Visual Art Exhibition at SPACE

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PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST PRESENTS
CATALOGUING PATTERN
AN EXHIBITION OF FINDING AND BREAKING ORDER
July 11 – August 31, 2014 | SPACE | 812 Liberty Avenue
Exhibition Opening & Reception | July 11, 5:30 – 9 p.m.

Pittsburgh, PA—The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust presents the visual art exhibition Cataloguing Pattern, a collaborative meditation on the role of pattern in artistic practice. The exhibition is on view July 11–August 31, 2014, at SPACE. An opening reception takes place Friday, July 11, from 5:30–9 p.m., during the Trust’s quarterly Gallery Crawl throughout the Cultural District.

The exhibition, guest organized by Kristen Letts Kovak, investigates the links between visual, perceptual, and cognitive patterning, and it features more than 50 artworks by nine artists. Each artist chose one aspect of patterning to investigate: seriality, rhythm, rehearsal, behavior, permutation, morphology, expectation, and repetition.

Kovak’s exhibition explores the diverse role that patterning can play, noting that the process of creation often follows a pattern itself: intention, execution, and then resolution. Yet, even this pattern falls apart as the artists’ original intention inevitably shifts.

“We constantly break our own patterns as we investigate them more deeply and uncover our faulty assumptions,” says Kovak. “I wondered, if the cycle of establishing and breaking patterns is fundamental to the act of making art, wouldn’t it appear as an underlying theme in seemingly disparate artworks?”

Each artist—through differing aesthetics, media, and content—finds his or her own balance between ordered predictability and the irregular or unknown. As a group, the artists demonstrate that breaking a predicted pattern is more significant than establishing one, and they use pattern to reveal what is otherwise hidden.
Salinda Deery transcribes the repetitive motions of factory labor into abstract paintings. She treats her large canvases like an assembly line, repeating her marks as she walks alongside the surface. The resulting paintings resonate with the history of her movements and call attention to the interruptions in her routine. She resides in Elkhart, MD.

Aaron Henderson and Ted Coffey collaborate on a series of kaleidoscopic videos.  Beginning with documentation of military drills and shopping riots, they transform repeated acts of aggression into morphing visual and auditory patterns. Their work vacillates between representation and abstraction, and chaos and order. Henderson resides in Pittsburgh, PA, and Ted Coffey lives in Charlottesville, VA.

Kristin Kest is an illustrator and storyteller. Her drawings bring to light the role of gender and class often underlying the stories we tell. While set within the context of imagination and fantasy, her characters are heroic because of their humanness—articulating moments of boldness, tenderness, and physical labor. She resides in York, PA.

Todd Keyser investigates the relationship between the mass-produced and handmade image. Working on top of digitally printed photographs, he meticulously paints color striations onto their surfaces. His marks mimic both the underlying geometry and the hidden digital pixilation. Keyser resides in Pittsburgh, PA.

Kristen Letts Kovak integrates historically and culturally unrelated patterns into singular images. By imposing patterns onto an unfamiliar context, she interrupts the established design and creates new visual alliterations. The resulting paintings continuously slide between tangents and a larger superstructure. She resides in Pittsburgh, PA.

Maria Mangano creates mixed media and installation artworks that investigate taxonomy and ecology. She uses the repeated nature of printmaking to study visual and behavioral links between species. Her delicate pieces shed light on the fragile web of nature’s interaction in an urban environment. Mangano resides in Pittsburgh, PA.

Brooke Sturtevant-Sealover studies the lives of individual plants. She intricately charts each plant’s daily movements and growth patterns. Her marks are, in essence, chosen by the plants, but the method of recording is determined by the artist. The layers of collected data and live specimens become both a scientific record and a launching pad for aesthetic investigations. She resides in York, PA.

Rebecca Zilinski’s ink drawings map cognitive and behavioral responses. Her work is quiet and meditative, revealing its intricacies over time. While at a macro level she is articulating a predictable pattern, closer investigation reveals the unpredictable behavior of her media. Zilinski resides in Poughkeepsie, NY.

