Address
319 North 11th Street, 2nd Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Hours
By Appointment
Saturday + Sunday 12:00-5:00pm
1 – 17 October 2021
Opening reception 6:00-9:00pm Friday October 1st
Marginal Utility is proud to present an exhibition of recent work by Philadelphia based artists Neill Catangy and Brandon Straus.
Brandon Straus and Neill Catangy both share a second generation Filipino identity and create works that explore material culture and tradition. Overlapping themes […]
3 – 19 September 2021
Opening reception 6:00-9:00pm Friday September 3rd
Marginal Utility is proud to present an exhibition of recent work by Philadelphia based artist Maureen Maduadichie.
Through mixed media collages Maureen Maduadichie processes thoughts about identity, and ways that an individual can possess various and complex identities. Maduadichie’s work primarily explores this […]
17 May – 13 June 2021
Open to the public:
11, 12, 13 June from 5:00 – 8:00pm
We at Marginal Utility are happy to welcome Brandon Straus as the fourth round participant in the 319 2nd floor Residency Program.
For his residency at Marginal Utility Brandon Straus is creating a multichannel […]
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 […]