About Us

Based in Philadelphia and founded in 2015, AUTOMAT Collective is an artist-run curatorial collective that champions emerging artists through exhibitions, programming, and publications. We follow a co-operative model that supports the diverse backgrounds and unique interests of each curatorial member, with new exhibitions taking place in our gallery each month. Along with our regular programming, we are thrilled to partner with local collectives and community organizations to provide space for collaborative engagement. AUTOMAT is located in the Crane Arts Building, home to many art galleries and artist studios — and we hope you’ll come say hi.

Contact us: automatcollective(at)gmail(dot)com

Hours
&

Location

Saturdays from

12-5pm and by appointment.

Second Thursday

openings

are from 6-9pm.

1400 N AMERICAN ST.
PHILADELPHIA, PA 19122

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Located on the first floor of the Crane Arts building, in the first gallery when you walk through the main front doors. We are accessible by car, bike, and public transit. Our gallery is wheelchair accessible. Free handicap parking.

AUTOMAT Members

Danielle Degon Rhodes

is a multimedia artist and curator. She graduated with a BFA in Sculpture from Tyler School of Art and Architecture in 2017. Since, she has completed residencies at the Salzburg International Academy of Fine Art in Austria and at Tai Kwun Contemporary in Hong Kong.

Through her studio and curatorial practices, she explores her interest in labor and material extraction in search of artist-made alternatives.

Addison Namnoum

is an artist, educator, and curator. She received her BA in Human Ecology at College of the Atlantic in 2014 and her MFA at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2019. In her studio practice she works with landscape through experiences of the every-day, drawing on the languages of weather, waterways, and wind to reflect the sensorial and shifting world we inhabit. She uses narrative structures in the production of art books, videos, and photo series to examine pattern and to explore the ways we understand human memory as it relates to place.

Kimi Pryor

is a Los Angeles-born painter living and working in Germantown, Philadelphia. She received her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, founded the Philadelphia-based studio visit blog phillypeer, moderates a Philly-based crit group, and has exhibited in New York and locally, with recent exhibitions including “The Buried Life”, a two-person show with Robert at Da Vinci Art Alliance’s Gallery 2, and “Inner Currents”, a two-person show with Matt Allyn Chapman at Curio Gallery & Creative Supply in Lancaster, PA. “I am interested in the imaginal, the inner, and the mysterious. My work explores how thought, the search for meaning, and creation/destruction cycles shape and form worlds over time.”

Lou Serna

is a Latinx/Native American curator and artist. He is a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts with a current curatorial practice focused on diverse voices and visions. He lives and works in South Philly.

Kate Testa

is a curator, educator and mixed media artist whose work explores themes of the metaphysical and the occult while investigating how the art making process can transcend into a spiritual practice. Her background is based in the crafts. She received her BFA from The Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2008 where she studied glass and then worked professionally in the glass industry for the next 8 years in Seattle, WA. In 2016 she relocated to pursue her master’s degree and received her MFA concentrating in sculpture from the University of Delaware in 2018. She was the 2018-19 Curatorial Fellow at The Delaware Contemporary and has taught at Delaware College of Art and Design in Wilmington, DE and West Chester University in West Chester, PA. For more information visit her website follow her on Instagram @therealkatetesta

Jacqueline Yvonne Tull

is a Baltimore-based artist investigating the connection between people and the objects they collect and cherish through sculptures, drawings, and digital paintings. She is the Interdisciplinary Sculpture Studio Manager for the Maryland Institute College of Art. Jacqueline grew up in Greenbelt, Maryland, and completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the Pennsylvania College of Art and Design in Lancaster, Pennsylvania while spending summers studying plein air painting and figure drawing at the Mount Gretna School of Art in Mount Gretna, Pennsylvania, and the Rome Art Program in Rome, Italy. She completed her Master of Fine Art degree at the University of Delaware, where she specialized in Sculpture and Material Culture studies. She has taught sculpture and other fine art courses at multiple universities in the Philadelphia region, and has exhibited works in the Mid-Atlantic region, New York, and Berlin, Germany.

Tess Wei

is a Philadelphia native who is interested in lingering as an act of resistance in a time defined by speed and efficiency. Their work is meant to offer space for contemplation, (day)dreaming and rest. Tess received a BA from Swarthmore College and MFA from PAFA. They are currently the Assistant to the Director of the List Gallery, Swarthmore College and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at the college as well. Their only other important pieces of information are David Bowie forever and their favorite movie is Harold and Maude (they are always in search of other enthusiasts).