All Week
10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
The University of the Arts
Sol Mednick Gallery & Gallery 1401
211 South Broad Street, 14th & 15th floors
Free
Reception on Thursday, May 3, from 5 to 8 p.m.

In collaboration with the University of the Arts, Equality Forum features the photography of Gabriel Martinez and Zoe Strauss in its annual free art exhibit.

Gabriel Martinez, a Cuban-American Philadelphia artist, works in a variety of media, including photography, installation, performance, sculpture, works on paper, and video. Martinez’s work has been exhibited and reviewed both nationally and internationally. He is a recipient of two Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowships, a 2003 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant for Painters and Sculptors and in 2001 received a Pew Fellowship in the Arts. He teaches at the University of Pennsylvania where he is currently the Director of Graduate Photography Studies at PennDesign.

Zoe Strauss is a self-taught artist who has been described as “the chronicler of Philadelphia's mean streets” and “the city’s own Diane Arbus.” The Equality Forum exhibit includes seven images from “Under 95,” Strauss’ annual exhibition under an I-95 overpass of photographs of surrounding neighborhoods. Strauss is Founder and Executive Director of the Philadelphia Public Art Project, an organization dedicated to bringing the finest conceptual art to South Philadelphia neighborhoods. She was a 2005 recipient of a Pew Fellowship in the Arts.

Reception on Thursday, May 3, from 5 to 8 p.m.

From Self Portraits by Heterosexual Men, by Gabriel Martinez

Melissa's Handstand, by Zoe Strauss