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319 North 11th Street, 2nd Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Hours
By Appointment
Saturday + Sunday 12:00-5:00pm
7 March – 15 March 2021
Marginal Utility is proud to present Blue Reminder (Wave One), an immersive multimedia installation by Philadelphia based artist Quinton Maldonado. Maldonado is a participant in the 319 2nd Flr Residency Program.
Blue Reminder (Wave One) explores motion and presence that is generated within a […]
4 December 2020 – 10 January 2021
Gallery hours: by appointment only (david@marginalutlity.org)
Marginal Utility and Grizzly Grizzly are proud to present Formed Under Pressure, a group exhibition featuring the work of Lola Buck, Kevin Lee and Jessica Stanhagen.
This exhibition, presented by the Studio Art MFA graduating class at The University […]
22 May – 26 July 2020
Screening and Online Opening Reception Friday, 29 May from 5:00 – 7:00 pm
Marginal Utility is proud to present Exercises in Ineffability 02, a selection of experimental videos and animations that were produced between February and early May 2020 before and during the peak of the Covid […]
22 May – 14 July 2020
Live Zoom performance and opening reception 12 June at 6pm.
Marginal Utility is proud to present Upon Second Reading or The Prequels a solo online exhibition by the Philadelphia based artist Taji Ra’oof Nahl.
“With the advent of terms such as SHADOW BANNING, SOCIAL DISTANCING, FALSE POSITIVES, […]
6 March – 18 October 2020
Opening Reception Friday, 6 March from 6 – 10 pm
Marginal Utility is proud to present Suspended Animation a solo exhibition by West Chester Pennsylvania based artist Hong-Bich Huynh Vernon.
The decision to leave is a wrenching moment of abandonment compelled by unbearable circumstances into the unknown. […]
1 November 2019
Opening Reception Friday, 1 November from 6 – 10 pm
Marginal Utility is pleased to present Exercises in Ineffability, a reel of experimental videos and animations projected in the gallery’s annex space.
Featured Artists:
Bernadette Colburn
Kaisha Dukes
Lily Furniss
Kemeys Goethe
Ava Haitz
Tyler Leary
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1 Novemeber – 15 December 2019
Opening Reception Friday, 1 November from 6 – 10 pm
Marginal Utility is proud to present The pull, tops, where keys, our wallet zig zags a solo exhibition by Oakland California based artist Alexander Cheves.
Alexander Cheves’s work explores the relationships between shape and color in paintings […]
6 September – 20 October 2019
Opening Reception Friday, 6 September from 6 – 10 pm
Marginal Utility is proud to present “Bound to the Past,” a solo exhibition by Philadelphia-based artist Gabriel Martinez.
“I hope that as we fight for the absolute surety of gay marriage, adoption rights, and the […]
2 – 18 August 2019
Opening reception Friday, 2 August from 6 – 10 pm
Marginal Utility is proud to present Contingent Archives, a group exhibition by Philadelphia based artists Jessica Elena Aquino, Vera Lucía Andrade Turner and Hong-Bich Huynh Vernon.
“You can find the entire cosmos in the least remarkable objects.” Wislawa Szymborska
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3 May – 7 July 2019
Opening reception Friday, 3 May from 6 – 10 pm
Marginal Utility is proud to present NATIONAL SECURITY IS OUR PRIORITY! an exhibition by Massachusetts-based artist Omid Shekari.
Threats are weapons that are employed by the state to ignite fear in order to justify violence that is only […]