OCCUPANT
2.10.2010 - 3.10.2010

AREA 919 presents Gillian Pears and Ryan Widger, minimal photographic and video works, at the offices of CITYSPACE, 2200 Walnut, Philadelphia. Opening Reception is February 10th, 6-9PM. The exhibition runs through March 10th. Public hours: Wed-Sat 1-5PM.

Gillian Pears

My studio practice focuses on the breach of boundaries between the familiar and imagined, revealing conditional human emotions by using the indeterminate as unresolved evidence. White walls, paper, plastic, and flesh suggest a seductive pathology. Relying upon emotional response, these things sublimate words and evoke states of being in an atmosphere of vulnerability.

MacDowell Colony Residency Summer 2009
Alternate for Fulbright Fellowship, Sweden 2008-2009
Cranbrook Academy of Art, MFA 2006
VMFA Graduate Fellowship, Virginia Museum of Art, 2005
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Post Baccalaureate Certificate, 2002
Evergreen State College, BA, 1999

Solo exhibition, Bambi, Philadelphia, March 5th-28th, 2010

Ryan Widger

When mundane routine is interrupted, the numbness of living halts, fostering an awareness of time. There is no inherent poetry or beauty in this interference. Where once there was no connection an un-nameable visceral one is established.

Fulbright Fellowship, Sweden 2006-2007
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Residency 2006
Cranbrook Academy of Art, MFA, 2005
University of Pennsylvania, BA, 2003
Visiting Faculty, Interdisciplinary Studies, Konstfack University, Stockholm, Sweden