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CANDACE JENSEN
Collaborative open edition screenprint with fellow PAFA students Ben Grzenia, Alyssa Ebinger, Victoria Rollett, Sophie White and others (14" x 11") 2017
Collaborative freeform edition print with Amos Paul Kennedy Jr and PAFA students oil and rubber based inks on kraft cardstock (12" x 18") 2017
Gaia Illumination -Words by TJ Demos- ink, shellac, gold leaf, graphite, turmeric, gouache and watercolor on Clairefontaine paper, diptych of (2) 9.5"x12" sheets in hand-built poplar shadowbox (21.5” x 14”) 2019
Collaborative open edition screenprint with fellow PAFA students Ben Grzenia, Alyssa Ebinger, Victoria Rollett, Sophie White and others (14" x 11") 2017
About the Artist
Candace Jensen is committed to realizing a culture profoundly informed by deep ecology. She is a visual artist, writer, calligrapher and witch. She has exhibited work in Vermont, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Oakland, New York, and Antwerp. Her writing and artwork have been featured in both online and curated print publications, such as Studio Visit Magazine and Iterant Mag. She is a current artist member at Amos Eno Gallery (Brooklyn), where she collaborates as an exhibiting artist and curator and is the new Letterpress and Book Arts Programming Director at the Ruth Stone House in Goshen, VT.
Jensen earned her MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2018, and her BFA from Tyler School of Art in 2008, both in Philadelphia. She has completed over 1000 hours of advance study in Tantra, Feminine Form Yoga, Ayurveda and Herbalism, and maintains a personal practice and a student-educator relationship to these teachings. Her recent solo exhibitions at Fleisher Art Memorial (Philadelphia, PA) and Amos Eno Gallery (Brooklyn, NY) both featured large bodies of visual art and writing rooted in the tradition of illuminated manuscripts which highlight ecoliteracy, deep ecology and empathic writing. The artist lives and works in N'dakinna (Southern Vermont) part of unceded traditional lands of the Western Abenaki Peoples, where she is establishing In Situ Polyculture; an artist retreat, residency and commons, with her partner the artist Owen Schuh.
artist.cjensen@gmail.com • @artist.cjensen & @in_situ_polyculture_commons on Instagram
https://www.candacejensen.com/
YIKUI (COY) GU
About the Artist
Yikui (Coy) Gu was born in 1983 in Nantong, China and emigrated to the United States at the age of seven, growing up in Albany, NY. He has a BFA from Long Island University and an MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He has exhibited his work nationally in New York, Miami, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Boston, and St. Louis; and internationally in London, Berlin, and Siena, Italy. He has been an artist in residence at the School of Visual Arts in New York, and has been reviewed in the Washington Post, KunstForum International, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Yale Daily News. His work has appeared on the cover of the Lower East Side Review , and in Fresh Paint and Art Maze . His work is held in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Art Library (NYC), the Siena Art Institute (Siena, Italy), Camden County College (Blackwood, NJ), and numerous private collections.
He resides in Philadelphia and teaches as Associate Professor of Studio Art at the College of Southern Maryland. In his time off he enjoys traveling, good Belgian beers, and keeping up to date as a sneakerhead. The bulk of his time, however, is spent in the studio where he is currently plotting his takeover of the international art world, while remaining mostly harmless.
Classic Yellow
Classic Yellow is a series of autobiographical work using my wife and I as subject matter. In probing the specificity, both lived and imagined, of our immigrant Chinese-German marriage, universal truths and absurdities are revealed. The spaces between order and chaos, sincerity and irony, or design and chance are explored using visual elements from the internet, hip hop culture, and art history. The combination of painting, drawing, and collage, alongside materials ranging from chopsticks to bodily fluids juxtapose against each other, echoing our relationship and serving as a metaphor for it. Through this combination of political, cultural, and domestic imagery, I hope to affirm and subvert the contemporary human condition through a Yellow lens.
