THROUGH SATURDAY, JANUARY 24
Thomas Pontone and John Mitchell: Cogma
This two-person show at Space 1026 features sculpture by Philadelphia-based artist Thomas Pontone (including Parade, 2015, pictured) and John Mitchell. View by appointment, or attend what is sure to be a buzzing closing reception on Saturday, January 24 at 7pm.
THROUGH SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7
Jesse G. Engaard, Mami Kato, and Teresa Rose: Wind Challenge Exhibition Series
View work by some of the most recent winners of the annual Wind Challenge juried exhibition series at Fleisher Art Memorial, including Jesse G. Engaard’s performative video installation, Mami Kato’s intimate sculpture, and Theresa Rose’s magical cityscapes (pictured).
THROUGH SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15
Richard Harrod: Bad for the Goldfish
Philadelphia artist Richard Harrod’s third exhibition at Marginal Utility draws inspiration from Winnie-the-Pooh author A. A. Milne’s essay “Goldfish”—a meditation on the cultural symbolism of this domestic pet. Milne concludes that the goldfish is “a symbol of enterprise and endurance, of restlessness… he is contemporary.”
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4 – SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28
Dina Wind: Transformations
Noted Philadelphia sculptor Dina Wind sadly passed away in 2014. Bridgette Mayer Gallery represents Wind’s Estate and this exhibition will explore her contributions to the Philadelphia art scene and to late twentieth-century abstraction and assemblage.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 23 – FRIDAY, MARCH 6
Zoe Strauss: Sea Change
In Sea Change, at Haverford College’s Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, celebrated Philadelphia photographer Zoe Strauss traces the landscape of post-climate change America. Lush and leveled landscapes; graffiti pleas and words of encouragement—Strauss’s camera captures lives decimated and dusting off: the fast and slow tragedies of global warming, the damage we can repair, and the damage we can’t.
THROUGH FRIDAY, MARCH 13
Micah Danges: Front/Back
Philadelphia artist Micah Danges’s first solo exhibition at Cabrini College explores an area between image-making and sculpture. His subjects are objects, selected for their personal signifiance and relationship to travel or nature, removed from their surroundings, and then placed into the artist’s own formal environments.
THROUGH SATURDAY, MARCH 14
Anthony Romero: 4th AUX Curatorial Fellowship Performance Series
AUX Performance Space at Vox Populi presents a program series curated by Chicago-based artist and writer Anthony Romero, which interrogates the voice as it intersects with artistic practice: acts of translation, protest, puppetry, queer utopias, and state sanctioned violence.
THROUGH SATURDAY, MARCH 21
Bill Walton
Fleisher/Ollman presents the work of Bill Walton (1931–2010), who created highly refined sculptures that defy categorization. Elegantly simple, most of his objects are tooled from scraps of lumber, metal, glass and linen that are meticulously—and sometimes deceptively—altered by cutting, planing, leafing, and painting. Look back on Bill Walton’s Studio (pictured) at ICA.
THROUGH FRIDAY, MARCH 27
The School of Atha: Collaboration in the Making of Children’s Books
Penn’s Van Pelt Library celebrates the life and work of children’s book designer and art director Atha Tehon. The exhibition is based on the collection of her books and papers recently given to the University of Pennsylvania Libraries by her niece Susan Tehon.
EXTENDED THROUGH SPRING
Joy Feasley and Paul Swenbeck: A Hatchet to Kill Old Ugly
This exhibition at the Fabric Workshop and Museum is inspired by Shaker spirit drawings and magic. Feasley and Swenbeck propose how science, asceticism, and magic are all possible methods of exploring our world, in an exhibition detailing the artists’ fascination with an invisible world that is all around us.
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