Material Time
October, 2023 - January 2024
Rotational Exhibits
Park Towne Place Museum District Residences is uniquely situated on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway among the city of Philadelphia’s most cherished art and cultural institutions. The vision for the community is to fully integrate Park Towne Place into the fabric of the Parkway –providing a unique art experience for residents and visitors alike.
In addition to the permanent art collection on display, rotational exhibits like Material Time showcase both established and up-andcoming artists. Each exhibit includes companion educational and social opportunities to visit with artists who host talks and provide insights on their original works.
The award-winning art program at Park Towne Place is presented by AIR Communities, one of the largest owners of apartment homes in Philadelphia. For more information about AIR, please visit our website at www.aircommunities.com.
All rotational artworks are available for purchase. Inquiries for purchases can be directed to Clare Finin at clare@inliquid.org
Jazmyn Crosby
Time Capsules I - IV, 2021
Fake rock, audio, contractual document
Dimensions variable
$3,250
Jazmyn Crosby
Jazmyn Crosby is an interdisciplinary artist whose work investigates transmission and the environment. Born and raised in New Mexico, Crosby lives in Philadelphia, PA. She received her MFA from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Philadelphia, PA and her BFA from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM. Crosby is an educator, an event facilitator, and a musician. She is a founding member of Graft Collective and is a current member at Practice Gallery. She currently teaches at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture and Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA, and at the University of Delaware, Newark, DE.
Crosby has exhibited her work through group and solo exhibitions nationally and internationally, including at the Anderson Abruzzo International Balloon Museum and 516 Arts in Albuquerque, NM; Center for the Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, CA; Able Arts, Long Beach, CA; Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Icebox Project Space and Cherry Street Pier, Philadelphia, PA; and Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, Prague, CZ. Crosby has received residencies and awards through Concordia University’s Conversations in Contemporary Art, Pink Noise Projects, the Fulcrum Fund, and SOMOS ABQ. She is currently InLiquid’s 40th Parallel North Preservation Brigade Artist Ambassador in collaboration with Rabbit Recycling.
Jazmyn Crosby
Salt Studies, 2023
Found salt, bottles, shakers, found materials
Dimensions variable
NFS
Jazmyn Crosby
“I am an interdisciplinary artist focused on transmission practices, discarded objects, and my environment. My work takes form as sound, video, painting, sculpture, and installation. Communication is both a theme and a method of my practice: I work with radios, cell phones, and roadways. I often assume a playful affect and mimic the disembodied voices of modern technology - Siri, Alexa, robocalls, YouTubers, and call waiting lines. Through these acts of mimicry, I hope to offer a speculative moment where new narratives and modes of connection might be articulated.
I am motivated by the impromptu rub of ideas that comes from contact with a particular moment. A daily walking ritual grounds my projects in a physical location and allows room for sitespecific and non-linear thinking. I am inspired by biological forms and the fluidity between nature, technology, and urban space. I ruminate on this material entanglement and the squishy boundaries of interdependence and survival in the face of environmental catastrophe.”
Also On Display
Time Capsule Contents I - IV, 2021, Ink drawing, 10 x 17”, $300 (each) Charcoal Portal, 2023, Charcoal drawing made with foraged charcoal from fire-damaged areas, 9 x 9”, $315
s 24th and Federal, 2023, Relief print, 44 x 33”, $530
s 24th and Reed, 2023, Relief print, 44 x 33”, $530
Jessica Demcsak
Leveling up in Waves, 2023
Found wood, acrylic paint, cement
42 x 16 x 3”
$1,500
Jessica Demcsak
Jessica Demcsak is based in New Jersey. Her work primarily focuses on climate change as it relates to both physical and metaphorical storms. She explores shelter and the aesthetics of architecture while using these forms to create a narrative. Demcsak received her BFA in Painting from Mason Gross School of the Arts in New Brunswick, NJ, her MA in Art Education from Kean University in Union, NJ, and her MFA in Painting from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA. She has exhibited throughout the New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania areas and has work permanently on display in New Orleans, LA. Her work has been included in New American Paintings, Fresh Paint Magazine, and New Jersey Monthly. She received a Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Grant and participated in the Wonder Women Residency. Demcsak currently resides in Bridgewater, NJ with her husband and three children.
Philadelphia Museum Interruption, 2023
Acrylic on wood 22 x 3.5 x 4”
$1,600
Jessica Demcsak
Jessica Demcsak
Philadelphia Adjacent, 2023
Found chicken coop door and paint
20 x 36 x 2”
$1,500
Jessica Demcsak
“My work deals with increasing storms related to climate change. These storms could be both physical or metaphorical. I explore the idea of shelter and the aesthetics of architecture while using these forms to create a narrative. While previously addressing outside environmental issues, my paintings have recently focused on the inside environment; domestic issues, interruptions, isolation, time, motherhood and mythology.
