Allison Zuckerman: Remixed and Reclaimed

Allison Zuckerman's Remixed and Reclaimed is on view at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia, where it runs from March 28, 2026, through March 18, 2027. You'll find it in the grand lobby, so it's something you can swing by whenever you're in the neighborhood rather than a one-night thing.

Zuckerman is a Penn alum, Class of 2012, who went on to get her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2015. She describes herself as a digital native, and you can see that in how she works: she starts by collecting and altering reproductions of historical artworks—mostly by male artists—and translates them into thickly worked surfaces in oil and acrylic. The result is a series of maximalist, collage-like paintings with hybrid figures, often female, assembled from borrowed faces, bodies, and decorative elements. They're set in compressed, saturated spaces that press right up toward the viewer.

The work rewards close looking, with visual 'Easter eggs' tucked into the layers and a critical engagement with the Western art canon. It's the kind of show that asks you to slow down and really look at how the pieces are put together. The exhibition is organized by the Arthur Ross Gallery and presented offsite at the Annenberg Center in collaboration with Penn Live Arts and The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation. It's curated by Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, the gallery's inaugural faculty director and the James and Nan Wagner Farquhar Professor of History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania.

Since it's in the lobby, it's easy to fit in around other plans. It's free and open to the public, and it stays up for nearly a year, so there's plenty of time to catch it.