Chris Kline
There they are
January 8, 2010 - January 30, 2010
Opening: Friday January 8th, 6-10pm
AHN|VHS is pleased to present “There they are”, an exhibition of new drawings by Philadelphia artist Chris Kline. The artist's comic abstractions feature neon hued characters who take influence from and incorporate elements of a wide range of sources from vintage cartoons and cubist abstraction, to science fiction, and mythology and mysticism. The work is often humorous with a clear penchant for the absurd, a style and sensibility that stems from the artist's interest in comic illustration. He is also known as a highly skilled silk screen printmaker with a strong and radical grasp of color and nuance. Kline has produced many zines as well, often in collaboration with other artists.
Chris Kline is a current member of Space 1026 in Philadelphia. Past exhibitions include “Paper Crystalz” with Jason Hsu at Pagent Soloveev, Philadelphia, PA, 2009, and “Total Totem” with Greg Pizzoli at Padlock Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 2008. Past group exhibitions include “Cave Mind” curated by Jesjit Gill at 107 Shaw, Toronto, Ontario, 2009; “Monsters Show” 3 and 4, at Domy Austin and Houston, TX in 2008 and 2009; “Paper Jam” curated by Anthony Dihle at Civilian Art Projects in Washington, DC, 2009; and inclusion in three exhibitions at Giant Robot in New York and San Francisco from 2008-2009.
This will be the final exhibition at AHN|VHS gallery. As we leave AHN|VHS we are pleased to be moving towards new projects which will be announced in the near future. There will be a gallery closing event on January 30th which will be open to the public. We would like to thank everyone for their support during the gallery's run.
Inquiries to info@ahnvhs.com. More information and images at www.ahnvhs.com and ahnvhs.blogspot.com
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January 8, 2010 - January 30, 2010
Opening: Friday January 8th, 6-10pm
AHN|VHS is pleased to present “There they are”, an exhibition of new drawings by Philadelphia artist Chris Kline. The artist's comic abstractions feature neon hued characters who take influence from and incorporate elements of a wide range of sources from vintage cartoons and cubist abstraction, to science fiction, and mythology and mysticism. The work is often humorous with a clear penchant for the absurd, a style and sensibility that stems from the artist's interest in comic illustration. He is also known as a highly skilled silk screen printmaker with a strong and radical grasp of color and nuance. Kline has produced many zines as well, often in collaboration with other artists.
Chris Kline is a current member of Space 1026 in Philadelphia. Past exhibitions include “Paper Crystalz” with Jason Hsu at Pagent Soloveev, Philadelphia, PA, 2009, and “Total Totem” with Greg Pizzoli at Padlock Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 2008. Past group exhibitions include “Cave Mind” curated by Jesjit Gill at 107 Shaw, Toronto, Ontario, 2009; “Monsters Show” 3 and 4, at Domy Austin and Houston, TX in 2008 and 2009; “Paper Jam” curated by Anthony Dihle at Civilian Art Projects in Washington, DC, 2009; and inclusion in three exhibitions at Giant Robot in New York and San Francisco from 2008-2009.
This will be the final exhibition at AHN|VHS gallery. As we leave AHN|VHS we are pleased to be moving towards new projects which will be announced in the near future. There will be a gallery closing event on January 30th which will be open to the public. We would like to thank everyone for their support during the gallery's run.
Inquiries to info@ahnvhs.com. More information and images at www.ahnvhs.com and ahnvhs.blogspot.com
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Travis LeRoy Southworth
Aggregates, Absurd Infinities and Absent Mindendness
December 4, 2009 - January 3, 2010
Opening: Friday December 4th, 6-10pm
AHN|VHS is pleased to present an exhibition of new works by Travis LeRoy Southworth. Conceptually driven and made from familiar materials, these works, according to Southworth, begin with an interest in "conventional representation" and "move beyond it...to exist in a new geography, one that redefines the distance between ritual and routine, original source and final work."
The exhibition is composed of three bodies of work. A sculpture series created using paper from books and magazines to create spit wads includes "After Boredom: A Literal History of a State of Mind" and then chewed and spat against the cover of it creating a stalactite-like mound. Southworth says of the work "using paper from books and magazines to create spit wads these sculptures engage aspects of boredom related to loss of oneself. I feel art like boredom pulls things out of their usual contexts and can open up different configuration of things, and therefore also a new meaning."
