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Pepon Osorio: Trials and Turbulence

January 27-April 10, 2005
Pepón Osorio’s provocative installation transformed MOCA's Project Gallery into a Family Courtroom. Trials and Turbulence culminates Osorio’s three-year Artist-in-Residence at the Philadelphia Department of Human Services (DHS) . Osorio’s exploration of the  DHS takes the form of a Family Courtroom, where a young adult confronts the judge who placed her in the foster care system. Using mixed-media and video projection, the work became hyper-real in an effort to portray the delicate balance between private life and public policy. Read more on the exhibition introduction panel.   …

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Pepon Osorio: Trials and Turbulence
Pepón Osorio at MOCA.

Family Matters 1 & 2

January 27-April 10, 2005
In his first solo museum exhibition, Jason Hanasik’s Family Matters 1 and 2 documents in photographs his own personal reconstructed family history, an emotional project which he has been nurturing over several years. Enlisted members of his biological family and his adopted family from the gay community are featured in portraits and their images relenquish statements about their individual identities and family structure. This experimental arena quietly reveals the effects of socio-economic class, organizations of power within the family and the social structues and separation of gender and sexuality. Read more in the exhibition introduction panel or gallery guide. …

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Family Matters 1 & 2
Jason Hanasik at MOCA.

Maxwell MacKenzie: Tobacco Barns

January 27-April 10, 2005
This exhibition contained the spectacular architectural photographs by Maxwell MacKenzie. More than 70 images are featured, focusing on the abandoned ruins of tobacco barns erected in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in America. The project photographs old tobacco barns before their inevitable abandonment and eventual ruin. With the clear threat to the way of life of the tobacco farmers, there is an urgent need to preserve, at least on film, these varied treasures in their rich environments. MacKenzie’s photographs will serve as a reference for the next generation of architects and historians. Read more in the exhibition introduction panel. …

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Maxwell MacKenzie: Tobacco Barns
Maxwell MacKenzie at MOCA.

Markings

January 27-April 10, 2005
Markings continues Maxwell MacKenzie’s exploration of man’s impact on the natural world. This abstract landscape work focuses on textural, map-like representations of earth. Black & white photographs of markings on tree trunks document patterns of carvings, scratches, initials and private messages, now fused into the scarred bark. MacKenzie’s color aerial views observe the geometric patterns and tracks made by farm machinery. Read more from the exhibition introduction panel. …

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Markings
Maxwell MacKenzie at MOCA.

EYE CANDY: Works by Clay McGlamory

November 18, 2004-January 16, 2005
Clay McGlamory’s dynamic use of ink, acrylic panels and light result in works that push the limits of stimulating viewers’ optic nerves. These luminous woks, combined with kaleidoscopic prints, are an exciting experience in modular photographic imagery. Using backlighting further heightens luminosity, and modular multiplicity helps extend size and scale, thereby enhancing the visual. Read more in the exhibition gallery guide. …

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EYE CANDY: Works by Clay McGlamory
Clay McGlamory at MOCA.