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 be a collection of misunderstandings [...]

Thursday, 19 May, 8-10pm 2011

LIZ WENDELBO AND RAHA RAISSNIA, with FOOD PYRAMID AND DEEP EARTH

Please join Marginal Utility on Thursday, May 19, for a night film and music
organized by Jonathan Thomas, featuring a selection of new films by Liz Wendelbo,
scored by Sean McBride; a projected image performance by Raha Raissnia,
accompanied by Food Pyramid; and a [...]

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 man versus nature. [...]

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 Utility gallery on Friday, [...]

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.

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 Discourse” are [...]

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 project is the Belvedere [...]

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 during the 1930’s. The [...]

Thursday, 22 July, 2010  9pm

LIKE THAT WOULD EVER HAPPEN #2:
A Film Series Presented by Hiding Place and Marginal Utility

GERTRUDE VS. MABUSE
AMJ Crawford and Danny Snelson (ex libris)
playing in
Gertrude Stein Video Organ vs. The Dark Cloud of Dr. Mabuse

Friday, 14 May, 8-10pm 2010

LIKE THAT WOULD EVER HAPPEN #1:
A Film Series Presented by Hiding Place and Marginal Utility

A CONSTANT SCORE

Please join Hiding Place and Marginal Utility on Friday May 14th for a night of film and music, A Constant Score, organized by Jonathan Thomas. The event will begin at 8pm with a screening of [...]