About SPACE
SPACE is located at 812 Liberty Avenue. Gallery Hours: Wed & Thurs: 11 a.m.–6 p.m.; Fri & Sat: 11 a.m.–8 p.m.; Sun. 11 a.m.–5 p.m. The gallery is free and open to the public. SPACE is a project of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. For more information about all gallery exhibitions featured in the Cultural District, please visit www.TrustArts.org.

About The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has overseen one of Pittsburgh’s most historic transformations: turning a seedy red-light district into a magnet destination for arts lovers, residents, visitors, and business owners. Founded in 1984, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is a non-profit arts organization whose mission is the cultural and economic revitalization of a 14-block arts and entertainment/residential neighborhood called the Cultural District. The District is one of the country’s largest landmasses curated by a single nonprofit arts organization. A major catalytic force in the city, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is a unique model of how public-private partnerships can reinvent a city with authenticity, innovation and creativity. Using the arts as an economic catalyst, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has holistically created a world-renowned Cultural District that is revitalizing the city, improving the regional economy and enhancing Pittsburgh’s quality of life. Thanks to the support of foundations, corporations, government agencies and thousands of private citizens, the Cultural Trust stands as a national model of urban redevelopment through the arts. For more information, visit TrustArts.org.

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Some Begins Explores Telepathy and Miraculous Objects

PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST PRESENTS
SOME BEGINS
STORIES OF TELEPATHY AND MIRACULOUS OBJECTS

July 11 – August 24, 2014 | 707 Penn Gallery | 707 Penn Avenue
Exhibition Opening & Reception | July 11, 5:30 – 9 p.m.

Pittsburgh, PA—The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust announces the opening of Some Begins, an exhibition exploring the associative and myth-making capacities of objects and text from the collaborative practice of artists Meg Shevenock and Jamie Boyle. The exhibition is on view July 11–August 24, 2014, at 707 Penn Gallery. An opening reception takes place Friday, July 11, 2014, from 5:30–9 p.m., during the Trust’s quarterly Gallery Crawl throughout the Cultural District.

"But How Am I?"

Some Begins, a collection of primarily sculptural works that exemplify what Shevenock and Boyle call their “belief in the crazy spirit world of objects,” marks the first exhibition devoted solely to their collaborative practice. Only very briefly, over the past seven years, have the artists lived in the same city. This physical distance between them serves as a crucial layer to their belief in the power of objects, their artistic process, and the works on view in Some Begins.

Several of the sculptures in the exhibition are arrangements of accumulated materials and objects, which the artists gleaned from daily life in their separate cities. Shevenock and Boyle’s separate—yet at times almost telepathic—experiences, reflected in these physical materials and objects (which in themselves resonate with their own history of use at once understood and unknown) are conflated in these sculptures.

The diaristic configuration of the exhibition allows a narrative to unfold and repeat and overlap through objects and fragments of text.

Rejecting the classification of “found objects” in reference to the materials of their work, the artists place a sense of agency in, and collaboration with, the bits of material—eye glasses, pencils, scraps of written notes, threads and string—that comprise a majority of the works in the show. And, some things become other things: Shevenock and Boyle have created reproductions of some of the objects, recasting them in various forms alongside original artifacts and throughout the exhibition as a means to construct a myth and deepen the felt experience of their materiality and expressive qualities through repetition and repositioning.

Contender

“In our initial encounters with these materials, the energy between self and object is palpable, heart-racing, and the ritual of picking items up off the ground feels secretive, like a code that connects us with the past vital lives of the materials now in hand,” the artists state. “Very often, we later find evidence of telepathic connection between objects we separately encounter; for instance, one afternoon we both picked up a pair of nearly identical, wireframe glasses.”

