VOX XIV: Omnipresent Elsewhere is Vox Populi’s 14th annual juried exhibition, featuring work by 20 contemporary artists selected by Didier William, Associate Professor of Art at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, from a pool of over 300 applications.
Omnipresent Elsewhere is an excursion in the hidden and yet nameless spaces of our world. “Even a cursory glance at the world we’ve built reveals some of the monumental cultural shifts that are at play in the present moment,” said Didier William. “The artists in the exhibition Omnipresent Elsewhere provoke us to direct those glancing gazes elsewhere. They insist on materials that have been neglected, bodies that have been rendered invisible and spaces yet to be named. Their objects imagine potential futures and attempt to reignite our empathy for things unknown.”
We will be holding an opening reception for Omnipresent Elsewhere on Friday, July 13 from 6-10pm. The galleries are open to the public from July 14 – August 5, 2018, daily from Wednesday – Sunday, noon-6pm. Join us on July 26, 2018 from 6-8pm for a gallery talk with Didier William, who will share his thoughts about the exhibition and curation process with the public.
Events
- Opening Reception: Friday, July 13, 6–10pm
- Gallery Talk with Didier William: Thursday, July 26, 6–8pm
- August First Friday: Friday, August 3, 6–10pm
Featuring works by
- Max Adrian
- Shwarga Bhattacharjee
- Andrew Brown
- Holden Brown
- Autumn Casey
- Haoran Chang
- Susannah Dotson
- Emily Erb
- Matt Ferranto
- Benjamin Grzenia
- Jamie Hamilton
- Erick Hernandez
- Gralin Hughes
- Will Hutnick
- Katherine Mann
- Elena Ordille
- Samuel Thuman
- Thomas Wixo
- Sasha Phyars-Burgess
- Asha Sheshadri
About the juror
Originally from Port-au-prince Haiti, Didier William received his BFA in painting from The Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA in painting and printmaking from Yale University School of Art. His work has been exhibited at the Bronx Museum of Art, The Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, The Fraenkel Gallery, Frederick and Freiser Gallery, and The American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was an artist in residence at the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation in Brooklyn, NY and has taught at Yale School of Art, Vassar College, Columbia University, and SUNY Purchase. His work has been reviewed by Hyperallergic, Two Coats of Paint, Los Angeles Times and New York Times. He is currently Associate Professor of Art and the Chair of the MFA Program at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. More info: www.didierwilliam.com