Instagram @yikuigu | https://www.instagram.com/yikuigu/?hl=en
DAVID CAMPBELL WILSON
About the Artist
David Campbell Wilson received his BFA from Syracuse University and MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Wilson is the recipient of several awards including the Hiram Gee Painting Award from Syracuse University and the R. Tait McKenzie Medal from the Philadelphia Sketch Club. His paintings have exhibited in numerous gallery and museum exhibitions in Philadelphia, Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, and Portland.
In addition to his career as a painter, Wilson is also an accomplished illustrator, fire performer, and video artist. He writes and illustrates the weekly webcomic Drink Water! for BurningMan.org, and has been invited to perform over a dozen times at the Burning Man Festival in Nevada's Black Rock Desert.
About the Art
These paintings were created to reflect the attitude of resistance and community pride expressed by the citizens of Philadelphia in response to a persistent pattern of racial inequality and police brutality that is so prevalent throughout contemporary American culture. This city radiates an undercurrent of strength and solidarity in the face of injustice, and the community consistently demonstrates a true awareness and understanding of the fundamental principles of freedom and equality.
‘Philly Elmo’ depicts a portrait of a local performance artist who excels at delivering what the great John Lewis described as ‘good trouble’. An everyman reclaiming a corporate image in the service of personal freedoms, exemplifying a mischievous and rebellious instinct to stand in opposition to oppression of all kinds, and at any cost.
‘Ordo Ab Chao’ is a latin expression that translates literally as ‘order out of chaos’, and is the official motto of the Masonic order. The painting depicts a police vehicle that has been flipped and burned at the steps of the Masonic Temple in Center City Philadelphia in response to the police murder of George Floyd in May, 2020.
http://www.davidcampbellwilson.com/
Instagram @davidcampbellwilson
DORI MILLER
About the Artist
Dori Miller; I am fascinated with conflicting materials (oil painting and papermaking for example). I search to find where they can meet. My explorations have shown that nothing is truly opposed. These agitations sometimes evoke stone and pressed botanical material. I accept accidents along the way and seize the controls back as the painting demands.
It is in these dissonant spaces where portals tend to hide. What is that glimmer of something? That moment before the noticing of something, else. The discovery of a portal. Then the recognition, that preliminary knowing. The excitement of that moment that I am on to something. What does that edge look like? What is the edge of a portal? Before any of this can be realized, I must structure safe space to begin. This haven allows for origin stories and ancient traumas to reveal themselves and be alchemized. Archetypal energy provides subconscious familiarities that can lead to universal truths. Creation and the unknown is my work.
https://www.dorimillerfineartist.com/
Instagram @Dorimillerfineartist | https://www.instagram.com/dorimillerfineartist/?hl=en
FRANCINE RENEE SHNIEDER
About the Artist
Francine Renée Schneider, Excerpt ; At age 60, I had to reinvent myself. Now, painting and growing as an artist was my priority. I was accepted at The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, PA. I deliberately chose PAFA because of its historical significance and their relevance in today's contemporary art world. I completed the Post Baccalaureate program, and was subsequently awarded the honor of an Alumni Fellow studio at PAFA for two years.
By being a member of the PAFA community, my painting is making a significant shift which continues to evolve. As my health changes, my life changes and my art changes. As a result of this new perspective on life and art, I've chosen to be known as Francine Renée Schneider, using both my original given first and middle names in my artwork. Renée in French translates into the word reborn and defines who I am now and what my work and life represents.
Read her full story and Bio at
https://www.francinereneeschneider.com/
GABRIEL SOTO
About the Artist
Gabriel Soto (b. El Salvador) is an artist with an interest in psychedelic imagery, history, and esoteric spiritual practices. He graduated from The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts with a BFA in 2017. Primarily focused on oil painting and drawing, Gabriel combines imagery from both the classical tradition and several different sources to collage elements that create other worlds, dimensions, and esoteric allegories.
