Exhibition History
All exhibitions organized by The Galleries at Moore unless otherwise indicated.
Art Education Department presents: Art of Student Teaching
November 18, 2009 - Dec 5, 2010
Widener Memorial Foundation Gallery
Digitally Printed Costumes for Puccini's 'Madame Butterfly'
Kimonos by Students from Moore College of Art & Design
October 30, 2009 - March 31, 2010
Moore Galleries at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
After studying the Opera Company of Philadelphia’s production of Madama Butterfly, with costumes and stage set designed by artist Jun Kaneko, students worked for 5 weeks to create their own kimono designs for the lead character, Cio-Cio San. The students created digital textile designs and engineered prints for life-size paper kimonos on view in Moore's two dedicated Galleries at Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts. Student participants include: Michelle Clements, Eva Dziczkowska, Victoria Lewis, Allison Montague, Megan Reitz, Michelle Robertson, and Michelle White.
Student Show 2009: Special Fall Presentation
October 24 – December 9, 2009
Goldie Paley and Graham Gallery
This special fall presentation of student works features works by first-year Foundation students, as well as second and third year students representing the following departments: Art Education, Basics, Fashion Design, Fine Arts, Graphic Design, Illustration, Interior Design, Photography + Digital Arts, Textile Design.
Fashion Faux Paw: Selections from Jumpstart
October 23, 2009 – January 9, 2010
Wilson Gallery
Fashion Faux Paw is the theme for the 14th Annual Jumpstart Fashion Show, Moore’s first fashion show of the new school year. Junior and senior fashion design students had to devise, design and showcase a garment based on a theme in one month’s time. In keeping with the theme of Fashion Faux Paw, students created their own faux fur garments out of toothpicks, nails, bobby pins, Brillo pads, dusters, mops, plastic bags, cotton balls and more.
InSights: Paper, Rock 'n Roll
October 16, 2009 – January 9, 2010
Window on Race
More than 70 original hand-printed, limited edition silkscreen posters provide a glimpse into the renaissance of North America's underground indie-rock poster movement. Bands featured include: Acid Mothers Temple, Beirut, The Hold Steady, Deerhunter, DJ Spooky, Feist, Gomez, Mudhoney, Peeping Tom, Queens of the Stone Age, Spoon, The Stooges, Telecast, TV on the Radio, the Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs and many more. More than a dozen top poster designers from the U.S. and Canada are represented including: Aesthetic Apparatus, Anthony Dihle, Budai, Burlesque, El Jefe Design, Buy Burwell, The Decoder Ring, Invisible Creature, Jesse Ledoux, John Foster, LargeMammal, Mike King, Patent Pending, Seripop and Stereotype Design. Organized by Bez Ocko, associate professor at Hofstra University. Presented by The Galleries at Moore in collaboration with Moore’s Graphic Design Department.
Inside the Architect’s Studio: The Process of Making Museums
October 7 – December 9, 2009
Levy Gallery for the Arts in Philadelphia
The exhibition is presented in conjunction with Moore's 2009 Visionary Woman Awards which is recognizing the accomplishments of two visionary women, Nancy Kolb, Executive Director of Philadelphia’s Please Touch Museum and architect Billie Tsien, of Tod Williams Billie Tsien and Associates. Both women have played a significant role in envisioning the transformation of space for major museums. This exhibition provides a glimpse into the process of making museums through architecture and design.
Focus on Alumnae: In the Studio with Joan Becker
September 18 – November 11, 2009
Widener Memorial Foundation Gallery
We get an intimate glimpse into the artist’s working process in this exhibition that highlights new watercolors by Joan Becker '69. An artist who is known for vibrantly-hued, cacophonous gouache paintings of figures, still life and landscape, Becker reveals a new body of work and exploration into a new media. Drawing from the everyday and the people she meets, she captures the beautiful and the strange aspects of life and the people we meet in images that are at once timeless and immediate, fantastic and real.
Focus on Faculty: Heather Ujjie - Cry Wolf
September 11 - October 17, 2009
Wilson Gallery
Heather Ujiie creates large-scale allegorical designs that are digitally printed on fabric. Her new work on view at Moore is based on a 19th century Toile de Jouy textile where she isolates a single scene from a repeat pattern and manipulates its color, scale, and surface, to print a magical neon world of mystery and conflict.
