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On View: October 2 – November 1, 2026

Our featured collections this month bring four artists to Paradigm who are exploring new concepts in their practices prior to embarking on the creation of larger exhibitions over the next two years. This is your chance to experience a glimpse into each artist’s process and the driving forces behind their newest inspirations in these smaller “Featured Collections” releases, offering a rare chance to embrace what’s next for each artist just as the concepts come to light for the first time. 

OPENING RECEPTION
Friday, October 2 • 5PM - 8PM
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Katherine Fraser
 "Being/Becoming"

"The images speak to the parallel between my personal growth work, and the seeking I've been doing in my artwork. They are about the fact that the search has no destination, and if the state of becoming is never-ending, then, in a sense, one has already arrived. They are about emergence, about existing in a constant state of awareness and becoming, about being more authentically myself through that process, more confident, and more accepting."

Katherine Fraser has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the United States. She is a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and of the University of Pennsylvania. She has received the Thomas Eakins Painting prize, the Cecelia Beaux Portrait prize, the William Emlen Cresson Memorial Travel Award, the Lucy Glick Award, and the Victor Klein Family Award, among others. Her work has been published in Studio Visit Magazine, Philadelphia Weekly, Die Blumen die Frauen, The Fertile Source, New American Paintings, The Southern Review, the Best of American Oil Painting, and more. Her work may be found in many permanent and private collections nationally and abroad.

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Sarah Detweiler
"Bring Her Home"

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Peri Law

Peri Law is an artist, educator, and organizer based in Philadelphia. Her work reflects her multiracial heritage, recreating domestic scenes and appropriating institutionalized objects to reflect the global imperialism that soaks her bloodline. Her art is heavily influenced by the art historical canon, utilizing printmaking to imagine traditional Asian art through the lens of the contemporary diaspora and visualize queer liberated futures. She graduated with honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a BFA in Studio Art and Art History. She is an organizer in Philadelphia’s Asian America community and an executive board member of The Soapbox Community Print Shop. She is a recent recipient of the Velocity Fund, the 2025 Wind Challenge, and a finalist for the Print Center’s 99th Annual International Competition. Her art has been exhibited throughout the United States, including at the Way Center (Philadelphia, PA), Fleisher Art Memorial (Philadelphia, PA) Woskob Family Gallery (State College, PA), Charlotte Street Foundation (Kansas City, MO), Kent State University (Kent, OH), VAE Raleigh (Raleigh, NC), and the Levine Museum of the New South (Charlotte, NC) and is in the collection of the Library of Congress.

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Elizabeth Bergeland

Elizabeth Bergeland (b. 1983 in Wyoming/Colorado, USA) is a Philadelphia‑based painter whose visually rich work blends figurative realism with surreal or imagined spaces. Her symbolic and emotionally resonant paintings reflect deeply personal themes such as connection, doubt, and the passage of time.

Bergeland earned a BFA in Painting and Anthropology from the University of Colorado in 2006 and later relocated to Philadelphia, where she now works and lives with her husband and three children.

Her paintings often dramatize modern existential fears- feelings of being overwhelmed by productivity, digital demands, and the weight of womanhood and motherhood. A recurring narrative in her work involves sunburns as metaphorical markers of worry, and gestural imagery, like tagged chickens or reaching hands that underscore the tensions between connection and solitude.

Bergeland’s first solo exhibition, Quiet Boy, debuted at Hotbed Gallery in Philadelphia in 2022. She was spotlighted in the 2024 edition of the SPRING/BREAK Art Show, presented her 2025 solo exhibition While You Were Sleeping at Studio 105 at Ray, and will mount her first museum solo exhibition in 2026 at the Delaware Contemporary Art Museum. Her work has also been featured in publications such as Smithsonian Magazine, Create Magazine, Philadelphia Magazine, Friend of the Artist, 1st Look TV, Root Quarterly, and The Visionary Projects.

She is also an acclaimed illustrator of children’s books, having illustrated Being Edie is Hard Today (2019) and The Great Whipplethorp Bug Collection (2021). The latter was awarded a Kirkus Star, received an NPR review, and was listed among Smithsonian Magazine’s “10 Best Children’s Books of 2021.” Her illustrations are part of the Society of Illustrators Museum’s permanent collection.

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About Paradigm Gallery + Studio
Paradigm Gallery + Studio® was established in 2010 by co-founders and curators Jason Chen and Sara McCorriston. The gallery exhibits meaningful, process-intensive contemporary artwork by emerging and mid-career artists from around the world, with a focus on Philadelphia. In 2023, Paradigm moved locations and opened its new 5-story, 7,000 sq. ft. home, The Paradigm Arts Building, in Old City, Philadelphia. Open to the public, the building boasts multiple floors of exhibition space, integrated in-house design and printmaking, a dedicated events floor, and art advisory offices. With this, Chen and McCorriston expanded their vision for the greater Philadelphia arts community. The gallery is at the heart of this vision, anchoring Paradigm’s overall mission of increasing access to the commercial art world, supporting artists and advancing their careers, and collaborating with like-minded partners to build a more equitable, sustainable arts economy for all.

EXHIBITION HOURS
Thursdays • 10 AM – 6 PM
Fridays • 10 AM – 6 PM
Saturdays • 11 AM – 6 PM
Sundays • 11 AM – 5 PM
Mon-Wed by appointment.

MEDIA CONTACT
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LOCATION
12 N. 3rd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106

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