The Woodmere Annual: 78th Juried Exhibition
About the Exhibition
Eileen Neff, juror
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Second Nature: The Poetics of Re-presentation
I keep artificial plants near my kitchen sink, real ones in the studio. A slab of dried yellow paint serves as a centerpiece on a small white table. My wooden birds shake their heads and sing their songs, but only when they're turned on.
- Eileen Neff
About the Juror
Her recent solo exhibitions were at the Bridgette Mayer Gallery in Philadelphia and Bruce Silverstein in New York City. In 2007, the Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia) exhibited a 15-year retrospective of her work, which in 2009 traveled to the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin, Ireland. The same year, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina presented a 10-year retrospective of Neff’s work. Other individual installations include the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia; the Carnegie Mellon Art Gallery, Pittsburgh; Artists Space, New York City; and P.S. 1, Long Island City. Her work is currently represented by Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia.
Neff has been the recipient of several awards, the most recent being a 2016 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Memorial Fellowship. Other awards include a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts Grant, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship, and the Leeway Foundation Artist Grant. She’s been awarded residencies at Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest, Clermont, Kentucky; Monte Azul Contemporary Art, Talamanca Mountains, Costa Rica: MacDowell Art Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire: the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia; and La Napoule Art Foundation, La Napoule, France.
Eileen Neff is a Resident Critic in the MFA Program at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. From 1989 – 2002, Neff wrote reviews for Artforum and continues to write independently.
06.01.19 | Open House Reception | Noon-4pm
06.08.19 | Gallery Talk with Juror | 3pm
06.29.19 | Family Tour & Artmaking | 11am-12:30pm
09.02.19 | Closing Reception | 2-4pm
We are pleased to announce the artists that were selected for inclusion in the Woodmere Annual: 78th Juried Exhibition:
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David Aipperspach
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Linda Lee Alter
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Steven Baris
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Philippa Beardsley
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Rita Bernstein
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Sarah Bloom
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Matthew Borgen
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Agathe Bouton
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John Breakey
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Sophie Brenneman
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Thomas Brummett
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Lindsay Buchman
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Haley Burns
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Ryan Busch
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John Carlano
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Ivana Carman
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Neill Catangay
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Jacintha Clark
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Alex Cohen
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Carol Cole
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Annson Conaway
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Nancy Cooke
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Donna Czapiga
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Micah Danges
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Ilana Dodelson
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Samantha Dominik
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Charles Emlen
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Stephanie Fenner
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Virginia Fleming
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Evan Fugazzi
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Kiki Gaffney
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Raffaele Gans-Pfister
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Qingsheng Gao
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Marissa Georgiou
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Bill Gerhard
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Tom Goodman
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Alex Griffin
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Elizabeth Hamilton
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Laura Beamesderfer Havlish
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Nancy Clearwater Herman
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Maddie Hewitt
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Sean Hildreth
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Ditta Baron Hoeber
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John Holsinger
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Sharka Hyland
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Olivia Jia
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Rod Jones II
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Sam Jones
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Melissa Joseph
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Tom Judd
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Clint Jukkala
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Bruce Katsiff
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David Kettner
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Ron Klein
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Mari Elaine Lamp
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Booyoung Lee
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Anne Leith
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Bonnie Levinthal
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Tiantian Li
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Adam Lovitz
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Bonnie MacAllister
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Patrick Maguire
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Tilda Mann
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Charles Mason III
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Silas McDonough
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Illya Mousavijad
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Chelsea Nader
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Matt Neff
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Chau Nguyen
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Nathan Pankratz
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Valerie Pfaff
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Bruce Pollock
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Kaitlin Pomerantz
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DeJeonge Reese
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Clare Robinson
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Alexander Rosenberg
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Marta Sanchez
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Phillip Scarpone
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Meredith Sellers
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Keith Sharp
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Teresa Shields
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Stuart Shils
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Elizabeth Silbaugh
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Lawrence Souder
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Julia Staples
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Melinda Steffy
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Marcelino Stuhmer
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Tiffany Tate
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Blaise Tobia
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Mat Tomezsko
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Eric Toscano
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Katherine Volpe
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Michael Ward-Rosenbaum
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Austen Weymueller
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