Com·bi·na·to·ri·um
April 4, 2026 - April 25, 2026
Opening Reception:
Thursday, April 9th from 6-9pm
Closing Reception:
Saturday, April 25th from 3-8pm
Gallery Hours:
Saturdays 12-5pm and by appointment
In the Combinatorium, preexisting objects re-assemble in their afterlives. Their fragments combine and reconfigure time and space, producing new connections with one another. Combinatorium presents the amalgamation of these disparate parts as a site-responsive alchemy. The exhibition features the work of UPenn MFA candidates Michael D’Ippolito, Ana González Garduño, and Jingyi Ling. The artists fuse industrial parts and biological phenomena in an embodied process of transmutation, capturing fragmentary composites mid-metaphorphosis. Their negotiation of formal constraints becomes a method to generate chimeric sculptures.
Combinatorium is co-organized by UPenn art history graduate students, Nina Huang, Rachel Salem-Wiseman, and Zino Adjroud. It is the twenty-sixth exhibition in The Incubation Series—a student-led initiative that fosters new ways of making, exhibiting, and seeing art in collaborative exhibitions. This exhibition is made possible with the generous support of the Katherine Stein Sachs CW’69 and Keith L. Sachs W’67 Expendable Program Fund, the Department of History of Art at the School of Arts and Sciences, the Department of Fine Arts at the Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania, and the College Center for Visual Culture and the Department of the History of Art at Bryn Mawr College.