https://fjordspace.com FJORD Fri, 02 Oct 2026 17:10:00 +0000 https://fjordspace.com en https://fjordspace.com/Start Sun, 12 Nov 2023 15:25:00 +0000 FJORD https://fjordspace.com/Start <img width="2400" height="3000" width_o="2400" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/75e38424f8e345e75abf364ad7c5bdcfea6710afcebf7ce9379578fcf78a07c1/WickerPg1.jpg" data-mid="252831169" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/75e38424f8e345e75abf364ad7c5bdcfea6710afcebf7ce9379578fcf78a07c1/WickerPg1.jpg" /> https://fjordspace.com/Wicker-basket-and-a-short-knife Fri, 02 Oct 2026 15:12:26 +0000 FJORD https://fjordspace.com/Wicker-basket-and-a-short-knife Wicker basket and a short knife Melissa Joseph, Anne Minich, Jim Strong, Ezra Tessler 10 October - 14 November 2026 Opening Reception:Saturday, October 10, 6-9PM, 6-9pm Curated by Alexandria Nazar ︎ FJORD (1720 N 5th St G2) <img width="2400" height="3000" width_o="2400" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/61be548ed696d0e63a6ca636ac80db32902ccd51636f9981de7664c09a5eb633/WickerPg2.jpg" data-mid="252829369" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/61be548ed696d0e63a6ca636ac80db32902ccd51636f9981de7664c09a5eb633/WickerPg2.jpg" /> <img width="2400" height="3000" width_o="2400" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/674d8bf4dc33596d1206b32e75b494b7991eba61d3c76588051d7b4d226eada6/WickerPg1.jpg" data-mid="252829368" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/674d8bf4dc33596d1206b32e75b494b7991eba61d3c76588051d7b4d226eada6/WickerPg1.jpg" /> FJORD is pleased to present Wicker basket and a short knife, an exhibition of New York-based artists Melissa Joseph and Ezra Tessler and Philadelphia-based artists Anne Minich and Jim Strong. The title for this show comes from the last work of American poet Paul Zweig, whose depiction of foraging for mushrooms captures the raw, exuberant act of searching for and gathering what he calls “God’s litter.” The studio as a site of foraging is the main theme connecting these artists. But they are also linked by their exploration of craft, the overlap of painting and sculpture, and the blurred line between values of high and low. For Melissa Joseph, found objects and industrial fragments frame her needle-felted images based on photographs of friends and family. The resulting works reflect Joseph’s evolving sense of herself and the people, places, and forces that have shaped her. Anne Minich’s work, meanwhile, combines raw images from her own personal history with objects like shells and driftwood she either collects or is gifted. Her drawings and inlaid paintings allude to the aging body’s experience of pain and pleasure, connection and loss. In Jim Strong's paintings, assemblages of carved wood, inlaid antiques, ears and woven rattan become unexpected reliquaries for delicate images frozen in evaporated pigments.&nbsp; In eerie, earthen tones Strong creates devotional works which welcome the unknown. In contrast, Ezra Tessler’s shaped paintings clash with unfiltered color. Using handmade paper and collage, Tessler recycles failed efforts in the studio and cast-off materials, offering condensed panoramas of real and imagined worlds. These varied practices share an impulse to scavenge. In Zweig’s words, they search the forest for “those brown, perfect domes/With milky meat and fat stems bulging like barrels,” salvaging discarded objects and memories, scouring their archives, photo albums, studios, and surrounding streets. In doing so, they seek the wild and overlooked material of the world and repurpose it into the new and the unexpected. About the Artists: Melissa Joseph is a New York-based artist. Her work considers themes of memory, family history, and the politics of how we occupy spaces. She intentionally alludes to the labors of women as well as experiences as a second-generation American and the unique juxtapositions of diasporic life. Her work has been shown at the Brooklyn Museum, Delaware Contemporary, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, MOCA Arlington, ICA San Francisco, and List Gallery at Swarthmore College. She has been featured in Hyperallergic, Artforum, Artnet, Artnews, New American Paintings, WNYC, Le Monde, Vogue, CNN, Whitewall, Family Style, and has participated in residencies including Artpace, Dieu Donné Workspace Residency, The Textile Arts Center, BRIC, Fountainhead, the Archie Bray Foundation for Ceramic Arts, the Museum of Arts and Design, and Greenwich House Pottery. She is the recipient of the 2025 UOVO Prize by the Brooklyn Museum and a regular contributor to BOMB Magazine. https://www.melissajoseph.net/ IG:&nbsp;melissajoseph_artAnne Minich (b. West Chester, PA, 1934) attended Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts from 1953-54 then married in 1955 with the intention of giving up making art. She had three children, Stephen, Elizabeth, and Catherine. She resumed making art at the University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL. Afterwards she relocated to Weehawken, NJ, and NYC, then moved to Philadelphia, PA, where she presently maintains her studio and home. Her work has been in solo and group exhibitions in Miami, Atlanta, NYC, Philadelphia, Germany, and Italy, and has been written about in the New York Times, Bomb, Vulture,&nbsp;New York Magazine, the&nbsp;Philadelphia Inquirer, and elsewhere. Her work is in the collections of PAFA, Woodmere, the Hall Foundation, Fondazione Sanatelli, and numerous other institutions. anneminich.com IG:&nbsp;anne.minich Jim Strong is an artist and musician whose body of work spans painting, sculpture, musical instrument invention, performance, writing and publishing. He often merges these elements into works and environments to frame his faith, confusions, friendships and dreams. Strong has created site-specific work for the National Liberty Museum, The Philadelphia Flower Show, and Rhizome DC. He has exhibited at Vox Populi Gallery and Space 1026 in Philadelphia, Platform Project Space in New York City, The Center for New Music in San Francisco, CA and Hudson House in Hudson, NY. He has performed music and screened work internationally notably at RAUMERWEITERUNGSHALLE (Berlin-Friedrichshain), CPH:DOX (Copenhagen, DK), and Unrequited Leisure (Knoxville, TN).