OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, January 27, 5:30-8pm
The Galleries at Moore College of Art & Design
20th Street & The Parkway, Philadelphia, PA
January 28 - March 17, 2012
Doing Time / Depth of Surface is an exhibition being presented at The Galleries at Moore College of Art & Design and includes work produced during a seven-week residency by Spanish artists Patricia Gómez and María
Jesús González. The artists, neither of whom
has exhibited previously in the U.S., have a collaborative practice grounded in art conservation; utilizing a modified version of a technique known as strappo, they work primarily to preserve the surfaces of buildings—the veritable “skin of architecture”—by detaching
a wall’s paint with glues and fabric and transferring that surface paint, in its entirety,
to a new canvas. In Philadelphia, they will work
at the now abandoned Holmesburg Prison
before it is demolished, creating large-format “printings” of drawings, paintings, and graffiti
left by former inmates on the walls.
Watch the livestream of the gallery installation in progress!