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The Woodmere Annual: 78th Juried Exhibition

June 1, 2019

September 2, 2019

Eileen Neff, juror

Woodmere's annual juried exhibition, Second Nature: The Poetics of Re-presentation, highlights contemporary work in a wide variety of media by artists living within fifty miles of the museum. This year's juror, Eileen Neff, has selected works that engage the poetics of re-presentation.

The exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated digital catalogue, linked at the bottom of this page, and has been featured in the latest episode of Woodmere's podcast, Diving Board. To subscribe and listen, click here.

Second Nature: The Poetics of Re-presentation

I keep artificial plants near my kitchen sink, real ones in the studio. A slab of dried yellow paint serves as a centerpiece on a small white table. My wooden birds shake their heads and sing their songs, but only when they're turned on.

- Eileen Neff

About the Juror

Having formally studied literature and painting, Eileen Neff has been working with photo-based images and installations since 1981. Drawing on both historic and contemporary concepts of picturing the natural and constructed world, her work also includes an investigation of studio practice itself as a generative source. From the start, Neff’s projects have developed in relation to the sites where she exhibits, embracing presentation considerations as another critical layer of inquiry.

Her recent solo exhibitions were at the Bridgette Mayer Gallery in Philadelphia and Bruce Silverstein in New York City. In 2007, the Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia) exhibited a 15-year retrospective of her work, which in 2009 traveled to the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin, Ireland. The same year, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina presented a 10-year retrospective of Neff’s work. Other individual installations include the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia; the Carnegie Mellon Art Gallery, Pittsburgh; Artists Space, New York City; and P.S. 1, Long Island City. Her work is currently represented by Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia.

Neff has been the recipient of several awards, the most recent being a 2016 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Memorial Fellowship. Other awards include a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts Grant, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship, and the Leeway Foundation Artist Grant. She’s been awarded residencies at Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest, Clermont, Kentucky; Monte Azul Contemporary Art, Talamanca Mountains, Costa Rica: MacDowell Art Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire: the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia; and La Napoule Art Foundation, La Napoule, France.

Eileen Neff is a Resident Critic in the MFA Program at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. From 1989 – 2002, Neff wrote reviews for Artforum and continues to write independently.

We are pleased to announce the artists that were selected for inclusion in the Woodmere Annual: 78th Juried Exhibition:

David Aipperspach

Linda Lee Alter

Steven Baris

Philippa Beardsley

Rita Bernstein

Sarah Bloom

Matthew Borgen

Agathe Bouton

John Breakey

Sophie Brenneman

Thomas Brummett

Lindsay Buchman

Haley Burns

Ryan Busch

John Carlano

Ivana Carman

Neill Catangay

Jacintha Clark

Alex Cohen

Carol Cole

Annson Conaway

Nancy Cooke

Donna Czapiga

Micah Danges

Ilana Dodelson

Samantha Dominik

Charles Emlen

Stephanie Fenner

Virginia Fleming

Evan Fugazzi

Kiki Gaffney

Raffaele Gans-Pfister

Qingsheng Gao

Marissa Georgiou

Bill Gerhard

Tom Goodman

Alex Griffin

Elizabeth Hamilton

Laura Beamesderfer Havlish

Nancy Clearwater Herman

Maddie Hewitt

Sean Hildreth

Ditta Baron Hoeber

John Holsinger

Sharka Hyland

Olivia Jia

Rod Jones II

Sam Jones

Melissa Joseph

Tom Judd

Clint Jukkala

Bruce Katsiff

David Kettner

Ron Klein

Mari Elaine Lamp

Booyoung Lee

Anne Leith

Bonnie Levinthal

Tiantian Li

Adam Lovitz

Bonnie MacAllister

Patrick Maguire

Tilda Mann

Charles Mason III

Silas McDonough

Illya Mousavijad

Chelsea Nader

Matt Neff

Chau Nguyen

Nathan Pankratz

Valerie Pfaff

Bruce Pollock

Kaitlin Pomerantz

DeJeonge Reese

Clare Robinson

Alexander Rosenberg

Marta Sanchez

Phillip Scarpone

Meredith Sellers

Keith Sharp

Teresa Shields

Stuart Shils

Elizabeth Silbaugh

Lawrence Souder

Julia Staples

Melinda Steffy

Marcelino Stuhmer

Tiffany Tate

Blaise Tobia

Mat Tomezsko

Eric Toscano

Katherine Volpe

Michael Ward-Rosenbaum

Austen Weymueller

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