A Strong In-Your-Face Word: Works from the Brodsky Center at PAFA

Arcadia Exhibitions is pleased to present “A Strong In-Your-Face Word: Works from the Brodsky Center at PAFA,” an exhibition featuring prints and handmade paper editions commissioned by the Brodsky Center at its printmaking and papermaking studios. “A Strong In-Your-Face Word” proposes artworks that can be seen as emblematic of the continual fluidity of the priorities and strategies contributed by artists to the feminist movement from the 1960s to this day.

Featured artists include Emma Amos, Eleanor Antin, Nancy Azara, Zoë Charlton, Jonathan Lyndon Chase, Liz Collins, Betsy Damon, Mary Beth Edelson, Lauren Ewing, Chitra Ganesh, Sharon Hayes, Harmony Hammond, Joyce Kozloff, Yolanda López, Diane Neumaier, Farah Ossouli, Nell Painter, Faith Ringgold, Miriam Schapiro, Carolee Schneemann, Joan Semmel, Sylvia Sleigh, Joan Snyder, Nancy Spero, May Stevens, Athena Tacha, June Wayne, and Martha Wilson.

Kitty Rauth: The Mirror Room

Arcadia Exhibitions is pleased to present “Kitty Rauth: The Mirror Room.” In their recent work, the artist uses cast sugar, often formed to replicate decorative glassware, as a poetic material to engage in conversations around classed systems of etiquette, racialized labor, and the body politics that surround the marketing and refining of the product.

For “The Mirror Room,” Rauth, a 2014 graduate of Arcadia, continues to explore these issues by focusing on the personal coincidence that Grey Towers Castle and the former William Welsh Harrison Estate, the current home of Arcadia University, were first constructed utilizing proceeds from the sugar refining industry in the late nineteenth century. Rauth will be appropriating and arranging objects and architectural forms from the well-known Cheltenham Township landmark to create a new site -specific installation for both the artist and visitors to reflect upon the dysfunctional systems of power that led to the accumulation of wealth that funded the estate’s creation.