Exhibitions
Victoria Fu: Lorem ipsum

5 April – 26 May 2013
Opening reception: Friday, 5 April 2013, from 6 – 11 pm
Marginal Utility is proud to present LOREM IPSUM, an exhibition of new moving image works by the Southern California-based artist VICTORIA FU.
“Lorem ipsum” is a popular filler text to test fonts and graphic layouts–“neutral” […]
Gahee Park: Back to Nature
Douglas Irving Repetto: forever wild (nest machine)

7 December – 20 January
Opening reception Friday, 7 December 2012, from 6 – 11 pm
Marginal Utility is proud to present FOREVER WILD (NEST MACHINE), an exhibition of a new project by the New York based artist DOUGLAS IRVING REPETTO.
Preemptive nostalgia for wilderness and creatures lost.
A run down workshop on […]
Mike Vass: THE OLD WAYS
Jeanne Jaffe: Four Quartets
Opening reception Friday, 7 September 2012, from 6 – 11 pm
Marginal Utility is proud to present “Four Quartets”, an exhibition of new work by the Philadelphia based artist Jeanne Jaffe.
This exhibition is informed by T.S. Eliot’s book of poetry titled the “Four Quartet’s”. In these poems Eliot explores the experience of time, […]
Get it While it’s Cheap #2

August 3 – 26, 2012
Opening reception Friday, 3 August 2012, from 6 – 11 pm
Marginal Utility is pleased to present “get it while it's cheap #2”, a summer group show that features new projects by Coady Brown, Kyle Goldbach, Abby King, Patrick Maguire, Zorawar Sidhu.
Coady Brown's paintings are typically based […]
Abigail DeVille: Hooverville Torqued Ellipse

18 July – 12 August 2012
Marginal Utility Gallery is proud to present HOOVERVILLE TORQUED ELLIPSE, new work by ABIGAIL DEVILLE as its last project in a series of exhibitions for FIRST AMONG EQUALS at the ICA in Philadelphia.
Through the referencing of a canonical sculpture from recent art history, combined with an awareness […]
Richard Harrod: THE RENDERERS

27 June- 15 July, 2012
Marginal Utility Gallery is proud to present THE RENDERERS, an exhibition of new work by RICHARD HARROD as a part of FIRST AMONG EQUALS exhibition at the ICA in Philadelphia.
“Entering or exiting through a doorway serves as an ‘event boundary’ in the mind, which separates episodes of activity […]
Scott Kip: Illuminated Structures

1 June – 29 July, 2012
Opening reception Friday, 1 June 2012, from 6 – 11 pm
Marginal Utility is pleased to present Illuminated Structures, an exhibition of new work by the Philadelphia based artist SCOTT KIP.
Kip employs the use of scale-model structures to build spatial metaphors for sentient life that depict the […]