"My work revolves around the collection and use of imagery from several different time periods and cultures. My main source of imagery so far has been Western painting, as it has been a large influence in my academic training. My interest in the use and alteration of Classical painting comes from an interest in the history of unorthodox philosophy and alchemy in Western History. I graduated form PAFA in 2017, and I'm currently making work in Chicago."
Instagram @ ga_so_art | https://www.instagram.com/ga_so_art/
JOANNE FUNKHOUSER
About the Artist
Joanne Funkhouser recently graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts as a transfer student in the fall of 2019. She is currently taking part in the annual student exhibition in 2020. Her work is a collaboration of contemporary ideals inspired by the history of painting. Her most recent portraits discuss the ideas of replacing hierarchy with friendship. After spending her education dissecting portraits of historical wealth she firmiliarizes the unknown with what she knows--turning her friends into these characters.
Instagram @jofunkhouseart
JOTHAM MALAVE
56”x48” oil on canvas 2020
oil on canvas 36”x36” 2020
oil on canvas 30x24 2020
56”x48” oil on canvas 2020
About the Artist
Jotham Malavé Maldonado (1989, Las Piedras Puerto Rico). Acquires the Associate Degree in Technologies of Telecommunications from the University of Puerto Rico in (2007). He studied at the School of Fine Arts of San Juan in the Department of Painting, which graduated with honors (2014).During his graduation from the MFA at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 2019 he was awarded prizes such as The Judith McGregor Caldwell Purchase Prize for the Academy's Permanent Collection and The Woodmere Art Museum Purchase Prize both prizes will host Malavé’s works for their permanent collections. He has had several exhibitions in museums such as the Museum of Art Puerto Rico, Museum of San Juan, Museum of Contemporary Art and in alternative spaces such as La Productora in Santurce, Puerto Rico. He currently lives in Philadelphia where he developed his work
Artist Statement
I explore my Puerto Rican heritage and humanity through figurative painting, drawing, and sculpture. In PR, our political history, art historical themes, and religious traditions have been buried under oppressive colonial culture and politics for centuries. These are the buried stories that fascinate me. I research and reimagine them in order to keep the socio-political context of my island alive for current and future generations. The layers and substrates of history are not linear especially in the American continent where the revision, uses, and purposes of figurative painting have been cannibalized and inverted to be used against the colonizer. As the Cannibalist manifesto states, we eat all, we became everything. I feel the poetry behind the cannibalizing comes from the defiant resilient action of eating and digesting the interrelations of memory (pre-colonial) and projection (Postcolonial). Within these interactions of cannibalizing and meditation, I work towards a redeeming resolution of my relationship with my environment and Puerto Rican history.
Instagram @Jotham.malave | https://www.instagram.com/jotham.malave/?hl=en
JUAN PABLO RUIZ
2018 Oil on canvas 72” x 36”
2019 Oil on canvas 43” x 57”
2019 Oil on Canvas 36” x 80”
2018 Oil on canvas 72” x 36”
About the Artist
Juan Pablo Ruiz is a painter born in Guadalajara, Mexico and raised in Chicago. He received a BA in History and a BA in Art at Northeastern Illinois University and received his MFA at the historic Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Juan has exhibited in Chicago, Philadelphia, and New York City and is currently teaching at Northeastern Illinois University’s Art Department.
These paintings take visual inspiration from classic artwork and thematic inspiration from the political and social turmoil that has afflicted the United States in the last few years; crystalizing the political chaos, immigrant’s journey, and injustice of a failed immigration system – into images that borrow from the iconic gravitas of altarpieces, mythological archetypes, and even temple friezes.
