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current exhibitions
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November 14, 2008 - January 25, 2009
Altered States,
presented by the Pittsburgh Print Group |
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November 14, 2008 - January 25, 2009
Making Connections, presented by
the Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh |
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November 14, 2008 - January 25, 2009
Robert Qualters & Charlee Brodsky
In Autumn
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November 14, 2008 - January 25, 2009
Matthew Friday
History Remembered As an Image |
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November 14, 2008 - January 25, 2009
Sue Abramson & Jonathan Shapiro
The Forest Inside
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Altered States is a juried show presented by the Pittsburgh Print Group. The title refers not only to "state proofs," the physical changes that traditionally artists print after a technique is applied to a plate, screen or stone, but to alterations in the subject of the image itself. The concept of the exhibition uses this functional and historical practice as a starting place for a larger interpretation of states of all kinds: psychological, emotional, physical or political. Thus the subject of the work becomes the central element for alteration, and the alteration becomes inseparable from the subject.
In Autumn by Robert Qualters and Charlee Brodsky, the idea of work as an expression of the processes of aging emerges. Qualters has been a working artist in the Pittsburgh area for more than 40 years. Brodsky is a fine art documentary photographer and a professor of photography at Carnegie Mellon University. This exhibit is the latest in a series of collaborations between artists, including photographers, printmakers, sculptors and poets. Here, with Brodsky using ink-jet prints and Qualters using mixed media paintings with textual messages, the show features her photographs of Robert and his reworking of her photographs. A limited edition artist book cataloguing the work in this show is available upon request. Each book is individually hand-made.
The Forest Inside is a site-specific installation and the third collaboration between Pittsburgh artists Sue Abramson and Jonathan Shapiro. Abramson's photograms and digital prints of Elephant Ear leaves cover the walls of the exhibition space. Shapiro's sculptures, formed from walnut and cherry trees, were created specifically for this exhibit and placed within the interior space. Inspired by organic elements the artists recreate a forest that explores and informs their connection to the natural world.
In Matthew Friday's History Remembered As an Image, the artist examines the problematic tradition of history paintings. His new works include elements of popular culture, nostalgic kitsch, action-film stills and historical photographs. They also convey decay and accumulation with decorative stencils, Victorian frames and elegant scrollwork, sometimes memorializing trauma as an image. Friday is a professor of painting at Ohio University.
The exhibit Making Connections, presented by the Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh, explores the traditional and non-traditional ways we make connections. Fiber artists have used a variety of techniques for binding, strapping, wrapping, lacing, weaving, sewing, knotting, and zipping. In this group show, artists use uncommon materials such as human hair, safety pins, staples, twist ties, and telephone wire, to name a few, to examine ways we make connections in the modern world. For more information go to:
http://fiberartspgh.org
Upcoming opening receptions at PCA:
Friday, January 9, 5:30 – 8:00pm, In Sisterhood
Upcoming artist talks at PCA:
Thursday, Jan. 15, 7:00 – 8:30pm, with Pittsburgh Print Group
Saturday, Jan. 17, 2:00 – 3:30pm, with Sue Abramson and Jonathan Shapiro
Thursday, Jan. 22, 10:00 – 11:30am, Making Connections, Fiberarts Tour
Thursday, Jan. 22, 7:00 – 8:00pm, In Sisterhood, Dr. Patricia Ulbrich
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our programs
In Sisterhood: The Women's Movement in Pittsburgh
Opening reception, Jan 9, 2009. Show runs thru Jan 25.
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Filmmakers at the Center
Classes next start January '09
Bringing the disciplines of film, photography, video, animation and more to the PCA
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