University City Arts League
4226 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104

University City Arts League (UCAL) Celebrates Women’s Month with Personal/Universal a Group Show Showcasing Six Stellar Women Photographers
March 13 – April 5, 2009

The University City Arts League celebrates March (Women’s Month) with Personal/Universal, a group show featuring the distinctive works of six women photographers who share a passion for exploration and concern for social change.

One of the exhibitors, photojournalist Genevieve Coutroubis asked the group (Julia Blaukopf, Jill Katz, Amie Potsic, Beth Uzwiak, Elysa Voshell) to come together for Personal/Universal. The exhibition opens Friday, March 13 with a reception from 6pm-8pm and closes Sunday, April 5. UCAL’s gallery is located at 4226 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA. Admission is free and the public is invited to attend. For more information, contact 215-382-7811 or www.ucartsleague.org.

Personal/Universal includes 28 artworks featuring photographs presented in various forms: fabric panels, books, prints and scrolls. The collective statement reads, “With every image, each photographer has a different story, yet there is a shared vision and desire to create a common dialogue through photographic language.” Each artist has a strong exhibition history and their work reflects images from where they have lived and explored as destinations for change.

Genevieve Coutroubis, a dual-citizen of Greece and United States, will show seven photographs ranging in size from 10 inches to 33 inches. Elysa Voshell has five 20-inch archival pigment print photographs and a 22-page book (archival pigment print, screenprint, and letterpress) created with Coutroubis. Voshell has exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, the Seoul International Artist’s Book Fair, and the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Amie Potsic work includes six archival pigment prints 24 by 50 inches reflecting her travels abroad. Her work has been exhibited in in Los Angeles, California and Philadelphia. Jill Katz who lives and works in Philadelphia, will exhibit six black and white archival pigment prints. Julia Blaukopf who traveled to Ghana to photograph for Women in Progress has four 4 feet by 4 feet photographs on sheer fabric. Visual anthropologist Beth Uzwiak’s art practice explores the human body and what shapes our embodied experiences. She will exhibit a book.