However, while some of the work feels weighted, it also comes with acknowledgement of the absurd: “Laughter and a sense of humor are also central to our evaluation—recognition that one is not alone in the world and a true miracle is sometimes evinced through the hilarious or outrageous.”
A written text, a collusion of the artists’ biographic details, both imagined and real, which they refer to as their “mythography,” accompanies the exhibition.

Some Begin to Be

Shevenock, who currently lives in Pittsburgh, PA, and Boyle, from Brooklyn, NY, met in 2006 at the Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, where they both received an MFA in sculpture. For the past seven years, they have maintained a collaborative practice—making videos, performances, and sculpture—often times relying on what they perceive as a telepathic communication with each other. The artists’ collaborative practice is not about making something new; instead, they mine the details of what already exists to unearth a deeply present connectivity between both living beings and inanimate things.






About 707 Penn Gallery
707 Penn Gallery is a project of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. The gallery is located at 707 Penn Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh’s Cultural District. Gallery Hours: Wed. & Thurs. 11 a.m.–6 p.m.; Fri. & Sat. 11 a.m.–8 p.m.; Sun.11 a.m.–5 p.m. The gallery is free and open to the public. For more information about all gallery exhibitions featured in the Cultural District, please visitwww.TrustArts.org.

Images Courtesy of the Artists

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Portraits of Air

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PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST PRESENTS
PORTRAITS OF AIR: PITTSBURGH
A CROWD-SOURCED EXHIBITION
June 6 – July 13, 2014 | 709 Penn Gallery
Exhibition Opening & Reception | June 6 | 5 – 7 p.m.

Pittsburgh, PA—The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust presents the visual art exhibition Portraits of Air: Pittsburgh by Detroit-based artist Susan Goethel Campbell. Crowd-sourced during the 2013 Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival, this installation is the culmination of the yearlong project, on view at the Trust’s 709 Penn Gallery from June 6–July 13, 2014. The exhibition, made possible through the generous support of the Heinz Endowments in partnership with the Breathe Project, opens in conjunction with the 2014 Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival.

The installation shows the results of nearly 100 8 × 10 in., framed spun-glass air filters placed throughout the Pittsburgh region in ordinary locations, such as the home or workspace. Incorporating photography, sound and the air filters—some of which have remained completely white while others have visible particulates—Campbell creates a visual document of the invisible element of air and invites people to think about the quality of the air they breathe.

“The main goal of this project is to bring awareness to the concept of air. It moves from the local to the global and is necessary to sustain life,” says artist Susan Goethel Campbell. “My hope is that people will see themselves in this project and not necessarily that air is dirty or polluted. What I am most interested in are the [filters’] placements and how these individual sites helped to create a broad portrait of air.”

The installation includes many air filters returned to Campbell after several months of collecting particulates, photographs of filter locations and a sound work titled “Air Moves,” which is a poetic, narrative documentation of the Pittsburgh filter locations as well as sites around the world where Campbell asked people place air filters. A series of woodblock prints based on aerial views of Pittsburgh and other cities in the United States is also on view.

Portraits of Air is an ongoing, unscientific project that focuses on the movement and quality of air around the world. Campbell began the project in 2009 with the distribution of 24 8 × 10 in., air filters to people in seven countries, including 14 locations within the U.S. Each participant in the project was asked to place the filter in a location of their choosing so it could pick up particulates in the atmosphere.

Susan Goethel Campbell is a Detroit-based artist who creates multidisciplinary work that explores the intersection of nature, culture, and engineered environments. She has exhibited in solo and group shows both nationally and internationally, including at The International Print Center, NY; and Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Germany. Campbell has been awarded residencies at the Flemish Center for Graphic Arts, Kasterlee, Belgium; the Beisinghoff Printmaking Residency, Rhoden, Germany; as well as fellowships at the Jentel Foundtation, Banner, WY; and the Kresge Artist Fellowship, Detroit, MI. She received an MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI, and taught studio art for 15 years at the College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI. Campbell’s work is held in public and private collections across the country, including at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI; The New York Public Library, New York, NY; the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; and The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH.
The Heinz Endowments supports efforts to make southwestern Pennsylvania a premier place to live and work, a center for learning and educational excellence and a region that embraces diversity and inclusion.

