upcoming grant deadline: 05/15/2024
Opening reception, Friday, April 6, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
On view through May 11
Established in 1978, the Wind Challenge Exhibition Series is an annual juried competition that is committed to enriching and expanding people's lives through art. Wind Challenge Exhibitions feature the work of exceptional artists living in the Philadelphia region.
Challenge 3 will include the work of Hee Sook Kim, Kristen Neville Taylor, and Tamsen Wojtanowski.
The Wind Challenge Exhibition Series is made possible with thanks to generous support from the Wind Foundation and Fleisher members.
Hee Sook Kim
In my most recent work, I've taken the subject, both in form and imagery, of Korean historical landscape painting, which were typically made for the Korean upper class known as Yang Ban. Printing patterns on top of the landscape traditionally used in Asian paintings transforms the initial layer, now seen through a feminine veil. The painting's surface, covered with glass beadwork using shimmering rhinestones, speaks against the power of men in Korean cultural history and still prevalent in contemporary Korean society. The work is a construct/destruct/re-construct. I use my personal experiences as a woman who immigrated to the United States 28 years ago, after living in Korea until I was 28 years old. This equal length of experiences in two completely different countries makes possible a hybridity that presents both cultures through the eyes of my own particular feminist perspective in both my life and work.
Kristen Neville Taylor
Kristen Neville Taylor's diverse practice combines drawing, sculpture, and glass, which converge playfully in installation-style environments. Her work considers perceptions of nature and culture through science, anthropology, science fiction, and mythology, as well as, the moon, weather, and emotions. Objects and images come together to tell stories that challenge prevailing attitudes and dispel myths related to politics and environmental history. Her practice has been described as alchemical and utilizes pseudo-scientific experimentation to trouble the authority given the fields of science and technology. Taylor's work has been shown at Vox Populi, Bunker Hull and the Philadelphia Art Alliance in Philadelphia, PNCA, Richard Stockton and Rowan University Art Galleries in New Jersey, and Expo Chicago. She has organized several exhibitions including Landscape Techne at Little Berlin, which she co-founded in 2007, The Usable Earth at the Esther Klein Gallery, and most recently she co-curated Middle of Nowhere in the Pine Barrens. Taylor is the recipient of the Laurie Wagman Prize in Glass, the Jack Malis Scholarship, and a 2017 Vermont Studio Center Fellowship.
Tamsen Wojtanowski
Tamsen Wojtanowski is an artist living and working in Philadelphia. Her work has been included in recent exhibitions at The Satellite Show, Miami, FL; COOP Gallery, Nashville, TN; Soil Gallery, Seattle, WA; Lux/Eros Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; The Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR; and 621 Gallery, Tallahassee, FL. She was added to Fotofilmic's 2016 Spring Shortlist, and in 2015, was a top ten finalist in The Print Center's 89th International Juried Competition. Wojtanowski is a founding member of the artist-run exhibition space NAPOLEON in Philadelphia, started in 2011. She received her MFA from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University, where she is currently an instructor. She also teaches photography at Arcadia University in Glenside.
