A new Arts Gallery in West Philadelphia
ARTIST TALK
Exhibition
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Paulownia Projects is pleased to present:
Your Color is Green (a delirium), a two-person exhibition by Meghan Cox and Jacob Lunderby.
“And having heard, or probably read somewhere, in the days when I thought I would be well advised to educate myself, or amuse myself or stupefy myself, or kill time, that when a man in a forest thinks he is going in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping in this way to go in a straight line.”
Samuel Beckett, Molloy
Fever dreams, ontological crises and uncertainty flood the current exhibition by Cox and Lunderby at Paulownia Projects where unknown interlocuters, bad décor and delusional relationships contribute toward dislocated, invented realities.
Haunted by Charlie Kaufman’s films and Samuel Beckett’s texts, the artists use painting, animation and sound to limn spaces between fantasy and banality.
The exhibition space is filled with sounds of footsteps, crunching leaves and an electrical hum that vibrates with the color interactions between the carpet, the gallery walls and Cox’s paintings. A field guide for a phantom arboretum has been provided, but the plant identification app was hallucinating.
EXHIBITION DATES: March 15 - May 10, 2025
RECEPTION DATE: Saturday, March 15th, 4 – 7 pm
GALLERY HOURS: Thursday 12- 4 pm,
Friday 5-8 pm
Saturday 12- 4 pm or by appointment*
Meghan Cox, (b. St. Mary’s, OH) is an artist and educator currently based in Philadelphia. Meghan’s paintings have been exhibited nationally and internationally; she was included in the 2018 BP Portrait Award exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London, and her solo exhibition, hours and hours was exhibited at Undercurrent NYC in Brooklyn. She has been awarded several grants including the George Sugarman Foundation Grant and an Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant. Meghan earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a double major in Painting and Art History from Indiana University, Bloomington, and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Pennsylvania. She has taught at Temple University, Brooklyn College, University of the Arts, Kutztown University, Community College of Philadelphia, Penn State Altoona, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and Drexel University
Jacob Lunderby, (b. Minneapolis, MN) is a partner, educator and artist working across digital image making, drawing and sound. Lunderby’s work explores attentiveness to hearing and seeing with walking in pastoral landscapes and mediated environments. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Painting from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and a Master of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Lunderby has exhibited widely at institutions such as Space 1026, Grizzly Grizzly, Automat, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Wedge Projects, Chicago, SITE: Brooklyn, Tetra, Fukuoka, Japan and Okinawa Prefectural Art Museum, Naha City, Japan among others. He currently lives and works in Philadelphia.
*Please contact Jacob at Jacob.lunderby@gmail to make a viewing appointment.
PHLAIR & Paulownia Projects Present …..
Moondust Will Cover You:
A David Bowie Tribute
Join us for an electrifying celebration of David Bowie's artistic legacy on **January 4th**
Doors open at 1pm to preview artworks in the gallery, and performances run from 5 to 8pm.
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DOUBLE ALBUM RELEASE SHOW
Doors at 7 pm
This Thursday! Nov 14th in the Sanctuary of the Calvery United Methodist Church
