Foul Territory
11 October - 22 November 2025
Opening Reception:
Saturday, October 11, 6-9pm
Curated by Alexandria Nazar, Amira Pualwan, Sean M. Starowitz
︎ FJORD (1720 N 5th St G2)
Opening Reception:
Saturday, October 11, 6-9pm
Curated by Alexandria Nazar, Amira Pualwan, Sean M. Starowitz
︎ FJORD (1720 N 5th St G2)
FJORD presents a three-person show with works by new co-directors Alexandria Nazar, Amira Pualwan and Sean M. Starowitz. The artworks move across arenas of history, sport and myth to probe how images shape collective identity and personal perception. We ask what it means to watch, to be watched and to resist capture. Being through invisibility, transformation, or the undoing of power itself – the flattening of image and reduction to “stone”
Images:
Sean M. Starowitz
Untitled (A Study After Washington) detail
2025
slip-cast ceramic
variable sizes
Alexandria Nazar
penalties of espionage
2025
oil on canvas
48 x 40 in
Amira Pualwan
Sea Wall (Running Spiral)
2025
ceramic screenprint on tile
43 x 30 in
About the Artists:
Alexandria Nazar is a painter and curator in Philadelphia. She received her MFA Painting and Drawing from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, her BA in Fines Arts and History from UC Davis. She was co-curator for the show Testing Grounds at the Cherry Street Pier in Philadelphia, PA. She has previously shown her work at the Temple Contemporary in Philadelphia, PA, Information Space in Philadelphia, PA, the Dorchester Art Project in Boston, MA, Fowler-Kellogg Art Center in Chautauqua, NY, Onkel Olga’s Atelier Odense, Denmark and Gæsteatelier Hollufgård in Odense, Denmark. She has also attended residencies at the Pine Meadows Artist Residency, the Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency, MASS MOCA in North Adams, MA and the Chautauqua School of Art in Chautauqua, NY.
alexandrianazar.com
Amira Pualwan is an artist and educator based in Philadelphia, PA. She received an MFA in Printmaking from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University, and a BA in Studio Art from Wheaton College (MA). Pualwan has completed residencies at Highpoint Center for Printmaking, the Minnesota Center for Book Arts and the Women's Studio Workshop Beisinghoff Residency. Recently, Pualwan's work has been included in group exhibitions at Automat in Philadelphia and Wassaic Project in Amenia, NY. She is currently the Dayton Hudson Visiting Artist at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota.
afpprints.com
Sean M. Starowitz has worked in a variety of community-based contexts, spanning more than a decade of socially engaged art practice. He uses archival research and public memory as material to reframe our current understanding of natural history and political imaginaries. Starowitz has exhibited his work at Living Arts of Tulsa, KMAC Museum, and the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, as well as numerous artist-run spaces. He has contributed writings to Proximity Magazine, Ruckus Journal and Belt Magazine. In 2023, Starowitz received his MFA in Sculpture from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture. He currently lives and works in Philadelphia, PA, and spends his summers teaching at the Kentucky Governor’s School for the Arts in Lexington, KY.
sean-starowitz.com