InSights: Dan Murphy - Style Points
September 11 – October 13, 2009
Window on Race
Philadelphia native Dan Murphy is a photographer, designer, painter, archivist, and co-founder of Megawords Magazine (megawordsmagazine.com). In 1994 he was hired as a bicycle messenger and began to document and strongly influence both the messenger and graffiti communities. He is the co-curator of the book Public Wall Writing in Philadelphia, and is the co-author/designer of the upcoming book The Landlords Cycling Club. Dan has worked with Bilenky Cycle Works, RVCA clothing, NIKE, Neighborhood Bike Works, Cinelli Bicycles, and R.E. Load Messenger Bags. He has organized and participated in bicycle races and has done multiple bicycle tours in the U.S. and Europe. He will create a site-specific multi-media installation in the galleries’ Window on Race.
Constitution Day: Graphic Design
September 11 – October 13, 2009
Philadelphia Wall
Type studies using text from presidential inaugural speeches by sophomores and typographic studies by juniors using the national anthem as text
Focus on Alumnae: Jett Ulaner Sarachek - Taking Time
September 2 – October 17, 2009
Graham Gallery
321Go: Bike Polo Portraits
September 2 – 9, 2009
Window on Race
Bike polo has been around since the 1890s. Today it is played all over the world. In the early 2000s in Seattle, Modern Hardcourt Bike Polo was born. Played on asphalt courts and parking lots in cities throughout the country, it has become a sport embraced by bike messengers, bike-shop employees and assorted cycling enthusiasts who have transformed it from its prim beginnings to a rough-and-tumble sport. The exhibition, including portraits by Cecily Upton, looks at the players and the gear as the Hardcourt Bike Polo World Championship comes to Philadelphia in early September.
Summer Art & Design Institute Student Show
July 25 – August 8, 2009
Widener Memorial Foundation Gallery
The Summer Art & Design Institute at Moore College of Art & Design is a four-week pre-college residential program open to young women who have just completed their sophomore, junior, or senior year of high school. The Institute allows dedicated students who are passionate about their artwork to spend four weeks developing their skills as artists and designers.
Emerging Artists & Designers: Recent Moore Graduates
July 17, 2009 – October 29, 2009
Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
Emerging Artists & Designers: Recent Moore Graduates features works by recent Bachelor of Fine Arts graduates from Moore College of Art & Design. The exhibition is drawn from Moore’s recent Senior Show exhibition (April 22 – May 17, 2009), which presented works by students majoring in Art Education, Fashion Design, Fine Arts, Graphic Design, Illustration, Interior Design and Textile Design. The selected works on view highlight works from graduates majoring in Illustration: Abby Flanigan ’09; Audrey Fox ’09; Justin Provenzano ’09; K.C. McDonald ’09. The works in various media range from children’s book illustrations to works devoted to celebrating music greats, resonating with the Kimmel’s summer program offerings for all ages.
InSights: Steven and Billy Blaise Dufala – Toilet Trikes
July 11 – August 30, 2009
Window on Race
Artists/brothers Steven and Billy Blaise Dufala create witty, satirical twists on the readymade inspiring us to think about new possibilities in odd combinations of objects. Five of the Dufala Brothers’ racing tricycles made out of toilets painted with racing stripes and welded onto bike frames will be on view in addition to photographs and video of the Toilet Trikes being raced through Old City as part of the Philly Fringe Festival in 2005.
Frank Hyder: Persistent Dream
June 26 – September 2, 2009
Wilson Gallery
Hyder, professor in Moore's Foundation and Fine Arts departments, has created a 55-foot long mixed media painting that spans the length of Wilson gallery enveloping all who walk into the college in azure waters thriving with life. Light-filled vessels hover above our heads and at our feet. We are suspended in space, as in a dream, in a sea of consciousness.
Bicycle: People + Ideas In Motion
June 19 – October 13, 2009
Goldie Paley Gallery
Bicycle: people + ideas in motioncelebrates Philadelphia’s passion and commitment to the bicycle with exhibitions and events that explore the art and design of the bicycle—from functional object to a canvas for good causes, personal expression and civic mindedness. In addition to vintage bikes from Philadelphia collections, the exhibition will feature a variety of bikes from the urban landscape: “fixies,” folding bikes, road, race and touring bikes, commuters, cargo bikes, and more. The show also highlights Philadelphia annual events such as the Philadelphia International Cycling Championship Race, Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby, and Bilenky Urban Cyclocross, as well as community-based organizations like Neighborhood Bike Works and the Bike Part Art Show and the Pedal Co-op. While primarily focused on the Philadelphia-based bicycle community, artists and designers from Philadelphia and beyond who find inspiration to create new forms, functions and materials from bicycles and bicycle parts will also be featured. Curated by Lorie Mertes, Rochelle F. Levy Director and Chief Curator.