"Aggregates", and "Similar Seemingly Absurd Infinities", are drawings that are collections of fragments and stray marks that are taken from, but show little reference to, original photographs. As elements of these photographs are systematically selected and reconfigured or re-presented, the resulting compositions suggest a nebula or celestial body, "revealing connections between our own physical markings and those of the cosmos." Pointing to his interest in both the absurdity and truth of cosmic connections, the title of "Similar Seemingly Absurd Infinities" is a reference to a section in Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time" which describes the problems of absurd infinities that arise in the combing of theories.
Travis LeRoy Southworth received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Southworth's work is in the Drawings Center Viewing Program and he recently finished the Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) 29 program, which concluded with a group exhibition at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. He has been included in a number of group exhibitions including New American Talent 24, Arthouse at the Jones Center in Austin, TX; the Chicago Cultural Center; SCOPE Art Fair in Miami and the center for Curatorial Studies at the Hessel Museum of Art, NY. This upcoming January he will be presenting a window installation at Mixed Greens Gallery in NYC. Southworth lives and works in New York City.
Inquiries to info@ahnvhs.com. More information and images at www.ahnvhs.com and ahnvhs.blogspot.com
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December 4, 2009 - January 3, 2010
Opening: Friday December 4th, 6-10pm
AHN|VHS is pleased to present an exhibition of new works by Travis LeRoy Southworth. Conceptually driven and made from familiar materials, these works, according to Southworth, begin with an interest in "conventional representation" and "move beyond it...to exist in a new geography, one that redefines the distance between ritual and routine, original source and final work."
The exhibition is composed of three bodies of work. A sculpture series created using paper from books and magazines to create spit wads includes "After Boredom: A Literal History of a State of Mind" and then chewed and spat against the cover of it creating a stalactite-like mound. Southworth says of the work "using paper from books and magazines to create spit wads these sculptures engage aspects of boredom related to loss of oneself. I feel art like boredom pulls things out of their usual contexts and can open up different configuration of things, and therefore also a new meaning."
"Aggregates", and "Similar Seemingly Absurd Infinities", are drawings that are collections of fragments and stray marks that are taken from, but show little reference to, original photographs. As elements of these photographs are systematically selected and reconfigured or re-presented, the resulting compositions suggest a nebula or celestial body, "revealing connections between our own physical markings and those of the cosmos." Pointing to his interest in both the absurdity and truth of cosmic connections, the title of "Similar Seemingly Absurd Infinities" is a reference to a section in Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time" which describes the problems of absurd infinities that arise in the combing of theories.
Travis LeRoy Southworth received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Southworth's work is in the Drawings Center Viewing Program and he recently finished the Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) 29 program, which concluded with a group exhibition at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. He has been included in a number of group exhibitions including New American Talent 24, Arthouse at the Jones Center in Austin, TX; the Chicago Cultural Center; SCOPE Art Fair in Miami and the center for Curatorial Studies at the Hessel Museum of Art, NY. This upcoming January he will be presenting a window installation at Mixed Greens Gallery in NYC. Southworth lives and works in New York City.
Inquiries to info@ahnvhs.com. More information and images at www.ahnvhs.com and ahnvhs.blogspot.com
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Eric Veit
Country Instrument
November 6 - 28, 2009
Opening: Friday, November 6th, 6 - 10pm
AHN|VHS presents new sculpture and works on paper by Eric Veit. This body of work features readymade materials and studio ephemera repositioned and reconsidered outside of their intended states and uses. Placed within the gallery these objects are imbued with a new aura and alternate function. At the center of Veit's installation is his "Country Instrument", a homemade instrument composed of bottle caps which cover a large stick. "The country instrument (is) the object that you just give to the most unskilled person in a group of musicians." Says Veit, "The instrument is an object of very minimal means and serves as a record.."
Eric Veit lives and works in Philadelphia. His work was most recently included in Vox V at Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA. He has also exhibited at Gallery TK in Northhampton, MA, The Harold Johnson Gallery at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA, and at The Norfolk Gallery at Yale University, Norfolk, CT. Veit received his BA from Hampshire College in 2008, and attended Yale Summer School of Music and Art in 2007. He was awarded the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship from Yale University in 2007.
