Opening reception: January 26, 2006 from 5:30 pm to 8 pm

Related events: A concurrent exhibition of new paintings will be shown at Locks Gallery in Philadelphia from February 3 through 25, 2006.

The Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery of The University of the Arts presents Imitation of Life, a twenty-year retrospective by Stuart Netsky. Netsky, a Philadelphia native, alumna of The University of the Arts and a Pew Fellowship winner, extends the vocabulary of Pop Art while redressing the hegemony and significant issues of appropriation, domesticity, gender representation, aging and mortality. Deconstructing the power politics of Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism in woven works, he shares concerns with Antoni, Gober, Applebaum, and Kelly. For the past decade, Netsky has devoted himself primarily to painting pop abstractions while continuing related themes. This is Netsky’s first exhibition to juxtapose these recent paintings with his earlier prints, photography, sculpture, and installations.

Netsky has shown widely in California, Missouri, New York, Pennsylvania, Argentina and Great Britain. This is his eleventh one-person exhibition and his largest since his 1994 retrospective at the Institute of Contemporary Art. Netsky’s works are in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Rutgers University, and major corporate and private collections.