- Current Exhibition
- Past Exhibitions
- Upcoming Exhibitions
PAST
June 17th - August 20th, 2010
John J. O'Connor
C'OD(e)R
Fleisher/Ollman is pleased to present drawings, paintings, collages and select sculptures by John J. O'Connor.
John J. O'Connor creates works that meander through a complex course. From a starting point in personal data (the artist's weight), chance (the roll of a die or winning lottery numbers) or statistics (the largest peaks and falls in the history of the U.S. stock market, or results from a Gallup poll concerning public confidence in the government), O'Connor's works, made from graphite, colored pencil, paint and found materials, are composites of quirky decisions, seemingly illogical tangents and obscure codes that end in a practice that is as much an homage to visualizing information as it is to pure abstraction. While giving form to formless information and pattern to seemingly patternless data, the artist simultaneously gives abstract mark-making some quantitative and measurable meaning.
Kate Abercrombie
making, joining and repairing
Also on view will be intimate, patterned goauche paintings on paper and a wall-sized digital print by Kate Abercrombie.
Often using the basic warp and weft structure of the weaver's loom as an anchor for her compositions, the artist lays down repeating geometric shapes to dissolve the rigid axis from which she works. A reference to printed fabric, the shapes comply with the patterns beneath while subversively overshadowing their presence. In select works, quirky imagery, inspired by Alexander Girard's collection of toys, dolls, and religious folk art, are formed through slight tonal shifts in color. In others, the shallow surface remains purely abstract, bringing to mind the complex pattern repeats made possible by grids of pixels. Though carefully built upon the organizing principles of geometry, nothing in Abercrombie's work seems to stay put for very long; the images and compositions maintain a fluctuating, fugitive presence, dissolving just as quickly as they appear.
May 6th - June 12th, 2010
Anthony Campuzano
All Right-Still!
All Right-Still! is Anthony Campuzano's third solo exhibition at Fleisher/Ollman. Referencing past work, the studio practice, lessons learned, artistic folklore, and personal sources of inspiration (music, newspaper headlines), the artist undertakes a monumental investigation into looking and making through various artistic tropes and frameworks. A new work completed in 2010 and entitled, Studio Soul Scene Circa Two Thousand and Eight, is a drawing inspired by a photograph of Campuzano's studio. A sculptural work, Unpainted Painted Sculpture, comments on how Clement Greenberg imposed his will on David Smith's painted sculptures through neglect. Another work pays homage to Campuzano's former drawing teacher, Elena Sisto, the Spanish artist Juan Gris and his 1919 portrait of the poet Max Jacob, now in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
Jennifer Levonian
Her Slip is Showing
For her first solo show with Fleisher/Ollman, the artist debuts two new animations and a series of watercolors used in their making. Buffalo Milk Yogurt features a man who has a nervous breakdown in a gourmet supermarket while a naked woman practices yoga in a display of fall pumpkins. The piece is accompanied by an original soundtrack by Corey Fogel, a multimedia musician and performance artist based in Los Angeles. Her Slip is Showing uses the mundane ritual of a bridal shower to touch on gender roles, social awkwardness and evolving relationships. Her Slip is Showing features music by Nathan Parker Smith as well as text by poet Polly Pauley.
March 31st - May 1st, 2010
Annabeth Rosen: Contingency
Meiling Hom: Yun Nan = Southern Clouds
Paul Swenbeck: Shaker Legend-trip
Fleisher/Ollman presents work by three artists for whom clay plays a central role in their artistic practices. Annabeth Rosen builds complex organic works out of thousands of individually hand-crafted ceramic pieces of varying size, shape, color and pattern. Mei-Ling Hom’s new ceramic work, made in North Carolina with self-taught potter Dan Johnston, continues her ongoing contemplation of cloud imagery and metaphor. Paul Swenbeck will present an installation of ceramic sculptures that will take viewers to various sites of folklore, magic, and belief, from the Salem witch trials to places of Wiccan practice.
February 25th - March 27th, 2010
Luis Romero
Nameless and Reverberating
Fleisher/Ollman is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new drawings, collages and constructions by Chicago artist, Luis Romero.
Romero's flat works, mostly graphite and pen on paper, betray an interest in visual contradiction. Empty surfaces give way to false depth and concentrated lines appear to form tangible shapes. While demonstrating Romero's awareness to Op Art and modernist formalism, these drawings are equally grounded in a personal mark-making practice.
