NORTH BY NORTHWEST

At Marginal Utility

Curated by Mount Airy Contemporary A CITYWIDE Exhibition

November 1– November 24th 2013 Opening Reception Friday November 1st, 6-10 PM

Marginal Utility 319 North 11th Street, Philadelphia PA

Mount Airy Contemporary is pleased to present North By Northwest, an exhibition hosted by Marginal Utility of nine artists from northwest Philadelphia.

Andrea Hornick Odili Odita Josh Weiss Talia Greene Andrea Wohl Keefe Laura Watt Brent Wahl Abbey Ryan Daniel Oliva

Since 2009, Mount Airy Contemporary’s programming has focused on providing low key, high quality art experiences to the local northwest Philadelphia community. That experience has afforded us the opportunity to meet and work with artists who make their homes in the northwest. In this exhibition we assemble a small selection of these artists whose works and practices we believe have common threads - focal points where conversation can be had.

Exhibition related events:

11/16 3 PM at Marginal Utility:

Andrea Hornick will present the epic narrative of her piece, Resilience. The altered reproductions of an Early Modern and two Baroque portraits of Jewish women sitters are relationally contextualized. Their shamanic transformations are woven into history to bring them into the present.

11/20 7 PM at Vox Populi:

Andrea Hornick will present the epic narrative of her piece, Resilience. Participate in a Shamanic Drum Journey, with live drumming by the artist, to encounter your own power animal.

North by Northwest is a project for CITYWIDE: A Collective Exhibition (citywidephilly.com), a recipient of a 2013 Knight Arts Challenge grant.