&nbsp; He operates the experimental music label COR ARDENS and organizes events and workshops in abandoned graveyards, school auditoriums, and exhibition spaces throughout the Philadelphia area. IG:&nbsp;jiim_strong Ezra Tessler is a New York-based artist. Recent solo presentations include Where the stress falls at AD Gallery (NYC, NY), Small Cottage at Hudson House (Hudson, NY), and An angle to the place I live in at Tops Gallery (Memphis, TN). His work has been included in group shows a Kate Werble Gallery (NYC, NY), The Green Gallery (Milwaukee, WI), The Landing (Los Angeles, CA), Jack Barrett Gallery (New York, NY), and MUPO (Oaxaca, MX), and has bee written about in The Brooklyn Rail, The New York Times, Artnet, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of a Jacob Javits Fellowship, a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, a Pforzheimer Foundation Fellowship, and has been an artist-in-residence at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, the Elizabeth Murray Foundation, Ox-Bow, Hewnoaks, and the Workspace Program at Dieu Donné. He will be an artist-in-residence this winter at Interlude in Livingston, NY. www.ezratessler.com IG:&nbsp;ezratessler https://fjordspace.com/Fjord-Prom Fri, 02 Oct 2026 17:10:00 +0000 FJORD https://fjordspace.com/Fjord-Prom Fjord Prom Natessa Amin, Anthony Bowers, charlotte g. chin greene, Lindsay Deifik, Sean FitzGerald, Anna Guarneri, Kyle Kogut, Doah Lee, Cameron Masters, Theo Mullen, Alexandria Nazar, Brice Peterson, Amira Pualwan, AJ Rombach, Chrissy Scolaro, Sean M. Starowitz, Todd Stong, Joy O. Ude, Seneca Weintraut, Katie Wynne 10 October - 14 November 2026 Opening Reception:Saturday, October 8 6 – 9pm, Closing Reception:November 12, 6–9PM Gallery Hours: Wed 6 – 9pm Thu 6 – 9pm Fri 12 – 9pm Sat 12 – 9pm Sun 12 – 6pm ︎Icebox Project Space 1400 N American St, Philadelphia, PA 19122 <img width="2250" height="2813" width_o="2250" height_o="2813" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/87731db441165b6f321aeee961555e8bf2141bf39cdc716d25a59f62cf3af7fd/fjordpromIG_2.jpg" data-mid="252833331" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/87731db441165b6f321aeee961555e8bf2141bf39cdc716d25a59f62cf3af7fd/fjordpromIG_2.jpg" /> <img width="2250" height="2813" width_o="2250" height_o="2813" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/415ca20744dcc21a09f6b5d02e1cebbb020c2b7f14f0c7a7b0be75074a15df8e/fjordpromIG_1.jpg" data-mid="252833330" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/415ca20744dcc21a09f6b5d02e1cebbb020c2b7f14f0c7a7b0be75074a15df8e/fjordpromIG_1.jpg" /> FJORD is pleased to present FJORD PROM at Icebox Mall. Since its origins as a studio and gallery space in May 2012, FJORD has changed its purpose, locations, membership, and even legal structure. Through all of these pivots and adaptations, FJORD has continued to thrive because of its dedicated members, past and present, who care deeply about supporting emerging artists, curating ambitious shows, fostering alternative discourses, contributing to the Philadelphia arts community and each other. To celebrate the people who have made these fourteen years of collaboration possible, past and current members have paired up to create new works in response to one another’s practices and their individual experiences with the collective. Join us as we celebrate fourteen years of FJORD with FJORD PROM! About Icebox Mall: Icebox Mall is a proud part of Collective Futures, is a six-week, citywide project activating Philadelphia’s network of artist-run spaces, DIY venues, and community-based initiatives. Icebox Project Space becomes. We have it all: Late hours (open till 9PM), a movie theatre (Errata Projects), a video rental store (VCR). Get your outfits ready for prom (FJORD) and go to a club revival (PEEP Projects). We may not have a DEB, Claire’s, or Hot Topic, but on Wednesdays, we have a food court (Salad Bar Wednesdays)! Free to enter. Loitering is encouraged. Inspired by the mall as a third space, a commons of collective experience, where you had your first kiss or hung out with your friends after school, Icebox Mall reimagines the familiar architectures of social life for collaborative cultural exchange. Similar to the interdependent, yet separate nature of businesses within a mall, Icebox Mall operates as the container to bring together 11 different projects by Batikh Batikh, Fjord, BYO Printmaking Collaborative, Termite TV Collective, Biomaterials Working Group, FORTUNE, Da Vinci Art Alliance, errata projects, PEEP Projects, All Mutable, and Icebox Project Space. About the Artists: Natessa Amin natessa.com IG: @natessa.amin Anthony Bowers anthonybowers.com IG: @anthonybowersart charlotte g. chin greene cgcg.online IG: @yesmacaroni Lindsay Deifik LindsayDeifik.com IG: @lindsayilene Sean FitzGerald portroadpottery.com IG: @seanrobertfitzgerald Anna Guarneri annaguarneri.com IG: @anna.guarneri Kyle Kogut kylekogut.com/ IG: @kylekogut Doah Lee doahlee.com IG: @doahlee.studio Cameron Masters IG: @beuys_ll_men Theo Mullen http://www.theomullen.net/ IG: @theo_mullen3 Alexandria Nazar alexandrianazar.com/ IG: @nazararts Brice Peterson bricepeterson.com IG: @brice_wp Amira Pualwan Ajrombach.com IG: @mirkat239 AJ Rombach https://ajrombach.com/ IG: @ajrombie Chrissy Scolaro IG: @chrissyscolaro Sean M. Starowitz https://www.sean-starowitz.com/ IG: @starowitzprojects Todd Stong https://www.toddstong.com/ IG: @toddstong Joy O. Ude joyoftextiles.com IG: @threadtheneedlephl Seneca Weintraut Senecaweintraut.com IG: @dead_horse_camp Katie Wynne katiewynne.com IG: @katieoooowynne https://fjordspace.com/Dawn-Chorus Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:15:25 +0000 FJORD https://fjordspace.com/Dawn-Chorus Dawn Chorus Abby Flanagan, Shona Macdonald, Frankie Modesto, Catherine Nelson, Anne C. Smith 22 August - 26 September 2026 Opening Reception: Saturday, August 22, 6-9pm Curated from our 2026 Open Call ︎ FJORD (1720 N 5th St G2) <img width="2700" height="3375" width_o="2700" height_o="3375" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/03c02b3a9a48a20facdf3977ac5981ef07822278911d63ad7b2f9c139e8ed615/DawnchorusAbby.jpg" data-mid="251400747" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/03c02b3a9a48a20facdf3977ac5981ef07822278911d63ad7b2f9c139e8ed615/DawnchorusAbby.jpg" /> <img width="2700" height="3375" width_o="2700" height_o="3375" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a7e5bdb9d53785258b416e5ee546c244aef5e9bc1d1dcd8099508124c9d29543/DawnchorusShona.jpg" data-mid="251400761" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a7e5bdb9d53785258b416e5ee546c244aef5e9bc1d1dcd8099508124c9d29543/DawnchorusShona.jpg" /> <img width="2700" height="3375" width_o="2700" height_o="3375" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/10e5579f672e7edd0fa0cef8ff06f36aca5cea4fa3335106715515afd3897f0d/DawnchorusFrankie.jpg" data-mid="251400755" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/10e5579f672e7edd0fa0cef8ff06f36aca5cea4fa3335106715515afd3897f0d/DawnchorusFrankie.jpg" /> <img