“Skull Sessions”
November 20, 2023 - January 6, 2024
The Bucks County and Philadelphia regions are home to a vibrant multitude of artist run spaces and cultural collectives. Spanning a vast geographical swath from Upper Bucks to South Philly, the staggering number of artists and cultural organizations based in this area make art and produce programming from a plethora of mediums creating universal access and inspiration to all. From realism to narrative installation, the artworks in the exhibibition “Skull Sessions” represent a current survey of the range of genres in which artists amongst their art group peers are currently practicing.
The title of the exhibition takes its name from the strategy building sessions that are more typically associated with athletics-especially football. In “Skull Sessions”, the art will speak for the artist with ideas shared and communicated to the viewers as if they are players on a united team. Like an art fair format, the artworks and installations in “Skull Sessions” will be arranged within the areas of Hicks Art Center designated to the following 20 different artist run collectives and cultural organizations in the Bucks County and Philadelphia regions:
African American Museum of Bucks County
Art at Kings Oaks
Artists of Yardley
Arts and Cultural Council of Bucks County
ArtWRKD
Automat
fjord
Grizzly Grizzly
Newtown Historic Association
Partners and Son
Past Present Projects
Peep Projects
Pink Noise Projects
Rush Arts Philadelphia
Space 1026
Termite TV Collective
The Upstairs Gallery of Bucks County
Till Arts
Vox Populi
Zach's Crab Shack
Image credit: Avtomat Kalashnikov, Death Buy Adidas, digital print on acrylic, dimensions variable, 2010
courtesy of Rush Arts Philadelphia
Entrance to Hicks Art Center Gallery
Art at Kings Oaks
Art at Kings Oaks with works by (top row from l to r) Sterling Shaw, Martina Johnson Allen, Abigail Dudley and Ali Sultan (bottom row from l to r) Mastro Cencio (Vincenzo Dobboloni), Jenny Kanzler, Alex Cohen, Omri Sudri
Termite TV Collective : installations documenting "Places of Power, Villa Africana Colobó Garden" and "Portals" (on video monitor)
Termite TV Collective : installation documenting "Places of Power, Villa Africana Colobó Garden"
Termite TV Collective : installation documenting "Places of Power, Villa Africana Colobó Garden"
Arts and Cultural Council of Bucks County with works by (from l to r) Jeff Roberts, Carol Gilbert, Susan Forker, (jewelry) Gene Underwood, Louise Levy, Hayden Saunier (poetry) Melissa D. Sullivan et al (poetry)
Peep Projects with works by (from l to r) Libby Rosa and Alex Jackson
Automat Collective with works by (from l to r) Zoe McCarthy, Kimi Pryor (top), Lou Sema (bottom), Whitson Ramsey, Brynne Hurlstone (foreground), Jacqueline Yvonne Tull
Rush Arts Philadelphia with works by Avtomat Kalashnikov
fjord with works by Charlotte G. Chin Greene (foreground), Amy Shindo (floor), (from l to r) Todd Stong, Brice Peterson, Chriss Scolaro, Katie Wynne and Natessa Amin
fjord
Partners and Sons
ArtWRKD with works by Vincent Hawley, (from top to bottom) Katie Truk, Emma Powell, Kimberly Ort
Pink Noise Projects with works by (from l to r) Richard Zapato, Tamsen Wojtanowski, Kelly Wright (top), Sarah Zimmaro (bottom 3) Zach Zecha, Tyler Kline, Dawn Kramlich (above)
Till Arts with works by (from l to r) Ivan J. Felder III, Sunyah Abdul-Aziz, Curtis Walker (top), Lu Eady (bottom), Andrew Gonzalez, Wit López
Till Arts
Newtown Historic Association installation of WW II military patches
Artists of Yardley
Artists of Yardley
Grizzly Grizzly with works (from l to r) by Erin Boyle, Jayne Struble, Amy Hicks (above), Connor Longo,
Grizzly Grizzly
Grizzly Grizzly with works by Diedra Krieger
The Upstairs Gallery of Bucks County with works (from l to r) by deb hoeffner, Don Schoenleber (above), Jane Ramsey, Lynda Boardman, Marybeth Hucker (above), Emily Thompson, Jas Szygiel (above), Addie Hocynec
The Upstairs Gallery of Bucks County with works by Sandy Beblavy, Margie Perry (above), George Thompson, Beth Schoenleber (above), Elissa Goldberg, Sue Ann Rainey
Zach's Crab Shack
Space 1026 with works (from l to r) by Chris Kline, Jacob Marcineck (above), James Bonney, Jackie Small, Jake Yeager, Chris Kline
Space 1026 with works (from l to r) by Chris Kline, Tuesday Kay, SoulPurl77, Miriam Singer
Voxpopuli with works by (from l to r) Jim Strong, Lea Devon Sorrentino, Aaron Terry, Lane Timothy Speidel, Lea Devon Sorrentino, Natalie Kuenzi
Voxpopuli with works by Natalie Kuenzi
Voxpopuli with works by Aaron Terry
Voxpopuli with works by Jim Strong, Lea Devon Sorrentino and Aaron Terry
Voxpopuli with works by Jim Strong
Past Present Projects with works by Jen Blazina
Past Present Projects with works by Jen Blazina