Artists who traveled to Philadelphia, October 2013
Tim Sandys |
"Gauntlets" 2011.
______________ Tim Sandys (b. 1974) has been working in a variety of media for ten years. Largely self taught, his earliest works were inspired by his experience as a stage techni- cian for the MacRobert Arts Centre painting backcloths for stage productions, designing sets and lighting. |
Louise Gibson |
"The Slump of the Elephant in the Room" 2013.
_____________________________________ Gibson (b. 1985) collaborates with various trades and industries, to source materials and to realise work. Resin Casts are sliced out at sawmills, work is finished with local car mechanics and structures are sculpted, on site at recycling yards. |
Artists who traveled to Edinburgh, June 2013
David Kessler
The Voice of the Oracle of Neptune, a video installation. 2011
Based out of Philadelphia, David Kessler works in various media including cast silicone sculpture and video. The video work ranges from site-specific installation to experimental documentary, both of which dealing with the identity Place – revealing the preconceptions and imaginary narratives of Place that inform our experiences and become inextricably weaved and tangled into our knowledge and understanding of it.
The Voice of the Oracle of Neptune, a video installation proposes a scenario where the ornate chandeliers of the Philadelphia Academy of Music’s newly renovated ballroom are transformed into fountains of milk that flood the room over time, mirroring the fantasy and faux opulence of the renovation itself.
Based out of Philadelphia, David Kessler works in various media including cast silicone sculpture and video. The video work ranges from site-specific installation to experimental documentary, both of which dealing with the identity Place – revealing the preconceptions and imaginary narratives of Place that inform our experiences and become inextricably weaved and tangled into our knowledge and understanding of it.
The Voice of the Oracle of Neptune, a video installation proposes a scenario where the ornate chandeliers of the Philadelphia Academy of Music’s newly renovated ballroom are transformed into fountains of milk that flood the room over time, mirroring the fantasy and faux opulence of the renovation itself.
Jedediah Morfit
"Toil" Urethane plastic, paint, wood, nails. 2012
Jed received his MFA in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2005, & joined The Richard Stockton College the following year. He was a Fellow at The Center for Emerging Visual Artists, in Philadelphia, from 2007-2009, awarded a New Jersey Council on the Arts Fellowship for sculpture in 2009, & won the Dexter Jones Award for Bas Relief from the National Sculpture Society in 2011 & 2012.
Jed received his MFA in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2005, & joined The Richard Stockton College the following year. He was a Fellow at The Center for Emerging Visual Artists, in Philadelphia, from 2007-2009, awarded a New Jersey Council on the Arts Fellowship for sculpture in 2009, & won the Dexter Jones Award for Bas Relief from the National Sculpture Society in 2011 & 2012.
Steven Earl Weber & Shane Jezowski
"Domestic Obstruction" painted steel. 2013
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Steven Earl Weber is an artist/designer and curator that has been living in Philadelphia since 1998; moved to Philadelphia after graduating from Kent State University and has been working in various capacities within the arts here since. He has shown his sculptures nationally and internationally, designed sets and costumes for Pennsylvania Ballet as well for Ballet X. Over the past few years he has taught at various universities as an adjunct faculty member. He also served as the gallery director for K&W Fine Art Gallery in the Crane Arts Building from 2006 - 2009. Weber uses multiple objects, images, and their arrangement to address questions of subjective identity, for example issues of religion and politics. Often his work is an attempt to reconcile his own personal questions of identity within these issues.
Shane Jezowski is a Philadelphia based artist who is discovering the poetic qualities behind the mundane and the everyday facets of life. Within Shane's work he uses objects and systems slightly abstracted and altered to present social commentaries, questions, and at times manifestos. Shane has work and honors published in The Pitch, Itch, Ditch, and The Bitchin' Kitsch; all a mix of online and physical magazines/journals.
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Steven Earl Weber is an artist/designer and curator that has been living in Philadelphia since 1998; moved to Philadelphia after graduating from Kent State University and has been working in various capacities within the arts here since. He has shown his sculptures nationally and internationally, designed sets and costumes for Pennsylvania Ballet as well for Ballet X. Over the past few years he has taught at various universities as an adjunct faculty member. He also served as the gallery director for K&W Fine Art Gallery in the Crane Arts Building from 2006 - 2009. Weber uses multiple objects, images, and their arrangement to address questions of subjective identity, for example issues of religion and politics. Often his work is an attempt to reconcile his own personal questions of identity within these issues.
Shane Jezowski is a Philadelphia based artist who is discovering the poetic qualities behind the mundane and the everyday facets of life. Within Shane's work he uses objects and systems slightly abstracted and altered to present social commentaries, questions, and at times manifestos. Shane has work and honors published in The Pitch, Itch, Ditch, and The Bitchin' Kitsch; all a mix of online and physical magazines/journals.
Daisy Quezada
"Arbol de Violacion 2" porcelain on acrylic. 2012
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Daisy Quezada is from New Mexico and recently received her BFA from the Santa Fe University of Art and Design. She is currently pursuing her MFA at the University of Delaware through the Medium of Ceramics and Community outreach.
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Daisy Quezada is from New Mexico and recently received her BFA from the Santa Fe University of Art and Design. She is currently pursuing her MFA at the University of Delaware through the Medium of Ceramics and Community outreach.
Ryan Wilson Kelly
"The Log Cabin is a Lonely Place" Canvas cabin, bear skin rug made of paper mache, fired clay and latch-hooked hair extensions, and a copy of Andrew Sullivan's "The Conservative Soul". 2008
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Ryan Kelly is a native son of the great state of Michigan, but currently resides under the shadow of the Liberty Bell and The Ben Franklin Bridge, in Philadelphia PA. From 2006 to 2011 Ryan was an Artist In Residence at The Clay Studio. He holds a BFA in Ceramics from the Kansas City Art Institute, and an MFA in Ceramics from The Ohio State University. He was also for a year, the Lourmina Salter Fellow at the Baltimore Clayworks. Ryan has taught both on the community level at a number of institutions, and at the collegiate level at The Ohio State University, Swarthmore College and now the Maryland Institute College of Art. The wide variety of materials and communities in which he works has led to his involvement with several puppet theaters and theatrical prop construction for low budget films. He also enjoys having facial hair and speaking in the third person.
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Ryan Kelly is a native son of the great state of Michigan, but currently resides under the shadow of the Liberty Bell and The Ben Franklin Bridge, in Philadelphia PA. From 2006 to 2011 Ryan was an Artist In Residence at The Clay Studio. He holds a BFA in Ceramics from the Kansas City Art Institute, and an MFA in Ceramics from The Ohio State University. He was also for a year, the Lourmina Salter Fellow at the Baltimore Clayworks. Ryan has taught both on the community level at a number of institutions, and at the collegiate level at The Ohio State University, Swarthmore College and now the Maryland Institute College of Art. The wide variety of materials and communities in which he works has led to his involvement with several puppet theaters and theatrical prop construction for low budget films. He also enjoys having facial hair and speaking in the third person.