Practice

PRACTICE Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist Eva Wo. Forbidden City (A Peep Show Retrospective) features several bodies of work including installation, digital collage, lenticular, self-portraiture and performance art. The exhibition will also debut a live, interactive “peep show” booth, a NSFW playing card deck to take home, as well as a conjoining retrospective of over twenty short films, produced between 2015 and 2022.

PRACTICE Gallery is open to the public Friday’s and Saturdays from 2-6 p.m. If you would like to drop by some other time please e-mail [email protected] for an appointment.

Exhibition will be open from Sept. 8 - Sept. 22, 2022 with Receptions on Thursday Sept. 8 from 6-9 p.m. and Friday Sept 9 from 6-9 p.m. (EST). Admission is free. 18+. Masks provided and required.

The focal point of Wo’s multidisciplinary practice is to both imagine and call-in a vivid utopian future of uncensored gender and sexual self-determination for all. To achieve this, the bold and colorful works that comprise Forbidden City embrace the tension between the joyous and the obscene by way of sweaty play within the boundlessness of q***r freak sexuality. In joyous celebration, Wo realizes a truly free, pro-sex work and pro-porn universe.

Wo’s dynamic pin-up playing card deck, Sun Bunny NSFW Playing Cards (2022), also joins these themes in a whimsical, hand-held medium. Whereas traditional pin-up cards depict women in risqué poses by male artists, Wo’s cards recenter the sexual autonomy of the figure in the frame. Erotic, colorful and audacious, each card collages an original photo of the artist by Shoog McDaniel, resulting in a lush and seductive deck unlike any other.

Accessibility Statement: There are five steps leading from the street-level to the first-floor landing where the passenger elevator picks-up/drops-off. The entry into/out of the elevator is 29-inches wide, so may not accommodate all wheelchairs or motorized chairs. Please get in touch if you need a ramp or have other questions.

First Friday is Second Friday this month! Apologies for any confusion we are all still recovering from New Years.

OPEN CALL DEADLINE EXTENDED until June 20th!

⚡️Tired of applying to all the Philadelphia July juried exhibitions and never getting in? ⚡️Worse yet, you see the shows and are dumbfounded by what got in, while your highly superior work was rejected? This summer Practice Gallery has the solution to your July rejection blues. Don’t think of your impersonal, form rejection e-mail talking about how highly competitive this year’s jurying was, how there just wasn’t enough room for all the work, or how your work is going on file for future possibilities, as a failure. This year is your “make it moment”! To combat your frustration and indignation, Practice is presenting “Best of the Worst.” Forget those $35.00 application fees, for just $10.00, and your rejection e-mail from a 2018 Philadelphia based July juried exhibition, you can participate in the great Philadelphia Salon des Refusés.

To apply, send images and descriptions of up to 3-5 available works, your resume, and your rejection email in a single PDF to [email protected] with “Best of the Worst” in the subject line. Upon submission pay the nominal $10.00 application fee via Paypal to [email protected] or use the quick link: paypal.me/PracticeGallery to complete your application. Entry is guaranteed, but due to limited space, Practice may not be able to exhibit the exact work submitted, but will make every effort to do so.

Application Deadline: June 20th midnight (11:59 pm)

OPEN CALL!
⚡️Tired of applying to all the Philadelphia July juried exhibitions and never getting in? ⚡️Worse yet, you see the shows and are dumbfounded by what got in, while your highly superior work was rejected? This summer Practice Gallery has the solution to your July rejection blues. Don’t think of your impersonal, form rejection e-mail talking about how highly competitive this year’s jurying was, how there just wasn’t enough room for all the work, or how your work is going on file for future possibilities, as a failure. This year is your “make it moment”! To combat your frustration and indignation, Practice is presenting “Best of the Worst.” Forget those $35.00 application fees, for just $10.00, and your rejection e-mail from a 2018 Philadelphia based July juried exhibition, you can participate in the great Philadelphia Salon des Refusés.

To apply, send images and descriptions of up to 3-5 available works, your resume, and your rejection email in a single PDF to [email protected] with “Best of the Worst” in the subject line. Upon submission pay the nominal $10.00 application fee via Paypal to [email protected] or use the quick link: paypal.me/PracticeGallery to complete your application. Entry is guaranteed, but due to limited space, Practice may not be able to exhibit the exact work submitted, but will make every effort to do so.

Application Deadline: Friday, June 15th, midnight (11:59 pm)

With influences ranging from 1988’s The Blob to “Fatberg”
a congealed mass found in sewer systems all over the word, Jen Clay’s () “We All Share” creates a narrative about literal extinction. Join us for an evening filled with video projections, soundscapes, and an inflatable creature that’s a harbinger of doomsday. That’s all happening TOMORROW NIGHT - 6-10p.

See you there!
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