Address
319 North 11th Street, 2nd Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Hours
By Appointment
Saturday + Sunday 12:00-5:00pm
5 August – 27 August
Opening reception: Friday, 5 August, from 6:00pm – 11:00pm
Marginal Utility is pleased to present “get it while it's cheap”, a summer group show that features new projects by Jim Grilli, Brittany Papale, Matt Ortega and Gahee Park.
Staggering along the path that traverses the concrete and the symbolic […]
3 June – 29 July, 2011
Opening reception: Friday, 3 June, from 6:00pm – 11:00pm
Marginal Utility Gallery is proud to present NOBODY DIGS YOUR MUSIC BUT YOURSELF, an exhibition of new work by ERIC McDADE.
Forty years in the making, Eric McDade's newest solo exhibition at Marginal Utility seems at first glance to […]
1 April – 28 May
Opening reception: Friday, 1 April, from 6:00pm – 11:00pm
Marginal Utility Gallery is proud to present A LARGER REFRIGERATOR, an exhibition of new work by Richard Harrod.
-Our ideal constructions are bleak but comfortable.
In Harrod's project for Marginal Utility, one finds evocative prints that depict the imbroglio of […]
4 February – 27 March
Opening reception: Friday, 4 February, from 6:00pm – 11:00pm
Marginal Utility is proud to present NEOTENY | THE HARD SELL, a solo exhibition of the Philadelphia based artist Jayson Scott Musson.
Neoteny | The Hard Sell is an exhibition of art stuffs by Jayson Scott Musson at the Marginal […]
Zanisnik highlights the benefits of making the useful useless, through a counterpoint-like soup of jump cuts between a retired collector’s mania for mouse traps, and footage of the artist frantically riding a child’s rocking horse bare-chested and wearing a mouse tail made out of duct tape.
1 October – 20 November
Opening reception: Friday, 1 October, from 6:00pm – 11:00pm
Marginal Utility is proud to present ‘Would that You were the last of the filth which You had to remove / why does your flesh shit?’, an exhibition by the Brooklyn based artist Justin Matherly.
The starting point for this […]
6 AUGUST – 25 SEPTEMBER 2010
“This market way of life promotes addictions to stimulation and obsessions with comfort and convenience. Addictions and obsessions – centered primarily around bodily pleasures and status rankings – constitute market moralities of various sorts.”—Cornel West, Race Matters.
Abigail D. DeVille’s series of bricolage sculptures entitled “Universal Diagrams of […]
4 JUNE – 25 JULY 2010
Closing & Live Music Performance: Saturday, 24 July at 8pm
Opening reception: Friday, 4 June, from 6:00pm / Live Music Performance at 9pm
The Deaths of Hamilton Fish is a musical project that weaves together real and fictional characters into a murder mystery that's set in New York […]
2 APRIL – 30 MAY 2010
Marginal Utility is proud to present “The In Acts Out”, an installation of paintings by the Brooklyn based Artist Jaya Howey.
Through a quiet hostility towards the notion of autonomous artistic production, Howey's paintings present a ludic engagement with the current trends and debates about the […]
Marc Andre Robinson’s artistic practice revolves around a situated awareness of historical, cultural and familial relations of belonging.
Robinson is interested in historically loaded objects, icons and images. Drawn toward the banal and often discarded furniture of daily life, Robinson distills the hidden power relations embedded within these everyday things. Depriving commonplace objects of […]