Arcadia Exhibitions

We are saddened to hear that American artist #BarryLeVa, passed away on Sunday at the age of 79. Barry Le Va is considered one of the leading figures of post-studio and process art of the late 1960s. His early efforts utilized poppy seeds, small stainless steel ball bearings, white chalk, iron oxide, and pieces of felt which he dispersed across expanses of gallery floors. Our current artist-in-residence Polly Apfelbaum had this work (among other references) in mind when she ...began showing stained velvet workslater nicknamed Fallen Paintingson museum and gallery floors in the early 1990s. Over time, Le Va’s installations developed more heft and were sometimes composed of large aluminum spheres, fiberboard discs, and wooden planksall of which he used for his site-specific project in Beaver College’s Richard Fuller Gallery in 1982. Intended to impede the viewer’s movement about the gallery, the individual elements could be read as traces of the artist traversing the given room as the composition developedtraces of Le Va drawing in space. Pictured: 1-2. Postcard for Barry Le Va: Drawings & Installation Richard E. Fuller Gallery, Beaver College, April 7May 3, 1982. 3-4. Barry Le Va installs his site-specific project in the Fuller gallery (now @arcadiawc), 1982. Courtesy Arcadia University Archives. @ Arcadia University

FALLfest 2020: Together//Apart LIVE at https://sites.google.com//Judith-Taylor-virtual-gall/home Judith Taylor Virtual Gallery Virtual opening reception: December 22, 2020, 6:00 PM ... (Please email [email protected] for a Zoom invitation) "The early signs of frost may be setting upon campus but the students enrolled in Arcadia University Department of Art&Design programs still have thoughts of fall and change on their minds. As the Winter Solstice approaches we bring you "FALLfest 2020: Together//Apart", a student-curated exhibition of over 80 pieces by more than 40 exhibitors, consisting of varied majors, years of study, and with contributions from several alumni. The unifying motif is that of connection in a year filled with separation and collaboration with miles in between. At the heart of the exhibition is art and artist as a lifestyle not job or career, as made evident with much of the work being created outside the purview of assignment or specified course. Much of the work speaks to the artists that made it created of their own accord during a time when they needed it the most. A tribute to the creative spirit found in every sketchbook, Adobe file, kiln, and studio. Juried by: Madison Cline, Pamela Ojopi, Christopher Reistle, Perri Schlosser and Hanna Wu

Check out work by Illustration major Gunnar Von Haden ‘21 and the rest of the @ArcadiaArtAndDesign seniors on Instagram at www.instagram.com/arcadia8x8_exhibition, the virtual gallery for this year’s student-run 8x8 exhibition! #Repost from @arcadia8x8_exhibition My piece is an exploration for my overall thesis work. Taking inspiration from the study of material culture and textile history, I looked towards the textile designer and artist William Morris. I also drew insp...iration from the title of this show, "8x8", looking towards two plants that use the repetition of 8 in their form (the 8 petaled bloodroot and the ~8 leaved dwarf umbrella plant). ------------------------------------------ Gunnar Von Haden, Sanguinaria Canadensis & Schefflera Arboricola, Digital, 12/15/2020 ------------------------------------------ #Arcadia8x8_2020 #ArcadiaClassOf2021 #ArcadiaUniversity #ArcadiaArtAndDesign #GlensidePA #MontcoPA #BeaverCollege #CollegeArtGallery #ExhibitionMaking #ArtInLiberalArts #ArcadiaExhibitions

Several of our grants support projects that address environmental issues, harnessing the power of art to raise awareness and understanding of human impact on th...e natural world. Find out more about PHS : Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s commission of a sculptural work to highlight the importance of trees in combating climate change, The Crossing’s new choral work about modern food production, Arcadia Exhibitions’ presentation of a contemplative opera on an artificial beach, and The Academy of Natural Sciences’ audio-based exhibition to examine the historical and social contexts of Philly’s water. Read about all of our 2020 #PewArtsGrants:

Pati Hill's "Alphabet of Common Objects" (c. 1977-79) is now on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art for the first time since entering the collection in 2019. Opening tomorrow, Nothing Is So Humble: Prints From Everyday Objects includes works from the Whitney's collection by Ruth Asawa, Sari Dienes, Pati Hill, Kahlil Robert Irving, Virginia Overton, Julia Phillips, and Zarina. Curated by Kim Conaty, Steven and Ann Ames Curator of Drawings and Prints at the Whi...tney, the exhibition borrows its title from a statement by artist Sari Dienes: Bones, lint, Styrofoam, banana skins, the squishes and squashes found on the street: nothing is so humble that it cannot be made into art. Read more at https://whitney.org/exhibitions/nothing-is-so-humble. Pictured: Pati Hill, "Alphabet of Common Objects", c. 1977-79. 45 xerographs, each 11" x 8.5". Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art. #PatiHillCollection #WhitneyMuseum #WhitneyMuseumofAmericanArt #NothingIsSoHumble #PatiHillPhotocopier #Xerography #Xerograph #XeroxArt #CopyArt #CopyArtist #Photocopy #Photocopier #PhotocopyArt #Xerox #IBM #CommonObjects #AlphabetofCommonObjects #LettersToJill #OneThingIKnow #ImpossibleDreams #WomenAndVacuumCleaners #PhotocopyingVersailles #ArcadiaUniversity #ArcadiaExhibitions #StoningtonCT #Sens