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  • View of “Joy Feasley and Paul Swenbeck,” 2018. Photo: Jeff Machtig.

    View of “Joy Feasley and Paul Swenbeck,” 2018. Photo: Jeff Machtig.

    Joy Feasley and Paul Swenbeck

    John Michael Kohler Arts Center

    Philadelphia-based artists Joy Feasley and Paul Swenbeck have been collaborating for thirty-five years alongside their work as museum preparators and as a painter and a sculptor, respectively. Titled after the mysterious lights and colors we see when we close our eyes—and inspired by a dream of Feasley’s—the exhibition “Out, Out, Phosphene Candle” continues their sustained exploration of the diverse scientific and mystic methods humans use to grapple with the unseen. Here, the duo’s works are placed in conversation with loaned works by other artists as well as their own selections from the John

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