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2024 East Westmoreland
Philly USA 19134
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Another week of Collective Futures!

This Thursday evening over 10 exhibitions open at the Crane Arts building : @tsa_philly @automat_collective @secondstatepress @lustergallerystudio including the @iceboxprojectspace Icebox Mall featuring projects from @vcrphilly @batikhcollective @davinciartalliance @peepprojects @byoprint @fjord_ @biomaterials.working.group @termitetvcollective and others!

And this weekend don't miss:

Print Time After Time, a weekend-long gathering around print presented by @manyfortunes at @iceboxprojectspace ,

Eco Social Realism opening at @bigrampphilly this Saturday evening @ecosocialseries from 5-8pm

The Philadelphia Open Studio Tours kick off weekend @philacfeva

And on Sunday at the @artsleaguephl @tartar.biz performs at the opening reception for
BOHÉMIENNE: Transhistorical Freedom
curated by @jogamel by @bigrampphilly

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Join us next Saturday at @bigrampphilly for the opening of the next exhibit site in Eco-Social Realism featuring the work of Cynthia Hooper, Sarah Kanouse, and Sean Starowitz.

Eco-Social Realism brings together artworks that show an increased in-
terest in infrastructural and bioregional practices that can visualize and
embody the territorial scale of both problems and solutions related to the
climate crisis. Hooper, Kanouse and Starowitz’s explorations of water and
electrical infrastructure through personal, observational and playful methods demonstrate a range of aesthetic and political commitments.

This is the 3rd exhibit in this series and was supported by @collectivefutures.info - See you at Big Ramp (2024 East Westmoreland Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19134, United States)! taken in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by @bigrampphilly

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Thanks to all who attended the opening of Shifting Winds last Saturday, and especially these lovelies who stuck around til the end! Gallery is open Saturdays 2-4pm and by appointment for viewing this amazing show. by @bigrampphilly

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BIG RAMP is thrilled to announce Shifting Winds, a group exhibition showcasing the work of three artists whose distinct bodies of work share a push and pull between intellectual structures and emotional, sensual generosity as they navigate psychological boundaries and survival strategies.

In distilled, iconographic gouache and acrylic paintings, Lindsay Deifik explores personal themes of autonomy, exploitation, anxiety, failure, and liberation. Barbs, fences, and barriers hold the viewer at a distance—yet are permeable patterns that let light and air through. Lindsay’s neon hues command attention, searing the viewer’s retina like sunlight, while softer pastels recall the ephemeral shadows of light on pale surfaces.

Seeking to impose structure on unwieldy experiences, Emmy Thelander’s methods encompass ordered control and intuitive, spontaneous mark-making, mirroring the complexity and messiness of a life attempting to be well-lived. With chart-like paintings that variously blend precision with play, there is an element of active unknowing, appearing as logical efforts in ascribing meaning and order. Diagramming her subjective experience in the present becomes an attempt to predict the future.

Making grounds and paints from scratch, Dani Levine approaches painting as a negotiation, where form and material collide and ideas of adaptation unfold. In this sense, her work draws on what resists resolution: the (mis)behavior of pigments, a surface’s willingness to work with or against design, a form’s capacity to stretch, a gesture’s tendency to stray.

All three artists engage in an ongoing conversation with their viewers—uncertain, searching, and exploring the tensions between structure and intuition, control and vulnerability, order and resistance. Their work shares similarities in color and texture—contrasting matte and neon colors, absorbent surfaces that recall weathered walls and fresco, and camouflage. by @bigrampphilly

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ESSSSSS is thrilled to announce Eco-Social Realism, a regional scale, multi-site exhibition that will bring together artworks that show an increased interest in infrastructural and bioregional practices that can visualize and embody the territorial scale of both problems and solutions related to the climate crisis.

Featured Artists include: Paper Buck, Carolina Caycedo, Federico Cuatlacuatl, Keg de Souza, Sebastien Derenoncourt, Aislinn Pentecost Farren, Biomaterials Working Group, Alicia Grullon, Brian Holmes & Jeremy Bolen, Cynthia Hooper, Samuel Sarosh Horowitz, Sarah Kanouse, Sarah Kavage, David Scott Kessler, Lize Mogel, Karyn Olivier, Laurie Palmer, Jose Ortiz Pagan, Kaitlin Pomerantz, Li Sumpter, Sean Starowitz, Kristen Neville Taylor, Lori Waselchuk, Rosten Woo, and Ricky Yanas & Grimaldi Baez.