Instagram @Jpabloruizart
Article: http://voyagechicago.com/interview/meet-juan-pablo-ruiz/
KATIE HARTLEY
About the Artist
Katie Hartley; I am a Washington, D.C. based multi-media artist and a graduate of the PAFA post-baccalaureate program in 2018. With this work, I study my growth as a person. By cutting up my clothes and creating collage sculptures, I break down the person I have been to figure out who I want to be. While I tear old clothes, I break down ignorance and previous prejudices. As I incorporate personal artifacts from my family, I think about how my personal history and relationships affect my view of the world. And as I layer these fragments into a new image, I see a personal growth that is necessary to become an awake, changing force in a modern society that needs it.
www.katiehartleyart.com | katiehartleyart@gmail.com
Instagram @Khart_art
M.ADIL OZZTURK
About the Artist
M. Adil Ozturk started the Design and Art education in high school. He graduated from Vocational High School (Graphic Design-Photography) in 2010 and followed by a degree in Visual Design from FMV. Isik University in 2015. Later, he obtained the certificate of Pedagogical Program in the Marmara University Education Department (Atatürk Eğitim Fakültesi). In 2016 he pursued his graduate degree and obtained his dream in the USA. He graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts(PAFA), MFA program.
After he graduated from PAFA he gained one-year training and working permission from the US government that he used fully to gain more experiences within his faculty. In addition to his teaching abilities, his qualifications include advanced knowledge of the Adobe Creative Suite for graphic design/illustration, product photography, digitizing, and post-editing on the top of painting capabilities. Moreover, Adil is very inspired by philosophy and politics. His current research is concerned with one of the global issues in today’s world, Orientalism vs. Occidentalism.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mustafa-adil-ozturk-b6339b142/
Instagram @madilozturk
MEGAN WEBB
About the Artist
Megan Webb is a multi-media artist, born in Cleveland, Ohio and currently working in Philadelphia. She attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where she graduated with a four year studio certificate in Printmaking in 2016. She is interested in creating tactile works that are meant to be touched, moved, and experienced physically as well as visually. She works with imagery from her daily personal experiences, historical representations, and current cultural imagery. Through this recognizable imagery and through physical touch, she hopes to be able to create work that is understandable and accessible not only within the arts community but to those outside as well.
Instagram @meganwebb.art | https://www.instagram.com/meganwebb.art/
MORGAN OSBURN
Gaia Installation Video 2
Gaia Installation Video 1
About the Artist
Morgan Osburn creates ceremonies of disembodiment & dissection, remaking and reclaiming the body through assemblage and installation. She grew up all over the US, and now resides in Charlotte, NC. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Studio Art and Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History from Randolph College in 2018, and her Master of Fine Arts from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, PA, in 2020. She recently completed a June 2020 residency at AUTOMAT COLLECTIVE in Philadelphia, PA, followed by her first solo show, Fragments & Evidence. She is a recipient of the Rachel Trexler Ellis ’44 Art Prize for Excellence in 2018, and the Rise Grant in 2016.
Selected group exhibitions include Jump Into the Fire!, Atelier; Shaping Conversation, PAFA; Exercises in Ineffability, Marginal Utility; Variations on the Artist Book, Philadelphia City Hall; Secret Haunts, PAFA; Action Verbs > Actions Words, Grizzly Grizzly; and B.A.S.E., Anna Zorina. She has several digital publications, including (EM)BODY Vol. 1-3; and Body(No)Body, Young Space. She currently teaches IB Art & Beginning Visual Art at West Charlotte High School.
Instagram @morganaosburn
NICOLE MICHAUD
About the Artist
Nicole Michaud was born to a French Canadian family in New Hampshire, U.S. in the 1970s. She has traveled abroad and extensively throughout the United States, and has visited all but two of the 50 U.S. States (North Dakota and Hawaii). Ms. Michaud creates two-dimensional works in various media, and frequently draws upon themes of memory and personal history. She moves between abstraction and representation for many projects, and enjoys finding the intermediate area between the two. She is represented by Stanek Gallery in Philadelphia, PA.