About 709 Penn Gallery

709 Penn Gallery is a project of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. The gallery is located at 709 Penn Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh’s Cultural District. Gallery Hours: Wed. & Thurs. 11 a.m.–6 p.m.; Fri. & Sat. 11 a.m.–8 p.m.; Sun.11 a.m.–5 p.m. The gallery is free and open to the public. For more information about all gallery exhibitions featured in the Cultural District, please visit TrustArts.org.

About the Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival
The Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival, a production of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, is a celebration of the arts in downtown Pittsburgh unlike any other in the nation. Each of its world-class, multi-disciplinary performing and visual arts attractions is free to attend and open to the public. The Festival begins on the first Friday in June and takes place at the confluence of Pittsburgh’s famed three rivers in Point State Park, throughout picturesque Gateway Center, and in the city’s world-renowned Cultural District. For more information, visit TrustArts.org/TRAF.

About the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has overseen one of Pittsburgh’s most historic transformations: turning a seedy red-light district into a magnet destination for arts lovers, residents, visitors, and business owners. Founded in 1984, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is a non-profit arts organization whose mission is the cultural and economic revitalization of a 14-block arts and entertainment/residential neighborhood called the Cultural District. The District is one of the country’s largest landmasses curated by a single nonprofit arts organization. A major catalytic force in the city, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is a unique model of how public-private partnerships can reinvent a city with authenticity, innovation and creativity. Using the arts as an economic catalyst, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has holistically created a world-renowned Cultural District that is revitalizing the city, improving the regional economy and enhancing Pittsburgh’s quality of life. Thanks to the support of foundations, corporations, government agencies and thousands of private citizens, the Cultural Trust stands as a national model of urban redevelopment through the arts. For more information, visit TrustArts.org.

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Porous Sediments at 707 Penn Gallery

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PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST PRESENTS
POROUS SEDIMENTS
AN EXHIBITION EXPLORING TEMPORALITY
March 7 – April 13, 2014 | 707 Penn Gallery
Exhibition Opening & Reception | March 7 | 6 – 8 p.m.

Pittsburgh, PA—The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust announces the opening of artist Haylee Ebersole’s exhibition Porous Sediments. On view at the Trust’s 707 Penn Gallery March 7–April 13, 2014, the installation features an array of vaporous sculptural objects with surfaces suggestive of skin, soap, ice, and rock. An opening reception will be held Friday, March 7, 2014, from 6–8 p.m., at 707 Penn Gallery.

The objects on display allude both to the cyclical nature of existence and to the slow forming processes of geological structures. Using a variety of techniques—printmaking, drawing, sculpture, and performance—Ebersole engages in temporality, investigating the transformative potential of ideas, materials, and actions through an alchemical approach.

“While the term porous describes the material nature of this work, it also embodies a particular way of thinking and making,” says artist Haylee Ebersole. “In my practice, each process is permeable where the actions and residuals from one become the generative premise for the next.”

A primary element of Ebersole’s work is its potential for change. Working with gelatin, which she suggests mimics qualities of the human body, fluctuating in response to moisture and heat, creates possibilities for continuous transformation. The displacement of air and shifts in humidity levels may cause the delicate gelatin sculptures to waver or suddenly collapse. In Ebersole’s process, each gelatin form is eventually reconstituted, representing a cyclical state and continually coming into and out of being.

Haylee Ebersole received a bachelor of fine art in printmaking from Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver, CO, and a master of fine art in printmaking from Ohio University, Athens, OH. She has presented her artistic research at several conferences hosted by the College Art Association, Mid America College Art Association, and the Southern Graphics Council International. Ebersole has extensively exhibited her work nationally, with numerous exhibitions in her home state of Colorado and in Ohio.

