Friends of XRXR: Photocopy Philadelphia
Photocopy Philadelphia The 3rd installment of the “Friends of XRXR” exhibition series and the first exhibition outside of Canada, XRXR curates a NAPOLEON Pop-Up Show This celebration of contemporary photo, a thriving arts community and a whole mess of friendship includes over 20 artists from Canada, Norway, Finland, Czech Republic, The UK and The U.S. … Read more
Christopher Hartshorne: Crash Blossom
CRASH BLOSSOM An exhibition by NAPOLEON member Christopher Hartshorne In Crash Blossom, Christopher Hartshorne’s intricately carved relief prints envelop the viewer with swirling line and cage-like, polyhedral structures. The prints offer dramatic configurations of sweeping form and movement that simultaneously allude to organic structures, chemical reactions, and scientific processes. The exhibition title “Crash Blossom” is … Read more
Grimaldi Baéz: A CEMI WASTE OF MACHO TIME
A CEMI WASTE OF MACHO TIME: something for us to believe in An exhibition by Grimaldi Baéz curated by NAPOLEON member José A. Ortiz Pagán “O.T.S.” The bell sounds. Did the fight just start or end? This is the question the artist Grimaldi Baéz tries to answer with his recent body of work. Why do we … Read more
Christina Roth & Tamsen Wojtanowski: One More Day
One More Day A collaborative exhibition between NAPOLEON member Tamsen Wojtanowski and artist Christina Roth One More Day displays a variety of mediums from photographs to drawings to objects to explore this life’s cycle while considering the next. One More Day speaks to the human ability to hope, to dream, and to plan for our … Read more
Alexis Nutini: Primordial Ink
Primordial Ink An exhibition by NAPOLEON member Alexis Nutini Primordial Ink is an exhibition of jumbo relief monoprints by Alexis Nutini. A rigorous process of carving and layering of oil based ink produce delineated fields of saturated color and swathes of linear marks. Through this ritual and the creation of vast landscapes composed of graphic … Read more
Lance Pawling & Messapotamia Lefae: THE BEREAVED
THE BEREAVED A one-night performance by Lance Pawling and Messapotamia Lefae Funeral Director found dead. Could it have been his wife, his mistress, this other mistress, or suicide? Join Lance Pawling and Messapotamia Lefae for the most deranged and melodramatic funeral ever to be witnessed north of Mifflin Street: THE BEREAVED. The performances will continue … Read more
Big and Little Charity Art Sale
NAPOLEON is partnering with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southeastern Pennsylvania! NAPOLEON members have invited forty artists to participate in the fundraiser. Each artist will provide one work on paper. Works on paper may include drawings, paintings, prints, and photographs. Works will be 24 inches in any direction or smaller. The price of work will … Read more
Matt Ziemke: Cadillac Desert
Cadillac Desert An exhibition by NAPOLEON member Matt Ziemke In Cadillac Desert, Matt Ziemke re-appropriates locations, structures and conditions specific to the redirection and accumulation of water in the American West and its repercussions. His idealizing sculptural compositions draw on a clear influence of maps and diagrams in this wall-mounted series. Cadillac noun Something that … Read more
Dustin Campbell: J-O-B
J-O-B A mixed media exhibition by NAPOLEON member Dustin Campbell “To the extent to which he imagined a purpose to his life, he adapted himself to the demands of a purpose to be achieved and became the slave of his liberty. Thus I could not act otherwise than as the father (or the engineer or … Read more
Tasha Lewis: The Herd
The Herd An installation of sculptures by Tasha Lewis Curated by H. John Thompson With an art practice that bridges book arts, photography and mixed media sculpture, Tasha Lewis’s installations are site responsive and reflective of photographic thinking in the round. Creating animals covered in a patchwork hide of blue cyanotype imagery, Lewis attempts to capture … Read more
