June 10, 2023 | 11:00 am – 3:00 pm
Please join ArtTable in Philadelphia, PA for a private tour of the exhibitions on view at Twelve Gates Arts and Pentimenti Gallery with remarks by Christine Pfister, Director at Pentimenti Gallery, and Aisha Zia Khan, Executive Director & President/Founder at Twelve Gates Arts.
Make a day of it! After the tour, we encourage attendees to visit Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America, a collaborative exhibition by the African American Museum in Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. We are pleased to be able to provide attendees with discounted general admission to the museum shows! Attendees will retrieve their tickets at Pentimenti and Twelve Gates Arts during their complimentary lunch.
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ITINERARY
11:00 am – 1:00 pm Old City Art Tour
WHAT SURVIVES IN THE ARCHIVE OF INDENTURE? | Group Exhibition
NAZRINA RODJAN – NICHOLAS DORNELLAS – SARAH ROHANI DREPAUL
SHARIFA KHAN – VANESSA GODDEN
TWELVE GATES ARTS, 106 NORTH SECOND ST. PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106
Twelve Gates Arts invited curator Suzanne Persard for a group show of women and nonbinary artists. What survives in the archive of indenture? Remnants of Another investigates the traces of memory among artists of Indo-Caribbean and indentured Indian descent from Suriname, Trinidad, and Guyana. Juxtaposing historical and family archives alongside photography and film, these multidisciplinary artists rework temporalities of diaspora and self to create a new visual archive of genealogy. Remnants of Another traverses the contours of memory among indentured descendants, refracting the violence of the colonial archive through queer and feminist re-imaginings of ancestral selves, kinship and diaspora.
REKINDLED PROMISE | Group Exhibition
CHELSEA KAIAH – MELISSA LEANDRO – CHAU NGUYEN
BRIAN SINGER – TANEKEYA WORD
PENTIMENTI GALLERY, 145 NORTH SECOND ST. Philadelphia, PA 19106
Pentimenti Gallery invited five artists, four of them women, who draw inspiration from the challenges we face while living in America today. The selected artworks were created through the lenses of artists of different backgrounds and different concerns, such as climate change, immigration, material culture, and America’s complex past. These cultural critiques aim to turn a mirror on what modern America is versus what it purports itself to be.
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm “Rising Sun”
RISING SUN: ARTISTS in an UNCERTAIN AMERICA
20 artists respond to the critical question: Is the sun rising or setting on the experiment of American democracy? A collaborative exhibition by the African American Museum in Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Installations by 20 celebrated artists explore themes of equality, free speech, and other tenets of democracy. In a time when perspectives in the U.S. are radically disparate, we invite you to explore how art inspires us to reflect on, challenge, and expand our own lived experiences. Artists include: Shiva Ahmadi, John Akomfrah CBE, La Vaughn Belle, Tiffany Chung, Lenka Clayton, Petah Coyne, Martha Jackson Jarvis, Demetrius Oliver, Eamon Ore-Giron, Alison Saar, Dread Scott, Rose B. Simpson, Sheida Soleimani, Renée Stout, Mark Thomas Gibson, Dyani White Hawk, Hank Willis Thomas, Deborah Willis, Wilmer Wilson IV, and Saya Woolfalk.
Be part of this transformative exhibition at two historic museums within walking distance of each other:
African American Museum in Philadelphia
701 Arch Street Philadelphia, PA 19106
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
118-128 North Broad Street | Philadelphia, PA 19102
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- ArtTable members $25
- Member guests $35
- Public $40
Pricing includes entry to both museums, complimentary lunch, and both galleries.
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Image: Rekindled Promise | CHELSEA KAIAH – MELISSA LEANDRO – CHAU NGUYEN – BRIAN SINGER – TANEKEYA WORD.
Aisha Zia Khan is Co-founder of Twelve Gates Arts, where as the Executive Director since 2009 she provides a platform for artists and diasporic audiences to present and experience contemporary art projects. Aisha has dedicated her career to curating innovative programs and exhibitions that bridge cultures, foster dialogue, and promote artistic diversity. She brings six years of experience as a Strategic and Financial Analyst at Merrill Lynch to her work. With this expertise, she works towards the founding vision for 12G: a space as expansive and malleable as the artists it accommodates.