width="2700" height="3375" width_o="2700" height_o="3375" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9395ff50fe7adcd79cedeac39e491fcb832f8cb045f7b66bf8ec55895cd8c2e2/DawnchorusCatherine.jpg" data-mid="251400751" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9395ff50fe7adcd79cedeac39e491fcb832f8cb045f7b66bf8ec55895cd8c2e2/DawnchorusCatherine.jpg" /> <img width="2700" height="3375" width_o="2700" height_o="3375" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2d9c3a73bb37a4272e61d5b2b6bd7c39cbeb93ce9d2e3eae2ff2032e330a0960/DawnchorusAnne.jpg" data-mid="251400749" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2d9c3a73bb37a4272e61d5b2b6bd7c39cbeb93ce9d2e3eae2ff2032e330a0960/DawnchorusAnne.jpg" /> FJORD is pleased to present Dawn Chorus, our 2026 Open Call exhibition bringing together the work of Abby Flanagan, Shona Macdonald, Frankie Modesto, Catherine Nelson, and Anne C. Smith. Each artist meditates on the natural world and how its melodies layer over and into our own, at times merging joyfully, more often into somber keys, and sometimes with a certain imprecise dissonance – but, above all, for each artist, with softness, piano, like humming, like fingers tapping. In Abby Flanagan's tract (Map &amp; Key) series, granular material — sand, plaster, soil, seed, bark, rust, ragweed — is poured into twin-wall polycarbonate panels and held in narrow vertical channels. The smaller works transcribe symbols taken from the key of a sedimentation map of the Edwards Aquifer in Central Texas; the larger panel reconstructs those symbols at scale, where they lose legibility. What remains is the residue of a system trying to describe ground it can only partially render, the map and the terrain drifting quietly out of agreement. Similarly, Catherine Nelson takes her material from riverbank clutter and industrial waterways, along with cues from mineral hues, local geology, lumber species, and fishing traps. She arranges made and found objects into vignettes that negotiate agency between hand and material, working with Osage orange, earth pigment, milk paint, and sunlight. Raised in Louisiana and attentive to toxicity and climate change, she turns toward the senses as a way of soothing grief both personal and shared. Working from found photographs and memory, Shona Macdonald draws smog, haze, wind, flooding, and submergence. She is drawn to the psychological freight carried by the language of weather forecasting, where a phrase like "deep lows" names a barometric condition and an interior world in the same breath. Meanwhile, Anne C. Smith attends to what persists through change, “how the same river shows up differently every day; how home expands beyond walls as it inhabits the body; how, as a mother, to make space from both order and chaos.” Her abstract drawings and screenprints propose horizon lines, delicate linear structures, and shapes that divide the plane into windows, skies, and grounds: points of looking and longing. Time appears as a cycle in Frankie Modesto's Gladly and Lightly Again — turning seasons, opening flowers, migratory birds arriving and departing — rendered in colored pencil and hung from a beech branch and twine as an homage to the balances and counterbalances of the natural world. Modesto’s drawings are, in his words, “my love letter to my home, and my bouquet of flowers to flowers themselves.” About the Artists: Abby Flanagan is an artist and educator based in Western Massachusetts. Her practice traces interconnections between environment and self, moving across drawing, sculpture, and installation to explore subjects of materiality, presence, and precarity. Flanagan completed a B.F.A. at Montana State University in 2015 followed by an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin in 2022. Her work has shown with galleries, art centers, and artist run projects such as shedshows in Austin (2024), North Loop in Williamstown (2023), NON STNDRD in St. Louis (2023), GrayDUCK in Austin (2023), Tinworks Art in Bozeman (2023), among others. She has participated in artist residencies at SOMA Summer in Veracruz, MX (2021), Orein Arts in Elmira, NY (2019), Burren College of Art Alumni Award Residency in County Clare IR (2016), and Mildred’s Lane in Narrowsburg, NY (2016). She has written for arts publications including Incandescent and served as visual art co-editor for the Bat City Review. She currently teaches Drawing in the Expanded Field at Amherst College.&nbsp; abbyflanagan.com Shona Macdonald was born in Scotland and is based in western Massachusetts. She received her MFA in 1996 in studio arts from the University of Illinois at Chicago and her BFA in 1992 from Glasgow School of Art in Scotland. Macdonald has exhibited widely and was a 2009 recipien of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation award. Selected artist residencies include UCross, Ragdale, VCCA, and Roswell (all USA); and Can Serrat (Spain), Massey University (New Zealand), and Ballinglen and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre (Ireland).shonamacdonald.com Frankie Modesto (b. 1999) is an artist from Chester County, PA currently living and working in Philadelphia. He received his BFA in painting and drawing from the Tyler School of Art in 2021.frankiemodesto.com Born in Louisiana and currently based in New Haven, Catherine Nelson is a visual artist working across media. She frequently uses wood, natural dyes, and metals, but her work often begins by processing landscapes through photography, drawing, and movement. She has exhibited internationally at venues including BronxArtSpace in New York, Redline Contemporary Art Center in Denver, AUTOMAT in Philadelphia, and Antenna Gallery in New Orleans. She has participated in artist residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Women’s Studio Workshop, and Denver Public Library's ideaLAB. She holds a BA from Duke University, a Post-Bacc Certificate from the Maryland Institute College of Art, and an MFA from the University of Connecticut.&nbsp; catherinetnelson.comAnne C. Smith is a visual artist from Washington, DC, whose work in drawing and screenprinting explores landscape, home, silence and imagination. Smith was a 2023 CARD Fellow, a collaborative program with the Phillips Collection, the Nicholson Project and DC Public Libraries. She earned an MFA in 2015 from George Mason University, where she studied printmaking and sculpture. She has taught classes and workshops at George Mason, the National Gallery of Art, Northern Virginia Community College and Pyramid Atlantic Art Center. She has participated in residencies at Washington Project for the Arts, the Kala Art Institute, and the Torpedo Factory Art Center. Smith’s work is found in private collections as well as the collections of the US State Department, Capital One, INOVA Hospital, and University of Maryland Global Campus. She is represented by Adah Rose Gallery in Kensington, MD.