Past Exhibitions
Martha McDonald: Music for Modernist Shapes: Reimagining Spectodrama
Buster Graybill: Aesthetic Breach

7 September – 14 October 2018
Opening reception Friday, 7 September from 6 – 10 pm
Marginal Utility is proud to present Aesthetic Breach, a solo exhibition of recent work by the Texas based artist Buster Graybill.
“Aesthetic Breach is an installation and sensory experience that embraces the formal nuances and conceptual potential of […]
Bone Dry: Mariel Capanna and Lucia Thomé

1 June – 22 July 2018
Opening reception Friday, 1 June from 6 – 10 pm
Marginal Utility is pleased to present Bone Dry, a collaborative exhibition by longtime friends Mariel Capanna and Lucia Thomé.
Considering a wide range of burial traditions, post-funeral rites and grieving practices, Capanna and Thomé have created an installation […]
#wehavenopresident: Leroy Johnson and Sarah McEneaney

6 April – 13 May 2018
Opening reception Friday, 6 April from 6 – 10 pm
Marginal Utility is proud to present #wehavenopresident an exhibition of prints and drawings by Philadelphia based artists Leroy Johnson and Sarah McEneaney.
Leroy Johnson and Sarah McEneaney have been making the drawings in the exhibition on a daily basis for the last few years […]
Robert Younger: Leaning Bypass #4 (Chromium)

2 February – 18 March 2018
Opening reception Friday, 2 February from 6 – 10 pm
Marginal Utility is proud to present Leaning Bypass #4 (Chromium), a solo exhibition of recent work by the Maine based artist Robert Younger.
August 2012 I was staying in a house that had a number of […]
Josias Figueirido: GIVE ME A LIGHT THAT I MAY WALK SAFELY INTO THE UNKOWN

1 December 2017 – 14 January 2018
Opening reception Friday, 1 December from 6 – 10 pm
Marginal Utility is proud to present GIVE ME A LIGHT THAT I MAY WALK SAFELY INTO THE UNKOWN, a solo exhibition of recent paintings by the Pennsylvania based artist Josias Figueirido.
The imaginary narratives depicted […]
Astrid Bowlby: When the shadow is not your shadow

14 September – 29 October 2017
Astrid Bowlby: When the Shadow is Not Your Shadow
a presentation by Marginal Utility hosted by Arcadia University Art Gallery
Opening Event
Tuesday, September 26
Conversation between Astrid Bowlby, David Dempewolf, and Yuka Yokoyama
6:30-7:30 PM, Great Room, University Commons
immediately […]
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Patrick Maguire: A Mind in a Field of Time

2 June – 16 July
Opening reception Friday, 2 June from 6 – 10 pm
Marginal Utility is proud to present A MIND IN A FIELD OF TIME, a solo exhibition of recent paintings by the Philadelphia based artist Patrick Maguire.
Through the creation of interwoven frame works, repetitive marks, and interlacing screens […]