a link to more information:

click here

Terri Saulin Frock: The Garden of Forking Paths @ Tiger Strikes Asteroid

Terri Saulin Frock: The Garden of Forking Paths

October 4 – October 27, 2013

Opening Reception: Friday, October 4, 2013, 6pm -10pm

PHILADELPHIA, PA-

Tiger Strikes Asteroid welcomes you to our October exhibition, The Garden of Forking Paths. The show features the work of TSA member Terri Saulin Frock.  This is her second solo exhibition with the gallery. Please join us for the Opening Reception Friday October 4, 2013, 6-10pm

“The Garden of Forking Paths is an incomplete, but not false, image of the universe as Ts’ui Pên conceived it. In contrast to Newton and Schopenhauer, your ancestor did not believe in a uniform, absolute time. He believed in an infinite series of times, in a growing, dizzying net of divergent, convergent and parallel times. This network of times which approached one another, forked, broke off, or were unaware of one another for centuries, embraces all possibilities of time. We do not exist in the majority of these times; in some you exist, and not I; in others I, and not you; in others, both of us. In the present one, which a favorable fate has granted me, you have arrived at my house; in another, while crossing the garden, you found me dead; in still another, I utter these same words, but I am a mistake, a ghost.”

- Jorge Luis Borges

Saulin Frock considers The Garden of Forking Paths a chapter in an endeavor that has been developing over the past ten years.  As drawings and objects accumulate, they function as “visual counterpoint," layering information to produce an imagined time-lapse view/code of a world. The vocabulary of forms is culled from a variety of sources such as maps of her urban garden, home renovation, travels abroad, the writings of Jorge Luis Borges, and Glenn Gould's "Goldberg Variations: The Well Tempered Clavier."

Terri Saulin Frock received her MFA from the University of the Arts and her BFA from Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia. Currently, she is teaching the course "Critical Discourse" at Moore College of Art & Design, and a variety of ceramics and sculpture classes in the BFA & Young Artist’s Workshop programs. Additionally, Terri Saulin Frock also teaches Pre-school classes to children at Society Hill Synagogue.

Terri Saulin Frock: The Garden of Forking Paths

October 4 – October 27, 2013

Opening Reception: Friday, October 4, 2013, 6pm -10pm

Tiger Strikes Asteroid

319 N. 11th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107

http://philadelphia.tigerstrikesasteroid.com/

* Partial funding for this exhibition has come from a Faculty Development Grant from Moore College of Art and Design.

Many Thanks!

* This show is dedicated to the loving memory and history of friendship Terri shared with Deborah Ann Deery.

Thank you Deborah for your constant and generous positive energy, support and brilliant light that shines in all you have touched.