&nbsp; annecsmith.com https://fjordspace.com/Stoppage-Time Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:38:42 +0000 FJORD https://fjordspace.com/Stoppage-Time &lt;&lt;Stoppage Time&gt;&gt; Mariel Capanna, David Lefkowitz, Henry Rosenberg, Deb Sokolow and Robbie Trocchia and Chessa D. 27 June - 08 August 2026 Opening Reception: Saturday, June 27, 6-9pm Curated by Amira Pualwan ︎ FJORD (1720 N 5th St G2) <img width="2880" height="3600" width_o="2880" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cab1481c86162d397abeab21ff748fd6ccc47d4b0c00ae48678cb7e56f51600e/StoppageTime_PosterMain.jpg" data-mid="249433770" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cab1481c86162d397abeab21ff748fd6ccc47d4b0c00ae48678cb7e56f51600e/StoppageTime_PosterMain.jpg" /> <img width="4329" height="2437" width_o="4329" height_o="2437" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/74de0a61df4d006020bd1e3b9fd619fc6bb36bddbd2c34e5d3e396e7e4c47050/Transmission-Interruption--6.jpg" data-mid="249433895" border="0" alt="David Lefkowitz, Transmission Interruption #6, 2020, oil on canvas, 27&rdquo;x 48&rdquo; " data-caption="David Lefkowitz, Transmission Interruption #6, 2020, oil on canvas, 27”x 48” " src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/74de0a61df4d006020bd1e3b9fd619fc6bb36bddbd2c34e5d3e396e7e4c47050/Transmission-Interruption--6.jpg" /> <img width="3545" height="4786" width_o="3545" height_o="4786" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0b87dee80422c205f3f523e33ab44e7d0ecaace7d0eec4e0562f82596542116e/IMG_9829.jpeg" data-mid="249433901" border="0" alt="Henry Rosenberg, The Educated Team, 2026, color pencil on paper, 24&rdquo;x18&rdquo;" data-caption="Henry Rosenberg, The Educated Team, 2026, color pencil on paper, 24”x18”" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0b87dee80422c205f3f523e33ab44e7d0ecaace7d0eec4e0562f82596542116e/IMG_9829.jpeg" /> <img width="2880" height="1512" width_o="2880" height_o="1512" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/daf00df453f4ce5161b50dab98663389504f16dbbc055d6688be29d912e166c0/video-still-for-Fjord.png" data-mid="249433896" border="0" alt="Robbie Trocchia and Chessa D, Spot Kick, 2026, single-channel video with stereo sound and manipulated soccer goal" data-caption="Robbie Trocchia and Chessa D, Spot Kick, 2026, single-channel video with stereo sound and manipulated soccer goal" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/daf00df453f4ce5161b50dab98663389504f16dbbc055d6688be29d912e166c0/video-still-for-Fjord.png" /> <img width="6498" height="5112" width_o="6498" height_o="5112" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9d657c67eea8b74e155ee9be31a9b609cd04752379dbebb270c3432a73612420/06_The_Stadium_pg_1-2--.jpg" data-mid="249433894" border="0" alt="Deb Sokolow, The Stadium and the Global Body (page 1-2), 2026, graphite, acrylic, crayon, colored pencil, ink on paper, book board hard-cover, accordion fold: 9 x 6 x 1 inches (closed)" data-caption="Deb Sokolow, The Stadium and the Global Body (page 1-2), 2026, graphite, acrylic, crayon, colored pencil, ink on paper, book board hard-cover, accordion fold: 9 x 6 x 1 inches (closed)" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9d657c67eea8b74e155ee9be31a9b609cd04752379dbebb270c3432a73612420/06_The_Stadium_pg_1-2--.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1286" width_o="1500" height_o="1286" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c873c2f205ed52f44e5fc43b2a55c771d65c03928a819d643f252ed3204b0d03/Mariel.jpg" data-mid="249433897" border="0" alt="Mariel Capanna" data-caption="Mariel Capanna" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c873c2f205ed52f44e5fc43b2a55c771d65c03928a819d643f252ed3204b0d03/Mariel.jpg" /> FJORD is pleased to announce our soccer-themed summer exhibition: &lt;&lt;Stoppage Time&gt;&gt; curated by Amira Pualwan and featuring the work of Mariel Capanna, David Lefkowitz, Henry Rosenberg, Deb Sokolow and collaborative duo Robbie Trocchia and Chessa D. Unfolding in the periphery of the 2026 FIFA World Cup drama in Philadelphia and cities across North America, this exhibition uses soccer as a lens for examining the intertwined joy and pandemonium of sport and our humanity. What possibilities arise within the relationships between players, spectators and the spectacle, and during pauses in play? Mariel Capanna uses the ancient technique of fresco to convey a timeless frenzy: a city playing host to a disorienting global event. David Lefkowitz’s ongoing painting series Transmission Interruption matches the aspect ratio of flat screen TVs and faithfully replicates glitches occurring during past men's and women's World Cup broadcasts. Henry Rosenberg’s works on paper begin in observed encounters of players on the soccer pitch and end in whimsical, speculative tableaus. Deb Sokolow’s drawings and artist book The Stadium and the Global Body tap into the networks of profit and infrastructure of social manipulation underpinning large-scale sporting events. In their video piece Spot Kick, Robbie Trocchia and Chessa D embody various players during a penalty shootout, staging tensions between their characters with an absurdist aesthetic sensibility. At its core, soccer is simple; a field, a ball, a net, and two teams. As with art, the plot thickens once viewers are involved. Stoppage time is the term for accrued minutes added to each half of a soccer match by a referee that account for various pauses in active play. Within the gallery, it becomes a thematic launching point for spatial and temporal imaginaries to occur.&nbsp; Later in the summer, a collaborative zine will be published which gathers selected works from the exhibition with visual and written contributions from twelve more artists– release date TBA.