Special thanks to lenders and participants:
Advanced Sports, Bell's Bike Shop, Bicycle Ambassadors, Bicycle Coalition, Bicycle Film Festival, Bicycle Therapy, Bilenky Cycle Works, The Franklin Institute Science Museum, New Kensington Community Development Corporation and Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby, Daniel Lesinski, Neighborhood Bike Works and Bike Part Art Show, Trophy Bikes, Via Bicycles, Whole Foods Food Market and many more...
Bicycle Design’s Commuter Bike for the Masses Competition
June 19 – October 13, 2009
Goldie Paley Gallery
“What kind of bicycle, or pedal powered machine, would it take to get non-cyclists out of their cars for trips to the store or to work? This is the question that drove an internet-based design competition for a transportation-oriented bicycle for the noncyclist. A driving force in sharing ideas and creative solutions, this exhibition focuses on one blog’s contributions to creating dialogues on how pedal power can contribute to sustainable communities. James Thomas’ Bicycle Design blog invited a jury of six industrial designers and a journalist to select the six finalists and Torkel Dohmers' “ThisWay” winning entry whose designs are featured in the exhibition.
36th Annual JCRC Mordechai Anielewicz Creative Arts Competition and Exhibition
June 3 – 15, 2009
Widener Memorial Foundation Gallery
This competition provides an opportunity for middle and high school students from parochial, private and public schools from throughout the region to respond to the lessons of the Holocaust and the related issues of ethnic, racial and religious intolerance through creative expression. Each year over 400 students from a wide range of religious, ethnic and cultural backgrounds, who have studied these issues in their schools, participate in this artistic competition.
Awards Ceremony and Reception: Monday, June 8, 7:30– 9:30 pm
Ryan Humphrey: Fast Forward
May 29 - September 26, 2009
Levy Gallery for the Arts in Philadelphia
Ryan Humphrey, a New York-based artist who stirred it up on the first season of Bravo's Top Design, will re-create his Fast Forward installation that was recently featured in the Queens International with a collection of more than thirty BMX bikes, three versions of Marcel Duchamp's Bicycle Wheel (1913) made from BMX bicycle parts, and a massive rug created with the help of designer Todd Oldham that will wrap the walls of the gallery. Bike ramps in the space will be artfully put to use by Ryan along with selected pro level BMX riders from the Philadelphia area and 80's pro John "Dizz" Hicks. Presented in conjunction with Bicycle: people + ideas in motion.
InSights: Lee Stoetzel - Big Bike
May 29 - July 4, 2009
Window on Race
Philadelphia-based artist Lee Stoetzel installs a 10-foot x 8-foot high bicycle in the Insights Window on Race. Twice the scale of a regular bike, Big Bike is made entirely of Pecky cypress, a naturally degraded wood from his home state of Florida. The wood emphasizes the beauty and detail of the object's original design, the unusual textural quality of the wood, and the intricate craftsmanship of its re-creation.
From May through October in conjunction with Bicycle: people + ideas in motion, the InSights series of exhibitions on display in the Window on Race Street gallery will feature rotating solo exhibitions of works inspired by the bicycle by Philadelphia-based artists.
5 Into 1: Annual Student Exhibition
May 29 - June 20, 2009
Wilson Gallery
Five Into One is an exhibition annually hosted by Moore and organized by Philadelphia Sculptors. This year the exhibition is curated by Jennifer Willett, a recent graduate of Moore College of Art & Design with a major in Curatorial Studies. The exhibition features work by senior and graduate students at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Tyler School of Art, University of Pennsylvania, The University of the Arts, and Moore College of Art & Design.
Focus on Alumnae: Language of Landscape
April 29 - July 12, 2009
Moore Galleries at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
Featuring works by Moore Alumnae that are united by the theme of the landscape and the various ways artists interpret the subject through media and individual use of line, color, shape and/or form. Artists in the exhibition: Joan Becker '69, Janie Gross '74, Kathy Halton '75, Eleanor Schimmel '84, Kathleen Shaver '83 and Rena Thompson '78.
