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About the Exhibition
Arden Bendler Browning
Beckler Family Members' Gallery
February 11 - May 8, 2011
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Siteseeing, 2010, Gouache and flashe on tyvek, 60" x 86"
Photo courtesy of the Artist
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Arden Bendler Browning's large abstract gouache paintings on Tyvek reflect a changing awareness of vision and the experience of movement in the urban landscape. Her paintings illustrate an increasing ability to see and navigate the world with the click of a mouse. Browning states, "Part of the allure of using Google Maps is the ability to not only find an image of just about any address or location, but to be able to turn around, jump ahead, look up, zoom in, and zoom back out to map view." Browning visualizes several different perspectives at once in her work, using ambiguous shapes, overlapping forms, and blotches of color to create a visual barrier between distant vistas. In Browning's splintered cityscapes, the ground appears to shift and break apart while fence, highway, and bridge-like forms seem shattered, detached, and floating in space. For her exhibition at the DCCA, Browning will install several of her mural-sized works, which she states are informed in part by ideas in architecture and urban planning. Browning also considers the impact of industrial decay, gentrification, travel, tourism, and suburban sprawl on cities and the natural environment. The artist is highly attuned to her experience of the ordinary and often neglected spaces many of us consider the necessary urban ruins we must pass en route to our final destination. In contrast, Browning salvages these sites as provocative subjects for her paintings.
- Maiza Hixson Gretchen Hupfel Curator of Contemporary Art
RELATED EVENTS February 4, 2011 at 6:30 PM
Arden Bendler Browning discusses her exhibition Splinters. Gallery Talk / Art Loop Night
Thursday, April 21, 2011 from 12 - 1 PM
Arden Bendler Browning discusses her exhibition Splinters.
ART SALAD / A Free Lunchtime Series at the DCCA
About the Artist___________________ Arden Bendler Browning (Philadelphia, PA) SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2009 - Pattern Language, AHN/VHS Gallery, Philadelphia, PA - Solo Series 2009, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA 2008 - Urban Reef, Painted Bride Café Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2004
- Instability, University City Arts League, Philadelphia, PA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2010
- Paint Snob 2010, Gallery 500X, Dallas, TX
2009
- Art of the State, The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA
- Crossing Lines, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
- Back on My Feet, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2008
- Betsy Meyer Memorial Exhibition, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA
- One Planet, One Experiment, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2008
- Paint Snob Invitational, McLennan Community College, Waco, TX
- Sneak Peek: A Preview of CFEVA's Artists and Programs,
- The Community Art Gallery of The Philadelphia Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
2006
- Works on Paper, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, PA
2004
- Junto, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
- Philadelphia Selections Five, Paley and Levy Galleries, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
- Summer Dialogue, Broadway Gallery, New York, NY
2003
- MFA Biennial: The Future is Now, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE SELECTED AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES 2009 - Cover art, 2008 International Drawing Annual, Manifest Gallery, Cinncinatti, OH - Honorable Mention, 23rd International Juried Show, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ 2004 -Visiting Artist, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH - Artist-in-Residence, Soaring Gardens Artists' Retreat, Laceyville, PA - Resident Artist, Ora Lerman Trust, Laceyville, PA 1997 - Samuel Rosenberg Award, Carnegie Mellon School of Art, Pittsburgh, PA EDUCATION 2003 MFA, Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA 2000 MSA, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney, Australia 1997 BFA, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA |
