About the Exhibition
Jennie Thwing - Catch My Legs
Jennie Thwing’s video installation work explores identity in crisis. The video, animation and photographs in Catch My Legs include experimental footage of the artist and others presenting themselves as a collective of women workers who harvest legs for a living. Their attempts achieve various emotional and physical states and suggest that we all have multiple personalities, which emerge when we least expect and desire.
Jennie Thwing is a Philadelphia-based artist and educator who received her MFA from UMBC in Baltimore. She is currently an Assistant Professor at Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ. Thwing is a member of Nexus Foundation for Today’s Art and Soho20 in New York City. She has exhibited her work at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Seattle, the Institute for Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, the Creative Alliance in Baltimore, the Center for Art and Visual Culture in Baltimore, the Fondazione Mudima per l'Arte Contemporanea in Milan, the Independent Museum of Contemporary Art (IMCA) in Cyprus and has an upcoming solo show in January of 2009 at Soho 20 in New York.
Sherif Habashi - Works on Paper
Sherif Habashi’s new works on paper reflect his recent involvement in appropriating imagery of symbolical and ornamental situations. These stem from the artist’s increasing interest in the decorative arts encountered through his exposure to antique objects. This work represents a progression on symbolical themes of memory and history, reflected in sources encountered as well as projected. Working within the vocabulary of juxtapositions, he is increasingly drawn to finding connections in oppositions—to arrive at a concise state between the transparent and the concrete. In this regard, his goal is to maintain a level of immediacy with the gesture, and to operate with a sense of freedom in a space allowing for experimental methods in arriving at his subject.
Sherif Habashi is a Philadelphia-based artist and educator who received his MFA in Painting from the University of Massachusetts in 1998.
About the Gallery
NEXUS/Foundation for Today's Art was established in 1975 as
an artist-run, non-profit, non-collecting exhibition space.
The Nexus mission is to showcase challenging, innovative,
and compelling contemporary art within a context intended
to stimulate creative thought and dialog both among our artist
membership and within the community at large.
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