Art
@ International House is proud to introduce guest curator
Reza
Nahaie-Ghanad. Currently exhibiting and teaching
in Philadelphia,
Reza
received a Master of Fine Arts Degree from PAFA in 2010.
His
works have also been exhibited in, New Jersey, Vermont and
Massachusetts. Reza will curate shows for our East
Gallery. The
West
Gallery
remains dedicated to InLiquid Art + Design Video Installations.
It
Is The Mercy by Joseph Lozano
September
3 – December 3
Opening
Reception – Thursday, September 23 at 6pm
Through
painting-installations, I create a world of abstract objects
based on narratives of water and our relationship to it. These
stories are about striving toward an unreachable goal and
the beautiful brokenness that becomes the purpose of the journey:
encountering the loneliness inherent in the feeling of awe;
the wonder inherent in the banal; and the presence inherent
in a void. – Joseph Lozano
Inspired
by the story of sailor and businessman Donald Crowhurst, this
exhibit expands its narrative beyond its origins. Crowhurst,
in an attempt to win a contest to circumnavigate the globe,
sent false locations and attempted to create the illusion
he was winning the challenge. Sadly he was lost at sea, due
to madness and possibly suicide. This installation carries
many layers: a formal echo both haunting and touchingly frail,
and visual subtleties that carry reminders of previous installations
by Lozano. I’m very pleased to open this year’s exhibition
suite with such a versatile and poetic talent as Joseph Lozano.
– Reza Nahaie-Ghanad
Valence
by
Stephen
Scott Smith
InLiquid
Art + Design Video Installation
September
3 – December 3
Opening
Reception – Thursday, September 23 at 6pm
Valence
is a digital photo,
stop-motion, morph, animation, video and installation series.
The works explore movement and the deconstruction of image
into geometry through repeated actions, light, shadow, surface,
as well as the observation, breakdown and extension of the
lines created by the morphing program.
Initial
images and video debuted at Portland's Worksound group show
Portraits in July 2009, curated by Mark Woolley. Richard Spear
from the Willamette Weekly wrote, "The most
polished work here, however, is Stephen Scott Smith's B Jump,
an impossibly beautiful and sophisticated stop-motion animation
encased in enormous white frames, which wouldn't look out
of place in a Phillipe Starck-designed penthouse."
Many
Moving and Still Works by Two Torontonians at
Slought Foundation
An
IHP Centennial Program
September
29 - October 29
Opening
Reception at Slought
– Wednesday,
September 29 at 6:30pm
Co-presented by Slought Foundation
Many
Moving and Still Works by Two Torontonians
is an exhibition of recent work by Michael Snow and John Oswald
on display in the Slought Foundation galleries. This exhibition
joins two artists of different generations whose work has
explored film, video, sound, photography, and digital technology.
Although this dialogue at times crosses divergent disciplines
and media, the artists are in fact united by a common concern.
Both Michael Snow and John Oswald offer contemporary meditations
on time and temporality, through experiential works that invite
us to reconsider the nature of perception. Please visit Slought
Foundation for more information. Slought is located
at 4017 Walnut Street, Philadelphia.
Please
join us for the opening reception on Wednesday, September
29 at 6:30pm, which includes “ Snoswald”, a public conversation
between artists Michael Snow and John Oswald at 7pm. Followed
at 8pm by Film @ International House screening of *Corpus
Callosum.
Six
Plus Six
An
IHP Centennial Program
October
22 – December 24
Opening
Reception – Thursday, October 28 at 6pm
Six
Plus Six is a video installation by local filmmaker
Ted Knighton. Based on the myth of Persephone, Six Plus Six
consists of two films, one shown in one room and one shown
in another. Since the action and characters of the story are
spread between the two rooms, each film shows only half the
story. Six Plus Six precedes Film @ International
House screening of Cabiria
at 7pm.
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