On view as a complement to Romero's work will be a selection of small collages by Ray Yoshida, a central figure in the visual arts of Chicago, a mentor and friend to the Chicago Imagists, and, of particular relevance, Romero's teacher at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
January 21st - February 16th, 2010
Isaac Lin
A Place Near Here
Fleisher/Ollman is very pleased to announce Isaac Tin Wei Lin's solo exhibition, A Place Near Here, which includes new two- and three-dimensional works, as well as collaborative pieces created by Lin and 25 fellow artists.
Lin is as influenced by his Chinese heritage (he is the first of his family to be born in the United States) as he is by American street and popular culture. In A Place Near Here, the artist continues his exploration of multiplicity and interstices. The works, a frenzy of calligraphic-like pattern, musical notation, cartoon cut-outs, and bright color, span traditional categories of painting, printmaking, assemblage, collage, sculpture and installation. The artist's repetitive mark-making, inspired by such things as Xi'an terracotta soldiers, ant colonies, and the artist's training in Mandarin Chinese, where for homework vocabulary words were written over and over, creates meaning and space through accumulation.
Don Colley
Cascade
Chicago-based noir artist, Don Colley, transforms the gallery's window with an installation of his print work.
December 10th, 2009 - January 16th, 2010
I Don't Watch the Internet
Fleisher/Ollman is pleased to present I Don't Watch the Internet, a group exhibition featuring nine Philadelphia artists: Gabriel Boyce, Cari Freno, Jordan Griska, Jay Hardman, John Broderick Heron, James Johnson, Sarah Laina Koljonen, Sebastien Leclercq and Ashley John Pigford.
October 15th - December 5th, 2009
Back to Earth: Revisiting Magiciens de la Terre
Reception: Saturday, October 17, 2-5pm
Our season opens with an homage to John Ollman's favorite exhibition, Magiciens de la Terre, the 1989 exhibition organized by Jean-Hubert Martin and presented at the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Grand Halle at the Parc de la Villette. Our tribute will be akin to the original exhibition format and include equal numbers of artists from the "centers" and from the "margins."
June 18th - August 29th, 2009
Frenz
Fleisher/Ollman is pleased to announce an exhibition of works selected by Will Oldham, the prolific singer-songwriter who most often records and performs under the moniker Bonnie Prince Billy. Frenz, on view June 18 through the end of the summer, will include the work of artists: Shary Boyle, Able Brown, Lori Damiano, Kyle Field, Jill Gallenstein, Sammy Harkham, Alan Licht, Ashley Macomber, Joanne Oldham, Leslie Shows and Spencer Sweeney.
May 14th - June 13th, 2009
Paul Swenbeck and Tristin Lowe
Mocha Dick in the Invisible World
Tristin Lowe and Paul Swenbeck share a common vantage point inspired by Yankee ingenuity and a love of the disappearing natural world. Lowe continues his work in felt, making the mundane detrius of casual consumption into a ghost shadow of inscrutable beauty. For his part, Swenbeck creates ceramics and metallic alien plant forms that grow into the unused corners of the gallery. This show presents a phantasmagora of ideas-from ghost nets filled with the flotsam and jetsam of extinct specis, to magic circle still-life, to science fiction birth allegories-taking the two artists and viewers across boundaries of hope and believability.
April 9th - May 9th, 2009
Bruce Pollock
Figure
The exhibition of new work by Bruce Pollock includes paintings which use geometric patterning in shifting levels of scale to explore color, luminosity and infinite space, and a new ink drawing that diagrams the transformation of geometric figures over its 20 foot length.
February 27th - March 28th, 2009
Steven and Billy Blaise Dufala
Trophy
Steven and Billy Blaise Dufala, artists, collaborators, and brothers, will have their first solo show at the gallery, Trophy, which explores the "piles of things we no longer need," that are discarded en masse, and those things that we value unnecessarily and perhaps, with unnatural fervor. The concepts of use-value, sentimentality, exaggeration, and shelf-life, among others are explored though a darkly humorous and trash-picked lens. Steven was a founding member of the experimental, performative band, Man Man, in which Billy currently plays flute and saxaphone. In 2008, they were named as one of ten finalists for the West Prize.
January 22nd - February 21st, 2009
Rich Text
"Rich Text" opens on Thursday, January 22 with a reception at the gallery from 6pm to 9pm, and will be on view through February 21, 2009. The show includes work from contemporary artists whose use of text varies from single words to involved narratives, anti-aesthetic to highly designed, powerfully specific to poetic and nonsensical. In some cases, text retains its communicative power, while in others, it dissolves into form and object, blurring the line between looking and reading. The artists featured in the exhibition include Conrad Bakker, Mel Bochner, Natasha Bowdoin, Anthony Campuzano, Alex Da Corte, John Evans, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Mark Lombardi, Mark Mahosky, Jayson Musson, John O'Connor, Justin Quinn, Trevor Reese, Isaac Resnikoff, Kay Rosen, Josh Shaddock, Jack Sloss, Bob and Roberta Smith, Jina Valentine, Wayne White and Andrew Jeffrey Wright.
