Immediate Release
March 2023
Bridgette Mayer Gallery
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Arden Bendler Browning, Tim McFarlane, and Rebecca Rutstein featured in group exhibit SUBMERGED: A Changing Global Climate at Fairmount Water Works.
March 15, 2023 – Philadelphia, PA. Artwork by gallery artists Arden Bendler Browning, Tim McFarlane, and Rebecca Rutstein will be featured in the upcoming group exhibition SUBMERGED: A Changing Global Climate, on view at Fairmount Water Works from Saturday, April 22 (Earth Day) until Saturday, July 29. There will be a kickoff event featuring Historian and Archivist for the Fairmount Water Works, Adam Levine, on the history of floods of the Schuylkill River and Fairmount Water Works, at a date and time to be announced.
This special exhibition’s theme centered on flooding and Global Climate Change is directed by Karen Young for the Fairmount Water Works and curated by Thom Duffy. The exhibition’s purpose is to bring focus to historic and current extreme weather events impacting our region and the Planet’s struggle for survival. The exhibition will be held in a space within the Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center that has been completely submerged during recent and past floods. The works selected for this exhibition speak to the history of the Fairmount Water Works and flooding of the Schuylkill River to open discussion of causes and effects of Global Climate Change. Visitors will be visually submerged viewing more than 30 selected works by nineteen contemporary artists and two antique paintings. The contemporary and antique works vary in styles, mediums and materials. Photographs, prints, drawings, paintings are anchored by a site specific installation altar piece inviting viewers to meditate and focus on the reality that is Global Climate Change.
Fairmount Water Works is open to visitors Wednesdays – Saturdays, 11:00am – 5:00pm. Admission is free to all, with donations accepted.
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