Drexel College’s Leonard Pearlstein Gallery will host a pair of exhibitions that showcase the digital design skills of scholars, college and native artists whose work transforms human expertise by digital rendering and explores the consequences of expertise on humanity. The exhibitions — Digital Twin and Heavy Merge — might be open to the general public from Aug. 19 to Oct. 4, 2025, on the Pearlstein Gallery at 3401 Filbert St.
Digital Twin, a bunch present curated by Micah Lockman-Positive, a graduate pupil within the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, options the work of 10 artists who’re all members of the Westphal School of Media Arts & Design group. They embody Rghad Balkhyoor, a doctoral pupil; Lewis Colburn, an affiliate professor and interim head of the Division of Artwork & Artwork Historical past; Ann T. Dinh, a former adjunct teacher; Nicole Feller-Johnson, an adjunct professor; Emil Polyak, PhD, an affiliate professor of Digital Media; Tin Ta, an undergraduate pupil; Victoria Wohlforth, an Inside Structure alumna; Darren Woodland, a doctoral pupil; and Cooper Wright, an adjunct professor and facility supervisor.
These artists make use of video, speculative design, interactivity, ceramic 3D printing and assemblage. Their items discover the creation of digital twins — a digital design instrument that creates a digital translation of stay human conduct — asking how these approximated, designed replicas have an effect on people’ our bodies and lives.
“These artists probe digital doubling applied sciences and picture paths ahead for reclaiming human company beside our digital twins,” stated Lockman-Positive, curator of the exhibition. “Reverent and profane, farcical and extreme, unnerving and uplifting, Digital Twin showcases the Westphal group because it wrestles with a number of the most urgent inventive issues of the digital age.”
Heavy Merge is a multimedia set up by sculptor Carolyn Healy and audio-video artist John Phillips that examines the wonders of consciousness and the human mind. The location-specific set up juxtaposes sculptures and shadows with video suggestions projections and sound to approximate the boundless inventive exercise happening within the mind. The artist duo has been collaborating on multimedia, site-based installations since 1987, together with a number of at different Philadelphia establishments, equivalent to Jap State Penitentiary, Philadelphia Stay Arts and Fringe Festivals and the Institute of Up to date Artwork.
“Whereas artwork challenges the viewer to consider a topic in a brand new manner, few artworks discover the query of how we expect,” stated Talia Greene, an adjunct professor within the Division of Artwork & Artwork Historical past and the Pearlstein Gallery’s supervisor of Exhibitions and Engagement. “In Heavy Merge, Healy and Phillips create an immersive expertise for viewers, utilizing discovered objects, sound and video to current a private exploration of consciousness and the inside workings of the mind.”
These exhibitions have been chosen from an open name for proposals by the Pearlstein Gallery’s advisory committee: Nick Cassway, Dave Hannon, Jenna Gilley, Heather Moqtaderi, Diana Nicholas, Jess Polk, Klara Proffen, Alexandra Schmidt-Ullrich, Mark Stockton, Denise Wolf and Ricardo Zapata.
The exhibitions are free and might be open to the general public on the Leonard Pearlstein Gallery Tuesdays-Fridays, midday – 6 p.m. and Saturdays, midday – 5 p.m. from Aug. 19 to Oct. 4, 2025.
A gap reception might be held on the Pearlstein Gallery on Thursday, Aug. 21 from 5-7:30 p.m. And a closing reception might be held on Thursday, Sept. 25 from 5-7:30 p.m. There may even be a panel dialogue moderated by Evangelia Chrysikou, PhD, an affiliate professor of psychology and mind sciences within the College of Arts and Sciences, on the Gallery on Tuesday, Sept. 30, from 5-7 p.m. For extra data, go to: https://drexel.edu/pearlsteingallery/.