December 11th, 2008 - January 17th, 2009
You Open So Late, You Close So Early
Curated by Amy Adams, Patrick Blake, Claire Iltis and Heather Shoemaker, the 2008 Juried Winter Show features David Clayton, Jeremy Drummond, Billy & Steven Dufala, Charles Hobbs, Nick Lenker, Alex Lukas, C. Pazia Mannella, Nick Paparone, Josh Rickards, Mark Stockton and Shawn Thornton. The show opens with a reception on Thursday, December 11, from 6 to 9PM.
October 10th - December 6th, 2008
Castle in Context
Fleisher/Ollman Gallery is pleased to announce the first exhibition of the gallery's 2008–2009 season, "Castle in Context." As a counterpoint to norms of categorization and distinction, the exhibition places James Castle in the context of art historical discourse by enabling the viewer to connect the artist's soot-and-spit drawings and found-object constructions with the work of contemporaries, many of whose practices were (or are) firmly rooted in the art world. Castle, who was born profoundly deaf and never learned to speak, read or sign, remained isolated from these mainstream communitites.
This exhibition aims to complement the James Castle retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the first comprehensive museum exhibition of the artist's work.
June 5th - August 31st, 2008
A CLEANER HEART A DO IT
New work from Jennifer Levonian, Matthew Rich, Bill Walton and Casey Watson
April 25th - April 28th, 2008
ArtChicago 2008
The Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL
April 18th - May 29th, 2008
Love Explosion
New work from Alex Da Corte and Jack Sloss, two Philadelphia artists. Includes works in neon, bronze, wood, plaster, found objects, photographs, paintings, film and video.
March 14th - April 12th, 2008
Cave Paintings
Group show of large-scale wall works from Kate Abercrombie, Charles Fahlen, Isaac Lin, Mark Mahosky, Bruce Pollock and Mark Surface.
February 2nd - March 8th, 2008
2000 Years of Sculpture
This exhibition brings together the work of sixty-one artists spanning multiple cultures and more than 2000 years. Featuring Pre-Columbian and Han Dynasty ceramics, 18th Century Staffordshire, and works from both local and international luminaries including: Niki de Saint Phalle, Joseph Cornell, William Edmondson, Annabeth Rosen, Duncan Hewitt, Kehinde Wiley, Ken Price, TODT, Margaret Wharton, and Edgar Tolson.
December 14th, 2007 - January 26th, 2008
Street Button
5th Annual Invitational curated by Claire Iltis, Heather Shoemaker and William Pym
Featuring:
Stephanie Beck, Andrew Brehm, Gregory Brellochs, Jamie Dillon, Andrew Gbur, Jennifer Levonian, Yvonne Lung, Ryan McCartney, and Eva Wylie
Reception Friday, December 14th, 6–9PM
November 1st - December 8th, 2007
Felipe Jesus Consalvos
More Colossal Greatness
Newly released work from the estate of Felipe Jesus Consalvos
Marcy Hermansader
Deep Breath
Drawing and collage works created in response to the war in Iraq.
September 20th - October 27th, 2007
Anthony Campuzano
Note on Door
Fully illustrated catalog available.
Anissa Mack
New Work
May 31st - July 31st, 2007
GOOD FUNKY MILES
April 20th - May 19th, 2007
TODT
TODT AFTER NEXT
March 19th - April 14th, 2007
Tilykke Lille Fugl
Group exhibition of young Danish artists. Curated by Nis Bysted, William Pym, & Claire Iltis.
February 8th - March 15th, 2007
Jina Valentine
Dark Matters
"Simply put, dark matter is matter that cannot be seen with any type of telescope, but it can be detected through its gravitational effects. Humbling because they do not know what it is."
December 15th, 2006 - January 27th, 2007
Morgellons
curated by Claire Iltis and William Pym
November 9th - December 9th, 2006
Bruce Pollock
Ad Infinitum
1979-2006
Jack Sloss
From Time to Time
Video, Film, Sound, Sculpture, Photography
October 5th - November 4th, 2006
Tristin Lowe
New Work
His first solo gallery exhibition.
