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".