The work created for the exhibition, ‘Material Time’, started with the idea of recording the warming climate and ocean temperatures, which consequently produce more storms. The frustration with these issues led me to try and create work that I imagine could counteract the earth’s plight. Using ideas based in Norse mythology, sculptures and paintings act as protection from the catastrophic effects of climate change.
Utilizing various types of wood to paint on, feelings of isolation and reemergence are illustrated by stark, minimal shapes as well as interruptions between moments of paint with jagged cuts of wood, layering paint textures against bleak silhouettes, and juxtaposed with bright colors.”
Also On Display
Stacked Fragments, 2023, Acrylic, firewood, driftwood, Dimensions variable, $1,000
Asbury Park Interruption, 2023, Acrylic on wood, 24 x 4 x 4”, $1,600
Physick Estate, 2023, Acrylic on wood, 24 x 24”, $1,800
Protection in Time, 2023, Found driftwood and paint, 96 x 96 x 0.5”, $2,500
$1,000
Rachel J. Eng
Contain II, 2022
Unfired local clay and bell jar
13 x 13 x 13”
Rachel J. Eng
b. South Korea
Rachel Eng is a Pennsylvania-based artist working in a variety of materials. She earned her MFA from the University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO and her BFA from Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA. Eng has shown her work at the Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH; Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ; the Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA; and the Flecker Gallery, Suffolk, NY. She has held residencies at McColl Center, Charlotte, NC; Studio Kura, Japan; and Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Newcastle, ME, among others. Eng was selected as an NCECA Emerging Artist in 2017. She currently lives in Carlisle, PA, with her husband and son, where she is an Assistant Professor of Art and Art History at Dickinson College.
Contain II (detail)
Rachel J. Eng
Obscure, 2023
Papier-mâché, vintage upholstery fabric, gold fringe
60 x 90 x 58”
NFS
Rachel J. Eng
“I see our environment and landscape as open systems worked on by outside forces, not exclusive of ourselves. My work grapples with topics, such as climate change, land use/ development, and their connection to memory. By paying close attention to a small aspect of the system, I work to reveal the whole through an analysis of its parts. Currently, I am interested in connecting Earth’s long geologic history to our current condition. Our landscape has been shaped for billions of years, but more recently, human decisions have left scars. How can humans learn to have more reciprocal relationships with our planet and each other versus one of extraction? These ideas are not new, indigenous cultures have and continue to teach and share knowledge in the importance of reciprocity and interconnectedness. I credit the writings of Robin Wall Kimmerer, Lauret Savoy, Dina Gilio Whitaker, among others for the knowledge I have learned.”
Also On Display
Contain I, 2022, Unfired porcelain and bell jar, 13 x 13 x 13”, $2,000
Contain III, 2023, Unfired local clay and bell jar, 6 x 4 x 4”, $500
Contain IV, 2023, Unfired talc clay and bell jar, 8 x 8 x 8”, $500
(detail)
Obscure
Reclaimed plastic
Natalie Kuenzi
River Blanket, 2019
108 x 72”
$6,000
Natalie Kuenzi
Natalie Kuenzi is an interdisciplinary artist based in Philadelphia, PA. She earned an MFA from Tyler School of Art and Architecture a BFA in Ceramics, and a BA in Art History from Western Colorado University, Gunnison, CO. Kuenzi has taught at several universities and art centers throughout the Philadelphia region, including the University of the Arts, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Drexel University, The Clay Studio of Philadelphia, and Tacony LAB Community Arts Center. Kuenzi is a Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, and was honored with the G. Holmes Perkins Distinguished Teaching Award for the Academic Year 20222023.
Kuenzi is a member of Vox Populi, broadening her art practice through public programs, curation, and collaboration. Her artwork has been exhibited regionally at venues including Space 1026, Little Berlin, Vox Populi, Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia, PA, and nationally at Thomas Hunter Project Space, New York, NY: Artspace New Haven, New Haven, Ct; Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA; Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE; Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD; District Clay Gallery, Washington BD; Unrequited Leisure, Nashville, TN; Pewabic Museum, Detroit, MI; and Anderson Center at Tower View, Red Wing, MN. In 2020, she was selected as a Wind Challenge artist, debuting her solo exhibition, It Came Up From The Soil, at Fleisher Art Memorial in 2022.
Natalie Kuenzi
Fruit of Mysterious End Result, 2023
Reclaimed plastic
Dimensions variable
$3,000
Natalie Kuenzi
Natalie Kuenzi creates installations and sculptures from found and altered materials. Her practice explores traditions of craft and art-making that celebrate the artist and viewer as agents of change. Through reclamation, material innovation, and imagination, Kuenzi seeks to transform how we make and consume. Her current work consists of plastic bags crocheted into bold abstractions and expansive landscapes depicting earth, water, space, and text. The medium speaks to the subject in that it takes an environmentally hazardous byproduct of consumerist convenience and reimagines it for a new practical purpose with optimistic potential. By repurposing discarded material, Kuenzi aims to disrupt attitudes of taking and wasting and offers opportunities for creative reuse and expression.