June 21st - August 1st, 2006
Rip, Rig, and Panic
New work by Anda Dubinskis, Mark Khaisman, and Isaac Resnikoff
May 6th - June 10th, 2006
Annabeth Rosen
Philadelphia Wireman
March 11th - April 29th, 2006
Rock Paper Scissors: American Collage Now
An investigation of 100 years of mixed-media practice, including Terry Allen, Anthony Campuzano, James Castle, Felipe Jesus Consalvos, Joseph Cornell, Marcy Hermansader, Jess, Ray Johnson, Paul Laster, Philadelphia Wireman, Bruce Pollock, Isaac Resnikoff, Luis Romero, Anne Ryan, Ruth Thorne Thomsen, Thomas Vance, Jina Valentine, Purvis Young, and Ray Yoshida.
March 11th - April 22nd, 2006
Philadelphia Wireman
An off-site curatorial project in collaboration with Matthew Marks Gallery, at the 521 W 24th St. space.
January 27th - March 4th, 2006
Anthony Campuzano
The Police Are Here!
James Castle
Silent Satire: The Political Cartoon Appropriations
December 9th, 2005 - January 26th, 2006
Meat Ball
The 3rd Annual Survey of Young Philadelphia Artists.
Curated by Greaves, Pym & Valentine.
December 7th - December 10th, 2005
~ScopeMiami
Booth collaboration with Karen Lennox Gallery, Chicago. Primary artist, Isaac Resnikoff.
November 10th - December 14th, 2005
Anthony Campuzano
Mr. Anthony Goes to School
Off-site collaborative project between the artist and his young students, Levy gallery, Moore College of Art and Design.
October 15th - November 19th, 2005
Luis Romero
The Shadow of the Leaf Cannot Touch the Ground
Off-site exhibition at Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
October 8th - November 12th, 2005
Isaac Resnikoff
We Run Out Of Continent
Takitomo Tomita
Post-Art
October 1st - October 2nd, 2005
The Intuit Show of Folk and Outsider Art
Chicago fair.
August 27th, 2005 - March 5th, 2006
Mei-Ling Hom
Floating Mountains, Singing Clouds
Perspective Installation at Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC.
June 17th - July 23rd, 2005
Anthony Campuzano
White Room Solo Exhibition
"Portrait of Mae Brussell" and other drawings installed at White Columns, New York.
June 13th - June 17th, 2005
Art 36 Basel
Revised version of "Fabulous Histories: Indigenous Anomalies in American Art" for the Switzerland fair. Curated by Greaves, Pym, and Valentine.
June 10th - July 8th, 2005
Marcy Hermansader
One Thousand Subtractions
Summer Selections I
New Work by Donald O. Colley, Huston Ripley, and Linda Stoudt.
May 3rd - June 4th, 2005
James Prosek
Symmetry & Myth
In association with Waqas Wajahat, New York. Catalogue available.
Sean Cavanaugh
Emblems of Nature
In association with Waqas Wajahat, New York. Catalogue available.
February 5th - March 8th, 2005
Courtesy Winter
Group exhibition featuring key works from the gallery’s collection, including William Edmondson, Bill Traylor, William Hawkins, Jess, Jon Serl, and the Philadelphia Wireman.
December 10th, 2004 - January 22nd, 2005
JUNTO
The 2nd Annual Survey of Young Philadelphia Artists.
Curated by Greaves, Pym & Valentine.
December 7th - December 10th, 2004
~ScopeMiami
Primary artist, Anthony Campuzano.
November 8th - November 11th, 2004
~ScopeLondon
Primary artist, Luis Romero.
October 21st - November 19th, 2004
Fabulous Histories: Indigenous Anomalies in American Art
A curatorial project for Harvard University’s VES Department and Carpenter Center, this exhibition outlined the shared conceptual and formal concerns of nine self-taught and trained artists: Jim Nutt, Martin Ramirez, P.M. Wentworth, Christina Ramberg, James Castle, Luis Romero, Jess, Felipe Jesus Consalvos, and Anthony Campuzano.
Curated by Greaves, Pym, & Valentine.
October 11th - October 12th, 2004
The Intuit Show of Folk and Outsider Art
Chicago fair.
October 5th - November 20th, 2004
Felipe Jesus Consalvos
Constructing Images
Inaugural show of collage and assemblage by the Cuban-American artist. Catalogue available.
July 1st - July 31st, 2004
Summer Group Show
May 10th - June 20th, 2004
Bruce Pollock
Materializing Light
New paintings and works on paper.
March 6th - April 9th, 2004
Mei-Ling Hom
New Work
Site-specific installation ("Floating Mountains, Singing Clouds")and new sculptures and drawings.
Bill Traylor
Major Works
December 10th, 2003 - January 20th, 2004
The New Acropolis
1st annual invitational of young Philadelphia artists.
Curated by Greaves, Pym and Valentine.