Inquiries to info@ahnvhs.com. More information and images at www.ahnvhs.com and ahnvhs.blogspot.com
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November 6 - 28, 2009
Opening: Friday, November 6th, 6 - 10pm
AHN|VHS presents new sculpture and works on paper by Eric Veit. This body of work features readymade materials and studio ephemera repositioned and reconsidered outside of their intended states and uses. Placed within the gallery these objects are imbued with a new aura and alternate function. At the center of Veit's installation is his "Country Instrument", a homemade instrument composed of bottle caps which cover a large stick. "The country instrument (is) the object that you just give to the most unskilled person in a group of musicians." Says Veit, "The instrument is an object of very minimal means and serves as a record.."
Eric Veit lives and works in Philadelphia. His work was most recently included in Vox V at Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA. He has also exhibited at Gallery TK in Northhampton, MA, The Harold Johnson Gallery at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA, and at The Norfolk Gallery at Yale University, Norfolk, CT. Veit received his BA from Hampshire College in 2008, and attended Yale Summer School of Music and Art in 2007. He was awarded the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship from Yale University in 2007.
Inquiries to info@ahnvhs.com. More information and images at www.ahnvhs.com and ahnvhs.blogspot.com
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Arden Bendler Browning
Pattern Language
October 2 - 31, 2009
Opening: Friday October 2nd, 6-10pm
AHN|VHS is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new large-scale works by Arden Bendler Browning. The Philadelphia based artist takes her influence from the city's “dichotomous landscape”. Interweaving imagery of architectural decay and rampant flora, her dynamic compositions emulate the violence and euphoria embedded in the city itself. Bold colors and sharp gestural lines whirl together creating a delicate balance of utter chaos and control. Incorporating the physical elements of construction / destruction sites, these epic works are painted and drawn on Tyvek.
Reflecting on the timeless tensions between the built environment and the natural world, these works depict the point of climax in the battle between the two; snapshots of the decisive moment in the most profound conflict, where every line between destruction and creation is blurred.
Bendler Browning says she is attracted to cities for their “density, activity, variety, their layered contradictions... the opposite of the picturesque landscape.” Taking inspiration from her immediate urban environment, Bendler Browning spends much of her time taking countless snapshots of the city, capturing the myriad “visual hypocrisies” discovered along these daily explorations. “A silhouette of a blue tarp can become a vibrant colored square rather than mundane construction material; highlighted chips of wall paint from an upturned building add energy rather than depicting gloom.” There is no assigned protagonist or villain here. By highlighting the contradictions inherent in the urban landscape these works evoke the grace and vulgarity of all things contained therein; man-made or organic, both forces hold the potential for good and evil, and both are simultaneously neither/nor. Bendler Browning's images are a lens through which we may watch this puzzle unfold.
Arden Bendler Browning received her MFA from the Tyler School School of Art in 2003. Her work was featured in the 2009 edition of New American Paintings. Recent solo exhibitions include “Solo Series 2009” at the Abington Art Center in Jenkintown, PA, curated by Sue Spaid, and “Urban Reef” at the Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia, curated by Sean Stoops. Her work has also been included in exhibitions at The State Museum of Pennsylvania, the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, and Fleisher Ollman Gallery.
Inquiries to info@ahnvhs.com. More information and images at www.ahnvhs.com and ahnvhs.blogspot.com
http://www.ardenbendlerbrownin
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October 2 - 31, 2009
Opening: Friday October 2nd, 6-10pm
AHN|VHS is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new large-scale works by Arden Bendler Browning. The Philadelphia based artist takes her influence from the city's “dichotomous landscape”. Interweaving imagery of architectural decay and rampant flora, her dynamic compositions emulate the violence and euphoria embedded in the city itself. Bold colors and sharp gestural lines whirl together creating a delicate balance of utter chaos and control. Incorporating the physical elements of construction / destruction sites, these epic works are painted and drawn on Tyvek.
Reflecting on the timeless tensions between the built environment and the natural world, these works depict the point of climax in the battle between the two; snapshots of the decisive moment in the most profound conflict, where every line between destruction and creation is blurred.
