VIRTUAL EXHIBITION

Arlene love: selections from seven decades

This virtual exhibition is a companion to Arlene Love’s Selections from Seven Decades exhibition on view at the Interactive Museum of Contemporary Art from February 9 - March 10, 2024.

© Arlene Love, *Hippolyta*, Resin, 65” x 18” x 23”, 1974

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: Selections from Seven Decades is solo exhibition by the renowned Philadelphia artist, Arlene Love, presented at the Interactive Museum for Contemporary Art. The exhibition features 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.

Arlene Love, *Arlene Love: Selections from Seven Decades*, Installation View, Interactive Museum of Contemporary Art (iMOCA), Philadelphia, 2024, © Amie Potsic 2024

A featured exhibition of ReFOCUS: Philadelphia Focuses on Women in the Visual Arts

For more information: (re)FOCUS 2024

““In 1970, the Women’s Movement gave us the vocabulary to express what we experience. This new raw energy freed me to use the iconography of bondage as my feminist statement on the religious, political, social and cultural subjugation of women.””

— Arlene Love

Arlene Love, *Arlene Love: Selections from Seven Decades*, Installation View of *Five Figures in Black* detail, Interactive Museum of Contemporary Art (iMOCA), Philadelphia, 2024, © Amie Potsic 2024

Arlene Love, *Arlene Love: Selections from Seven Decades*, Installation View of *Rosey Crucifixion* and *Martyr Fragment 1* & 2, Interactive Museum of Contemporary Art (iMOCA), Philadelphia, 2024, © Amie Potsic 2024

Arlene Love, *Arlene Love: Selections from Seven Decades*, Installation View of *Pieta*, Interactive Museum of Contemporary Art (iMOCA), Philadelphia, 2024, © Amie Potsic 2024

Arlene Love, *Arlene Love: Selections from Seven Decades*, Installation View of *Hippolyta, Goddess on Bull*, and *Europa y el toro*, Interactive Museum of Contemporary Art (iMOCA), Philadelphia, 2024, © Amie Potsic 2024

Arlene Love, *Arlene Love: Selections from Seven Decades*, Installation View of *The Bride Stripped Bare* and *The Bride Exhumed,* Interactive Museum of Contemporary Art (iMOCA), Philadelphia, 2024, © Amie Potsic 2024

© Arlene Love, *Beverly,* leather over resin/fiberglass, 33" x 10" x 5", 1976

© Arlene Love, *Guanajuato Family,* Inside found wood box, 3 leather covered heads, resin fetal figure, plexiglass front, 12” x 24” x 7”, 1988

© Arlene Love, *Madrid Vision #1*, Brown leather skin, black leather banding around top of neck and mid-thighs, 41” x 20” x 12”, 1978

Arlene Love, *Arlene Love: Selections from Seven Decades*, Installation View of *Mom and Pop - Home from Florida* and Kiss and Steal, Interactive Museum of Contemporary Art (iMOCA), Philadelphia, 2024, © Amie Potsic 2024

Arlene Love, *Arlene Love: Selections from Seven Decades*, Installation View of *Santa Librada* and drawings, Interactive Museum of Contemporary Art (iMOCA), Philadelphia, 2024, © Amie Potsic 2024

Arlene Love, *Arlene Love: Selections from Seven Decades*, Installation View of *Santa Librada*, Interactive Museum of Contemporary Art (iMOCA), Philadelphia, 2024, © Amie Potsic 2024

© Arlene Love, *Walking Girl* (Armless victim), Resin/fiberglass and kidskin, 64” x 24” x 10”, 1978

Arlene Love, *Arlene Love: Selections from Seven Decades*, Installation View of *Saint with Blue* and bronze plaques, Interactive Museum of Contemporary Art (iMOCA), Philadelphia, 2024, © Amie Potsic 2024

© Arlene Love, *Plaza de Toros, Mexico City*, Shellac with saponified crayon, 36” x 48”,1989

© Arlene Love, *Untitled*, 29" x 38.5", 34” x 43.75” framed, 1996

© Arlene Love, *(One of) Ten Heads,* Fiberglass, covered with mixed media: leather, fabric, hair, wax, mounted on wall with steel brackets, 1986-87

© Arlene Love, *Violet*, Resin/fiberglass and leather, 18” x 7” x 5”, 1975

Arlene Love, *Arlene Love: Selections from Seven Decades*, Installation View of *Erotica 2* & 3, Interactive Museum of Contemporary Art (iMOCA), Philadelphia, 2024, © Amie Potsic 2024

PRESS

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93-year-old artist continues to empower women in Philadelphia with new exhibit
by Matteo Iadonisi

Still from Arlene Love’s 6ABC Primetime Live News Interview

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Arlene Love takes center stage in (re)FOCUS celebration
Written by Tom Rimback

Arlene Love, *Lilith* (two views), Resin and fiberglass on steel stand, Approximately 81”H x 36”W x 26” D, 1981
© Arlene Love, 1981

Amie Potsic interviews the legendary artist Arlene Love about her current solo exhibition in Philadelphia and the many highlights of her 70-year-career.

Artist Arlene Love with sculpture *Jacob Wrestling with the Angel,* Commission for University of Scranton
© Arlene Love, *Jacob Wrestling with the Angel*, bronze, 10'h., Location: University of Scranton, Scranton, Pennsylvania

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70 Years of Art: Arlene Love Reflects on Tyler
Written by Jordan Cameron

Left, Arlene Love with *Rosey Crucifixion* sculpture circa 1972
Right, Arlene Love with *Rosey Crucifixion* sculpture 2024, Interactive Museum of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
© Arlene Love, *Rosey Crucifixion*, resin/fiberglass and leather handbag, life size, 1972

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Arlene love: selections from seven decades

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