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Exhibitions

2023

My Powelton Village in POST (October), Crane Old School, Philadelphia, A series of about 50 mosaics about Powelton Village, its architecture, the people who have lived here and how it all fits together. 

     

2022

Linger (June - September) in You Are Here, Park Towne Place, Philadelphia, PA. Three part installation exploring how we make sense out of the constant change in our built environment.

Memory Mosaics. A collaborative project with the Senior Partnership Initiative/NewCourtland Fellowship.

2021

static/flow (November 18, 2021) Glen Foerd on the Delaware, Philadelphia, PA. Curated improvisational concert with Bismuth Quartet, Nicholas McNamara, and Matt Engle to accompany sculptural installations. This project is part of the residency at Glen Foerd on the Delaware.

An Archive of Desire (Summer 2021 -- continuing) Glen Foerd on the Delaware, Philadelphia, PA. Installation including "Fractured Reflections" and several architectural models installed in two vitrines: Vitrine 1 holds "Cupola" with "Tiny Movie Theater" in the cabinet below. Vitrine 2 holds "Remnants." maquettes titled  "Servant's Stair," "Pink Bathroom," "Attic Cupola Base and Ladder," "Vitrines," and "Fractured Reflections." The cabinet below is filled with "Night Garden." Ceramics, video, and electronics. Each vitrine is 90" x 30" x 20". See artist talk here.  This project was completed as part of the residency at Glen Foerd on the Delaware.

2020

100 Women – 100 Years (August - September) The Clay Studio, Philadelphia PA. Two porcelain plates commemorating Chantal Ackerman and Lygia Pape.

Fractured Reflections (February -- continuing) Glen Foerd on the Delaware, Philadelphia, PA. Installation of 96 one square foot mirrors on the grand staircase landing between 2nd and 3rd floors. Each mirror is held in place by flannel sandbag, mostly out-of-sight. This project was completed as part of the residency at Glen Foerd on the Delaware.

CFEVA Members Exhibition (January - February) Center for Emerging Visual Arts, Philadelphia, PA. “The Cleaning Women,” 4 porcelain mosaics.

2019

CFEVA Holiday Show (November - December) Center for Emerging Visual Arts, Philadelphia, PA. Pine cone vases. This work was made during the year-long residency at Glen Foerd on the Delaware.

Flower Bed  (May - July) White Box, Philadelphia,PA.Iinstallation10' x12' including15( 2' x 2' x 4”) flower-shaped foam cushions covered in chenille and tough cord bedspreads; mounted on 1/4” steel rods (varying lengths 2.5' to 6.5' ) secured to wooden triangular plates (varying sizes: 2' to 4.5').

Art Around the World (April) The Whitemarsh Art Center, Conshohocken PA. 365 Ceramic Units in an installation that references hiking up and down a mountain.

“Who's Afraid of Chantal Ackerman?” (March) Vermont Studio Center, Johnson VT. A preliminary immersive installation based on the flm “Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce...” by Chantal Ackerman including a 1:12 scale model of the apartment in drywall, reproductions of the wall paper pattern on paper, fabric and in porcelain mosaic tiles, administrative notes on the scene structure of the 3 hour, 21 min film.

The Men's Room (February - March) The Crane, Philadelphia PA. Forty-three porcelain mosaics about the Crane Co. building, its history and the men’s bathroom which is now the Tenant Gallery.

In Place: Residency as Artistic Utopia (February - April) The Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Red Wing MN. “The Architecture of Remembering,” seven sculptures responding to Nina Hole's Himmel Haus, wood-fired, white stoneware.

New Now II (January) InLiquid Gallery, Philadelphia PA. “River Path Composition,” porcelain tile mosaic.

2018

CFEVA’S Holiday Pop Up (December) CFEVA, Philadelphia PA. “Train Tracks and Sweet Gum,” “River Railings,” “River Path Triptych,” and “Waves,” porcelain tile mosaics.

Art in the Open at the Schuylkill Center (September - October) The Schuylkill Center, Philadelphia PA. “River Path Composition,” and “Orange Bench,” porcelain tile mosaics.

Weighty Concerns: Both Artist and Mother (September) The Clay Studio, Philadelphia PA. “Six Artists,” abstract, sculptural portraits of six women in fiber and clay.

Dear Fleischer (September) The Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia PA. “St, Martins,” two ceramic postcard drawings from an historic photograph.

 

Woodmere Annual: 77th Juried Exhibition (June - September) Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia PA. “The Architecture of Remembering,” four sculptures responding to Nina Hole's Himmel Haus, wood- fired white stoneware.

Art in the Open (May) Philadelphia PA. Exploring the Schuylkill River Trail through embroidery and clay.

 

Inside Out (April - May) The InLiquid Gallery, Philadelphia, PA. "Powelton Village Iron Fences," ceramic

tiles.

Seventy-Sixers, at NCECA (March) Standard Ceramics, Carnegie PA. “Dreaming of Stairs,” functional porcelain sculpture.

2017

Idle Hands (September) Pilot+Projects, Philadelphia PA, “Readymaking” performance of “Linen Napkins,” 7:40-8:12 pm, ironed violet linen table cloth and six linen napkins during exhibition opening. Video of similar performance vimeo.com/148297634.