Instagram @nicolemichaudstudio | https://www.instagram.com/nicolemichaudstudio/
REBECCA GILES
About the Artist
Rebecca Giles explores light, color, luminosity, and translucency though her still lifes. She often incorporates text into her artwork. Rebecca was born in Pennsylvania, but grew up in Turkey and the Balkans. She is a BFA painting major and will graduate in 2021.
https://www.rebeccagilesart.com/
Instagram @Rebeccagilesart | https://www.instagram.com/rebeccagilesart/
RITA BERNSTEIN
About the Artist
Rita Bernstein was born in Brooklyn, New York and was educated at Barnard College of Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She received a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2019. Her pictures are in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; James A. Michener Art Museum; the University of Michigan Museum of Art; and the Woodmere Art Museum. Her work has been widely exhibited, including at the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Griffin Museum; the University of Pennsylvania; and the University of the Arts. She was selected for the prestigious Fleisher Art Memorial Challenge Exhibition and has also been awarded fellowships and grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the
Arts; the Independence Foundation; and the Leeway Foundation.
https://www.ritabernstein.com/
Instagram @ritabernstein | https://www.instagram.com/ritabernstein/?hl=en
SALLY RICHARDS
About the Artist
Sally Richards is a Philadelphia-based painter, printmaker and multi-media artist. She holds a BA in Mathematics and Art from Bucknell University and an MBA from Harvard University. Following a successful career in the technology industry and management consulting, she completed the Certificate Program at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in December 2019. She has an active studio practice located in the southwest Philadelphia suburbs. Her current work explores the “nature of place”- the essence, the energy and the spirit we feel when we experience our physical world in an intimate and moving way. It means to capture the moment of connection in an effort to please, surprise, give rise to innocent memories and fresh impressions. The places in her paintings and works on paper are imaginary, relational or abstract expressions derived from observation, memory and plein air photographs. Combining technology and traditional artistic methods in new ways she allows for an immediate emotional connection so that the viewers may find something of themselves her work. Her use of color, form, structure and movement conveys light, love and spirit to cause elevation and freedom in mood and thought, if even for a moment. Her work has been exhibited in many juried shows over the last several years. She is the winner of three PAFA Spring Prizes-The Plastic Club Award (2016/painting) and the two-time winner of the James N L Sentz Book Award (2018, 2019).
https://www.sallyrichardsart.com/
Instagram @sallyrichardsart | https://www.instagram.com/sallyrichardsart/
SARA HAVEKOTTE
Bag Of Dreams- What I Wish For My Friends, 2020 Cotton, fabric, sequin, thread, beads 14 x 14 inches
Paper, Ink and natural material 11 x 8 inches
2020 Found ceramic, plaster, cloth, beads and shelf 14 x 16 x 4 inches
Bag Of Dreams- What I Wish For My Friends, 2020 Cotton, fabric, sequin, thread, beads 14 x 14 inches
About the Artist
Sara Havekotte; I am really inspired by the actions of everyday life. Routine can often be seen as banal, but I find there is a certain form of meditation that comes out in the process of doing the same set of tasks repeatedly. With such measure, the slightest interruption can become surprising, terrifying, or beautiful. My practice aims to cohesively and elegantly merge together the many types of scraps of life into objects that maintain a sense of quiet introspection and meditation. These scraps usually take the form of fabric wall works, weavings and books.In my work I am interested in exploring femininity and trauma, what was it like to grow up in the body of a woman when you don’t feel like one? What does it mean when abuse takes your body, and perhaps, your gender from you? And what does it look like, when you have to start coming back to it?
I am an artist and arts professional working in Philadelphia, PA. I received my Master of Fine Art from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art (2020), and my undergraduate degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art(2013). I am a current member of the Spillway Collective in Philadelphia PA, and have exhibited at spaces such as Current Space Gallery, Baltimore MD; Atelier FAS Gallery, Philadelphia PA, The Weaving Mill, Chicago IL; and Terrault Gallery, Baltimore MD. Before moving to Philadelphia for my Masters degree I was a participating member at Current Space Collective in Baltimore MD.
Instagram @sara.k.havekotte | https://www.instagram.com/sara.k.havekotte/