PHILADELPHIA (January 4, 2008) – “Rosalyn Drexler (A Life in Art),” the newest episode in the video blog (vlog) about the mounting of Beyond the Surface: Women and Pop Art 1958-1968 has been posted to www.womenandpopart.blogspot.com. Beyond the Surface is a first-of-its-kind exhibition that will be staged at the Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery at The University of the Arts in January 2010. Rosenwald-Wolf Exhibitions Program Assistant Edward Waisnis directs and edits each episode.

In the newest of nine planned episodes, the artist, novelist, playwright and erstwhile wrestler Drexler, whose work will be featured in the exhibition, ruminates about her life and career in the Pop Art arena. The first episode, “The Genesis of an Exhibition,” focuses on curator and exhibition originator Sid Sachs, his passion for Pop Art and introducing a few of the artists who will be included in the exhibition. In the next episode, which will premiere in March, Sarah Wilson, Ph.D., of the Courtauld Institute of Art in London will offer a European perspective of the women in pop art during the time period.

Including works by Chryssa, Niki de Saint Phalle, Drexler, Marisol, Dorothy Grebenak, Jann Haworth, Kay Kurt, Lee Lozano, Marjorie Strider, Idelle Weber and Joyce Weiland, the exhibition will examine the impact women have had on the traditionally male-dominated field of Pop Art, expand the narrowly defined Pop Art movement and reevaluate its critical reception. In uncovering important female artists, the show will enlarge the canon to reflect more accurately the women working internationally during this period.

Scheduled to travel to Tufts University in the spring of 2010, with other venues pending, the exhibition is being supported by funding from the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative (PEI), a program of the Philadelphia Center for Arts and Heritage, funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts and administered by The University of the Arts. The Philadelphia Cultural Management Initiative supports the vlog.