About 707 Penn Gallery
707 Penn Gallery is a project of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. The gallery is located at 707 Penn Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh’s Cultural District. Gallery Hours: Wed. & Thurs. 11 a.m.–6 p.m.; Fri. & Sat. 11 a.m.–8 p.m.; Sun.11 a.m.–5 p.m. The gallery is free and open to the public. For more information about all gallery exhibitions featured in the Cultural District, please visit www.TrustArts.org.

About The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has overseen one of Pittsburgh’s most historic transformations: turning a seedy red-light district into a magnet destination for arts lovers, residents, visitors, and business owners. Founded in 1984, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is a non-profit arts organization whose mission is the cultural and economic revitalization of a 14-block arts and entertainment/residential neighborhood called the Cultural District. The District is one of the country’s largest land masses “curated” by a single nonprofit arts organization. A major catalytic force in the city, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is a unique model of how public-private partnerships can reinvent a city with authenticity, innovation and creativity. Using the arts as an economic catalyst, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has holistically created a world-renowned Cultural District that is revitalizing the city, improving the regional economy and enhancing Pittsburgh’s quality of life. Thanks to the support of foundations, corporations, government agencies and thousands of private citizens, the Cultural Trust stands as a national model of urban redevelopment through the arts.

Images Courtesy of the Artist
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Gallery Crawl Marks 10th Anniversary

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Search Name: January 2014 Gallery Crawl

JANUARY’S GALLERY CRAWL IN THE CULTURAL DISTRICT
MARKS THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE EVENT
 Friday, January 24, 2014 | 5:30 – 9 p.m.
Select venues open until 10 p.m.
Introducing CrawlAfterDark at participating venues beginning at 9 p.m.

Pittsburgh, PA—The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust announces the line-up for its winter Gallery Crawl that takes place Friday, January 24, 2014, from 5:30–9 p.m. The crawl showcases a wide variety of thought provoking art exhibitions in downtown Pittsburgh’s Cultural District. Live bands, DJs, dance, comedy, and participatory activities are also part of the complimentary crawl events.
 

2014 marks the 10th anniversary of Gallery Crawl in the Cultural District. To mark this special occasion, the Trust is introducing CrawlAfterDark, which features select venues with additional events beginning at 9 p.m. Each of the CrawlAfterDark activities requires admission, ranging from $5–$15.

“We are pleased to introduce CrawlAfterDark, extending hours for certain Cultural District venues participating in the Gallery Crawl and promoting the District as a late-night destination,” says Janis Burley Wilson, Vice President of Education and Community Engagement and Director of Jazz Programs for the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. “CrawlAfterDark highlights the transformation of the Cultural District, promoting numerous options for late night entertainment, from comedy, music, theatre, clubs, dining, and more.”

Gallery Crawl events are free and open to the public. For more information and a map of the Gallery Crawl events, visit www.TrustArts.org/Crawl or call (412) 456-6666.

Gallery Crawl in the Cultural District is a production of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s Education and Community Engagement Department.

The following is a line-up of the January 24, 2014, Gallery Crawl events:
Venues marked with * remain open until 10 p.m.

All locations are wheelchair accessible unless marked with **.

Wood Street Galleries*
601 Wood Street
Structures of Time and Space
Artist Erwin Redl presents an investigation of reverse engineering that translates virtual reality and 3D computer modeling through large-scale light installations.

SPACE*
812 Liberty Avenue
Behind Our Scenes
Guest curated by Jen Saffron, photographers explore the relationship between two-dimensional form and space through photographic installations and constructions. Participating artists include Nancy Andrews, Leo Hsu, Dennis Marsico, Annie O’Neill, and Barbara Weissberger.

Carnegie Library Button-making
We supply the materials, and you supply the creativity!

Music by Aaron Clark of Humanaut / Honcho

Tito Way
Memento Mori by Mary Mazziotti
A set of billboards reminding the viewer that life can be short and its end unpredictable.

