Temple Contemporary

11/15/2024

November 13th-15th
Reception: November 15th 5-7pm
Stella Elkins Gallery

Jill Ian’s studio practice is an immersive and ongoing reevaluation of their relationship to relationships. From this questioning perspective, artworks emerge that are both ethereal and corporeal. Pulling from their personal archive of photographic and tactile memories, they record and retell as a means of assessing interpersonal relationships. Exposing simple emotions that are often interpreted as convoluted, they engage in honesty, self-assessment, and mirroring. Embracing and revealing the inherent struggle in this exploration, they seek a world in which we would all engage in this work for the betterment of all.

11/15/2024

Black Like That: Our Lives As Living Praxis is on view until December 7, 2024. Stop by Temple Contemporary to see the work of Pat Phillips, Karyn Olivier, and Tiona Nekkia McClodden. This exhibition reflects a facet of the artists research and engagement with Black communities in Philadelphia. It also encapsulates the dynamic nature of Black life and living as an archival practice formed through embodied experience and storytelling.
 
Don’t miss the Convening. This will be a daylong event including artist talks, workshops, and conversation.
Saturday, November 16
10:00am - 5:00pm
Tyler, Arch 104
 
Inspired session 02 presents Guthrie Ramsey and Musiqology Media Group: “We Been Fly: African American Music as Archive, Resistance, and Pleasure”
Monday, November 18.
5:00 - 7:00pm
Tyler, Art of Bread Cafe
 
All events are free and open to the public. For more information, check out BlackLikeThat.org.

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10/15/2024

Black Like That:Our Lives As Living Praxis proudly presents Open In Case Of… Please join us Saturday, October 19, 2024 from 1-10pm.

Pentridge Station
5110-5120 Pentridge St
Philadelphia,PA19143

This event is free and open to the public.

09/12/2024

08/19/2024

Temple Contemporary proudly presents Black Like That: Our Lives As Living Praxis. Please join us for the opening reception August 30, 2024 from 5-7 PM.

Black Like That: Our Lives As Living Praxis aims to capture the nature in which Black culture is lived as an active expression of archival practice. Supported by a grant from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, the show features work by Tyler Professor of Sculpture Karyn Olivier, along with award-winning painter Pat Phillips and conceptual artist, filmmaker, and curator Tiona Nekkia McClodden.

This exhibition is anchored at Temple Contemporary, with off-site presentations in three Philadelphia neighborhoods central to Black history and Black Life in the city: North Philadelphia, West Philadelphia, and Germantown.

August 30th - December 7th
Temple Contemporary
2001 N 13th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19121

06/27/2024

Temple Contemporary is pleased to announce artist Pat Phillips presence in Tyler's Sculpture department studios as a part of his residency with the gallery, leading up to the Fall 2024 exhibition Black Like That: Black Life as Living Praxis. Phillips is a Philadelphia based painter from Louisiana whose works reflect his background as a graffiti artist mixed with his observations of the American political landscape in the 21st century. His paintings layer personal histories, cultural zeitgeist, and American iconography in compositions that question the complexities of race, class, labor, and militarization in the United States. For the past year and a half Phillips has been researching and creating work that is inspired by the histories of rebellion and liberation across Philadelphia, specifically, West Philadelphia.
His presence in Tyler Studio's is the culmination of his research period. At Tyler he will continue to utilize the school's resources as he finishes preparing work for the exhibition that opens on August 30,2024.

Pat Phillips (b. 1987) was raised in Louisiana and now lives and works in Philade Phillips's work was featured in the 2019 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museur American Art, New York, NY. He has presented solo exhibitions at Jeffrey Deitch, NY; M+B Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, New York, NY; Ant Gallery, New Orleans, LA; and Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA, among others. has participated in residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and Skowhegan Sch Painting & Sculpture, and in 2017, received a Joan Mitchell Painters & Sculptors work can be found in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Ne NY; Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY; Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL; A Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA; and New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, ! others. In 2023, Phillips's work was on view in Inheritance at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, and more recently he presented It Was Sunny, but Then it Started to Rain, his first solo exhibition with P.P.O.W in New York, NY. Quality Control, Phillips first monographic book, was published in summer 2023.

For more information see link in bio.

05/01/2024

Please join us next week for the opening reception of Echo-Systems. This exhibition will showcase collaborative works by Temple students, faculty, and staff.

Wed May 8, 2024
3:00-7:00pm
Temple Contemporary

2001 N 13th St, Philadelphia, PA 19121

Free and open to the public!