&nbsp; &nbsp; About the Artists: About the Artists: Mariel Capanna is a Philadelphia-based artist and educator who explores the relationship between painting and time. She has been an artist in residence at the Guapamacátaro Art and Ecology Residency in Michoacan, MX; the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, ME; and at the Tacony Library and Arts Building, Philadelphia, PA. Capanna is the recipient of the Robert Schoelkopf Memorial Traveling Fellowship and an Independence Foundation Visual Arts Fellowship. From 2021-2023, Capanna was the Mellon Post-MFA Fellow in Studio Art at Williams College, Williamstown, MA and is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA. Her Matrix exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, is currently on view. marielcapanna.com&nbsp; IG: @marieljoan David Lefkowitz is an artist and educator based in Northfield, Minnesota whose work explores the blurry boundary between the human-built environment and the natural world. He has been a Professor of Art teaching painting and drawing at Carleton College since 1997, and is represented in several collections, including the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Langen Foundation in Neuss, Germany, and the Perez Art Museum in Miami, FL. davidlefkowitz.net&nbsp; IG: @david_lefkowitz_art Henry Rosenberg is an artist and curator, based in New York. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including a recent solo exhibition at A365 Gallery. His work is held in numerous public and private collections, including the permanent collections of the South African Jewish Museum (Cape Town) and The Fabric Workshop and Museum (Philadelphia). His professional experience spans both scholarly and technical printmaking environments, including positions with the Department of Drawings and Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Lower East Side Printshop, and Marginal Editions. henrydavidrosenberg.com&nbsp; IG: @hen_pen_ &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Deb Sokolow, based in Chicago, Illinois, is Associate Professor of Instruction in the department of Art Theory &amp; Practice at Northwestern University. Her drawings, books and installations have been included in the 4th Athens Biennale, the 5th Chicago Architecture Biennial and in exhibitions at Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The Drawing Center, Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, and Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, among many others.&nbsp; A short documentary on Sokolow’s art practice recently premiered at the MCA Chicago as part of 4×4: Contemporary Art in Chicago, a new annual series of four short documentaries about Chicago-based artists, filmed by Chicago-based filmmakers and produced by Pentimenti Productions. debsokolow.com&nbsp; IG: @debsokolow Robbie Trocchia and Chessa D are multidisciplinary artists primarily working in performance, video, sound, and installation. Their projects, which take a playful and inquisitive approach to athletics, have been exhibited at Locust Projects and UNTITLED Art Fair (Miami), The Lab (San Francisco), Colgate University (Hamilton, NY), and INVERSE Performance Art Festival at The Momentary (Bentonville, AR). robbietrocchia.com&nbsp; IG: @robbie.trocchia https://fjordspace.com/XYZ-ACCESS Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:48:43 +0000 FJORD https://fjordspace.com/XYZ-ACCESS XYZ ACCESS Logan Elise Crompton, Jocelyn Tsui, &amp; Ryan Scails,&nbsp; 5/9 - 6/13 Opening Reception: Saturday, May 9th, 6-9pm Curated by&nbsp;Sean M. Starowitz&nbsp; ︎ FJORD (1720 N 5th St G2) <img width="1728" height="2304" width_o="1728" height_o="2304" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2f5a5a80b51d61d5ef4dcf0a95edf4a925e6f62e94c817c215a769839f151692/Copy-of-Exhibitions-Poster-Template.png" data-mid="247715200" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2f5a5a80b51d61d5ef4dcf0a95edf4a925e6f62e94c817c215a769839f151692/Copy-of-Exhibitions-Poster-Template.png" /> This May, FJORD is excited to announce XYZ Access, featuring work by Logan Elise Crompton, Jocelyn Tsui and Ryan Scails. This exhibition was curated by Sean M. Starowitz from the FJORD 2025 Open Call submissions and runs May 9th to June 13th 2026. Taking inspiration from perforation logic and the doubling of perception, XYZ Access explores how we navigate boundaries between the body and the spaces it occupies within physical and digital realities. By employing the grid as a framework for recording the familiar, the artists reveal underlying patterns within our domestic and digital lives, suggesting that what often feels like chance is, in fact, deeply structural. Distilling the complexities of 21st-century life into a series of coordinates through image, print and sculpture, XYZ Access invites viewers to look at their own surroundings with a renewed sense of curiosity. Compton utilizes grids as a primary tool for mapping and charting the recurring imagery of immediate life. Tsui's work investigates the geopolitical perforation of space and place, such as the infamous Kowloon Walled City. Scails’ work embodies thresholds in physical forms, interrogating access and the pursuit of empirical knowledge. The community is invited for an opening reception Saturday May 9th from 6-9pm. FJORD is open 1-5pm on Saturdays and by appointment. To schedule an appointment please email fjord.curator@gmail.com. About the Artists: Logan Crompton [b. 2000, Kansas City, MO] is a Black, post-post-internet artist based in Philadelphia, PA. Logan, as an artist, is concerned with Black corporeal and immaterial realities, Black image and the internet, and protection and reclamation of said image. Logan considers the recurring throughlines of African spiritual systems of belief, and reappropriation and reclamation as it appears within their life and practice. Their work explores said themes through mythmaking, memes, magic, matrixes, algorithms, and repetition as mantra. Logan received their BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in Painting and Art History and their MFA in Painting from Tyler School of Art and Architecture. They were previously a Mellon Curatorial Fellow at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art and an AXA art prize finalist. Logan currently works as a Teaching Artist, educating both at the university and elementary level at Temple University and Coco Academy respectively.https://log3y.neocities.org/ &nbsp;Jocelyn Tsui (b. 2002, Hong Kong) is an artist and printmaker that explores the fluctuating dynamics of ‘print-as-body-as-machine’ as modular yet united forms. Through technologies of the press, the printer, the fold, the software, the knife, she pursues ways in which the terms of production and labor can be redefined through scale-shifts of time. Tsui has been an artist-in-residence at Kala Art Institute, In Cahoots Press, and Directangle Press and has exhibited in shows including at The National Arts Club, NY (2024), A.I.R. Gallery, NY (2025), 10 Chancery Lane, HK (2025), and FJORD Gallery, PA (2026). She completed her BFA in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design, and is currently an MFA in Painting / Printmaking candidate at Yale School of Art.https://www.jocelynhyt.com/ Ryan Scails (b.1987) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Southwestern