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VOX POPULI 1315 Cherry Street, 4th Floor, Philadelphia PA |
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Joy Feasley
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tel: 215-568-5513
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| About the Exhibition First Friday Reception: April 5, 6 - 10 PM Kelley Roberts Get Well Soon Kelly Roberts' new work focuses on themes of isolation and devotion. Using diffused color and blown up images resonate within artificial environments, exploring the melancholy of love and loss. "Get Well Soon," a wish you were here sentiment, widens the provisions for the survival of the fittest to include those that simply desire. Joy Feasley Sky Clad: A Naturist Love Story Joy Feasley presents her first-ever solo installation this month at Vox. This exhibition promises to squeeze new life into the "Back to Nature" campaign championed by the Transcendentalists and "free lovin" hippies of the past. To get the ball rolling, Feasley will create a space within the gallery for both reflection and recruitment. The installation will contain all the trademark non-violent-bullets in Feasley's belt; crappy pencil drawings of naked hippies on construction paper, resin paintings of trippy nature scenes, and new to Feasley . . . acid bath landscape paintings, cute little sculptures of crystal forests, and perhaps one more hit of naked hippies. Merrilee Challiss Apocryphilia: Works on Paper The current show of ink drawings and works on paper by Merrilee Challiss are redolent of the sweetly morbid and the slightly transgressive. As the title Apocryphilia suggests, the idea of the Apocrypha, medical anomalies, and the apocalypse, all rooted firmly in the medieval aesthetic, inform the work with a sense of cross-eyed wonder. Another potent aesthetic influence infused in the work is that of overly stylized bad album cover art, which often references apocalyptic imagery, as in, for example, Nazareth's Hair of the Dog. Eschewing Cartesian clarity and idealized proportions, these contorted figures emerge jauntily -- with one clean eye from the gurgling muck below -- to inhabit a world of fancy, stench and secrets. |
| About
the Gallery Vox Populi is a nonprofit artists' collective located in Philadelphia, PA that was founded in 1988 to support the work of local artists. Vox has always been one of Philadelphia's most important venues for new, ambitious, and experimental art. |
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