215|610 CONTEMPORARY Juried Exhibition

Juried by Jane Irish

On View February 23-April 3, 2026

About the Exhibition: The Gallery at Delaware County Community College presents the annual 215|610 CONTEMPORARY Juried Exhibition, featuring the work of 27 regional emerging artists living and working in and around the Philadelphia region. The 2026 exhibition will be on view in the Art Gallery February 23–April 3 and is juried by artist Jane Irish. The purpose of this juried exhibition is to showcase local emerging contemporary artists, create a platform for critical discourse through an exchange of ideas, and to push the boundaries of an age-old practice. On Thursday, March 19 beginning at 4 p.m., the exhibition’s juror Jane Irish will lecture on her personal work and practice as well as the exhibition itself. This Juror’s Talk is open to the public and free to attend.

Award Recipients:

Sol Kim, Juror’s Choice for Home Sweet Home
Aleah Zerance, First Place for Maybe They Smile, Maybe They Leave
Olivia Hiester, Second Place for Summer’s End
Chad Cortez Everett, Third Place for Destruction of Playground Dreams

Featured Artists: Justin Bursk, Jeff Carpenter, Christina P. Day, Kathleen Eastwood-Riaño, Jen Hintz Eggers, Elliot Reyburn Engles, Chad Cortez Everett, Raphael Fenton-Spaid, Craig Fineburg, Eric Finzi, Brian Guerin, Olivia Hiester, Cacie Rosario Jackson, Sol Kim, Robert Lipartito, Stephen March, Alexandria Nazar, Parker Phelps, Kristina Ricci, Jennifer Rodgers, Olivia Smith, Gordon Stillman, Hester Stinnett, Kalinda Tran, Ira Upin, Kosuke Yuki, Aleah Zerance

Juror’s Talk & Exhibition Reception Thursday, March 19

Juror’s Talk featuring Jane Irish at 4–5 p.m.
Large Auditorium | Academic Building | Marple Campus
Streaming Online via Zoom | Registration strongly recommended.

REGISTER for Juror’s Talk

Exhibition Reception to immediately follow Juror’s Talk | 5–7 p.m.
Art Gallery | Room 2305 | Academic Building | Marple Campus
Light refreshments will be served. Open to the public. Free to attend.

Gallery Hours Monday–Friday | 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
The Gallery is closed March 9–13, 2026.

This exhibition is sponsored by the Communication, Arts & Humanities Division.

Jane Irish’s paintings create confrontations and coexistences between realms of history that rarely collide—such as ornamentation and political protest, art and warfare, poetry and architecture. Often employing the traditional medium of egg tempera, an ancient technique used in wall frescos and illuminated manuscripts, Irish’s paintings fuse energetic images of sumptuous interiors with inscriptions of colonialism and resistance. She incorporates imagery from her travels abroad to historic sites and buildings (through France, Vietnam, Italy, and other places) where she paints on site alla prima and interweaves labyrinthine spaces with war motifs and poetry by Vietnam War veterans. In 2005, she organized the exhibition Operation Rapid American Withdrawal in response to the invasion of Iraq, which included works by over 80 artists. Alongside her prolific painting practice, Irish creates ceramic vases that further explore questions of beauty and violence and the construction of historical meaning through decorative patterns and traditional forms.

Jane Irish received her MFA in 1980 from Queens College, CUNY, and has exhibited at venues including Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Institute of Contemporary Art, PA; the Walker Art Center, MN; Delaware Center for Contemporary Art; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Baltimore Museum of Art. Irish has been the recipient of a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, a Painters and Sculptors Grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, a Painting Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, and a Painting Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her work is held in public collections including the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Irish lives and works in Philadelphia.

This exhibition is sponsored by the Communication, Arts & Humanities division of Delaware County Community College.

2024, Juror: Byron Wolfe (Artist, Educator)
2023, Juror: Mark Thomas Gibson (Artist, Educator)
2022, Juror: Alex Klein (Curator at the ICA Philadelphia)
2021, Juror: Christina Vassallo (Executive Director of the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia)
2020, No Exhibition
2019, Juror: Jodi Throckmorton (Curator of Contemporary Art at PAFA)
2018, Juror: Jean Shin (Installation Artist, Educator)
2017, Juror: Odili Donald Odita (Painter)
2016, Juror: Pepon Osorio (Installation Artist, Sculptor)
2015, No Exhibition
2014, Juror: Luis Gispert (Photographer, Sculptor)
2013, Juror: Sid Sachs (Curator, Gallery Director at University of the Arts, Philadelphia)
2012, Juror: Donald Kuspit (Art Critic, Author, Art Historian)
2011, Juror: Kate Kraczon (Curator at the ICA Philadelphia)