Connecticut. He received a BFA from Cooper Union and his MFA in Fibers &amp; Material Studies at Tyler School of Art and Architecture. His most recent exhibitions include The Frequency at Brood Works (Brooklyn, NY), RAW at Eric Firestone Gallery (New York, NY), To Prepare A Place For You at Temple Contemporary (Philadelphia, PA), Martin's End at Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Philadelphia, PA). Ryan has attended residencies at MASSMoCA, Textile Arts Center - Brooklyn, and the John Michael Kohler Arts Center Arts/Industry program. https://www.ryanscails.com/ https://fjordspace.com/In-pursuit-of-a-drifting-rear-view Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:26:23 +0000 FJORD https://fjordspace.com/In-pursuit-of-a-drifting-rear-view In pursuit of a drifting rear view a collaborative exhibition Ava Hassinger, Christina Kerns 21 March - 25 April 2026 Opening Reception: Saturday, March 21, 6-9pm&nbsp; Curated by Natessa Amin ︎ FJORD (1720 N 5th St G2) &nbsp;<img width="3300" height="5100" width_o="3300" height_o="5100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b2e2731badd250a0a5ee99022ca98c104fa537a02b8ff7eaeef3e6749ae780e9/Inpursuitofadriftingrearview3.jpg" data-mid="246273956" border="0" data-scale="70" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b2e2731badd250a0a5ee99022ca98c104fa537a02b8ff7eaeef3e6749ae780e9/Inpursuitofadriftingrearview3.jpg" /> In pursuit of a drifting rear view begins with a shared departure—an impulse to move outward and travel the road into diverse landscapes. The photographs in this exhibition were made during a road trip taken by Ava Hassinger and Christina Kerns in May 2025. Much of their drive was spent traveling across the American interior, exploring the landscape, memories and a sense of drift. The exhibition presents an installation of images of various scales as they gather into an immersive field where perspectives pool and overlap without settling into a single view. As distance accumulates, perception begins to shift. Landscapes change, time compresses and stretches, and attention flickers between what lies ahead and what is already receding. The accompanying text extends this structure, moving between the artists’ voices in a back-and-forth that echoes the layering of images in the gallery. What emerges is a record of a shared physical experience felt, and therefore seen, differently. Together, image and language hold possibilities open—spaces where memory, place, and perception continue to shift long after their return home. – Natessa Amin, Curator - Fjord Gallery The land transitions from lush green to sweet brown, cinnamon ash. Sometimes it is red or burnt umber. Sometimes it is white or yellow. It is dry. It is hot. Is this the edge of civilization? The front of the car and windshield are matted with bugs. Naturally, because there is so much driving, the road becomes redundant. The mind wanders - highway hypnosis. We listen to music or some audiobook to pass the time. With the coastline now behind us, a quiet unease feels present. . The sky opens up in Oklahoma, but the world becomes flat- sort of. It gets flatter as you go west. Then mountains appear. Our burning eyes adjusted to the dry heat around 2000 miles into the trip, somewhere between New Mexico and Arizona. We were far enough away from home to drift in the liminal space between our thoughts and the unfamiliar landscape. Looking out through the windshield, our focus softened to glance in the rear view, and ahead again. Another luggage cart overflowing with camera bags, tripods and suitcases, continental breakfast, refuel, shoot, click click click, download, charge, gas station snacks, water, audiobook, silence, cruise control, new time zone. What time is sunset here? If you are facing north, there is a part along the Grand Canyon that looks like it repeats infinitely-a Droste effect in rock. A most majestic abyss. It might be altitude sickness or just general delirium from traveling - our sense of self begins to slip. We are time-traveling: first forward, then backward- wandering, and getting lost. We find a black widow spider hibernating in the grill. I think every hole in the desert ground are homes for snakes ready to leap out and bite. We unwind in the Airbnb hot tub, watching “Satellites?” cascade in unison across the night sky, wondering if this is it. The aliens have finally come to take us. We drove together on the same road, two women from Oklahoma and New York. Our disparate histories reflected on the landscape. Once in a while our lenses converged on the same voids and mounds surfacing the country: Memphis, OKC, Roswell, Sedona, Joshua Tree, Vegas, Moab... Memories floated in and out of our consciousness as we created new ones, attempting to make the juncture tangible through a photograph. You are drawn to the landscape while I gravitate to the constructed. You to natural vibrancy, and me, the artificial. On occasion, the definition becomes indistinguishable. About the Artists: Ava Hassinger’s interdisciplinary practice joins photography, video, and sculpture to explore the relationship between the body, technology, and screen-based experiences. Her work has been featured in exhibitions including Composed Matter at FJORD, Philadelphia; Slow Burn at the John H. Baker Gallery, West Chester University; Extra Parts at Good Children Gallery, New Orleans; and Descent at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia. Hassinger is an Assistant Professor of Visual Art at Lincoln University, where she teaches courses in graphic design, branding, and professional art practice seminars. She holds a BFA in Photography and Imaging from New York University and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. https://avahassingerresearch.cargo.site/ Christina Kerns is a photographic artist working with alternative printing techniques, net art, and printed matter. She received her BFA in Photography with a minor in Art History from Pratt Institute and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from the University of Pennsylvania, PennDesign. She has presented solo exhibitions at The University of South Carolina, Marshall University, Lyon College, and Hope College, where she was the 2024 Borgeson Artist-in-Residence. Her work has also been exhibited in two-person and group exhibitions nationally and internationally. Kerns’s work explores the role of photography in constructing and preserving personal identity. Her work often references the translation from virtual to physical space through material gestures. She is currently an Associate Professor at Lincoln University, PA, and lives and works in