Upcoming Events at Pentimenti Gallery
Fri Oct 1, 10:00 AM - Fri Oct 1, 3:00 PM
Pentimenti Gallery
145 North 2nd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106
Community: Center City
Description
Pentimenti Gallery welcomes the fall with a group exhibition of the work of Mimi Jung, Melissa Joseph, and Emma Safir.
Event Details
MEET THE ARTISTS
Friday, September 10 | 6 PM - 8 PM
Pentimenti Gallery welcomes the fall with a group exhibition of the work of Mimi Jung, Melissa Joseph, and Emma Safir. This is each of the artists’ debut at Pentimenti Gallery.
Illusions and Other Protective Spells brings together the work of three artists who engage in a metaphorical materiality, connecting their imagery to the most visceral and vulnerable aspects of human experience. The work conjures ideas of home and displacement, social and cultural subjectivity, experience and its transcription into memory, and the interplay between fragility and strength. The images have an environmental magnitude, and speak to a sense of place or placelessness, as well as to the emotional dimension of space, including the concept of home and the visualization of an interior world. A prominent medium of fiber is employed by each artist, imbuing the formal aspect of the work with a richly symbolic and immediate tactility.
Melissa Joseph conjures works in felted wool that describe a reckoning with past and place. The works transfigure memories and images from Joseph’s family archive into works that resemble clouds or dream bubbles. The unique materiality of the wool is employed to reference both the selective specificity of individual memories, and the distortion of recollection. Joseph’s artistic practice draws on her experience as a bi-racial woman, addressing belonging and family through the lens of social confines, expectations, and inequities.
Friday, September 10 | 6 PM - 8 PM
Pentimenti Gallery welcomes the fall with a group exhibition of the work of Mimi Jung, Melissa Joseph, and Emma Safir. This is each of the artists’ debut at Pentimenti Gallery.
Illusions and Other Protective Spells brings together the work of three artists who engage in a metaphorical materiality, connecting their imagery to the most visceral and vulnerable aspects of human experience. The work conjures ideas of home and displacement, social and cultural subjectivity, experience and its transcription into memory, and the interplay between fragility and strength. The images have an environmental magnitude, and speak to a sense of place or placelessness, as well as to the emotional dimension of space, including the concept of home and the visualization of an interior world. A prominent medium of fiber is employed by each artist, imbuing the formal aspect of the work with a richly symbolic and immediate tactility.
Melissa Joseph conjures works in felted wool that describe a reckoning with past and place. The works transfigure memories and images from Joseph’s family archive into works that resemble clouds or dream bubbles. The unique materiality of the wool is employed to reference both the selective specificity of individual memories, and the distortion of recollection. Joseph’s artistic practice draws on her experience as a bi-racial woman, addressing belonging and family through the lens of social confines, expectations, and inequities.
