Exhibits & Events

About the Exhibition‍

This annual exhibition presents the work of Philadelphia’s contemporary artists. Each year, a different juror prepares a call for artists, soliciting submissions related to a distinct theme or idea. This year’s juror, Doug Bucci, invited artists to submit work that explores novel and infinite ideas and methods of connection.

Fifty-four artists working in sculpture, painting, photography, jewelry, and printmaking address such varied subjects as climate change, materialism, ancestry, and biology, revealing connections on a microscopic to universal level. The spectrum of ideas and processes, including innovative uses of electroforming, computer-aided design, and 3-D printing, illustrates the intellectual rigor and creative diversity that characterize our city’s art community.

Juror bio

Doug Bucci is an artist and educator in the field of jewelry who uses digital processes to explore and display biological systems and the effect of disease on the body. Computer-aided technologies enable him to view and simulate not only data, but also patterns and cell forms, which he transforms into meaningful, personal, and wearable art. Bucci views his digital process as one that allows for creative freedom unfound in traditional handmade methods.

Bucci’s work is in the collections of the Windsor Castle, Berkshire, London; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; Newark Museum, New Jersey; Deutsche Goldschmiedehaus Hanau, Germany; Design Museo, Helsinki; and the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.

Bucci is also assistant professor and head of the Metals/Jewelry/CAD-CAM Program at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art and Architecture in Philadelphia.

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Exhibition events

Opening Reception
Saturday, June 3 | noon-3 p.m.
FREE
Please join us for an opening reception celebrating the Woodmere Annual: 81st Juried Exhibition on Saturday, June 3rd from noon-3 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

Gallery Talk with juror Doug Bucci
Saturday, June 10 | 2:00 p.m.
Lecturer: Doug Bucci
FREE
Join Doug Bucci, juror of the Woodmere Annual: 81st Juried Exhibition, for a gallery talk about the show.

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Accepted artists

Jill Adler

Theophilus Annor

Martin Bernard Bernstein

Matthew Borgen

Frank Burd

Lauren Cassidy

Emily Cobb

Nick D’Angelo

Maxwell Davis

Christina Day

Brian Dennis

Sarah Detweiler

Steven Donegan

Paul DuSold

Charles Emlen

Iva Fabrikant

Katherine Fraser

Terri Fridkin

Kathryn Gegenheimer

Kathleen Greco

Michael Grothusen

Marguerita Hagan

Noa Hagiladi

Elizabeth Hamilton

Darla Jackson

Cavin Jones

Sarah Kaufman

Dawn Kramlich

Andrea Krupp

Diane Lachman

Vita Litvak

Michelle Marcuse

Caitlin McCormack

Michael McGeehan

Leah Modigliani

Keith Micheal Murphy

Liisa Nelson

Ju-hyung Park

Heather Raquel Phillips

Walter Plotnick

Deborah Riccardi

Matthew Speedy

C.J. Stahl

Gordon Stillman

Todd Stong

Brandon Aquino Straus

Patricia Sullivan

Rosalind Sutkowski

Blaise Tobia

Mat Tomeszko

Roberta Tucci

Peggy Washburn

Mallory Weston

John Y. Wind

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