Exhibitions

#J20 Art Strike

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Saturday, 10 December 2016, 7:00-9:00pm

This is not a time to bury the hatchet. It is a time to dig up the machete. After various experiments and metamorphoses elsewhere, the Machete Group has decided to come back in full force. In the coming months, we will be staging a series of collective, […]

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David Guinn: Night Room

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4 November – 15 January 2017

Opening reception Friday, November from 6–10 pm

Marginal Utility is proud to present Night Room, a solo exhibition by the Philadelphia based artist David Guinn.

Inspired by the climactic scene in the film Apocalypse Now, where Martin Sheen confronts Marlon Brando’s Kurtz inside a darkened Khmer […]

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Edward Kihn: The Point of Production

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2 September – 8 October 2016

Opening reception Friday, September from 6 – 10 pm

Marginal Utility is proud to present The Point of Production, a solo exhibition by the New York based artist Edward Kihn.

The Point of Production concerns the rise and fall Marine Transport Workers Local 8 of the radical […]

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Unlisted

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Opening Reception 11 August 2016,
from 6-10pm

Icebox Project Space
1400 N. American St. Philadelphia Pa

The Icebox Project Space and Marginal Utility are proud to present Unlisted,
a unique art fair setting that focuses on curation through a thoughtful interplay between 13 spaces arranged by Philadelphia based curators, […]

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The Third Rail Poster Launch

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24 July- 07 August, 2016

image by: Dante Carlos

Opening reception Sunday 24 July, 2016 from 5 – 8 pm

Marginal Utility is proud to present the launch and exhibition of Issue 8 of The Third Rail, a collection of 23 commissioned black-and-white posters by artists.

With this, writes The […]

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SUMMER SHOW

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03 June- 16 July,
2016

Opening reception Friday 03 June,
2016 from 6 – 10 pm

Marginal Utility is pleased to present SUMMER SHOW,
a group exhibition featuring Josias Figueirido, Matthew McKnight, MNM Collaborative (Michael Delgado, Matia Jones, Natalia Slattery), Yue Nakayama, Omid Shekari and Han Wang.

Where do ideas come […]

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Rob Swainston: They said what we said, only clearer. We thought they thought what we thought, but they didn’t

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1 April – 22 May 2016

Opening reception Friday, 1 April from 6 – 10 pm

Rob Swainston’s second solo show at Marginal Utility “They said what we said, only clearer. We thought they thought what we thought, but they didn’t.” asks one overarching question in the context of two related installations: Is it […]

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Stefan Abrams: Borderline

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5 February – 13 March 2016

Opening reception Friday,
5 February from 6 – 10 pm

Marginal Utility is proud to present Borderline, a solo exhibition by the Philadelphia based artist Stefan Abrams.

Ashley Wick: I Lost My Head

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4 December, 2015 – 17 January, 2016

Opening reception Friday, 4 December from 6 – 10 pm

Special musical event with Iris Freeheart Friday, 8 January

Marginal Utility is proud to present I LOST MY HEAD, a solo exhibition by the Philadelphia based artist Ashley Wick.

Ashley Wick’s […]

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Scott Kip: Transitional Objects

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4 September – 9 November

Opening Reception 4 September 6-10pm

Marginal Utility is proud to present Transitional Objects by the Philadelphia based artist Scott Kip. This is Kip’s second project to be exhibited with Marginal Utility.

1. Rumination Mirror.

2. Objects.

3. The Unattended Death.

Objects:

Magnifying glass. From my Paternal Grandfather’s […]

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