Bendler Browning says she is attracted to cities for their “density, activity, variety, their layered contradictions... the opposite of the picturesque landscape.” Taking inspiration from her immediate urban environment, Bendler Browning spends much of her time taking countless snapshots of the city, capturing the myriad “visual hypocrisies” discovered along these daily explorations. “A silhouette of a blue tarp can become a vibrant colored square rather than mundane construction material; highlighted chips of wall paint from an upturned building add energy rather than depicting gloom.” There is no assigned protagonist or villain here. By highlighting the contradictions inherent in the urban landscape these works evoke the grace and vulgarity of all things contained therein; man-made or organic, both forces hold the potential for good and evil, and both are simultaneously neither/nor. Bendler Browning's images are a lens through which we may watch this puzzle unfold.
Arden Bendler Browning received her MFA from the Tyler School School of Art in 2003. Her work was featured in the 2009 edition of New American Paintings. Recent solo exhibitions include “Solo Series 2009” at the Abington Art Center in Jenkintown, PA, curated by Sue Spaid, and “Urban Reef” at the Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia, curated by Sean Stoops. Her work has also been included in exhibitions at The State Museum of Pennsylvania, the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, and Fleisher Ollman Gallery.
Inquiries to info@ahnvhs.com. More information and images at www.ahnvhs.com and ahnvhs.blogspot.com
http://www.ardenbendlerbrownin
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Alexis Granwell, Karsten Grumstrup, Heidi Neilson
On Place
September 4 - September 27, 2009
Opening: Friday September 4th, 6-10pm
AHN|VHS presents a group exhibition of works on paper from flat file artists Alexis Granwell, Karsten Grumstrup and Heidi Neilson.
On Place features works that depict the experience of place via non-literal visual memory. Mapping by memory appears in these works as a navigational tool. Notions of the sublime are present as well, as they all confront the fine line dividing the magnificent and the mundane; the crux of the horizon.
Granwell's etchings reference topographical and location maps of the earth and the stars. These sparse and organic abstractions interweave the ephemeral and concrete, never quite identifiable as earth or air, hypothetical or defined.
Grumstrup's series of horizons evoke notions of the sublime with the curious dichotomy of the infinite sky above hard ground. Drawn with ink on book board, the rhythmic mountain-scape flowing across each image hints at the intangible unknown yet their minute size maintains their familiarity.
Neilson's etchings of rooftops as seen from the windows of the N train in Queens, NY, capture these houses from an angle never seen by their inhabitants and viewed only by the artist while in transit, offering both the mystery of what lies below while revealing the unseen aspect of these mundane structures.
Alexis Granwell has exhibited at The Arlington Center for the Arts, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Pentimenti, and the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, among others. She received an MFA from The University of Pennsylvania in 2007.
Karsten Grumstrup is a works on paper and book artist based in Philadelphia and Nevada. He received an MFA from SUNY Stoneybrook in Printmaking.
Heidi Neilson is book artist, printmaker and mixed media artist based in Long Island City, New York. Neilson's work has been exhibited at The Queens Museums, Queens, NY, BravinLee programs, New York, NY, and The Drawing Center, New York, NY, among many others. She is also a founder of the SP Weather Station.
September 4 - September 27, 2009
Opening: Friday September 4th, 6-10pm
AHN|VHS presents a group exhibition of works on paper from flat file artists Alexis Granwell, Karsten Grumstrup and Heidi Neilson.
On Place features works that depict the experience of place via non-literal visual memory. Mapping by memory appears in these works as a navigational tool. Notions of the sublime are present as well, as they all confront the fine line dividing the magnificent and the mundane; the crux of the horizon.
Granwell's etchings reference topographical and location maps of the earth and the stars. These sparse and organic abstractions interweave the ephemeral and concrete, never quite identifiable as earth or air, hypothetical or defined.
Grumstrup's series of horizons evoke notions of the sublime with the curious dichotomy of the infinite sky above hard ground. Drawn with ink on book board, the rhythmic mountain-scape flowing across each image hints at the intangible unknown yet their minute size maintains their familiarity.
Neilson's etchings of rooftops as seen from the windows of the N train in Queens, NY, capture these houses from an angle never seen by their inhabitants and viewed only by the artist while in transit, offering both the mystery of what lies below while revealing the unseen aspect of these mundane structures.
Alexis Granwell has exhibited at The Arlington Center for the Arts, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Pentimenti, and the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, among others. She received an MFA from The University of Pennsylvania in 2007.
