For Immediate Release: SOLID GOLD

JUNE AT VOX: SOLID GOLD
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For additional information or inquiries, please contact: Stefan Abrams, stefanabrams@hotmail.com Amy Adams, director@voxpopuligallery.org/215-238-1236

EXHIBITION DATES: FRIDAY, JUNE 6– FRIDAY, JUNE 27

OPENING RECEPTION: FIRST FRIDAY, JUNE 6 FROM 6-11 PM

This month Vox Populi presents Solid Gold, a group exhibition juried by Adelina Vlas, Assistant Curator for Modern and Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Sarah McEneaney. Artist.

Vox Populi is proud to announce the opening of its 4th Annual Juried Exhibition. This years exhibition entitled Solid Gold brings together 24 emerging artists from Philadelphia area and from around the country. Since Vox’s inception in1988, Vox Populi’s mission has been to support the work of new and emerging artists and to show new and emerging art forms. With this exhibition, the tradition continues.

This year’s show includes work by: D. B. Stovall, Mike Smith, Daniel Payavis, Serena Perrone, Corrie Tice, Cara Erskine, Robert Goodman, Emily Denlinger, Nathan Prouty, Amy Lincoln, Rachel Frank, Jonathan Schoff, William Lohre, R. Nick Barbee. Mark Klassen, Daniel Gerwin, Hannah Smith Allen, Abby Donovan, Lee Arnold, Bang-Geul Han, Pamela Sunstrum, Edward Carey, Samuel Ekwurtzel, and Zach Rockhill.

The artists were selected from a pool of over 250 applicants by Adelina Vlas, Assistant Curator for Modern and Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Sarah McEneaney, Artist.

Vlas and McEneaney selected a wide range of mediums- painting, sculpture, photography, drawing, interactive installation, video, ceramics- and artists who were investigating, challenging, and mastering those mediums the materials and techniques they employ. Concurrently, the artists in Solid Gold represent a broad range of subject matters, ranging from serious questioning of social issues and investigation of language and gender, to the creation of humorous and at times absurd scenarios.

Image: R. Nick Barbee, Hung Horse, oil on paper