PAFA Students Select: The Spaces They Inhabit

Exhibition Info
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Richard C. von Hess Foundation Works on Paper Gallery
Historic Landmark Building
Curated by
Abigail Synnestvedt
Alex Aguayo
Angelica Sherman-Principato
Anna Hodges
Anthony Holt
Bennett Shipman
Bryan DeProspero
Candice Carroll
Chelsea Dombroskie
Christopher Otto
Evan Schukis
Inga Kimberly Brown
J.A. Panetta
Jen Clausen
Joseph Remakis
Justine Ditto
Kianu Rainier
Kristin Arcidiacono
Lauren Pellerito
Lindsey Evans
Liz Hocker
Lyudmila Semenova
Meg Wolensky
Melanie Dion
Paula Bertran
Santiago Galeas
The first in a series of exhibitions curated by PAFA students, based on the newly-developed course "Museums: History and Practice"

PAFA Students Select: The Spaces They Inhabit is the first in a series of exhibitions, curated by Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) students, based on Museums: History and Practice, a newly-developed course by art history faculty member Jennifer Zwilling. Discovering that space in artwork is open to various interpretations, including psychological and conceptual, the students mined PAFA’s rich collection of works on paper focusing on these questions:

What space can a piece create?
What kinds of spaces can it reference?
What is the space the artist intends for the viewer to experience?

Visitors had an opportunity to explore PAFA’s collection through the eyes of student artists who are in the process of forming their own artistic visions.

 

Curators of PAFA Students Select: the Spaces they Inhabit, 2014
Curators of PAFA Students Select: the Spaces they Inhabit, 2014
Kenyon Cox, [Commerce: figure study], 1903, Graphite on cream paper, 20 x 16 in., Academy Purchase with funds from the H. J. Heinz, II Charitable and Family Trust, 1982.8.2
Kenyon Cox, [Commerce: figure study], 1903, Graphite on cream paper, 20 x 16 in., Academy Purchase with funds from the H. J. Heinz, II Charitable and Family Trust, 1982.8.2