Karsten Grumstrup is a works on paper and book artist based in Philadelphia and Nevada. He received an MFA from SUNY Stoneybrook in Printmaking.
Heidi Neilson is book artist, printmaker and mixed media artist based in Long Island City, New York. Neilson's work has been exhibited at The Queens Museums, Queens, NY, BravinLee programs, New York, NY, and The Drawing Center, New York, NY, among many others. She is also a founder of the SP Weather Station.
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Weekly Forecast: SP Weather Station "Weather Reports" in Philly Weekly
SP Weather Station exhibition "Weather Reports" featured in the August 19th of Philly Weekly!
Weather or Not:
A new exhibit at AHN/VHS focuses on meteorological data.
by Roberta Fallon of artblog
"If there’s angst or hysteria about global warming, it’s hidden in the group show “Weather Reports.” Instead of melting ice caps and imperiled polar bears, AHN/VHS’ quiet, small works show—which features drawings, prints, video and mixed media—focuses on the daily weather data recorded at Long Island City’s artist-run SP Weather Station...."
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Weather or Not:
A new exhibit at AHN/VHS focuses on meteorological data.
by Roberta Fallon of artblog
"If there’s angst or hysteria about global warming, it’s hidden in the group show “Weather Reports.” Instead of melting ice caps and imperiled polar bears, AHN/VHS’ quiet, small works show—which features drawings, prints, video and mixed media—focuses on the daily weather data recorded at Long Island City’s artist-run SP Weather Station...."
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SP Weather Station "Weather Reports", Opening Friday August 7th, 7-10pm
SP Weather Station
Weather Reports
August 7 - 30, 2009
Opening: Friday August 7th, 7-10pm
AHN|VHS presents an exhibition of data interpretive art work for the SP Weather Station, a project of the SP Artist Collective in Long Island City, NY. Co-founded by artists Natalie Campbell and Heidi Neilson in 2007, the SP Weather Station is an interdisciplinary project that collects weather data, and organizes weather-related publications, events, and exhibitions, while maintaining a rooftop weather station.
Over the course of 2008, SPWS invited numerous “Guest Interpreters” to create weather reports using its data. As artist participant and co-founder Heidi Neilson states, the project revealed “the infinite possibilities for the interpretation of data, and some of the problems this presents.” The work produced by these artist interpreters ranges from stark to whimsical to utterly chaotic. Artist Michael Geminder created a minimal four word summary of one month's weather laser cut in cardboard, while Katarina Jerinic created a temporary tattoo for one's index finger which measures the direction of the wind. In a video and live drawing collaboration by Natalie Campbell, Daniel Larson, Heidi Neilson, Jing Yu, and Liz Zanis, the changes in wind direction over the course of a day are read allowed while the artists attempt to collectively illustrate the rapidly shifting patterns.
SPWS has compiled these interpretations into a portfolio which will be on view in the AHN|VHS gallery. Guest Interpreters contributing to the portfolio include Leah Beeferman, Carrie Dashow, Natalie Campbell, Susan G. Campbell, Mike Estabrook, Neil Freeman, Richard Garrison, Michael Geminder, Vandana Jain, Katarina Jerinic, Emily Larned, Daniel Larson, Bridget Lewis, Lize Mogel, Heidi Neilson, Mark Nystrom, Chris Petrone, Sarah Nicole Phillips, Luke Strosnider, Jing Yu and Liz Zanis.
According to SPWS, the “By recording its neighborhood’s environmental conditions, SPWS participates in and adds to some of the many ways people have, throughout history, made their own weather observations. SPWS maintains an interest in new and historical technologies, and in how individuals relate to broader systems and patterns.” And as Neilson says, “...the weather is always around, and all around us; monitoring devices can be as sophisticated or as rudimentary as we need them, in that moment, to be. Anyone can access consistent, scientifically acquired weather data... Taking one’s own weather data implies an interest in the system itself, regardless of its accuracy; it means valuing the system’s internal logic and following its leads."
SP Weather Station has exhibited at The Queens Museum, Eyebeam, and most recently in Ithaca, NY as participants in the “To Let” exhibition series. SP Weather Station is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization.
