Tyler Craft & Cheese

We want to invite you to visit the Stella Elkins Gallery (in the basement of the Tyler School of Art, 1201 N 13th St. Philadelphia, PA 19122) where the 2nd Year Grads in Glass, Fibers and Ceramics are exhibiting for the next two weeks.

Show is Open from Aug. 26 through Sept. 5 during Gallery hours: Wednesday through Saturday 11am to 6pm.

A Closing Reception will be held on Thursday Sept. 3, 5pm to 7pm.

Please come check out the work we made this summer!
Samantha, Seth, Kari, Sarah, & Lauren

Photographs by Mary C. Rhodomoyer in Elkins Hall

*from September 29 to October 10

Mary C. Rhodomoyer received her MFA in photography from Tyler School of Art in May 2004. She spent several years as both a sculpture major and ceramics major primarily interested in the human condition and installation earthworks. She is employed at Tyler School of Art, Temple University Center City as an Adjunct Assistant Professor and Arcadia University as an Adjunct Professor. She exhibits her work in juried, group and solo exhibitions and enjoys collaborative projects. Recent exhibitions include select works from her series “Site Unseen” a solo exhibition in Ardsley Pennsylvania and a recent juried exhibition "Works on Paper" at Main Line Art Center in Haverford Pennsylvania.


Photographic Series in Progress: Site Unseen & Natural Selections
My photographic projects reflect an intention to capture and explore the subtle but observable changes that happen in natural settings. The landscapes act not as visual observable fact but consider the idea of observation itself. The quality of the landscape is evoked through light and atmospheric conditions. Atmospheric reduction in visual information gives the images a mood and space, a portal for looking that leaves the viewer with the potential for observation and ultimately with themselves. Additional information in the landscape becomes a metaphor for the disruption of that state of being and explores stories regarding a state of paradise lost with the disruption of knowledge and thought. Influences originate from Japanese printmaking and photography, painting, eastern philosophy, and ideas concerning both affinity and the infinite.
maryrhodomoyer.com

Photographs by Anna Norton in Elkins Hall

*up until September 26

Anna Norton received her M.F.A. in photography from Tyler School of Art and her B.A. in anthropology from Tulane University. After beginning her career in archaeology, she attended the Maine Photographic Workshops six-month Resident Program to focus on her interest in photography. Currently she teaches as part-time professor at University of the Arts, Arcadia University and Pennsylvania College of Art and Design. She also is the Assistant Visual Resources Curator at Tyler School of Art. She exhibits in group and solo exhibitions both regionally and nationally, including About Love at Nailya Alexander Gallery in New York and a collaborative video installation called Living Space at Eastern State Penitentiary. A selection of Norton's work has just been published in Elements of Photography by Angela L. Faris-Belt.

This image is from the series Reckoning, 2007:

As a landscape photographer and native southerner transplanted to Philadelphia, I am exploring the relationship between place, home and cultural identity. The process of learning to see this new place photographically is revealed through the heavy shadows, broken and animated by light and color. Rather than being about geography, these images are about navigation through space, literal as well as metaphorical, in response to place. They represent an internal landscape and illustrate the difficulty of seeing clearly in the present.

These images are captured with a low-resolution point-and-shoot camera so that I can respond intuitively and spontaneously to a quickly changing environment. The resulting digital artifacts create image texture, which refers to both painting and the vernacular photograph. The absence of clarity reflects the internal process of reckoning.

Two other series are included in the show: stills from the video installation with Johanna Inman, Living Space, 2008 and Road to Stillmore, 2007.

www.annagnorton.com