Everything Changed, Then Changed Again, is a series of photographs of women with Pittsburgh as the backdrop. Also included is a video created from all the locations visited while photographing this project. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, January 28 from 6:00 - 8:00pm. It is free and open to the public.
Seamans' video installation documents a once thriving farm community. She calls it "a visual song in three movements". The work derives from video and sound recordings from Farmer's Exchange in Hickman County, Tennessee.
This two-person collaborative exhibit explores the physical and physiological relationships, which resides between the interior and exterior of certain objects. Entirely worked out in the medium of glass, these pieces involve a variety of techniques: blown, cast, cold worked and lamp worked, as a means to present a metaphoric and symbolic viewing of the boundaries and permeability within our human emotions.
Influenced by the giallo (crime) films of Italian directors, such as Dario Argento and Mario Bava, Beauregard presents a series of disparate sculptures rooted in the undercurrent of the horror imbedded in these cinematic works. Taken as a whole, this exhibit is meant to evoke ideas from Italian futurism, giallo and cult cinema, which present similar notions of dream narratives. At their core the fragmented images of violence and style reflect a desire to explore a history marked by fascism and war.
Through video, craft-inspired sculpture, and two-dimensional works Crosby combines seemingly unrelated contexts into forms that are both mysterious and spontaneous. The sculptures in this show are “linked” to each other from web-surfing, online research, and other associative processes.
This installation and performance piece navigates codifying separate groupings of individuals and ideas to better understand them – in this instance, people residing in Pittsburgh, PA and Columbus, OH. The artist interprets the fragmented experiences of watching, talking with and having personal involvements with people from both regions to construct a directed performance. The performers are Tessa Flannery and Derek Reese.
This installation features 78 silkscreen prints on Plexiglas, inspired by albumen glass negatives. Each plate depicts aspects of the region's industrial past and the struggle for economic recovery. The work juxtaposes a relationship of fabricated and natural constructs to symbolize new growth in the wake of collapse, and to reflect the ideals of use and reuse within ones environment.
This series of new sculptures is made from the detritus of everyday life and influenced by some of Siegel’s obsessions: the Pacific Trash Vortex, transmutation, death and superheroes. The materials used range from taxidermy animal parts and plastic shopping bags, to retail jewelry exhibition cases and body bags.
This exhibit is composed of mixed-media paintings made in reaction to the consumer-grade videos taken during the tsunami that hit Japan in 2011. Through a methodical layering of hundreds of mono-prints and acrylic inks, Woodring’s new pieces reintroduce stillness back into ephemeral and manic sequences of terrifying images and the physical reality, which has been irrevocably altered.