Additional information at www.spweatherstation.net
Weather Reports
August 7 - 30, 2009
Opening: Friday August 7th, 7-10pm
AHN|VHS presents an exhibition of data interpretive art work for the SP Weather Station, a project of the SP Artist Collective in Long Island City, NY. Co-founded by artists Natalie Campbell and Heidi Neilson in 2007, the SP Weather Station is an interdisciplinary project that collects weather data, and organizes weather-related publications, events, and exhibitions, while maintaining a rooftop weather station.
Over the course of 2008, SPWS invited numerous “Guest Interpreters” to create weather reports using its data. As artist participant and co-founder Heidi Neilson states, the project revealed “the infinite possibilities for the interpretation of data, and some of the problems this presents.” The work produced by these artist interpreters ranges from stark to whimsical to utterly chaotic. Artist Michael Geminder created a minimal four word summary of one month's weather laser cut in cardboard, while Katarina Jerinic created a temporary tattoo for one's index finger which measures the direction of the wind. In a video and live drawing collaboration by Natalie Campbell, Daniel Larson, Heidi Neilson, Jing Yu, and Liz Zanis, the changes in wind direction over the course of a day are read allowed while the artists attempt to collectively illustrate the rapidly shifting patterns.
SPWS has compiled these interpretations into a portfolio which will be on view in the AHN|VHS gallery. Guest Interpreters contributing to the portfolio include Leah Beeferman, Carrie Dashow, Natalie Campbell, Susan G. Campbell, Mike Estabrook, Neil Freeman, Richard Garrison, Michael Geminder, Vandana Jain, Katarina Jerinic, Emily Larned, Daniel Larson, Bridget Lewis, Lize Mogel, Heidi Neilson, Mark Nystrom, Chris Petrone, Sarah Nicole Phillips, Luke Strosnider, Jing Yu and Liz Zanis.
According to SPWS, the “By recording its neighborhood’s environmental conditions, SPWS participates in and adds to some of the many ways people have, throughout history, made their own weather observations. SPWS maintains an interest in new and historical technologies, and in how individuals relate to broader systems and patterns.” And as Neilson says, “...the weather is always around, and all around us; monitoring devices can be as sophisticated or as rudimentary as we need them, in that moment, to be. Anyone can access consistent, scientifically acquired weather data... Taking one’s own weather data implies an interest in the system itself, regardless of its accuracy; it means valuing the system’s internal logic and following its leads."
SP Weather Station has exhibited at The Queens Museum, Eyebeam, and most recently in Ithaca, NY as participants in the “To Let” exhibition series. SP Weather Station is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization.
Additional information at www.spweatherstation.net
Rachel Mosler "Moonlight is Visible" at AHN|VHS gallery, opening Friday July 3rd, 7-11pm
Rachel Mosler
Moonlight is Visible
July 3 - August 1, 2009
Opening: Friday July 3rd, 7-11pm
"Here I came to the very edge where nothing at all needs saying, everything is absorbed through weather and the sea, and the moon swam back, its rays all silvered, and time and again the darkness would be broken, by the crash of a wave, and every day on the balcony of the sea, wings open, fire is born, and everything is blue again like morning."
-Pablo Neruda- It is Born
AHN|VHS presents an exhibition of works on paper by Rachel Mosler.
Drawn in watercolor and ink with stunning care and grace, her compositions range from sparse images of oceanic scenes to architecture or botanical forms in various states of growth and decay. Her work is heavily influenced by a "post and beam house" upbringing on Martha's Vineyard, where "my father carved botanical patterns and planted an orchard in her backyard, while my mother stitched and collected feathers alongside roads". Growing up in such an environment offered little access to the forms of entertainment common to others of her generation, so that leisure activities were instead filled with "quiet observations of nature and time", and careful crafting such as stitching and book binding. Her drawings and sculptures are psychological inquiries into the construction and deconstruction of memories from her childhood.
Mosler's imagery is never quite literal, and often it is the space between drawn or painted forms that calls our attention. The Artist speaks of the forms in her work as "a safe space for tension to settle and rest." These works display such a penchant for careful process and exude an aura of rhythmic contemplation. Much like a life spent staring at the sea.
Rachel Mosler is an artist based out of Red Hook in Brooklyn, NY, and currently works as an Art Therapist. She received her BFA in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2003 and her MPS from the School of Visual Arts in 2008. Her work was recently included in a group show at Kentler International Drawing Space in Brooklyn, NY. Prints of her drawings will be featured on Little Paper Planes and the Beholder in the next coming months.
