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Information’s exciting summer programming is kicking off with “Scapegoat Child Lost”, a solo show by @michelle_anne_harris ! Scapegoat Child Lost: Redemption Year, the Great Unlearning is a deeply personal and socially engaged exhibition that examines the lasting effects of childhood (sexual) violence, abuse of power, and intergenerational harm. Drawing from experiences within a military family, as well as late-life understandings of neurodiversity and chronic illness, the artist transforms the gallery into a participatory environment for collective reflection and healing. The Scapegoat is usually a victim of emotional and physical abuse by the narcissistic parent. The Lost Child is usually known as “the quiet one” or “the dreamer”. The Lost Child is the invisible child. They try to escape the family situation by making themselves very small and quiet. Through object-based work, text, and community-centered art-making, the exhibition interrogates how abuse persists not only through individual actions but through systems that normalize silence and protect harm. Centering the experiences of those who have lost a sense of safety in childhood, the work ultimately gestures toward care, accountability, and the reconstruction of self.

EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT! I hate baseball. But I’m a lover of art. @theinformationspace has a group show about baseball called “Shoulder to Shoulder, Skin to Skin” on view now through Saturday, May 2, 2026. The exhibition features work by @nazararts @buckymiller @maryjchampagne @graigkreindler @jamie.user Be sure to check out the closing reception this Saturday along with @bigrampphilly ‘s “Smokesignals” and the launch of @sensusphilly Issue 3 (4-7pm). This piece is behind a paywall. For one, this writer has to pay her babysitter, and two, the history of baseball is linked to the history of the newspaper (papers weren’t free). Subscribe to read the full review. Support independent (farm-to-table) art writing. Image captions: Exhibition images of Alexandria Nazar’s WIP, Oil on canvas, 48 x 40 inches, 2026. Bucky Miller’s Andres “El Gato” Galarraga Baseball Team (Batter), Baseball card, Museum Gel, less than 3 inches, 2026 with Long Bat, Wood and bat, 2019. Spine, Leather, silk, granite, steel, bearing balls, pine rosin, Darth Vader house key, 2026. Sculpture by Mary Champagne. Pledge, Photo on paper, 6 x 9 inches, Bucky Miller. Close up of Mary Champagne’s Consider the Grip, Steel, pine rosin, projector, found footage of It Happens Every Spring (1949), Encyclopedia Britannica’s Throwing in Baseball (1947), 24 x 24 x 48 inches, 2026. Graig Kreindler’s Octavius Catto, Print on paper, 5 x 7 inches, 2020. “Despondent Phillies Fan,” Graphite on paper, 13 X 19 inches, 2024, Jamison Mead.

Information is back again this Spring with Shoulder to Shoulder, Skin to Skin! This timely group exhibition is centered around one of the most consequential American cultural exports; Baseball. The opening reception of this show will be on March 28th from 6-9pm (just in time for the opening weekend of the MLB season)! The show will feature work from Mary Champagne, Graig Kreindler, Jamison Mead, Bucky Miller, and Alexandria Nazar. Come join us! As we approach the 250th anniversary of the birth of our nation, we aim to examine the grand contradictions of our national pastime and one of our most notable cultural exports in our exhibition: Shoulder to Shoulder, Skin to Skin. This body of work notes the complex contradictions & realities of our national pastime in a complete and confrontational manner. Those who discount sports-baseball in particular—as frivolous do so at their own peril. Baseball is indeed a fun, recreational game; the sport is also a direct reflection, influence, and projection of our culture at large. Entire regions of the United States (and the world) base a large amount of their economies, logistics, and senses of pride into these matches. It’s a game of dichotomies. Through baseball, people who were once persecuted may gain respect and acceptance in a society that holds little regard for them. Despite this public embrace for some, not every background is reflected in the players on the field. A glaring example is the dearth of openly out, LGBTQIA+ professional baseball players. Even though baseball is one of the few times in society that men are socially allowed to touch each other in sorrow, joy, comfort, & camaraderie. The sport generated the richest athletes who have ever lived. Yet those at the very bottom of this hierarchy can make minimum wage or less, often with very little hope of ever changing their fortunes while represented by the strongest collective bargaining unit in the United States. This work gives a glimpse into the thrilling, emotional and sometimes shameful ride that baseball can take her viewers through. Despite all of this, we believe in the power of the sport and want to share the love of it with everyone.

Next up in our series interviewing Philadelphia-based artist-run gallery spaces is @theinformationspace based in Port Richmond. In the conversation we talk about Philly (obviously), how the gallery got started, why “INFORMATION,” their neighbors @bigrampphilly #gossip (jk nothing juicy, just big love), the emotional/physical labor involved in keeping INFO afloat, and other art things. Read the whole interview on Substack. AND please consider becoming a paid subscriber so I can keep paying for childcare. Xoxo 💋 Image captions: All images courtesy of INFORMATION. The Dirt in our Garden, Results of our No BFA No MFA Open Call, 2024. Desire Lines, Group Show featuring Carmel Dor, Ash Fritzsche, Kyle Kogut, Jamison Mead, Pomona Za, 2024. Moses Kinney, Explicit, 2019. Katherine Lam, War Trap, 2019.

