AUTOMAT

Today is the last day to view “Unbound” at AUTOMAT Collective! We will be open today from 12-5pm, so please do stop by for one last look at the amazing work of artists Christen Baker, Mary Champagne, Izabela Cookson, Charles Jarboe, Sol Kim, Emily Laughlin, Noah McWilliams, Lena Ruth Schwartz, and Echo Xu 🪢

𝐀𝐝𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬: AUTOMAT, Crane Arts Building, 1400 N. American St, Suite 105, Philadelphia

Unbound is curated by AUTOMAT Members Lexi Arrietta, Pilar Caruso, Jo Nakayama-Painter, and Dana Suleymanova.

Join us Thursday, December 11, from 6-9 pm for the opening reception of Unbound at AUTOMAT Collective! 🪢🫧🪤

Amidst unflagging systems of control, we become acutely aware of our own personhood, compelled again and again to define ourselves anew. Disparate pockets of knowledge converge, caught between iterations of self, layered between internal and external impositions. The works in Unbound evade, highlight, and resist forms of capture. Exploring corporeality, surveillance, and ecology, the artists offer intimate, bodily understandings, where agential subjects break free from their formal containment. Responding to our current moment—in which media and constant observation breach the self as an internal state of being—Unbound suggests a release of our firmly held adherence to physicality, and avers divergent possibilities. Here, we transcend our own capture as subjects and claim an existence that resists parameters. With each symbolic or material iteration of self, we assert our bodies as new vessels of change, adaptation, and resistance. 💢

Unbound brings together the work of Christen Baker, Mary Champagne, Izabela Cookson, Charles Jarboe, Sol Kim, Emily Loughlin, Noah McWilliams, Lena Ruth Schwartz, and Echo Xu.

Unbound is curated by AUTOMAT members Lexi Arrietta, Pilar Caruso, Jo Nakayama-Painter, and Dana Suleymanova through AUTOMAT Collective’s Annual Open Call✨

👀 ON VIEW: The exhibition will be on view from December 6, 2025 through January 24, 2026. Gallery hours are Saturdays from 12-5pm, or by appointment.

📍ADDRESS: AUTOMAT Collective, 1400 N. American St., Philadelphia, PA

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO October 21! 👀👀👀

This group exhibition will be curated by our members, and will run from December 6th 2025 - January 24th 2026. Open to emerging and mid-career artists working in any medium in the Philadelphia region and beyond. Please see submission requirements and the application details on our website. Link in bio.

Open calls introduce your work to our curators and present possibilities for future exhibitions even if you are not included in this group show. Our members often review our open call records when preparing for new projects.

Link in bio to apply!


_

🚨LAST CALL FOR APPLICATIONS!🚨

AUTOMAT announces a call for artworks for our 2025 Open Call exhibition,open to emerging and mid-career artists working in any medium in the Philadelphia region and beyond. This group exhibition will be curated by our members, and will run from December 6th 2025 - January 24th 2026. Please see submission requirements and the application details on our website. Link in bio.

Our annual open call introduces your work to our curators and places you on our radar for future exhibitions even if you are not included in this group show. Our members often review our open call records when preparing for new projects, so this opportunity extends beyond the reach of a single show

A reduced application fee is available for those who need it, and can be self-selected on our website.

Applications close 10/14 at 10pm.

Link in bio to apply!



collective
_