Subversion

February 26 – March 22, 2020

At Da Vinci Art Alliance
704 Catharine St.
Philadelphia, PA 19147

Opening reception: Wednesday, February 26, 6-8 pm
Exhibition hours: Thursdays - Sundays, 12-5 pm

Subversion is the second collaborative exhibition between Da Vinci Art Alliance and Philadelphia Sculptors, following Shelter in 2018. For Subversion, artists were encouraged to submit artwork that pushes back. This exhibition highlights artwork that undermines or challenges social structures, morals, traditions, authority, perceptions and even human nature. Subversion confronts and questions everything from politics, gun rights and violence, to art history and the art world, gender norms, social problems and environmental threats.

Juror Alice Oh selected 27 works from 18 artists that address, in ways both humorous and dire, the political landscape of our present day. Through formal references such as a pistol, the human form, nature, and President Trump, the work in Subversion confronts our corrupt reality and proposes possibilities for a just future.

About the Juror:

Alice Oh is a Philadelphia artist, and Professor at Moore College of Art and Design. She earned her MFA from Yale University and her BFA from Tyler School of Art at Temple University and from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Greatly influenced by nature and biology, she is interested in the concurrence of microscopic and macroscopic life. A recipient of many awards and fellowships, Oh has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, and is included in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Leeway Foundation, Temple University, Yale University, and SAP America, Inc.

Trash Talk by Simone Spicer (above) was awarded Best in Show.

ARTISTS:

Theo. A. Artz, David Beker, Natasha Cheung, williamCromar, David Detrich, Travis Donovan, Deirdre Doyle, Harold Kalmus, Monica Kane, Eleanor Levie, Nicholli Matheny, Constance McBride, Collin Mura-smith, Jeremy Sims, Holly Smith, Helge Speth, Simone Spicer, and Nina Valdera.