The exhibition and related programs will span from September 10 to December 19, 2026 across TILT Institute (@tiltinstitute ) with Mural Arts Philadelphia (@muralarts ), Street Road Artists Space (@streetroad_artistsspace ), Big Ramp (@bigrampphilly ), The Watershed (@watershedphl ), the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery at Haverford College (@hcexhibits ), Rowan University Museum of Contemporary Art (@rowanuartmuseum ), Ulises (@ulisesbooks ), and Facing Bench (@facingbench ).

Find out more at https://exhibits.haverford.edu/ecosocialrealism/ and follow us at @ecosocialseries and support the work for $5 a month as a member on Patreon and get a free tote bag: https://www.patreon.com/cw/EcoSocialSeries by @bigrampphilly

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Eco-Social Realism
Big Ramp

October 10 — November 14, 2026

Big Ramp will be hosting Eco-Social Realism, a regional scale, multi-site exhibition curated by Daniel Tucker (@miscprojects). This exhibition will bring together artworks that show an increased interest in infrastructural and bioregional practices that can visualize and embody the territorial scale of both problems and solutions related to the climate crisis. Big Ramp will present work by Cynthia Hooper (@cynthia_hooper), Sarah Kanouse (@sarahkanouse), and Sean Starowitz (@starowitzprojects).

The exhibition at Big Ramp runs from October 10-November 14, 2026 with an opening reception on Saturday, October 10, 5-8pm. The exhibition and related programs will span from September 10 to December 19, 2026 across the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery at Haverford College (@hcexhibits), Rowan University Museum of Contemporary Art (@rowanuartmuseum), Street Road Artists Space (@streetroad_artistsspace), TILT Institute (@tiltinstitute), The Watershed (@watershedphl), Ulises (@ulisesbooks), and Facing Bench. by @bigrampphilly

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Thank you @jazmynmay and to everyone who joined us for the closing of Teleplasm Hotline 🌻 by @bigrampphilly

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We're throwing a book launch!

Philly folks - join us online! The Big Ramp event has been cancelled for heat and smoke! Stay safe!

Jazmyn Crosby @jazmynmay wrote and riso printed the wonderful Other Networks: Interspecies Communication Operations Manual, in part researched during her stay with us last summer.

Thursday, July 16 from 4:30-7:30 our time / 6:30-9:30 Philadelphia time we're celebrating with a multi-venue book launch! There will be readings, a performance, and some listening and making activities!

We'll be hosting at the main lab in Boulder (1320 Grandview Ave.) and we'll be open for some all-too-rare evening open house hours.

The whole thing will also be streaming between locations and on our twitch channel (https://www.twitch.tv/mediaarchaeology)

Copies of the book will be available for purchase/suggested donation! by @bigrampphilly

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Hey cool cats, we won't be open tomorrow. In the meantime, enjoy these progress pics of @jazmynmay salt battery installation!

Try to beat the heat and consider leaving a voicemail about an interspecies encounter on our Teleplasm Hotline: (215) 703-8538

We'll be open again on Saturday, July 11 from 2-4pm

🇺🇸😼🙀🧂⚡☎️ by @bigrampphilly

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Cow TV and Salt TV are two video projections on view at @jazmynmay show, Teleplasm Hotline. Open Saturdays from 2-4pm.

Both videos playfully and inquisitively ruminate on our human perceptions of the more-than-human world. We might ask what's the difference between a cow and a cryptid (e.g. Sasquatch)? Perspective? Belief? Language?

What separates ourselves from the salt of the sea? The zinc of our pennies? The cute gallery cats that love to visit Big Ramp? Physically, very little. Is it mostly a question of form rather than truth or essence?

Jazmyn asks us to perceive ourselves and our world through different physical and conceptual lenses and even different senses (we hear Cow TV and Salt TV only if we tune into the FM frequencies that invisibly fill the space, both inside the gallery and out). by @bigrampphilly

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Thanks to everyone who made it out to @jazmynmay Teleplasm Hotline! ⚡📻🧂🐈

We'll be open Saturdays from 2-4pm for you to come experience these playful, sweet, and salty new works!

Also feel free to call her Teleplasm Hotline from wherever you are: (215) 703-8538 by @bigrampphilly

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