The Architecture of Remembering (July) Det gamle Radhus, Skælskør, Denmark. Exhibition of thirty- six houses and house-like structures, white stoneware, porcelain, wood fred, electric fired cone 10. This work is a response to Nina Hole’s “Himmel House,” produced while an Artist-in- Residence at the International Ceramic Research Center.

2016

Outside In (November) Scotts Mills Studios, Philadelphia PA, Women's Caucus for Art, “Porcelain Card Table,” “Puzzle” (video, 9 hr, 38 min).

 

Don't Take This the Wrong Way (May) Crane Ice Box Project Space, Philadelphia PA, “Comfort,” porcelain lamp shade next to five chenille cushions on which to sit and watch video projections inside a box pile, including household entertainment and housework performances.

Let me clear up a few things (February) Temple Contemporary, Philadelphia PA. Installation recreating a domestic setting including a centered rug with 15 cushions. Two card tables -- one porcelain art object spotlit on a pedestal, one a performance space – flank the rug. A 24 ft organza curtain at the entrance flutters intermittently. “Puzzle” (video, 9 hr, 38 min) plays on a large hanging screen, offers a third card table with hands working on a puzzle. Behind the video screen is an attic space with boxes, other objects, and three more video projectors.

2015

Common Inconsistencies (September) Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia PA,“Award Ceremony Juried by John Schlesinger,” an object-based performance including 9 white bricks with one golden side, inviting an expert to select awards for the 2nd year MFA student show, creating an award ceremony and presenting the awards to the winners. Video of the performance: vimeo.com/147949138.

Push Block (August) Tyler Atrium Gallery, Philadelphia PA, “Daisy” ceramics wall arrangement; “Window Frame,” video projection (vimeo.com/144880244), “The Gold Room” photograph diptych.

Marge Brown Kalodner Graduate Student Exhibition (June) The Clay Studio, “Fake Windows on Lancaster Avenue.” Ceramic, video and photo installation about West Philadelphia, including: 52 inch x 55 inch panel with 375- two-inch square ceramic tiles are mounted on mesh, and arranged in a chain link pattern. Two videos can be viewed both on and through tiles. Shadows of the video are cast on the walls from the spaces between the tiles. Front video projection: Fake Windows (5 minutes, looping) is of a wall with nine fake windows on the 3900 block Lancaster Avenue. Rear video projection: Community Meeting (10 minutes looping) includes a community meeting convened to discuss the possible demolition of a block of historic buildings (3600 block of Lancaster Avenue).

2014

Funeral for Minimalism (October) Tyler Patio, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia PA. Installation of 65 tar paper cubes. Cited in Natalia A Vieyra’s artblog review “The Elephant in the Gallery—Carl Andrea at Dia:Beacon,” January 2015.

First Year Show (September) Walm Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia PA, “What Time Looks Like: Bricks and Orange Cheese Slices.”

 

Our Community (January) The Clay Studio, Philadelphia PA, “Intersection.”

 

Other

650 Snapshots (September 2019) Crane Old School, Philadelphia PA, an installation based on the flm “Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles”(1975, Dir: Chantal Ackerman, 201 minutes) including “650 Snapshots” 154” x 104” (650 photos, 4” x 6” each, arranged 26 wide and 25 high); “Scrapbook” 213 pages (8.5” x 11” each) for each camera shot in “Jeanne Dielman, ...” Each page includes: a photograph, scene number, start and stop time, scene length, camera location in the apartment, lighting changes, and dialogue.

“Who's Afraid of Chantal Ackerman?” (March 2019) Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT. Preliminary research and installation recreating Jeanne Dielman's apartment at 28 Rue du Commerce, Brussels.

POST East, October 8, 2017, Crane Old School, Philadelphia PA, work from Denmark including a reinstallation of “The Architecture of Remembering.”

 

POST East, October 22-23, 2016, Crane Old School, Philadelphia PA, “Vase Compositions: Arrangements in Porcelain.” Large installation of porcelain vases mounted on 6' x 6' panel. Tiered pedestal display of 200 vases.

 

First Year Review, April 2015, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia PA, “Demolition at University City High School.” The installation includes a translucent hanging panel (400 ceramic tiles mounted on a 4 by 5 ft piece of mesh) and artifacts from the deinstallation of the Black Bottom Mosaic including tools, insurance certificate, and the broken bits of tile, mortar and other debris that was at the site. The video includes building demolition, the neighborhood, and abstract images.

POST East (Philadelphia Open Studio Tour), October 5-6, 2013, Crane Old School, Philadelphia PA, “Binary Opposition: Two Views in Clay and Tar.”

 

Grants/Awards

2020-21 NewCourtland Fellow, Philadelphia Senior Center, Clay Memory Tiles.

2019-20 Artist-in-Residence, Glen Foerd on the Delaware, Philadelphia, June 2019 – May 2020.

2019 Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson VT, March.

2017 Artist-in-Residence, Guldagergaard, International Ceramic Research Center, Skælskør, Denmark, June – July.

2016 Project Completion Grant, Tyler School of Art.

Education


MFA Ceramics, Temple University, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia PA.

BA Philosophy, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA.

Employment

I’ve had a broad set of professional experiences: Co-founded Current Designs, Inc., a small high-tech company which makes computer response devices for neuroscientists; edited several journals including the American Economic Review and was a fact checker at the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s publication department; cooked at the Commissary Restaurant in Philadelphia and Grendel’s Lair in Cambridge (MA).

© 2025 by Jennifer Johnson

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