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Openng reception Saturday,
May 1, 5:30 - 7 pm
Fleisher Art Memorial presents the final exhibition in the thirty-second
season of the three-part Wind Challenge Exhibitions at
Fleisher — the Delaware Valley's premier juried artist exhibition
program. This season's nine Challenge artists were selected from
a field of nearly 300 applicants to exhibit in one of three three-person
exhibitions. Challenge 3 features the work of artists
Tetsugo Hyakutake, Scott Kip, and Brenna K. Murphy.
Born and raised in Japan, Tetsugo Hyakutake
remembers hating the ubiquitous factories that created so much
pollution. Now an adult, he cannot help but to be mesmerized by
their mythological structures and colored lighting. By recording
reality through photography, with minor aesthetic adjustments,
Hyakutake confronts his complicated relationship with modern industrial
Japan. He intends his work to serve as a tribute to those who
made it possible for Japan to thrive as a nation, as well as to
create open dialogue on all the contradictory “truths”
it created through its' industrialization. Mr. Hyakutake received
his B.F.A from the University of the Arts and his M.F.A from the
University of Pennsylvania.
The light that hangs above each of the carefully constructed wooden
structures of Scott Kip's objects may be just
as important — if not more than — the structures themselves.
Each structure is designed to accommodate paths of light, both
from above and through the possible sightlines of the viewer.
Kip looks past the physical nature of the pieces to direct our
attention to the transience of light. His focus is on such ephemeral
matters as how perspective changes understanding, the relationship
between objects, and the idea of life as a place in space. Mr.
Kip attended The University of the Arts as a crafts major with
a focus on woodworking.
For most of us, the idea of home brings to mind the familiar
house of our childhood, in a neighborhood where we knew all the
street names. For artist Brenna K. Murphy, who
moved eight times to six different states by the age of eighteen,
home has been more of an abstract idea. In response to her nomadic
upbringing, her ever-present body became her surrogate home, and
hair has now become her material of choice. By stitching directly
into photographs of empty houses, Murphy continues to poke and
prod her definition of home against its conventional meaning.
Ms. Murphy received her B.F.A. from the University of North Carolina.
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