Aisha’s recently concluded Curatorial Residency in Penn’s Asian American Studies Program (ASAM) in spring 2023 (as part of the ASAM’s Sachs 2022 Grant) titled “The Third Space: Unfurling Diasporic Arts of South Asia”, consisted of a series of programs seeking to highlight Diasporic Arts of South Asia as a distinct, expansive, and emergent tradition within American contemporary art. This residency was not just a critical opportunity for ASAM to premier South Asian American arts in an examination of diaspora, ethnic identity, and immigration history, but also a culmination of her own work highlighting these aspects in artistic productions of diasporic artists.
Christine Pfister was born in Switzerland. Upon moving to the United States, she attended Christie’s Education at Christie’s New York, NY. As an accomplished Gallerist with over 20 years of curating exhibitions featuring local, national, and international artists at Pentimenti Gallery, Christine Pfister is an experienced gallerist, advocate, educator, and collections advisor. She has worked with museum curators, private collectors, and corporate clients located in the United States, Asia, South America, and Europe. She has also given many lectures and participated in panels. Lectures include the Barnes Foundation, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of the Arts, the American Association of Museums, and more.
Sara Krajewski was appointed Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Portland Art Museum in June 2015. Over her tenure, she has expanded the contemporary art program through exhibitions, commissions, collection development, and publications, and has fostered collaborations that bring together artists, curators, educators, and the public to ask questions around access, equity, and new institutional models.
Jodi Throckmorton is the curator of contemporary art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) in Philadelphia. Before joining PAFA in fall 2014, she was curator of modern and contemporary art at the Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University in Kansas. Prior to that, she was associate curator at the San Jose Museum of Art in California. She organized the exhibition and publications for Rina Banerjee: Make Me a Summary of the World (2018) with Lauren Dickens and Postdate: Photography and Inherited History in India (2015). Her other recent projects include Nick Cave: Rescue (2018), Paul Chan: Pillowsophia (2017), Melt/Carve/Forge: Embodied Sculptures by Cassils (2016), Alyson Shotz: Plane Weave (2016), Bruce Conner: Somebody Else’s Prints (2014), Questions from the Sky: New Work by Hung Liu (2013), Dive Deep: Eric Fischl and the Process of Painting (2013), Ranu Mukherjee: Telling Fortunes (2012), and This Kind of Bird Flies Backward: Paintings by Joan Brown (2011). The major retrospective, Joan Semmel: Skin in the Game is Throckmorton’s most recent exhibition and publication project.
ArtTable member and Philadelphia Chapter Co-Chair Rachel Zimmerman is the Artistic and Executive Director of InLiquid, as well as a photographer. Zimmerman founded InLiquid over 20 years ago to support the careers and creative efforts of visual artists in Philadelphia. Since its inception, InLiquid has had a significant impact on the arts community in Philadelphia and the surrounding region through their work with local artists, collectors, area businesses and institutions, including the City of Philadelphia. Rachel and InLiquid work with individual artists to create over 40 exhibits a year for both public and private spaces, help build corporate and personal collections, and collaborate with a cohort of arts leaders not only to restore the Philadelphia Cultural Fund and the Office of Arts and Culture and the Creative Economy but to make the arts a priority for the city.
Shawnya L. Harris, Ph.D. is the organizing curator for Emma Amos: Color Odyssey, centering on the work of the late feminist artist Emma Amos (1937-2020). Harris is the Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Curator of African American and African Diasporic Art at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia. Recently, Harris has been a fellow at the Center for Curatorial Leadership. She earned her doctorate in art history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Harris is also an alumna of Yale University.
Laurel Garber is Park Family Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She is the PMA’s curator of Emma Amos: Color Odyssey, organized by the Georgia Museum of Art. Laurel is also a PhD candidate at Northwestern University, where she is completing a dissertation on the social position of the printer in nineteenth-century France. Laurel has held positions and fellowships at the Art Institute of Chicago, Getty Museum, Clark Art Institute, and Courtauld Gallery. She received an MA at the Courtauld as well as a BA from Cornell University.