Fall 2026 Exhibitions
Fall 2026 exhibitions open on September 8, 2026. Check back for more exhibition information!
Jeremiah Chechik is a Canadian-born artist based in Venice, California. Known for
a career spanning fashion photography, music videos, and film and television directing,
his practice consistently explores the shifting boundary between fact and fiction.
In his recent work, Chechik brings together fine art photography and artificial intelligence,
using poetic prompts to generate images that construct speculative, imagined realities. Works by Carolyn Case, Alex Ebstein, Alexis Granwell, and Magnolia Laurie. What does
it mean to know the world through the body? This question, threaded through the works
in TOUCH GRASS, feels both timeless and newly urgent. The phrase 鈥渢ouch grass鈥� is
borrowed from internet slang and is commonly used as a joke or a reprimand, a reminder
to step away from the screen and return to material reality. In this exhibition, the
words become something slower and more searching, a meditation on contact itself,
on the way thought can move through the hand, through repetition, through texture,
through the accumulated evidence of making. An exhibition drawn from the Phillips Museum's permanent collection marks America's
250th anniversary by exploring distinctive currents in its artistic history. Themes
include: Exploration, Expansion & Industrialization / Portraiture and the Rise of
Photography / Realism in the Early 20th Century. Rooted in the deep traditional art of Pennsylvania, the regional collection of the
Phillips Museum highlights the distinctive and colorful ways that immigrant populations
celebrated their native countries鈥� stylistic heritage. Their unique points of view
are expressed through a variety of materials and forms, including ceramics, glass,
metalwork, furniture, painting, and textiles. A pop-up exhibition in fall 2026 explores the avant-garde music scene in Philadelphia.Jeremiah Chechik, Micrographica
TOUCH GRASS
American Art
Ingrained: Celebrating Pennsylvania鈥檚 Cultural Heritage
Philadelphia Underground: Music, Art, Dystopia