Opening Reception, First Friday, October 4th, 6-11 PM
Gallery Talk, October 24th, 6:30 PM

October at Vox will feature solo shows by member artists Olivia Schreiner, Matt Suib, and Paul Swenbeck. The icing on the cake, Gary Panter_s light show "Fog Window" in our special exhibitions space the Fourth Room. Gary Panter will perform the work live at 8 and 10 PM. Exhibitions begin First Friday, October 4th and continue through October 24th. There will be an opening reception First Friday from 6-11PM and a gallery talk with curator Alex Baker October 24th at 6:30 PM. All events are free and open to the public. October promises to an exceptional month of exhibitions. Don_t miss this one.

The month of October brings a rare treat to Philadelphia: Vox Populi presents internationally renowned artist Gary Panter_s light show, "Fog Window". This intoxicating work will be premiered in Philadelphia on First Friday in Vox_s "Fourth Room". This light show will use common objects to produce a light and shadow abstraction on a small backlit screen, accompanied by live and taped sound by Philadelphia sonic masters Bardo Pond. The performances will be documented on video, and will be viewed throughout the month of October in the Fourth Room.

"The project is an outgrowth of light shows I did in my garage in the sixties, shadow puppets, and experiments done with the performance group Ape Week in Texas in the seventies and, more recently with friends from funnygarbage.com"

Panter has been developing a comic repertoire since the mid-seventies with the character Jimbo made famous in the cartoon journal Raw. His sensibility has influenced punk culture through album covers and most notably in the set design for PeeWee_s Playhouse for which he won three Emmy awards. Panter_s "lost" graphic novel; Funny Garbage Press recently published Cola Madness.

Vox Populi will present En Route, an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Olivia Schreiner. In En Route, Schreiner explores roads, paths and everything alongside them. From this travelogue of her daily life, Schreiner has created a painting for each season that include images of roads and paths and their varying textures and atmospheres. Influenced by her new hobby of drive-by digital photography, Schreiner layers on her canvas the images that zip past through the windshield and emerge along her pedestrian paths.
For the month of October Vox Populi is proud to present the fourth and final solo exhibition by Paul Swenbeck, entitled Buzzkill. Swenbeck's creepy realism returns with a casual vengeance as he crawls deeper into Philadelphia's backwater psyche. Presented here are the many sides of Mr. Swenbeck, first and foremost, being his bewitching sculpture. Included in the show are Swenbeck's psychedelic photographs shot through a prism held before the camera lens.

This October Vox Populi is alive with the sound of the sound of music, an exhibition of three new projects in sound, light and video by Matthew Suib. These projects sample, borrow and steal from sources and soundtracks spanning generations of pop culture. Beyond mere copyright infringement, Suib's reconfigurations of "borrowed" materials resonate in their new contexts, allowing the artist to use music and "non-musical" sound as raw material with which to explore ideas from the personal to political.
Vox Populi is also proud to offer a limited edition print designed by Panter for this exhibition.