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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Andrew Suggs

215-238-1236
director@voxpopuligallery.org

High resolution images are available upon request.

EXHIBITION DATES: June 4 - 27, 2010
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, June 4 from 6 - 11 pm
GALLERY HOURS: Wednesday - Sunday 12 - 6 pm
GALLERY TALK: With Sean Paul, Sunday, June 27 at 3 pm

Philadelphia, PA - Vox Populi is pleased to announce June's exhibitions.

MAIN GALLERIES

Ray Studios Presents...

Meredith Nickie, This Is Going Down

Three of the main galleries will feature Ray Studios Presents..., the collaborative effort of several New York and Philadelphia based artists whose work revolves around the fictional artist Ray. Ray's work addresses issues of transition and conflict between the "primitive" and "cultured" self. Ray Studios' objective is to act as a platform for thought and reflection on these matters. Ray Studios Presents... is an interactive installation within which the viewer has the opportunity to participate in a simulated personal drama and be applauded for his or her efforts. Included in this piece are an instructional video; a small scale theatre with stage, curtain, and seating for up to a dozen visitors; custom moist towelettes; golf pencils; sheet music; and more. Complimentary coffee will be served. Ray Studios is Ludwig Fischer, James Johnson, Jacque Liu, Kirk Loubier, and Dustin Sparks.

The fourth gallery will feature Meredith Nickie's This Is Going Down, a new series of works that explore scenes of subjugation–full of unrest, yet alarmingly still. Works titled after anthems of protest, Strange Fruit and Waltzing Matilda allude to lynched and drowned figures through entangled forms of race and class struggle where the marked body is laid bare. In Nickie's exhibition, the figure is made absent and represented by elements from the domestic interior and the public sphere in sculptural constructions. More about Nickie.

VIDEO LOUNGE

Moira Teirney

Tierney's work is engaged with post-colonial means of expression–as the Haitian poet Rene Depestre put it, the profession of hybridization–by which ex-colonized societies fuse their different historical influences to create their own voice. As well as an experimental documentary filmmaker, Tierney is a founding member of SOLUS, an independent film c ollective and platform for film-makers working in Super-8mm/16mm and DV. The group was formed in Dublin in 1998 with the dual aim of showing Irish short and avant-garde films abroad and international short and avant-garde films in Ireland. More about Tierney.

SCREENING

Joan Jonas, Organic Honey’s Visual Telepathy

After three years of exhibitions in our Chinatown gallery, Screening is proud to present its final exhibition: Organic Honey’s Visual Telepathy, by groundbreaking multi-media artist Joan Jonas. Known for uncompromising experiments that fuse her knowledge of art history, modern theater, dance, sculpture and performance ar t, as well as Kabuki and Noh theater, Jonas has produced a singular body of work. These influences are on display in her 1972 videotape Organic Honey’s Visual Telepathy, all filtered through what was, at the time, the newly accessible technology of video production. Jonas’ performance-for-camera is part ritual, part magic show, exploring the possibilities of the female image through alter egos and technological transformation. More information at www.screeningvideo.org.

Founded in 1988, Vox Populi is a nonprofit artist collective that supports the work of under-represented artists with exhibitions, gallery talks, peformances, and lectures.

Vox Populi's programs are possible through the generous support of individual contributors, our audience and Board of Directors, as well as the following funders: Philadelphia Cultural Fund, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The William Penn Foundation, Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative, The Knight Foundation, Samuel P. Mandell Foundation, Samuel S. Fels Fund, Dolfinger McMahon Foundation, The Barra Foundation, Scion, and Google.

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Andrew Suggs
Executive Director
Vox Populi
319 North 11th Street
3rd Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107
215.238.1236
www.voxpopuligallery.org