Kuenzi grew up in a family with a long history of creative practices such as weaving and crocheting. Despite being makers, few in her family would consider themselves artists. By producing artwork using the methods learned from her family, Kuenzi honors their traditions and challenges the hierarchy associated with art media, with an eye towards specific and meaningful action to address solutions for a changing world.
Also On Display
We the Flower Field, 2023, Reclaimed plastic and porcelain, 48 x 48”, $3,000
U Blanket, 2021, Reclaimed plastic, 96 x 66”, $3,000
X Blanket, 2020, Reclaimed plastic, 180 x 72”, $7,200
Husk, 2022, Reclaimed plastic, 108 x 60”, $6,000
Rebecca Schultz
Timefulness: Fairmount Park, 2023
Tinted cyanotype, soil watercolor, and monotype 54 x 69”
$4,000
Timefulness is a term used by geologist Marcia Bjornerud to describe the shifting and overlapping rates of planetary change across vast geologic timescales. My experience of timefulness has come from learning about the forces that generate ecosystems: the weathering of bedrock to form soil, and the plants that grow from that soil. This work incorporates imagery and materials from lower Fairmount Park, which is adjacent to Park Towne Place, and Penn Treaty Park, where I held a soil painting workshop in September. Both locations sit on the Wissahickon Formation, a metamorphic bedrock formed 500-250 million years ago, and on Trenton Gravel, a mixture of sand and clay silt deposited along the Delaware riverbed during the Pleistocene Epoch (2.5 million-11,700 years ago). This work incorporates paintings of topographic maps and monotypes made with soil and plants sourced from both locations. Reflecting on geologic time has helped me understand how, simultaneously, humans are insignificant--a blip on the timescale--and also making an outsized impact on the evolution of our planet.
Rebecca Schultz
Rebecca Schultz is a multi-disciplinary artist living in Elkins Park, PA. She has exhibited nationally, with solo exhibitions at Abington Art Center, Abington, PA; Patricia Ladd Carega Gallery, Center Sandwich, NH; NoBa Artspace, Bala Cynwyd, PA; and Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA. Her public artworks include two mural commissions and two communityengaged projects with Mural Arts, Philadelphia, PA; temporary site-specific installations in several public parks and gardens; and Water Table, an installation created in Atlantic City, NJ with Nancy Agati for the Coastal Climate Resiliency Art Project. Schultz’s project Mapping Our Watershed utilized community science and participatory artmaking to connect Cheltenham Township residents with their local watershed. Schultz holds a BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design, an MA in Community-Based Education from San Francisco State University, and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from the Confluence program at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM. She has been awarded residencies in Canada, Iceland, Wyoming, and Ireland.
Rebecca Schultz
Kinsman Granodiorite One, 2021
Acrylic and oil on hemp, augmented reality 48 x 58”
$4,000
This series of paintings is based on my 2020 residency at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in New Hampshire. I accompanied scientists Scott Bailey and Jenny Bower into the field as they conducted their research on the relationships between the hydrology, pedology, and geology of the forest, which included collecting hydrological data, gathering soil samples, and drilling bedrock cores. The paintings visually reflect the connections that these two scientists are making with their research: the relationship between the hydrology and topography of the forest, which impacts water flow; the process of water weathering bedrock; and the structure/composition of the rocks themselves. For more information on the visual data incorporated into the paintings, I invite you to use the QR code to download the Artivive app, and enjoy the augmented reality experience created by University of the Arts student Eden Blas.
Rebecca Schultz
“Rebecca Schultz creates mixed media works–including paintings, prints, installations, and public art–that cultivate a sense of wonder for the complex ecosystems surrounding us and reflect on humanity’s precarious relationship with the more-thanhuman world. Schultz’s work deconstructs patterns and forms found in nature through an intuitive witnessing and an eidetic image-making that situates itself in the liminal space between abstraction and representation. She frequently incorporates visual data, such as maps and microscopic images, as well as found and foraged materials, into her work. Schultz’s process is informed by research; developed in collaboration with community leaders, educators, and scientists; and grounded in contemplative practice. Her public art centers community engagement and often directly incorporates community stories and artwork.”
Also On Display
Rangeley Schist Two, 2021, Acrylic and oil on hemp, augmented reality, 36 x 42” $2,850
Kinsman Granodiorite Two, 2021, Acrylic and oil on hemp, 36 x 48”, $3,200
Rangeley Schist One, 2021, Acrylic and oil on hemp, 36 x 48”, $3,200
Exhibition Documentation of Material Time, South Tower
InLiquid
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All rotational artworks are available for purchase. Inquiries for purchases can be directed to Clare Finin at clare@inliquid.org.
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