Moonlight is Visible
July 3 - August 1, 2009
Opening: Friday July 3rd, 7-11pm
"Here I came to the very edge where nothing at all needs saying, everything is absorbed through weather and the sea, and the moon swam back, its rays all silvered, and time and again the darkness would be broken, by the crash of a wave, and every day on the balcony of the sea, wings open, fire is born, and everything is blue again like morning."
-Pablo Neruda- It is Born
AHN|VHS presents an exhibition of works on paper by Rachel Mosler.
Drawn in watercolor and ink with stunning care and grace, her compositions range from sparse images of oceanic scenes to architecture or botanical forms in various states of growth and decay. Her work is heavily influenced by a "post and beam house" upbringing on Martha's Vineyard, where "my father carved botanical patterns and planted an orchard in her backyard, while my mother stitched and collected feathers alongside roads". Growing up in such an environment offered little access to the forms of entertainment common to others of her generation, so that leisure activities were instead filled with "quiet observations of nature and time", and careful crafting such as stitching and book binding. Her drawings and sculptures are psychological inquiries into the construction and deconstruction of memories from her childhood.
Mosler's imagery is never quite literal, and often it is the space between drawn or painted forms that calls our attention. The Artist speaks of the forms in her work as "a safe space for tension to settle and rest." These works display such a penchant for careful process and exude an aura of rhythmic contemplation. Much like a life spent staring at the sea.
Rachel Mosler is an artist based out of Red Hook in Brooklyn, NY, and currently works as an Art Therapist. She received her BFA in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2003 and her MPS from the School of Visual Arts in 2008. Her work was recently included in a group show at Kentler International Drawing Space in Brooklyn, NY. Prints of her drawings will be featured on Little Paper Planes and the Beholder in the next coming months.
Bill McRight
Sketchy Stash
June 5 - June 27, 2009
Opening: Friday June 5th, 7-11pm
AHN|VHS is pleased to present an exhibition of sketch books by Bill McRight.
Primarily a printmaker working in linoleum block and silkscreen, McRight's work is known for its extreme intricacy and for his bold, often absurd figures. These sketchbooks are McRight's place for character and concept development, as well as impulsive composition. The figures in his books are drawn and redrawn with altered and increasingly exaggerated gestures and features, interspersed with pages of striking painterly abstraction and bursts of free associative text or overheard phrases. There seems to be a narrative at work, although the books leave no conclusion but to continue to another page. It is rare that McRight takes a figure directly from one of these books for use in a print; these forms are composed on impulse and are made to retain that immediacy. This looseness and experimentation with material and gesture is a surprising contrast to McRight's rigid sculpting of forms in his prints and lino cuts in particular.
This is the first exhibition of the artist's books since his 2005 MFA thesis exhibition at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.
AHN|VHS will produce a limited edition reproduction of one of these sketch books concurrent with the exhibition.
Bill McRight is a print maker working primarily in silkscreen and linoleum or wood block. In 2005 he received an MFA from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. His prints have been published by Cannonball Press. He lives in Philadelphia and is a current member of Space 1026.
June 5 - June 27, 2009
Opening: Friday June 5th, 7-11pm
AHN|VHS is pleased to present an exhibition of sketch books by Bill McRight.
Primarily a printmaker working in linoleum block and silkscreen, McRight's work is known for its extreme intricacy and for his bold, often absurd figures. These sketchbooks are McRight's place for character and concept development, as well as impulsive composition. The figures in his books are drawn and redrawn with altered and increasingly exaggerated gestures and features, interspersed with pages of striking painterly abstraction and bursts of free associative text or overheard phrases. There seems to be a narrative at work, although the books leave no conclusion but to continue to another page. It is rare that McRight takes a figure directly from one of these books for use in a print; these forms are composed on impulse and are made to retain that immediacy. This looseness and experimentation with material and gesture is a surprising contrast to McRight's rigid sculpting of forms in his prints and lino cuts in particular.
This is the first exhibition of the artist's books since his 2005 MFA thesis exhibition at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.
AHN|VHS will produce a limited edition reproduction of one of these sketch books concurrent with the exhibition.
Bill McRight is a print maker working primarily in silkscreen and linoleum or wood block. In 2005 he received an MFA from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. His prints have been published by Cannonball Press. He lives in Philadelphia and is a current member of Space 1026.