Emerging Artists & Designers: Senior Show 2009
April 22–May 17, 2009
All Galleries
Works by seniors graduating from Moore’s Bachelor of Fine Arts programs, representing all majors.
Annual Fellowship Exhibition & Student Show 2009
March 27–April 11, 2009
All Galleries
The Fellowship exhibition features work by third-year students competing for highly coveted travel fellowships. The Annual Student Show features works by first-year Basics students, as well as second and third year students representing the following departments: Art Education, Basics, Fashion Design, Fine Arts, Graphic Design, Illustration, Interior Design, Photography + Digital Arts, Textile Design.
Art Education Department presents: Art of Student Teaching
March 6–March 15, 2009
Widener Memorial Foundation Gallery
Works from Russell Byers Charter School, J.R. Fugett Middle School, Our Lady of Good Counsel, and Urban Promise.
Celebrating Youth Art Month
March 2–4, 2009
Widener Memorial Foundation Gallery
Reception: Wednesday, March 4: 1 - 3pm
Focus on: Textile Design Department - Computers for Fashion/Textile Design
February 16–March 15, 2009
Philadelphia Wall
An exhibition of digital textile prints from Computers for Fashion and Textiles Studio.
Introduction '09: Career Development Program Fellows from The Center for Emerging Visual Artists
February 4–28, 2009
Widener Memorial Foundation Gallery
The Center for Emerging Visual Artists in cooperation with The Galleries at Moore presents a first look at the work of Career Development Program Fellows: Maria Anasazi, Leslie Atik, Susan Benarcik, Gregory Brellochs, Danielle Bursk, Brooke Hine, Brenna K. Murphy, R. Noel Shaak, Daniel Traub, Diane Savona, Ben Volta, and John Woodin.
Readymade: Objects in the American Landscape
February 2 – April 11, 2009
Moore College Galleries at Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
Exhibition focusing on the found object in paintings, sculptures and mixed-media objects by Moore faculty including: Richard Harrington, assistant professor, illustration department; Mike Geno, adjunct faculty, basics department; Megan Halsey, adjunct faculty, illustration department; and Scot Kaylor, adjunct faculty, basics and fine arts departments.
YUMI KORI: utatane
January 30–March 14, 2009
Goldie Paley Gallery
Japan-based architect and artist Yumi Kori transforms the Goldie Paley Gallery employing video projections and sound to create a multi-sensory, interactive environment conceived specifically for Moore.
Press Release
Women through the Lens of Time: Students Select from 180 Years of Photojournalism in The Philadelphia Inquirer
January 30–March 14, 2009
Levy Gallery for the Arts in Philadelphia
Drawn from the archives of The Philadelphia Inquirer, in print for nearly 180 years, the exhibition is curated by seven students from Moore who participated in an independent study program with The Galleries at Moore. The images in the exhibition feature people, subjects, issues and events that have been published in the newspaper that the student curators feel reflect the lives of women: in the past, in the present and in the future.
Press Release
InSights: Devon Dikeou — Marilyn Monroe wanted to be Buried in Pucci
January 30–March 14, 2009
Window on Race
Dikeou, a NY-based artist, uses Marilyn Monroe's living request to be buried in a dress designed by renown Italian designer Emilio Pucci as the lens through which to reconsider various developments in art and design since the 1960s, particularly as they relate to the social, urban and popular cultural contexts.
Press Release
Gallery Notes
Celebrating 160 Years and Beyond: Pages from Moore's History — Making Their Mark: Celebrating Moore’s Alumnae
January 27–March 14, 2009
Graham Gallery
In celebration of Moore's 160th Anniversary Year, the exhibition features text and images drawn from the recently released book from The Campus History Series on Moore published by Arcadia Publishing. This final installment highlights accomplishments of Moore alumnae.
Footsteps: 2009 Alumnae Anniversary Exhibition
January 21–March 14, 2009
Wilson Gallery
In celebration of Moore’s 160th Anniversary year, Moore alumnae have created shoes that represent Moore’s vibrant past, remarkable present and promising future.
Focus on: Fine Arts Department - Moore Student Printmakers in Japan
January 21 – February 13, 2009
Philadelphia Wall
Katie Baldwin and Nicole Dul, Instructors - The works on view here were shown as part of an ongoing exchange program Moore has with the Aichi Arts Center in Nagoya’s Sakae District.
Focus on: Interior Design Department - Special Projects Studio: Design/Build
January 20 – 28, 2009
Widener Memorial Foundation Gallery
Tables designed and built by students.