Information is eager to present, HAUNT: Particulars relating to some unaccountable noises in the House. The opening reception of this show will be on December 13th from 6-9pm with a performance at 7:30pm! Come join us! There will also be an advanced preview of the show on December 6th from 5-7pm. This upcoming exhibition hosts a series of new works and performances by @at_christine in collaboration with @denvernuckollsmusic & @zachmc_d_ ! Welcome to my apartment - This body of work engages the wooden floor as both medium and mediator, situating the apartment not merely as private architecture, but as porous and sonorous sites of relationally. The creaks and groans of floorboards function as an acoustic index — a material trace that evidences contact, stress, and habitation. These sounds destabilize domesticity’s presumed enclosure, reminding us that “home” is co-constructed through the permeability of infrastructures and the audibility of neighboring lives. In this sense, the floor articulates a shared, involuntary intimacy: our movements circulate across surfaces, resounding as both presence and interruption. The rubbings translate this acoustic-spatial condition into a visual archive. By pressing graphite against the fibrous lines of the floor, the work captures a double displacement: the vertical forest reoriented into horizontal plank, and the horizontal surface reinscribed as cascading sheets along the gallery walls. This gesture reanimates the floor as a suspended forest, a spectral ecology wherein the labor of bearing weight is transformed into an aesthetic of line, repetition, and descent. Tim Ingold has argued that materials are not inert but “storied”, carrying histories of growth and use; the rubbings operate precisely in this register, treating the floor as both witness and collaborator.

CAMP opening reception ☀️ If you couldn’t make it to the opening, dm us to see the show in-person! Gallery hours will be by appointment

Information Space is excited to present our upcoming exhibition Camp by artists Zoe Hawk and Rachel Wisniewski. Please join us for the opening reception on July 26th from 5-8pm! Camp is a meditation on the moonstruck world of girlhood: its rites of passage, emotional undercurrents, and wild self-expression. Featuring large-scale prints by Rachel Wisniewski and Zoe Hawk, the exhibition explores the rare space where young girls can be wholly and authentically themselves: summer camp. Wisniewski’s photographs, taken at a sleep away camp in rural Pennsylvania, shadow one bunk of campers as they establish identity and community in a whimsical world of s’mores, hair braiding and swimming. Hawks paintings mirror these themes: conjuring dreamlike tableaus where girls take center stage and can be unguarded, theatrical, and free. Together their work creates a layered portrait of coming of age - where camp is not just a place, but a state of becoming.

ICONOMANCY @theinformationspace Today is the last day to see ICONOMANCY at the closing reception from 1-4 pm with an artist talk at 3 pm. This exhibition has been a personal favorite of mine. Thank you to the @theinformationspace for supporting my work, @pauldagostinostudio for writing the incredible Community Pages, and to all who have seen and supported the exhibition. 🕯️ 📼 🎃 ♊️ 🕯️ #soloexhibition #kylekogut

Don’t miss the Closing Reception of ICONOMANCY next Saturday 5/31 from 1-4 pm, during which artist Kyle Kogut will give an artist talk at 3 pm. 🕯️ This is your last chance to drink the flavor-aid and get your limited-edition copy of the ♊️ Order of the Gemini ♊️ Community Pages. 📅 May 31st ⏰ 1-4 pm 🎤 Artist Talk 3 pm 📍 2024 E Westmoreland St #artisttalk #closingreception

Honored to have ICONOMANCY, currently on view @theinformationspace reviewed by @edward_waisnis for @whitehotmagazine Also highlighter are other fantastic shows and spaces in Philly. Read Edward’s insight and full review at the link in my bio. ICONOMANCY is on view until 5/31, with gallery hours on Saturdays from 2-4. We will be hosting a closing reception and artist on the 31st. More info soon!

Full of dark humor and implicit mystique, the mixed-media sculptures and drawings Kyle Kogut @kylekogut created for “Iconomancy”, the artist’s current solo show at The Information Space @theinformationspace in Philadelphia, were the generative objects for me to write in a variety of fictive modes and voices while composing “Community Pages”, a newsletter-type volume that features a range of hokeyness, humor, holiness, and subdued horror, all indicative of the character of and a number of characters in the local chapter of an imaginary sect known as The Order of the Gemini, of which Kyle’s artworks are held to be hallowed artifacts. Alongside a number of strange newsletter-ish entries I might’ve had too much fun writing, the volume, designed by Kyle as a limited-edition zine, also features several exhibition-specific texts, including my obliquely angled “Preamble to a Viewing” walkthrough of the show, and Kyle’s own statement about his artwork in general and the works on view. Grab a copy of “Community Pages” if you visit “Iconomancy,” which is on view now and through May 31st. You can also read “Community Pages” online. Link in bio. ⚡️🔥 🕯️ 🔥 ⚡️ . #pauldagostino #artwriting #exhibitiontext #fiction #newsletter #zine #informationspace #philadelphia #kylekogut #iconomancy #communitypages #orderofthegemini

Honorable members of the Order of the Gemini ♊️, it is our pleasure to share this month’s edition of Community Pages. Get updates on Order news, chime in on local chatter, explore the marketplace, and read this month’s Words of the Grand Executor. 🙏🏻 Written by @pauldagostinostudio and designed by @kylekogut , this limited-edition news letter also includes a “Preamble to a Viewing of ICONOMANCY”to heighten your experience. Pick up your copy at the opening of ICONOMANCY tomorrow night from 5-8 pm @theinformationspace , located at 2024 E Westmoreland St. #newsletter #pamphlet #orderofthegemini #wordsonhigh #publication