Arlene Love:
SELECTIONS FROM SEVEN DECADES
Solo Exhibition
Curated by Amie Potsic
CEO and Principal Curator, Amie Potsic Art Advisory, LLC
Arlene Love, Lilith (two views), Resin and fiberglass on steel stand, Approximately 81”H x 36”W x 26” D, 1981
© Arlene Love, 1981
A solo exhibition by the renowned Philadelphia artist, Arlene Love, will be presented at the Interactive Museum for Contemporary Art. The exhibition will feature Love’s pioneering sculpture in resin, feminist works in leather, figurative drawing, and photography spanning an accomplished career over 70 years. Love’s fascination with the figure and how it articulates the physical, erotic, and political, has held her attention since creating her very first sculpture. Inspired by the language of feminism as well as her own challenging life experiences, Love’s work reveals strength and vulnerability through the depiction of the corporeal in the throes of intimacy, violence, joy, and sorrow.
Exhibition Dates:
February 9 – March 10, 2024
Opening Reception:
Friday, February 9, 4:30 – 8 pm
Artist Talk and Reception:
Friday, March 1, 4 – 8 pm
Artist Talk 7 – 8 pm
Closing Reception:
Sunday, March 10, 12 – 4 pm
Gallery Hours:
By appointment, and Fridays 11 am – 6 pm
Location:
Interactive Museum of Contemporary Art (iMOCA)
1230 S. Broad St,
Philadelphia, PA 19146
For more information, visit:
Interactive Museum of Contemporary Art — (re)FOCUS 2024 (refocus2024.org)
Arlene Love is an award-winning pioneer in resin sculpture and accomplished painter and photographer with numerous public art installations across Philadelphia. For forty years, Love focused on sculpture, with solo shows from New York to California creating feminist work in leather, bronze, and resin. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art (NY), the Boston Museum of Art, the Sculpture Center (NYC), and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Cornell University. Love’s sculpture is in the collections of The Philadelphia Museum of Art, the James A Michener Museum, the University of Scranton, and Franklin & Marshall College. Love’s focus later moved to drawing during the dozen years she and her husband lived in a small mountain village near the city of Oaxaca, Mexico. Her drawings, etchings, and encaustics were exhibited in Oaxaca galleries. While in Mexico, she also worked in a print taller and created a portfolio of etchings, which is in the Linda Lee Alter collection at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Meanwhile, Love began taking photographs in her Mexican village and in neighboring markets - street photography and candid portraits became her sole passion and continued when she returned to the U.S. Her photograph Old Lee is in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Love has had more than thirty solo shows of sculpture, drawings, and photographs, and is the recipient of awards and grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Leeway Foundation, Temple University, and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation.
Arlene Love, Single Figure in Black, Polyester resin, fiberglass, leather, and metal, 33” H x 12” W x 4” D, 1977
© Arlene Love, 1977
Portrait of Arlene Love, Circa 1987 © Arlene Love, 1987
Banner Image: Arlene Love, Five Figures in Black, Polyester resin, fiberglass, leather, and metal, 33” H x 12” W x 4” D each, 1977 © Arlene Love, 1977