Ukrainian Cultural Exchange Project: in collaboration with Mural Arts

Join Emily Crane, Senior Program Manager, Mural Arts Color Me Back Program
and Mat Tomezsko, Artist & Program Manager, Mural Arts Color Me Back Program from Mural Arts Philadelphia to celebrate the installation of two large paintings in the URBN Annex Lobby. Petrykivka Garden and Cities of War were created during 2023-2024 when Mural Arts participated in a cultural exchange with Ukrainian artists and social workers. The resulting conversations and artworks discuss the impact and importance of art and art-making to support spaces of storytelling, belonging, and healing.

ALSO THAT EVENING!

The Pearlstein Gallery be releasing the catalog for our current exhibition A Certain Slant of Light, featuring artists Dino Pelliccia, Bruce Pollock, and Stuart Rome. the publication will include an essay by noted art writer and critic, Judith Stein, who has most recently written the book Eye of the Sixties. Meet the artists along with light food and fare!

Exhibition information:
A Certain Slant of Light is a three-person show featuring significant works from influential Philadelphia artists Stuart Rome, Dino Pelliccia, and Bruce Pollock. Although the work on view is wide-ranging in media – sculpture, painting and photography – it shares an interest in natural forms, an investigation into materiality, and a mastery of highly-honed craft. The exhibition spans four decades of process-oriented work from these artists who also share a long standing connection to the Drexel community.
Dino Pelliccia shows large, new sculptural forms made from solid wood. Both free-standing and mobile, these monumental works are simultaneously dynamic and timeless. Bruce Pollock’s paintings are from his intricate Indigo series in shades of blue. These meditative and energetic works feature fractal and geometric patterns inspired by deep observation of nature. Stuart Rome’s compelling works explore vantage, scale, and texture to expand the possibilities of photography. His Oculus series of black and white images are taken from within giant redwoods and sequoias, portals to new perspectives. Each ask where we stand in our relationship to the natural world and within these patterns might there be a bridge to that understanding.

A Certain Slant of Light contains over fifty works of art by these three artists, balanced throughout the entire gallery space. We invite you to experience this introspective retrospective centered on material craft and organic form.

Host or Publisher Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design