| About the Exhibition
Opening reception: Second Thursday, March 11, 6 - 9 pm
Rebekah Templeton Contemporary Art is pleased to present Supposedly
an exhibition of new work from Sebastien Leclercq. Supposedly
will consist of a site- specific vinyl tape drawing on the
exterior of the Rebekah Templeton building and an installation
of 132 drawings in the gallery space.
Based in drawing, Leclercq's work consists of the creation
and augmentation of structural semi-narrative circumstances.
Whether these conditions are constructed of graph paper or
architectural structures, Leclercq subtly undermines the certainty
and order denoted by their object-hood. For 'Progress Trap,'
Leclercq has covered the gallery with his signature handmade
graph paper. Starting as framed blank pieces of paper on one
side of the gallery, the 132 drawings are built by sequentially
adding marks to each page and are hung with increasing negative
space. Ending on the opposite side of the gallery in a broken
pile on the floor, the completed sheets appearas though they
had crashed through the gallery's front window. The confrontation
and reconciliation of the viewers gaze within Leclercq's booby-trapped
situations require an "active aesthetic reading,"
exploring the boundaries between perception and knowledge.
Leclercq has shown nationally and internationally. Most recently,
he was a part of the 2009 Works on Paper exhibition juried
by Joao Ribas at Arcadia University and I Don't Watch
the Internet at Fleisher Ollman Gallery. He was part
of the Fleisher Challenge Exhibition series in 2006.
This is Leclercq's first exhibition at Rebekah Templeton
Contemporary Art.
About the Gallery
Rebekah Templeton Contemporary Art is the brainchild of independent curators and artists Sarah Eberle and Ben Will. Eberle and Will worked together on a number of underground curatorial projects. Sarah Eberle has an extensive background in visual art. After graduating from University of California at Berkeley, she worked for Worth Ryder Gallery and Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, CA. Upon arriving in Philadelphia in 2002, she worked as the Gallery Store Manager for The Print Center and played a major role in the founding of Falling Cow Gallery as the inaugural Director.
Ben Will worked as an independent curator in London and Philadelphia, as well as working for a variety of arts organizations including Artistsspace in New York City. The two met while co-curating an exhibition, Squat, displayed at Tower Investments in Northern Liberties, now known as The Jenny Jaskey Gallery. Discovering a mutual love for contemporary art, Eberle and Will decided to open a gallery together. They bought a run down row home on the corner of Girard Avenue and Second Street in South Kensington, the heart of Philadelphia’s newest art neighborhood.
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