“No Other Place to Go”—5 Artists Turn Climate Data Into Human Experience at InLiquid Gallery
InLiquid’s No Other Place to Go gathers five photographers confronting climate change and ecological loss, on view September 4 through October 17.
Exhibitions
Erik Spehn Strips the Ground Away in “Waves Become Wings”
Erik Spehn’s Waves Become Wings at Pentimenti Gallery abandons painted ground for exposed linen, pairing woven grid compositions with shaped Doppelganger panels exploring simulacra.
Zoya Cherkassky’s American Cooking Turns a Vintage Cookbook Into a Study of Displacement
Zoya Cherkassky’s American Cooking opens at Fort Gansevoort September 16, using a found vintage cookbook as an entry point into paintings that examine immigration, identity, and everyday American life.
“Shimmer—Dreaming the Posthuman” Argues That Care, Not Extinction, Is the Point
“Shimmer—Dreaming the Posthuman” brings 17 artists to the Frist Art Museum to reframe posthumanism as an ethical argument about care rather than a vision of human extinction, in what curator Mark Scala calls the final show in a career-spanning series.
“New Now IX” at InLiquid Gallery
InLiquid Gallery presents New Now IX, its ninth and largest new member showcase yet, featuring 42 Philadelphia-area artists across painting, sculpture, photography, collage, jewelry, and mixed media.
Universal Nature—Rebecca Rutstein at the Berman Museum
Rebecca Rutstein’s Universal Nature at the Berman Museum at Ursinus College brings together fifteen years of her practice — suspended kinetic sculpture, large-scale paintings, and new Greenland expedition work made with sea ice brine. On view June 16–November 24, 2026.
Eustace Mamba Stitches Identity and History Into His First Solo Show
Eustace Mamba stitches Caribbean history, American flags & North Philly streets into a new body of work. Lavender opens July 3 at Paradigm Gallery.
Morgan Overton Asks What America Becomes in America: 500 at NoName Gallery
Morgan Overton’s solo exhibition America: 500 opens at NoName Gallery in Philadelphia on July 3, asking what the United States looks like 250 years from now through figurative mixed media rooted in Afrofuturist thought and genealogical research.
Marcus De Paula: Interstice at Wexler Gallery Presents Ancient Stone Against Cosmic Time
Brazilian-American sculptor Marcus Vinícius De Paula opens Interstice: Thresholds Carved with Light and Time at Wexler Gallery in Philadelphia on June 11, 2026, presenting ancient stone sculptures embedded with integrated light alongside the first indoor installation of Titan.
Nancy Bea Miller’s New Paintings Span Still Life, Animals, and Portraiture at Philadelphia’s F.A.N. Gallery
Nancy Bea Miller’s fifth solo show at F.A.N. Gallery in Philadelphia’s Old City presents more than forty oil paintings spanning still life, animal subjects, and human portraiture. On view June 5–26, 2026, with a First Friday reception on opening night.