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Meredith Sellers

Meredith Sellers is an artist, educator, and writer currently living and working in Philadelphia. She earned her BFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2010 and received her MFA in Interdisciplinary Fine Arts in 2012 at the University of Pennsylvania. She currently works at the Mütter Museum, developing cross-disciplinary arts curriculum and workshops. Her personal art practice resides somewhere between painting, video, and installation. meredithsellers.tumblr.com

Posted inNews

Philadelphia’s Fight to Remove a Monument to Former Mayor Frank Rizzo [UPDATED]

by Meredith Sellers August 22, 2017August 24, 2017

Like the Confederate monuments around the country, the sculpture of Rizzo is salt in an open wound for many of the city’s residents of color.

Posted inArt

The Political Problems of the Contemporary “Flâneur”

by Meredith Sellers May 17, 2017

An exhibition at the Barnes Foundation uses the theme of the contemporary flânuer to draw connections to its 19th-century collection, but the concept is deeply muddled.

Posted inFilm

New Jersey’s One Million Acres of Undeveloped, Otherworldly Land

by Meredith Sellers April 18, 2017April 17, 2017

David Kessler spent six years filming the Pine Barrens’ landscape and its inhabitants, capturing the area in every imaginable state and season.

Posted inMusic

A Female Pioneer of Electronic Music Retakes the Stage

by Meredith Sellers April 10, 2017April 11, 2017

Suzanne Ciani, a pioneer of electronic music in the 1970s and ’80s, played her Buchla 200e in a rare improvised performance at a small Philadelphia theater, and it was completely packed.

Posted inArt

Tripping Through an Artist’s Fabrications, from a Faux Art Movement to a Looney Tunes World

by Meredith Sellers February 22, 2017

Matt Freedman is at heart a storyteller, working for years as a writer and cartoonist. Stringing together obtuse veins of thought, he fabricates alternate realities and histories.

Posted inArt

Plié Meets Twerk in a Performance of Black Queer Joy

by Meredith Sellers February 3, 2017

In Jumatatu Poe’s work, movements that appear classical blend seamlessly with voguing, African dance movements, and J-Sette, a style sprung out of black Southern drill teams.

Posted inArt

3D-Rendered Visions of Dystopia, Inspired by the Housing Market Crash

by Meredith Sellers July 7, 2016July 8, 2016

PHILADELPHIA — Up the stairs on the second floor of Locks Gallery, you’ll find an exhibition of landscapes. These aren’t the boring, pastoral, plein air landscapes you’ll find for sale in droves up the street in Old City.

Posted inArt

Sexual and Playful Inflatable Bodies

by Meredith Sellers May 20, 2016

PHILADELPHIA — Nancy Davidson’s sculptures have a bombastic quality, like an overbearing, gaudily dressed aunt who has just arrived late to a family gathering.

Posted inArt

The Personal and Poetic Prints of a Female Pioneer of Copier Art

by Meredith Sellers April 20, 2016May 18, 2016

GLENSIDE, Pa. — I was not particularly excited to see a show of copier art. How different could the images of these photocopies be from the actual copies themselves?

Posted inArt

Learning to Read Objects Like Letters

by Meredith Sellers January 21, 2016January 21, 2016

PHILADELPHIA — The “I”-shaped table is set up as if it contained a presentation of recently excavated artifacts.

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By Turns Offensive and Transgressive: Philadelphia’s Folk Art Mummers Parade

by Meredith Sellers January 13, 2016

PHILADELPHIA — 2016 has not been a good year for the annual New Year’s Day Mummers Parade.

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The Postmodern Political Art of 1990s Mexico City

by Meredith Sellers December 9, 2015December 24, 2015

PHILADELPHIA — In the wake of major governmental ineffectiveness following a massive earthquake in 1985, artists in Mexico City began building a vibrant DIY arts movement and searching for less traditional modes of expression.

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