Homonym
April 13 – May 6, 2017
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 13th 6-9pm
CURATED BY:
Sean Hildreth
ARTISTS:
Santiago Galeas
Morgan Hobbs
Taryn O’Reilly
Marcelle Reinecke
Alma Selimovic
Omid Shekari
Leigh Werrell
Homonym presents seven artists who cast the figure into parallel, interchangeable roles. Within each role, the figures manifest themselves through questions that mirror the viewer’s own presence. Are we submerged within a thought? A memory? Are we a recording of a specific reality? Or are we engulfed within the vast space in our minds, stumbling around as bodiless consciousness?
These questions blur the lines between the mental and physical conditions of being human. Through this exhibition, I intend to show the junctures where those lines meet.
-Sean Hildreth, curator
Sean Hildreth is an artist based in Philadelphia. He received his BFA from SUNY Purchase, and graduated from The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in May of 2015 with his MFA. His paintings consist primarily of interiors extracted and observed from within the three-story home he still lives in. His new series of work highlights similar moments out in the world to bring appreciation and awareness to little moments that go unnoticed. Sean has shown in numerous group shows in Philadelphia and in New York. He was awarded the Woodmere Purchase Prize in 2015, and was selected for the Dumfries House Residency in Scotland. He recently co-founded a new artist collective, Spillway, located in the Crane Arts building in Philadelphia.
April 13 – May 6, 2017
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 13th 6-9pm
CURATED BY:
Sean Hildreth
ARTISTS:
Santiago Galeas
Morgan Hobbs
Taryn O’Reilly
Marcelle Reinecke
Alma Selimovic
Omid Shekari
Leigh Werrell
Homonym presents seven artists who cast the figure into parallel, interchangeable roles. Within each role, the figures manifest themselves through questions that mirror the viewer’s own presence. Are we submerged within a thought? A memory? Are we a recording of a specific reality? Or are we engulfed within the vast space in our minds, stumbling around as bodiless consciousness?
These questions blur the lines between the mental and physical conditions of being human. Through this exhibition, I intend to show the junctures where those lines meet.
-Sean Hildreth, curator
Sean Hildreth is an artist based in Philadelphia. He received his BFA from SUNY Purchase, and graduated from The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in May of 2015 with his MFA. His paintings consist primarily of interiors extracted and observed from within the three-story home he still lives in. His new series of work highlights similar moments out in the world to bring appreciation and awareness to little moments that go unnoticed. Sean has shown in numerous group shows in Philadelphia and in New York. He was awarded the Woodmere Purchase Prize in 2015, and was selected for the Dumfries House Residency in Scotland. He recently co-founded a new artist collective, Spillway, located in the Crane Arts building in Philadelphia.
