Calendar 2003–04   November 2003 | January 2004 | June 2004   September 5– October 26   Opening Reception: Friday September 5   Artist Talk: 5:30–6:30pm   Barbara Ess: I Am Not This Body   Goldie Paley Gallery Organized by the artist and Aperture Foundation   Barbara Ess is renowned for her uniquely accomplished use of the pinhole camera, and her effort to "photograph what cannot be photographed." The images in I Am Not This Body, made over the last twenty years, describe a mysterious world of seemingly mundane surfaces, where everyday objects are mantled in inscrutability. Using a simple cardboard camera with no lens and a minute aperture, Ess creates unsettling images with an unparalleled harmony of technique and content. Ess's is a conscious quest to explore what she calls "ambiguous perceptual boundaries: between people, between the self and the not-self, between in here and out there." In her view, "reality . . . includes a perceiver, who has memories, thoughts, desires, emotions–[which] a normal camera tends to omit. For me the pinhole camera comes closer to being more inclusive." The strange and affecting images she coaxes from this primitive camera manage to evoke the sublime and the impossible, the textures of desire and loss. Exhibition organized and book published by Aperture. I Am Not This Body (Aperture, 2001, 96 pages/65 color images), was selected as one of the ten top photography books of the year by The Village Voice: the book contains essays by critic Guy Armstrong, author Michael Cunningham, and musician Thurston Moore. September 5– October 26   Opening Reception: Friday September 5   Artist/Curator Talk: 4:30–5:30pm   ÖDE: a project by Sarah Beck   Levy Gallery Organized by the Galleries at Moore College of Art & Design and curated by director of exhibitions Brian Wallace   A project by an emerging Toronto-based artist that combines sculpture, print, photography, fashion, and electronic media to probe connections between politics, aesthetics, the environment, and the linked notions of individual expression and personal choice.   www.shopeode.com November 6– December 16   Opening Reception: Wednesday November 12   Rochelle Levy: Figures in Motion   Goldie Paley Gallery Organized by the Galleries at Moore College of Art & Design   On the occasion of the Goldie Paley Gallery’s 20th Anniversary, and Marking the anniversary of both the Goldie Paley Gallery and Rochelle Levy’s first museum exhibition, “Figures in Motion” will feature horses and riders exercising and at the track—a familiar world to this breeder of thoroughbreds. With a keen sense of form, light, and color, Levy captures with authenticity the magic of her subject. A catalog with essay by Teri J. Edelstein will accompany the exhibition. Exhibition: November 5–20   Silent Auction and Reception: Thursday November 20 5:00–7:30pm   Auction Tickets: 215.965.4027 Out of the Box Benefit Exhibition   Levy Gallery / Moore College Atrium Organized by the Galleries at Moore College of Art & Design John and Ann Ollman, benefit co-chairs   The Galleries at Moore are pleased to announce Out of the Box, a two-week exhibition culminating in a boisterous reception and silent auction. A roster of artists from the city, the region, the nation, and beyond has been invited to think Out of the Box, and create original works of art using a white cardboard box or treat the box as a container for an original artwork. Silent bids will be taken on all works throughout the run of the exhibition until the silent auction on Thursday, November 20, in the Moore College Atrium.   click here for list of participating artists   Admission to the exhibition is free; tickets for the reception and silent auction are $50 per person and are available through the gallery office; phone 215.965.4027 for more information. They may be purchased also at the door on the evening of November 20.   For twenty years, the Galleries at Moore have presented a diverse range of contemporary art exhibitions and a forum for exploring original issues and ideas. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the galleries, which, over the years, have provided opportunities to hundreds of emerging and established artists, and numerous arts organizations, while producing scholarly catalogs and providing educational programs for students of all ages.   Special thanks to McLean Packaging Corp., Anne Seidman Design, Square One Printing, Maureen Pelta & Alan Feldman, and to all participating artists. January 23– March 21, 2004   Opening Reception: Thursday January 22   Symposium: Friday January 23 2:00–5:00pm   Jörg Immendorff   Paley and Levy Galleries Organized by the Galleries at Moore College of Art & Design Curated by Pamela Kort and Robert Storr   This exhibition of drawings, paintings, and objects from 1965 to the present will be Jörg Immendorff's first solo museum show in America.Drawn from European and North American collections, the exhibition comprises 70 works: a survey of drawings, a select group of monumental paintings, key performance objects, a group of new paintings, and the Salzburg Fesitval's 1996 production of The Rake's Progress (for which Immendorff designed the sets and costumes) screened on video. In addition, the artist is hoping to produce a new poster for the exhibition. The curators propose to bring Immendorff's densely encoded tableaux of postwar Germany and his acute feel for late modernism's internal contradictions to public attention, in a moment when these characteristics will resonate against the stresses generated by the current critical reconsideration of the ideologies of Right and Left and the apparent dichotomies between Dada inflected idea-art and the discursive use of traditional graphic and painterly mediums.   The exhibition and accompanying scholarly catalog are made possible by a grant from the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative. April 28– May 16, 2004 Moore College of Art and Design Student Exhibitions   Paley and Levy Galleries, Wilson Lobby, Connecting Hallway, and Atrium   The culmination of four years of artistic training, this exhibition features works in all mediums by graduating MCAD seniors, and salutes their achievements as they move from academic to professional life. June 17– September 3, 2004   Opening Reception: Thursday June 17, 2004 6:30–8:00pm   Exhibition Walkthrough: 5:30–6:30pm Philadelphia Selections 5   Levy Gallery   An exhibition of works by Philadelphia-area artists selected from the Levy Gallery Artists Registry by the Galleries at Moore Director of Exhibitions Brian Wallace   Featuring works by: Steven Baris, Arden Bendler Browning, Joy Feasley and Aaron Igler/LURE, Rain Harris, Daniel Heyman, Nadia Hironaka, James Johnson, Ephraim Russell, Elizabeth Rywelski, and Bekhyon Yim   On Thursday, June 17, prior to the exhibition opening reception, the public is invited to attend an exhibition walk-through with the artists, independent curator and Moore International Discovery Series advisor Carlos Basualdo and Brian Wallace. June 17– September 3, 2004   Dilovan Amin: Explosions   Goldie Paley Gallery   Digital images by Dilovan Amin, artist and professor of graphic design, Fine Art Institute, Duhok, Kurdistan, Iraq   September 2003 | November 2003 | January 2004   Galleries Directory | Levy Gallery Artists Registry | Publications & Artists | Email | Moore College of Art and Design