Fall Season Announced at The Galleries at Moore

The fall season kicks off with four exciting exhibitions at The Galleries at Moore. The 2007 Moore College of Art & Design Faculty Triennial Exhibition showcases the breadth of talent and artistic achievements by members of Moore's teaching community. On view from August 31 through October 14, 2007, the exhibition opens with a free public reception on Wednesday, September 5 from 5:30 - 8 pm.

The exhibition, organized by Lorie Mertes, Rochelle F. Levy Director/Chief Curator at The Galleries at Moore, is a dynamic mingling of media, forms and styles. The show represents the diversity of artistic practices undertaken by Moore's faculty. The exhibition includes nearly 120 works of art and is accompanied by a full-color publication with work by each of the forty-five participating artists.

"The Triennial Faculty Exhibition is the College's opportunity to recognize and showcase to the students and the community-at-large recent work by the professional artists and designers on our teaching staff," says Happy Fernandez, President of Moore. "As we approach our 160th year in 2008, it is important to acknowledge the paramount role of faculty in shaping the creative climate of the College in addition to educating the thousands of young artists and designers who have graduated from Moore since our founding in 1848."

Opening in early September is A Natural Imbalance, an exhibition of paintings by Moore Alumna Leila Cartier '04, who is currently pursuing her MFA at the Art Institute of Chicago and is the recent recipient of a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship. On view September 6 - October 21 in the Wilson Gallery, the exhibition features five large-scale works from the last two years. The recent works, with their abstract streaks of color and pattern, evoke an infinite landscape seen through a fast-moving Technicolor lens.

Also on view September 6 - October 21 in the Graham Gallery is Gnosis, an exhibition of new photographs by Dona Lantz, Academic Dean at Moore. Lantz, who has a MS from University of California, Berkeley, Is presenting recent photographs where she juxtaposes seemingly unrelated images of ordinary found objects and everyday captured moments. Together the individual images create a visual whole that extends the meaning of any single image.

September 6 - October 14, The Galleries are presenting Joshua Levine's Trophy Room. Taking cues from scientific principles and techniques of genetic engineering and blending them with a healthy dose of science fiction, Los Angeles-based artist Joshua Levine has created a menagerie of bizarre animal hybrids. Heads of his latest mutations adorn the walls of the gallery in what Levine imagines is the "trophy room" of the future. In an age where the cloning of animals is daily news, Levine leaves it up to viewers to determine whether these scientific advancements are for better or worse. The exhibition is presented as the first in a new series of exhibitions organized by The Galleries at Moore that give insight into the work of emerging artists and their working process.

Also on view through October 14 are photographs from Joel Katz's civil rights photo essay Mississippi 1964, presented on the Philadelphia Wall in honor of Constitution Day, September 18. Katz, who lives in Philadelphia, holds BA, BFA, and MFA degrees from Yale and has taught at Yale, Rhode Island School of Design, University of the Arts, Moore College of Art and Design, and Philadelphia University and is the co-author of two books published by MIT Press. The text accompanying the photographs earned him the Strong Prize for American Literature at Yale in 1965.

About The Galleries at Moore College of Art & Design
For the past twenty years, The Galleries at Moore have provided a forum for exploring contemporary issues and ideas through the presentation of a diverse range of exhibitions and programs that offer insights into the work of established and emerging artists. As part of the programming offered in The Goldie Paley Gallery featuring the work of national and international artists, The International Discovery Series has featured the first US presentations of such artists as Artur Barrio, VALIE EXPORT, Terry Fox, Jörg Immendorff, and Roman Singer. The Levy Gallery for the Arts in Philadelphia highlights the work of artists and arts organizations based in Philadelphia. As venues serving America's only art and design college for women, the Galleries have also presented exhibitions by such significant women artists and designers as Jo Baer, Janet Biggs, Dara Birnbaum, Mary Cassatt, Jay DeFeo, Viola Frey, Marlene Dumas, Jacqueline Matisse, Alice Neel, Karen Kilimnick, Carolee Schneemann and Hannah Wilke.

The Galleries at Moore receives state arts funding through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. A portion of the Galleries' operating funds for this fiscal year have been provided by grants from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Philadelphia Cultural Fund, Friends of the Galleries of Moore and Moore College of Art & Design.

The Galleries at Moore
Moore College of Art & Design
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Philadelphia, PA 19103-1179
Contact: 215.965.4027 / galleries@moore.edu
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