Philadelphia. https://www.christinakerns.com/ https://fjordspace.com/Diorama-of-a-Sunrise-Setting Wed, 28 Jan 2026 23:36:05 +0000 FJORD https://fjordspace.com/Diorama-of-a-Sunrise-Setting Diorama of a Sunrise Setting Zach Hill 31 January - 07 March 2026 Opening Reception: Saturday, January 31, 6-9pm ︎ FJORD (1720 N 5th St G2) <img width="5000" height="3336" width_o="5000" height_o="3336" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d8a94efa1e6b25e0c4e3d029a0dae66af7f6c42367fa852553d4f442ca4c1c9a/SmileyFaceCockerSpanielw_200Eyes_2024.jpg" data-mid="244118900" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d8a94efa1e6b25e0c4e3d029a0dae66af7f6c42367fa852553d4f442ca4c1c9a/SmileyFaceCockerSpanielw_200Eyes_2024.jpg" /> <img width="3700" height="3800" width_o="3700" height_o="3800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b7084e0244b1f1ecd928192fd3cb65a18407670d086b95b5dc7a28929b2498b7/diorama.jpg" data-mid="244118897" border="0" data-scale="91" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b7084e0244b1f1ecd928192fd3cb65a18407670d086b95b5dc7a28929b2498b7/diorama.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0dc033261c632c06664bff449b4f023abecc109d9ca1b7ad48bc47f664a17c1f/IMG_7172.JPG" data-mid="244118898" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0dc033261c632c06664bff449b4f023abecc109d9ca1b7ad48bc47f664a17c1f/IMG_7172.JPG" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/87e0911811dfa9b30bc26ed84112621f239ea052f4fae7a9866c2acc34df43d5/first-image_.JPG" data-mid="244118899" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/87e0911811dfa9b30bc26ed84112621f239ea052f4fae7a9866c2acc34df43d5/first-image_.JPG" /> Through formal and material abstractions, Hill presents a scene with its toes confidently grounded on the edge of a cliff. Using drawing as point of origin to create multidimensional works that play with material identity, visual perception, and speculative utility, he hones a queer logic of assemblage to anthropomorphize various devices, infrastructures, and iconography. Like any proper diorama, this exhibition depicts landscape, the human figure, animality, and implements, all blurred through a literal giant lens. A sunrise setting is not only a refusive action, but a time and place that is frozen in the infinite blue, orange and pink of a shifting horizon line. About the Artist: Zach Hill is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and curator working between sculpture, drawing, and moving image. He has been awarded the Mary L. Nohl Fellowship, a Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship, two Illuminate the Arts Grants, and a Ruth Arts Mary L. Nohl Alumni Award along with a full fellowship to Vermont Studio Center and has attended other residencies such as Bunker Projects, Elsewhere Museum, and Stove Works. His work has been exhibited at The Haggerty Museum of Art, Flux Factory on Governors Island, The Luminary, Co-Prosperity, Peep Projects, Grizzly Grizzly, All Street Gallery, and VisArts among other spaces. He has also created nightlife visuals for various queer parties such as Sonidero, Virtues, and LYLAS and has completed multiple sculptural commissions for Honcho Campout. Hill holds a BFA from the Milwaukee Institute of Art &amp; Design, an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at Haverford College, teaching sculpture and drawing. Zach Hill is currently based in Philadelphia, PA. https://zach-hill.com/ https://fjordspace.com/Conversation-with-a-Stone Tue, 09 Dec 2025 01:29:46 +0000 FJORD https://fjordspace.com/Conversation-with-a-Stone Conversation with a Stone Ruth Jeyaveeran, Esther Podemski 6 December 2025 - 17 January 2026 Opening Reception: Saturday, December 6, 6-9pm Curated by Todd Stong ︎ FJORD (1720 N 5th St G2) <img width="1000" height="1333" width_o="1000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a496934f7bfb7e4e46c606125dc51b97235fc730a8e4e47283977edfb70a4113/Show-Poster-1.jpg" data-mid="241582739" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a496934f7bfb7e4e46c606125dc51b97235fc730a8e4e47283977edfb70a4113/Show-Poster-1.jpg" /> FJORD is pleased to present Conversation with a Stone, an exhibition of Brooklyn-based artists Ruth Jeyaveeran and Esther Podemski, curated by Todd Stong. The exhibition borrows its title from Wislawa Szymborska’s poem, in which a speaker repeatedly asks a stone for entrance. Each time, the stone refuses: “‘You shall not enter,’ the stone says./ ‘You lack the sense of taking part./ No other sense can make up for your missing sense of taking part. / Even sight heightened to become all-seeing / will do you no good without a sense of taking part.’” The poem stages a paradox: the desire to enter where entry is withheld, and the persistence of that desire despite the certainty of refusal. “‘Go away,’ says the stone. / ‘I’m shut tight / Even If you break me to pieces, / we still won’t let you in.’” Broken in half, a stone is not entered; it is made into two. Both Podemski and Jeyaveeran evoke stone—and the unknown—in different registers and degrees of explicitness. In her Wooly Cairns, Jeyaveeran intuitively builds boulder-like forms from wire and plaster, then encases and stacks them in felted wool, each layer carrying the residue of her touch. The cairn becomes a marker of passage and presence, a gesture of community among travelers who may never meet. Other works engage stone directly: wool cords descend from the ceiling and tether hollow felted forms to rocks at their base. These suspended shapes, suggestive of branches, seedpods, shells, or vertebrae, respond to gravity, tension, and drift, moving like things that have lived alongside the natural world even when their cores have long been removed. In many of Podemski’s geometric abstractions, a recurring oval, smooth, dark, and stone-like, anchors the composition but never resolves into a single meaning. It derives partly from tantric painting, where such forms serve as sites of contemplation or cosmological orientation. But another source for Podemski’s imagery lies in distorted screenshots captured from color-correction software while she edited her 2011 documentary The Peasant and the Priest. The film follows two elderly Italian men—one resisting corporate agriculture, the other ministering to trafficked women—whose lives intersect with opaque global systems of labor, migration, and precarity. Podemski manipulates these screenshots, then screenprints them directly onto panel, using their digital artifacts as scaffolding. She paints over and through these printed architectures until the compositions evoke airports, stadiums, mapping interfaces: spaces shaped by forces far larger than the individuals moving