Biographies: Philadelphia Narratives

March 20 - April 25, 1999


Installation view. Photo: Gregory Benson.
This exhibition continued ICA's commitment to exhibiting artists from the surrounding region and featured artists whose work dealt with biography and autobiography. The show underscores the depth and range of the visual arts community in Philadelphia by including artists of several generations who work in different media. Included were photographer Don Camp, painters Sarah McEneaney and Marilyn Holsing, fiber artist Bhakti Ziek, and filmmakers Michael O'Reilly and Shashwati Talukdar.

Biographies also explored a profound development in contemporary art that is occurring nationally and internationally, as well as regionally: the shift from conceptual art and abstraction to a more personal, diaristic, or narrative approach.

Curator: Judith Tannenbaum


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