Burrison Gallery
The Burrison Gallery is located in the University Club at Penn on the 2nd floor of The Inn at Penn, 3611 Walnut Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
M-F 7:30am - 5:00pm; Weekends 7:00am - 1:00pm
The Gallery provides an intimate space to showcase the work of artists from the University community and West Philadelphia. Exhibits are scheduled approximately seven times throughout the year.
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Burrison Gallery Advisory Committee
Ilene Wilder, Chair
Committee Members
Barbara Lea Kruger, Cartriona MacLeod, Elsa Ramsden, Elise Betz,
Eric Weckel, Jerry Porter, Marguerite Miller, Ross Webber,
Sheila Raman, Susan Croll, Tanya Barrientos
Dear Colleagues and Friends:
Thirty years ago Maurice Burrison had a vision to provide a place to foster a visual dialogue among artists and those interested in art
in the University and West Philadelphia communities. The Burrison Gallery is Maury's legacy to us - an intimate exhibition space where
dozens of new and established artists have displayed their work, adding a distinctive ambience to the University Club at the University
of Pennsylvania.
The artists who have shown their work in the Gallery are too numerous to list, but here are the names of some of the past artists - Bruce
Montgomery, Sam Maitin, Norman Nilsen, Charles Lee, Deena Gu, Rosemary Stevens, Hitoshi Nakazato, Howard Perlmutter, Michelle Sun,
Benjamin Pierce, and Bill Bank.
The Gallery Advisory Committee, with the assistance of a student coordinator, has created a roster of interesting exhibitions
for the coming year.
Many faculty and staff made generous contributions last year ranging from $10.00 to as high as $500. It's time once again to renew
your commitment by making a tax deductible donation to the Burrison Gallery. Your contribution goes directly to defray
the costs of operating the Gallery. For your convenience, you can now make your donation on-line. Or if you prefer, you may send in
your check payable to the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania.
We greatly appreciate your past financial support, and look forward to your continued financial support of the Gallery.
Ilene Wilder, Chair
Burrison Gallery Advisory Committee
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To submit work for the Members Only Exhibit over the Summer please fill out attached PDF and send a copy to Ilene Wilder, Gallery Chair.
Call for Submittals Application - Member's Only
Mail to: 3401 Walnut Street, Suite 440A, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6228, attn. Ilene Wilder.
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The Burrison Gallery Presents
Stop by the Burrison Gallery to view our new exhibtion:
Kirsten Fischler and Carolyn Lee Vehslage
Archaeology of the Mind
April 7 to May 18
Kirsten Fischler and Carolyn Lee Vehslage have embarked on a voyage into the inner workings of the mind. Fischler and Veheslage’s artwork compliments each other because Fischler uses hard, wood-grained surfaces and arranges the components in a patchwork fashion much the same way Vehslage does with her quilted hangings.
The Archaeology of the Mind series is symbolic of my life and my interests. The viewer has to look carefully between the layers and the obscuring of the quilting to discern what the images are. The imagery is diverse and layered as life experiences are laid one upon another. As the images are built up on the cloth, changes occur to how the shapes relate to one another. A single image that may represent a moment in time is mutated by the images that are layered upon it. As life goes on, the past affects the present which influences thoughts of the future. There is an evolution in thinking and a change in what becomes more important over time.
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Please send submittal packages to:
Ilene Wilder, Chair, Burrison Gallery Advisory Committee
Mail to: 3401 Walnut Street, Suite 440A, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6228
Questions and requests for more information may be emailed to: ilenee@upenn.edu
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