through them. Neither artist seeks a singular truth. Jeyaveeran wraps and massages wool with warm water and soap until fibers interlock, threading yarn through surfaces as if drawing across terrain. The resulting lines suggest veins, migration routes, and geologies—a mapping not of place but of pressure, history, and the felt sense of distance. Podemski’s hard-edge abstractions emerge from images already mediated, already strained through documentary practice. She builds spaces that hold multiple temporalities at once, where a line might shift scale abruptly—a boundary becoming a conduit, a conveyor, a horizon. Conversation with a Stone returns, quietly, to Szymborska’s image: a stone addressed, entreated, turned in the hand, never opened. The works of Jeyaveeran and Podemski rest at that threshold, shaped by touch, labor, and the desire to approach what cannot be fully entered. Their forms linger at the surface, not resigned, but in recognition that the surface is where the world meets us. About the Artists: Ruth Jeyaveeran, born in Lusaka, Zambia, and raised in the Midwest, lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Her first solo show, Soft Remains, was exhibited at Field Projects in 2023. Other recent exhibitions include Felt Experience at the Brattleboro Museum, Communion, a solo installation at Main Window Dumbo, and Amplify, a public sculpture at the Queens Botanical Garden. Jeyaveeran has exhibited at various venues in and around New York, including Smack Mellon, All Street Gallery, ABC No Rio, Westbeth Gallery, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, The Border Project, Paradice Palase, Bronx Art Space, The Yard, and the Art and Design Gallery at FIT. Her work has been featured in Two Coats of Paint, The Arcade Project, and Art Spiel. She has been awarded residencies from the Ucross Foundation, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council on Governors Island,&nbsp; Residency Unlimited, Lighthouse Works, Marble House Project, Jentel Foundation, Willapa Bay, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and PADA Studios. Jeyaveeran has taught courses in textiles and fibers at Parsons School of Design, and she frequently leads workshops on felting and the therapeutic benefits of craft. Currently, she is an Associate Professor of Textile Design at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Esther Podemski is a filmmaker and visual artist whose work has been exhibited in galleries, film festivals, and academic venues. Paintings and drawings have appeared at the Jersey City Museum, the Portland Art Museum, the Jewish Museum (Portland), as well as galleries in New York and other cities, both nationally and internationally. Her work is included in private and public collections. Grants include the New York State Council on the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, the Soros Foundation, the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, the Yaddo Residency, The Virgina Center for the Creative Arts, and Ucross Residency programs. She has taught fine arts graduate and undergraduate courses at Parsons School of Design in New York, Pacific Northwest College of Art, and Sarah Lawrence College. Of her work in film, a two-screen installation titled “Five Days in July,” revisits the Newark riots of 1967. This installation has shown at numerous museums, galleries and colleges including The Tisch School of Art at NYU, The Birmingham Civil Rights Museum and The Sate Museum in Trenton New Jersey. It won the Director’s Choice award at the Black Maria Film Festival and the Jury Award for the Best Short at The Langston Hughes African American Film Festival.&nbsp; “House of the World,” her documentary about the aftermath of the Holocaust, was shot in Poland and has been showcased in European and American art centers and festivals, including Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, Lincoln Center, and Los Angeles International Jewish Film Festival. Discovery Communication and Jewish Broadcast Network purchased the film for broadcast.Her most recent documentary, The Peasant and the Priest, tells the story of two men in their eighties who are engaged in traditional occupations in modern day Italy. Sergio, a peasant, still works in ancient olive groves; Oreste, a priest, ministers to women caught in global sexual slavery. The point of departure for exploring these parallel lives is a 14th century fresco, The Allegory of Good and Bad Government, by Ambrogio Lorenzetti. https://fjordspace.com/Foul-Territory Sat, 11 Oct 2025 13:14:38 +0000 FJORD https://fjordspace.com/Foul-Territory Foul Territory Alexandria Nazar, Amira Pualwan, Sean M. Starowitz 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) <img width="2947" height="3869" width_o="2947" height_o="3869" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5f2112b3519ca444748af0628573d841e8d7828a55157e16b29d682ebf1880e8/FoulTerritoryweb.jpg" data-mid="239266675" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5f2112b3519ca444748af0628573d841e8d7828a55157e16b29d682ebf1880e8/FoulTerritoryweb.jpg" /> <img width="1846" height="1030" width_o="1846" height_o="1030" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a62911fa274f11a137c1535a62db763b22c2542e21db68a3b1ef8d0332bb6217/Screenshot-2025-10-11-at-9.36.44AM.png" data-mid="239268175" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a62911fa274f11a137c1535a62db763b22c2542e21db68a3b1ef8d0332bb6217/Screenshot-2025-10-11-at-9.36.44AM.png" /> <img width="1462" height="2047" width_o="1462" height_o="2047" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bb0cfb494ada129e99770798105895b4850b01010d88d255c6e214b8d54729d2/5809202368717238834.JPG" data-mid="239268177" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bb0cfb494ada129e99770798105895b4850b01010d88d255c6e214b8d54729d2/5809202368717238834.JPG" /> <img width="2400" height="1728" width_o="2400" height_o="1728" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9ecffca2380c02aeaeab7e3930ceaef77033dac0b36217290346c55c874bc0da/IMG_9808.JPG" data-mid="239268178" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9ecffca2380c02aeaeab7e3930ceaef77033dac0b36217290346c55c874bc0da/IMG_9808.JPG" /> 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:&nbsp; Sean M. Starowitz Untitled (A Study After Washington) detail 2025 slip-cast ceramic&nbsp; variable sizes Alexandria Nazar penalties of espionage&nbsp; 2025 oil on canvas 48 x 40 in Amira Pualwan Sea Wall (Running Spiral)&nbsp; 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.comAmira 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. &nbsp;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