NAPOLEON at PAFA, contributes to exhibition "Traction Co."

Traction Co.

GO SEE the exhibition "TRACTION CO." at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA)!!!!

In addition to amazing works by the members of Traction Co., you will also get a change to view a small exhibition within the exhibition by NAPOLEON's ten members. 

From the PAFA website:

Traction Company is a 12-person artist collective and studio in Philadelphia founded by, and entirely composed of, PAFA alumni, faculty and staff. Since 2007, members of the collective have congregated once a week to work out of a studio built in a former trolley manufacturing warehouse, both on individual projects and occasionally on collaboratively-made pieces. Their most recent group piece, subTRACTION, is a 1:6 scale miniature of their studio, made completely by hand and displayed atNAPOLEON gallery in November 2013. The Philadelphia collective NAPOLEON has installed an exhibition within the larger Traction Company exhibition in one of the modular studios.

For their installation at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Traction Company will build from their experiences making subTRACTION, which will be included in PAFA’s exhibition. Working within the Fisher Brooks Gallery Space, the collective will collaborate on new group pieces, including a full-scale recreation of one of the Truss structures from their studio. The exhibition will also include works made by the individual artists.

Traction Company current members: Connie Ambridge, Steven Dailey, Jeffrey Dentz, Billy Dufala, Morgan Dummitt, Miguel Horn, Sedakial Gebremedhin, Laura Giannini, John Greig Jr., Brendan Keen, Joshua Koffman, Lucia Thomè.

NAPOLEON members with work installed into Traction Co.'s modular studio include: Marc Blumthal, Lewis Colburn, Liza Coviello, Marianne Dages, Leslie Friedman, Alex Nutini,  Jordan Rockford, H. John Thompson, and Tamsen Wojtanowski.

Read more about "Traction Co." exhibition at PAFA, here. 

Read more about NAPOLEON, here. 

See more of my work, old and new, here. 

Left: NAPOLEON within "Traction Co." @ PAFA, installation image. Right: Tamsen Wojtanowski. "Breeze Machine". 2015. Cyanotype, LED Lights, wood, plexi. 22"x22"x10".

"Big Pile" chosen for HAFNY's Group Show 45: New Jack City

I am happy to announce that my print "Big Pile" has been chosen for inclusion in the Humble Arts Foundation of New York's Group Show 45: New Jack City.

From HAFNY's founders, Amani Olu and Jon Feinstein: 

group show 45: New Jack City explores one of the most common challenges we often hear when speaking with photographers living and working in urban environments, which is the ability to make insightful, visually arresting work that "hasn’t been done before.” It's one of the oldest clichés and barriers to inspiration. While this is likely true to any environment or artistic tradition, cities as subject matter -- either because of their tourist appeal, or natural magnetism to artists and photographers -- have become increasingly tricky. Using this understanding as a launch point, we invited photographers to submit work that addressed a range of approaches to the urban environment with hopes that it might not only free them from the fear of the faux-pas, but potentially surface some unexpected angles on capturing contemporary city life.

Participating artists: Jacob Pastrovich,Tamsen Wojtanowski, Lori Nix, Elsa Leydier, Carl Gunhouse, Freja Mitchell, Carlos Lowenstein, Peter Baker, Audreé Anid, Alessandro Dandini de Sylva, Adam Lampton, Cait Oppermann, Richard Aldred, Christopher Woodcock, William Miller, Rob Stephenson, Douglas Ljungkvist, Kelly Kristin Jones, Robert Harding Pittman, Jin Zhu, Camilo Ramirez, Greer Muldowney, Tatevik Vardanyan, Marc Yankus, Jaime Permuth, Stephan Ferreira, Sarah Crofts, Rose Dickson, Mihai Rotaru, Noah Addis, Krzysztof Sienkiewicz, Daniel Everett, Sibylle Feucht, Maggie Preston, Felipe Russo, David Molander, Noah Jackson, Yvonne Lacet

So excited to be included in this exciting group!

Check out the exhibition in full, here. 

And see more from this body of my work, Salvage/d, here. 

Tamsen Wojtanowski. Big Pile. 2015. 15"x20".

New Work @Center for Art in Wood: Other Selections

Up through July 25th!

I have a new body of work up at Center for Art in Wood as part of their exhibition "Other Selections".

From the show's press release:

The concept for the project began with Gerard Brown and David Stephens, members from the museum's exhibition committee, who proposed that the Center open its gallery to the many artist­run spaces in Philadelphia. Participating members of the collective NAPOLEON include Marc Blumthal, Lewis Colburn, Marianne Dages, Christina P. Day, Alexis Nutini, H. John Thompson, and Tamsen Wojtanowski. Additionally, NAPOLEON member Jordan Rockford invited the local artist Patrick Coughlin to participate. Another collective, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, brings five artists to the project: Jaime Alvarez, Todd Baldwin, Mark Brosseau, Joanna Platt, and Terri Saulin Frock. Artworks by Jason Gandy and James Johnson are curated by Sean Stoops. Timothy Belknap and Ryan McCartney, who direct the Icebox Project Space through their collective, McCartney/Belknap, round out the show.

Tamsen Wojtanowski. Radial Landscape C, 02. 2015.

In response to a series of three wood block prints entitled "Centrifugal Landscapes" by Christian Burchard, Laurent Guillot, and Micheal Hosaluk, I too used the idea of landscape and a circular printing stryle to create a series of cyanotype prints depicting our modern day sprawl. These images act as a glimpse through the peephole into a place familiar to many.

Learn more about the exhibition and the Center, here.

Go see this wonderful exhibition!

Photo Credit: Center for Art in Wood