Extra Parts – Member Exhibition at Good Children, New Orleans
Extra Parts Members of Napoleon Gallery will be exhibiting at Good Children Gallery in New Orleans from July 13 – Aug 4. Opening reception July 13. Good Children Gallery is a pioneer artist-run space in the St. Claude Arts District aimed at enhancing the cultural landscape of New Orleans. The space serves as a bellwether for … Continue reading
Emily & Peggy Blei Hracho: GAG
GAG Emily & Peggy Blei Hracho 7.5.19 – 8.25.19 NAPOLEON welcomes the forthcoming exhibition, GAG featuring the work of our 2019 Open Call honorees, Emily & Peggy Blei Hracho. The Blei Hracho’s have analogous bodies of work that employ process and materiality to subvert and challenge conventional craft based fabrications. They interrogate gender expectancy by appropriating derogatory … Continue reading
Conscious Objects: An Essay by Frances Beaver for Rebecca Tennenbaum’s Exhibition Every Thing Has a Function
Conscious Objects By Frances Beaver If you don’t own a Fitbit, would you consider buying one if instead of tattling to your health insurance company how many sit ups you don’t do, you could program it to play back an 8-bit version of any song when it sensed through your vitals that … Continue reading
Rebecca Tennenbaum: Every Thing Has a Function
Rebecca Tennenbaum Every Thing Has a Function 6.7.19 – 6.23.19 What is gained by interfacing with an extension of yourself? What do you get from staring into a two way mirror knowing you are also on the other side? Every Thing Has a Function is a show title and a description. Rebecca … Continue reading
THE COMPLETE SUBJECT She loved most of all the paintings of the Dutch still life masters and specifically the ways they depicted lemons. Lemons alone could move her to tears, joy and emotional depth. Anywhere she could go and observe any painting of a lemon, no matter how small, she went. Standing for hours … Continue reading
Lydia Rosenberg : The Complete Subject
Lydia Rosenberg The Complete Subject May 3rd – May 26th, 2019 The complete subject, is part of an ongoing project that considers the act of writing a fiction-novel-in-progress as a manual for exploring forms of representation as they transition from one state to another. In this exhibition, Lydia Rosenberg records the shifts from fruit to painting to text and back … Continue reading
Supermarket Self-Care in the Age of Anxiety, By Bridget A. Purcell
Supermarket Self-Care in the Age of Anxiety, By Bridget A. Purcell An Essay on New Works by Chelsea Tinklenberg Cabbages on wheels and suspended from cables, vegetables unearthed from a white pedestal, or dripping from a faucet, frozen in time and space in all manner of impossible relationships. These are just a few of the … Continue reading
Chelsea Tinklenberg: CULTIVATION
Chelsea Tinklenberg CULTIVATION April 5th-27th 2019 NAPOLEON is pleased to present CULTIVATION, a solo exhibition of new sculptural works by artist Chelsea Tinklenberg. Tinklenberg’s kinetic and sculptural works explore imaginative relationships between objects and their functions, playing on the precarious relationship between utility and futility. http://www.chelseatinklenberg.com Opening Reception: First Friday, April 5th, 6-10pm Exhibition Dates: April … Continue reading
Apply! Our 8th Annual OPEN CALL!
Apply! Our 8th Annual Open Call! Win a solo exhibition in Summer 2019! Every year, during the month of July, NAPOLEON presents a solo-exhibition selected by our members from a pool of applicants collected through an open call. We are interested in exhibiting work that is new to our Philadelphia audience, that takes risks, and makes good use of our small … Continue reading
Christina Kerns: but like forever
Christina Kerns but like forever March 1 – 24, 2019 EXHIBITION ESSAY BY KATE ABERCROMBIE Recently a friend asked if I collected rocks. My answer was no, but immediately I wished I had, thinking of a lost rock I had picked up years ago in Maine that was exactly palm size. Their question was generous, … Continue reading
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