Woodmere Art Museum invites artists to submit work that considers the theme “the condition of place.” Submissions may define “condition” broadly;  “place” refers to the city of Philadelphia.

Deadkine March 20, 2016

June 4 – August 28, 2016

In addition to selections made from submissions, the juror Odili Donald Odita, will select objects from the Museum’s collection. Odita’s own work will also be on view.

The exhibition will feature works in a wide variety of media from artists living within 50 miles of the Museum.

The exhibition will be accompanied by an illustrated digital catalogue. Recent examples of Woodmere digital exhibition catalogues can be found by following the link below.

http://issuu.com/woodmereartmuseum

About the Juror

Odili Donald Odita is an abstract painter whose work explores color both in an historical context and in the sociopolitical sense.

Odita has had solo exhibitions of his work at museums and institutions across the globe including Kunsthalle, St. Gallen; Venice Biennale (2007); Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Studio Museum in Harlem; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita; and Princeton University. He has been represented by The Jack Shainman Gallery since 2006 where solo exhibitions of his work include The Velocity of Change (2015), This, That, and The Other (2013), Body & Space (2010), and Fusion (2006).

Odita has been commissioned to paint several large-scale wall installations at institutions such as The United States Mission to the United Nations in New York (2011), the Savannah College of Art and Design (2012), New York Presbyterian Hospital (2012), New Orleans Museum of Art (2011), Kiasma, Helsinki (2011) and the George C. Young Federal Building and Courthouse in Orlando, Florida (2013).

Odita is currently a Professor of Painting at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art. He has been a Visiting Critic in Painting at Yale University, an Associate Professor in Painting at the Florida State University, Tallahassee and was a Visiting Associate Professor in Painting at the University of South Florida, Tampa.  In 2015, Odita served as a resident faculty member at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture.  During the 1990’s, Odita was a critic for Flash Art International, and a consulting editor and writer for NKA, Journal of Contemporary African Art.