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AUTOMAT, 1400 N American Street, Philadelphia, PA (2026)

02/01/2026

We’re excited to announce Pam Korman’s first solo exhibition, The Weight of Ghosts, opening in February at AUTOMAT Gallery!

In a large installation, functional scaffolding supports a series of pulsing lights that sometimes signal in tandem and at other moments emerge individually. Sculptures and videos feature mundane domestic items, haunted by evidence of touch and charged with unspoken histories. Here, Korman explores “weight” by gesturing toward the physical activities associated with an object as well as the psychological or emotional load it can carry. In one video, detailed cast shadows deceptively multiply the presence of a childhood toy. In another, passing micro-expressions connect three women across moving video portraits. Sitting alone in an empty room, they don’t share physical space, but they are connected by a sense of generational continuity...

Her work represents the aggregated impressions and shared family traits that build the architecture of selfhood and identity. She asks, “In the end, what is left behind and what is carried forward?” as she traces the weight of legacy through generations of women.

Exhibition Dates: February 7 – 28, 2026
Artist Reception: Thursday, February 12, 6 - 9 pm
Location: AUTOMAT, Suite 105, Crane Arts Building, 1400 North American Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122

01/24/2026

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.

01/08/2026

Drop in tonight from 6-9 PM for Second Thursday to see Unbound! 🧯💎🧱

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

The exhibition will be on view from December 6, 2025 to January 24, 2026. Open gallery hours will be held Saturdays from 12-5pm.

12/01/2025

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

11/07/2025

Don’t miss the chance to see our members show their work this First Friday on Nov. 7th from 6-9PM! 🎹👁️🔲

fragment:form brings together work from members of the artist-run curatorial collective
AUTOMAT Collective. Across distinct mediums and emotional narratives, the artists open up
new vantage points for considering how the parts of a whole can reconfigure its sum. How does
our view change when the pieces of something fractured become their own multitude? What
happens when a displaced fragment tells us more about the place it came from than the place
itself can?

11/01/2025

AUTOMAT Collective is proud to announce the opening of fragment:form, an exhibition of works by the members of AUTOMAT on view at Vox Populi.

fragment:form features the work of Lexi Arrietta, Brynn Hurlstone, Zoe McCarthy, Jo Nakayama, Addison Namnoum, Whitson Ramsey, Danielle Degon
Rhodes, Lou Serna, and Dana Suleymanova. On view from Nov. 7 - Dec. 14, 2025 with an opening reception on Nov. 7 from 6-9 PM! 🌀

Curated by Lexi Arrietta and Whitson Ramsey

Concurrently, Vox Populi will be hosting THIS TOO IS A THRESHOLD at Automat Collective in the Crane Arts Building from Nov. 1 - 29, 2025. Join us for the opening reception Nov. 13 from 6-9 PM❣️

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11/01/2025

AUTOMAT Collective is proud to announce the opening of fragment:form, an exhibition of works by the members of AUTOMAT on view at Vox Populi.
fragment:form features the work of Lexi Arrietta, Brynn Hurlstone, Zoe McCarthy, Jo Nakayama, Addison Namnoum, Whitson Ramsey, Danielle Degon
Rhodes, Lou Serna, and Dana Suleymanova. On view from Nov. 7 - Dec. 14, 2025.

Curated by Lexi Arrietta and Whitson Ramsey

Concurrently, Vox Populi will be hosting THIS TOO IS A THRESHOLD at Automat Collective in the Crane Arts Building from Nov. 1 - 29, 2025.

.meadow.studio @ .namnoum

10/15/2025

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!

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10/07/2025

🚨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!

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09/27/2025

Today is the last day to view “Sky Slips Through Stone” 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 Hannah Bates, Anna Bockrath, Francesca Lally, Cecilia McKinnon, and Stephanie Van Riet.

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

Sky Slips Through Stone is curated by AUTOMAT Members Danielle Degon Rhodes and Addison Namnoum .namnoum

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09/25/2025

Stephanie Van Riet (b. Boston, MA; l. Providence, RI) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice seeks to cultivate compassion and bring attention to our natural world and the often-overlooked creatures endangered by modern lifestyles. Fascinated by how living beings sculpt the contours of our planet and develop collective intelligence through movement, she visually organizes her observations and research through sculpture, printmaking, artist books, and installation.

Van Riet received her BA in Art and Anthropology from Connecticut College in New London, CT and is currently pursuing her MFA in Sculpture at Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI. At RISD, she works as a Biomaterials Graduate Assistant at the Nature Lab, furthering her exploration of interspecies collaboration and sustainable approaches to creating.

“Through my work, I seek to understand our transient being within the scope of deep time. I am inspired by the finitude of life, and how through the fraction of a second that we live, we continue to create, search for meaning and pattern, and question the gravity of existence.” - Stephanie Van Riet

Experience Stephanie Van Riet’s work informed by the architecture of the universe at Sky Slips Through Stone, on view at AUTOMAT until September 27th.

Theory of Everything, Stephanie Van Riet
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09/23/2025

Cecilia McKinnon is an interdisciplinary artist and educator, living and working in Lenapehoking /
Philadelphia, PA. McKinnon’s work explores entropy, precarious landscapes, and “natural” histories through sculpture, video, textiles, and creative writing.

McKinnon has exhibited internationally at venues including Center for Contemporary Art (Santa Fe); Vox Populi, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, and Cherry Street Pier (Philadelphia); Amos Eno Gallery (NYC); and RIPA Festival and FoFA Gallery (Montreal). She is a member of the Biomaterials Working Group, a collective for research and experimentation with sustainable materials based in Philadelphia. She holds an MFA in Fibers + Material Practices from Concordia University, and a BFA from the University of New Mexico.

“My practice explores how human bodies become part of physical landscapes. How do our relationships to landscape and time shift when we consider accumulating heavy metals, plastics, chemical residues, and minerals among our blood, bones, and soft tissues? How do we imagine the future fossils of our daily lives?” - Cecilia McKinnon

Experience Celia McKinnon’s sculptural pieces using ageing, analog, and material media formats on view at Sky Slips Through Stone at AUTOMAT until September 27th.

How to Look at an Unfixed Form, Cecilia McKinnon
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