Exhibitions

Jun 23, 2023
Moveables
Moveables brings together the work of five artists—Jes Fan, Nikita Gale, Hannah Levy, Ken Lum, and Oren Pinhassi—who are rethinking functional design and its intimate relationship to the human body. Whether reminiscent of a living room, lighting rig, toothbrush holder, or chandelier, these artworks invite us to imagine new possibilities for the objects that shape…
Jun 23, 2023
David Antonio Cruz: When the Children Come Home
When the Children Come Home is an artistic milestone and homecoming for painter and performance artist David Antonio Cruz (born 1974, Philadelphia, PA; lives New York, NY). Born and raised in North Philadelphia by parents who migrated from Humacao, Puerto Rico, Cruz embraces a sense of home that defies conventional definitions. For him, home can…
Jun 21, 2023
The Philadelphia Inquirer: An artist forces us to imagine a world without images
An artist forces us to imagine a world without images By Meredith Sellers for The Philadelphia Inquirer June 14, 2023 When one enters Carolyn Lazard’s show, “Long Take” at ICA Philadelphia, they stand in a dark, mostly empty room. Sounds of scuffling, shifting, and breathing come from speakers hung on all sides; voices directing and…
Jun 13, 2023
Jes Fan
Jes Fan has an interdisciplinary practice that explores the intersection of biology and identity and examines social constructs of race and gender., Originally trained in glassmaking, Fan combines hand blown cellular glass forms with casts made from sections of human bodies, cast in aqua resin. To these works, he often incorporates living matter as well…
Jun 13, 2023
Nikita Gale 
Nikita Gale explores the relationship between materials, power, and attention through an innovative creative practice. Gale’s work probes the ways in which silence, noise, and visibility function as political positions and conditions. The artist’s installations—often comprising concrete, barricades, video, and automated sound and lighting—blur formal and disciplinary boundaries, and engage with concerns of mediation and automation…
Jun 13, 2023
Ken Lum
Ken Lum (he/him) is known for his conceptual and representational art in a number of media, including painting, sculpture and photography. A longtime professor, he currently is the Chair of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania’s Stuart Weitzman School of Design in Philadelphia. He previously taught at the University of British Columbia, Bard College,…
Jun 13, 2023
Hannah Levy
Hannah Levy is creates large-scale anthropomorphic sculptures of steel and silicone that marry aesthetics of industrial design with organic forms. Levy has had recent institutional solo exhibitions at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), CA (2022) and the Arts Club of Chicago, IL (2021) and been featured in group exhibitions at CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson,…
Jun 13, 2023
Oren Pinhassi
Oren Pinhassi examines the relationship between the human figure, nature and the built environment in his evocative installations. His sculptures are frequently a combination of the superfluous and the ergonomic, erring towards the utopian. They mimic familiar objects, seeking to render visible the ways that humankind builds the world in its own image. Pinhassi’s work has…