Bailis' newest exhibition represents a departure from her previous work as she considers filmic space, rather than domestic, through sculpture and her first foray int o photography.  She recaptures and recontextualizes the piercing beauty of the final scenes of Luchino Visconti’s Death in Venice and Carl Theodor Dreyer’s Ordet, re-imagining cinematic images of life and death.

Bailis received her MFA from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and her BA in Film from Bard College. She attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and was a resident artist at the Bemis Center of Contemporary Art and the Vermont Studio Center. Bailis has exhibited her work around the country, including Lump Gallery in Raleigh, NC, Branch Gallery in NC, Fleisher Ollman Gallery in Philadelphia, The Providence Art Club, in Providence, RI. She was a 2010 West Prize finalist.  She currently lives and works in Philadelphia.  [website]

Crombie debuts the latest in her series of animations collectively titled Aloof Hills, which follows a dysfunctional Civil War-era plantation family through their at times disturbing, at times all-too-familiar lives.  In creating these animated narratives, Crombie draws from Christian Revisionist coloring books, art photography, porn, and popular music.  This time it's Mother's Birthday and they've organized quite a show for her on the Aloof Hills Plantation. The whole family is entertained by comedy, music, magic tricks, performance art, and sexual poetry. But a year has passed, and Mother feels no further along the road. Her grown son is no man, her teenage daughter is a pregnant runaway, and God knows where Carrie Lynn goes at night. Will Mother's lesbian lover be her salvation?

Crombie received her MFA from Rochester Institute of Technology and her BA from the University of Pittsburgh.  She was a 2009 Fleisher Art Memorial Wind Challenge artist.  She currently lives and works in Philadelphia. [website]

For this exhibition, Stewart has created a room-filling installation that investigates both real and imagined post-apocalyptic environments.  Her installation draws reference from disparate sources: the gardens of Giverny and the overgrown dwellings of Chernobyl.  Stewart's installation includes a sodded floor, plant life, a damask wall pattern, and new paintings on panel that depict abandoned environments and the objects that remain.

Stewart received her MFA from The University of Pennsylvania and a BA from Dickinson College. She has exhibited her work both regionally and internationally, including at P.S. 122, The Painting Center, Pageant Gallery, Pentimenti Gallery, The Tate Modern and  Guizhou University in Guiyang, China. Her work was featured in New American Paintings in 2003 and 2008. Stewart received a Fleisher Challenge solo exhibition in 2005 and was a finalist for the PEW Fellowship for the Arts in 2008. She has been an adjunct member of the faculty in the Art Department at West Chester University since 2006. She currently lives and works in Philadelphia. [website]

In connect up to me, Thelen continues his exploration of what he calls “minor characters” on the edge of social and economic collapse. Thelen sets up a disjointed narrative that crosses temporal boundaries, incorporating banking and disco, death and self-loathing. Thelen will present new work in drawing, painting, sculpture. Touchstones include Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein and the gay personal ad website SilverDaddies.com.

With panoramic footage of a Berlin cityscape accompanied by animated images of modernist glassware and Sub-Saharan and Oceanic sculpture, Endemic engages in a variety of nods and homages to constructivist film, Bauhaus and De Stijl aesthetics. The looped video reexamines a modernist legacy via its evolution and mutation through popular culture and  abstracted cartoons. Endemic’s painterly backgrounds of a verdant Berlin demonstrate a rich cohabitation of nature and architecture, while playful collage and animation probe the relationship between the still and moving image.

Carel received her MFA from Hunger College in 2001 and her BFA from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. Carel's work has been exhibited internationally in galleries and public venues such as Artists Space, Dumbo Arts Festival, and Gavin Brown’s Enterprise in New York, Young Projects in Los Angeles. and Tavi Dresdner Gallery and The Heder Gallery in Tel Aviv. She works primarily in video and sound and is currently working on a new project with early sound recording techniques. Carel currently lives and works in Brooklyn.