Josephine Meckseper
September 12 – November 14, 2009
Opening Reception: September 11, 6 – 8 p.m.

Josephine Meckseper’s work engages leftist theories and politics in a consumerist reality. Specifically, she examines the semantics of media propaganda as well as capitalist sales and advertising strategies. The exhibition at Blaffer Gallery, curated by Cynthia Woods Mitchell Curatorial Fellow Rachel Hooper, will contain Meckseper’s documentary photographs of antiwar protests; her signature mannequin and product display installations; two videos, 0% Down (2008) and Mall of America (2009); and a new installation created on site—a replication of the stage sets used during U.S. presidential television debates.

Jon Pylypchuk
September 12 – November 14, 2009
Opening Reception: September 11, 6 – 8 p.m.

Jon Pylypchuk's work lays bare the frailty of human existence and the fragility of social relationships. A contemporary fabulist, Pylypchuk draws upon the animal world to create heart-wrenching stories of attraction and repulsion, love and loss, pleasure and pain, triumph and failure. The exhibition at Blaffer, curated by director and chief curator Claudia Schmuckli, will include around 10 sculptures, 20 paintings, and 60 drawings created since 2000, as well as a new installation conceived for this debut.