AHN|VHS debut exhibition
Rack and File: selected works from the flat file
May 1st - May 30th, 2009
Opening: Friday May 1st, 7-10pm
Julianne Ahn and Lauren van Haaften-Schick are pleased to announce the opening of AHN|VHS, a new gallery, flat file archive, curated shop and shared studio on the 4th floor of 319A North 11th St., Philadelphia, PA.
AHN|VHS will debut on Friday, May 1st, with the exhibition "Rack and File: selected works from the flat file", featuring works on paper by numerous artists including Mark Price, Caitlin Emma Perkins, Matt Leines, Alex Lukas, Josh Shaffner, Julianne Ahn and Lauren van Haaften-Schick.
AHN|VHS will feature a publicly accessible flat file of prints and drawings that will be viewable and available for purchase in the gallery and on our website, www.ahnvhs.com. Artworks will be affordably priced, most under $200. Artists are welcome to submit work for consideration in our flat file free of charge and will receive a generous percentage of revenue from sales. In the coming months, we will expand to include guest curated store shelves carrying artist's books and zines, crafts, records, video, and editions in all media. AHN|VHS will exhibit work in all media by artists from the Philadelphia area and beyond, at various points in their careers. The gallery will have limited hours and will be open by appointment.
As gallerists who are also artists, we are creating an exhibition space where the typical dealer/curator/artist hierarchical paradigm does not apply. Our experience in each of these roles will inform all aspects of the gallery, bringing a more nuanced and thoughtful approach to the exhibition and making of art. With the founding of AHN|VHS we hope to create a space where artists, patrons and all art-lovers feel welcome, engaged, and inspired to participate.
For additional information please contact info@ahnvhs.com
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About AHN and VHS:
Julianne Ahn holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA in Textiles from Rhode Island School of Design. She currently works as a creative director and maintains her artistic practice in Philadelphia, PA.
Lauren van Haaften-Schick is a Philadelphia based artist and designer. She was the principle Founding Director of Gallery TK, a not-for-profit exhibition and performance venue in Northampton, MA, and is the former Director of a contemporary works on paper gallery in New York. She holds a BA in Art and Art History from Hampshire College.
May 1st - May 30th, 2009
Opening: Friday May 1st, 7-10pm
Julianne Ahn and Lauren van Haaften-Schick are pleased to announce the opening of AHN|VHS, a new gallery, flat file archive, curated shop and shared studio on the 4th floor of 319A North 11th St., Philadelphia, PA.
AHN|VHS will debut on Friday, May 1st, with the exhibition "Rack and File: selected works from the flat file", featuring works on paper by numerous artists including Mark Price, Caitlin Emma Perkins, Matt Leines, Alex Lukas, Josh Shaffner, Julianne Ahn and Lauren van Haaften-Schick.
AHN|VHS will feature a publicly accessible flat file of prints and drawings that will be viewable and available for purchase in the gallery and on our website, www.ahnvhs.com. Artworks will be affordably priced, most under $200. Artists are welcome to submit work for consideration in our flat file free of charge and will receive a generous percentage of revenue from sales. In the coming months, we will expand to include guest curated store shelves carrying artist's books and zines, crafts, records, video, and editions in all media. AHN|VHS will exhibit work in all media by artists from the Philadelphia area and beyond, at various points in their careers. The gallery will have limited hours and will be open by appointment.
As gallerists who are also artists, we are creating an exhibition space where the typical dealer/curator/artist hierarchical paradigm does not apply. Our experience in each of these roles will inform all aspects of the gallery, bringing a more nuanced and thoughtful approach to the exhibition and making of art. With the founding of AHN|VHS we hope to create a space where artists, patrons and all art-lovers feel welcome, engaged, and inspired to participate.
For additional information please contact info@ahnvhs.com
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About AHN and VHS:
Julianne Ahn holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA in Textiles from Rhode Island School of Design. She currently works as a creative director and maintains her artistic practice in Philadelphia, PA.
Lauren van Haaften-Schick is a Philadelphia based artist and designer. She was the principle Founding Director of Gallery TK, a not-for-profit exhibition and performance venue in Northampton, MA, and is the former Director of a contemporary works on paper gallery in New York. She holds a BA in Art and Art History from Hampshire College.
