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We’re excited to announce Pam Korman’s first solo exhibition, The Weight of Ghosts, opening in February at AUTOMAT Gallery!

In a large installation, functional scaffolding supports a series of pulsing lights that sometimes signal in tandem and at other moments emerge individually. Sculptures and videos feature mundane domestic items, haunted by evidence of touch and charged with unspoken histories. Here, Korman explores “weight” by gesturing toward the physical activities associated with an object as well as the psychological or emotional load it can carry. In one video, detailed cast shadows deceptively multiply the presence of a childhood toy. In another, passing micro-expressions connect three women across moving video portraits. Sitting alone in an empty room, they don’t share physical space, but they are connected by a sense of generational continuity...

Her work represents the aggregated impressions and shared family traits that build the architecture of selfhood and identity. She asks, “In the end, what is left behind and what is carried forward?” as she traces the weight of legacy through generations of women.

Exhibition Dates: February 7 – 28, 2026
Artist Reception: Thursday, February 12, 6 - 9 pm
Location: AUTOMAT, Suite 105, Crane Arts Building, 1400 North American Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122

Today is the last day to view “Unbound” at AUTOMAT Collective! We will be open today from 12-5pm, so please do stop by for one last look at the amazing work of artists Christen Baker, Mary Champagne, Izabela Cookson, Charles Jarboe, Sol Kim, Emily Laughlin, Noah McWilliams, Lena Ruth Schwartz, and Echo Xu 🪢

𝐀𝐝𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬: AUTOMAT, Crane Arts Building, 1400 N. American St, Suite 105, Philadelphia

Unbound is curated by AUTOMAT Members Lexi Arrietta, Pilar Caruso, Jo Nakayama-Painter, and Dana Suleymanova.

Drop in tonight from 6-9 PM for Second Thursday to see Unbound! 🧯💎🧱

Unbound brings together the work of Christen Baker, Mary Champagne, Izabela Cookson, Charles Jarboe, Sol Kim, Emily Loughlin, Noah McWilliams, Lena Ruth Schwartz, and Echo Xu, curated through AUTOMAT Collective’s Annual Open Call. Unbound is curated by Lexi Arrietta, Pilar Caruso, Jo Nakayama-Painter, and Dana Suleymanova.

The exhibition will be on view from December 6, 2025 to January 24, 2026. Open gallery hours will be held Saturdays from 12-5pm.

Join us Thursday, December 11, from 6-9 pm for the opening reception of Unbound at AUTOMAT Collective! 🪢🫧🪤

Amidst unflagging systems of control, we become acutely aware of our own personhood, compelled again and again to define ourselves anew. Disparate pockets of knowledge converge, caught between iterations of self, layered between internal and external impositions. The works in Unbound evade, highlight, and resist forms of capture. Exploring corporeality, surveillance, and ecology, the artists offer intimate, bodily understandings, where agential subjects break free from their formal containment. Responding to our current moment—in which media and constant observation breach the self as an internal state of being—Unbound suggests a release of our firmly held adherence to physicality, and avers divergent possibilities. Here, we transcend our own capture as subjects and claim an existence that resists parameters. With each symbolic or material iteration of self, we assert our bodies as new vessels of change, adaptation, and resistance. 💢

Unbound brings together the work of Christen Baker, Mary Champagne, Izabela Cookson, Charles Jarboe, Sol Kim, Emily Loughlin, Noah McWilliams, Lena Ruth Schwartz, and Echo Xu.

Unbound is curated by AUTOMAT members Lexi Arrietta, Pilar Caruso, Jo Nakayama-Painter, and Dana Suleymanova through AUTOMAT Collective’s Annual Open Call✨

👀 ON VIEW: The exhibition will be on view from December 6, 2025 through January 24, 2026. Gallery hours are Saturdays from 12-5pm, or by appointment.

📍ADDRESS: AUTOMAT Collective, 1400 N. American St., Philadelphia, PA