Art @ International House

Art @ International House emerged from requests by local artists and organizations for space to showcase their work. 

A partnership with InLiquid Art + Design resulted in a dedicated

media gallery with video installations. The other gallery highlights

the work of local and regional artists.

Free admission to receptions. Galleries are open to the public

Monday - Friday from 10am to 6pm and

whenever there is a program in The Ibrahim Theater.


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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