Cell Phone Disco by InformationLab
This surface visualizes the electromagnetic field of an active mobile phone. Several thousand lights illuminate when you make or receive a phone call in the vicinity of the installation.

Shaw Galleries*
805 Liberty Avenue
The 3rd Annual Bad Art Sale
An art show and sale of dozens of thrift store paintings and amateur art, as well as picture frames, mats, art books, and art supplies, all at rock bottom prices!

Trust Arts Education Center
805-807 Liberty Avenue

Peirce Studio
Traveling by Attack Theatre
Attack Theatre’s Traveling is a witty contemporary dance performance that tells the story of a traveling salesman, his sample case of curiosities, and the enormous potential of the little things in life. With imaginative use of props, daredevil partnering, and a touch of nostalgia, Traveling transforms small objects into big ideas and physical fun. Performances at 7 and 8 p.m.

Third Floor*
Memory Terrain
From Highmark First Night Pittsburgh 2014
This exhibition presents paintings by Mia Tarducci Henry; Cycle Sam by Don Jones; Pittsburgh Past and Future by Matthew Buchholz’s Alternate Histories; and Rhapsody in Steel (1959), a film with animation by John Sutherland and re-mastered by Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area.

Arcade Comedy Theater
811 Liberty Avenue
Pop in for some laughs, featuring Pittsburgh’s best sketch, improvisational, and alternative comedy year-round. Time to play!

820 Liberty Avenue*
TRANSPOSE, a project of the Bruce Gallery, Edinboro University
From Highmark First Night Pittsburgh 2014
The exhibition will open with CHIMERA, an installation of student works. Chimera: A Journal of Art and Literature is a student-produced journal that showcases the best art and literature created by Edinboro’s students.

Catholic Charities Susan Zubik Welcome Center
212 Ninth Street
Drawing Portraits and Figures
High school students in the Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild Design Arts Studio explore portraiture and figures via graphite, Conte, and charcoal.

937 Liberty Avenue
Second Floor*
Welcoming the Future, Honoring the Present: New and Established AAP Member Works
From Highmark First Night Pittsburgh 2014
Established in 1910, the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh (AAP) is an artist member organization with more than 600 members in the southwestern Pennsylvania region. This exhibition is a salon-style hanging of works by current AAP artists alongside a showcase of 21 New AAP members.

Pittsburgh Playwrights Gallery
Therapy and The Muse
An exhibition by Ernest McCarty features acrylic paintings on wood and canvas, assemblage paintings, and wire sculptures.

Toonseum
947 Liberty Avenue
Wonder Women
One of the largest exhibitions of women in comics ever presented, featuring more than 50 pieces of original art.

August Wilson Center for African American Culture
980 Liberty Avenue

I Think I Can (Harley Stumm)

I Think I Can by Terrapin Theatre (Australia)
From the 2014 International Performing Arts for Youth Conference
This interactive installation invites the public to engage and play by becoming temporary residents via a tiny puppet. The piece asks, “What would you like to be today?” engaging participants in an optimistic task of collective storytelling that deals with dynamic notions of residency and responsibility.

Paper Planet by Polyglot Theatre (Australia)
From the 2014 International Performing Arts for Youth Conference
Polyglot Theatre creates an imagined world filled with tall, strange cardboard trees, paper leaves, boulders, ponds, and other mysterious forms that transform the space. Fantastic and unusual animals hang from the branches and sit around the trunks while audience members populate the space with their own creations and rustling paper selves.

Pittsburgh: Reclaim, Renew, Remix
This modular flagship exhibition dedicated to honoring and preserving Black culture in southwestern Pennsylvania uses imagery, film, and oral history narratives to explore communities, cultures, and innovations.

Tonic**
971 Liberty Avenue, second floor gallery: NOT UNIVERSALLY ACCESSIBLE
It Is What It Is
People. Art. Live Music. Drinks. Food.

Sonoma Grille
947 Penn Avenue
The Art Institute of Pittsburgh Art Show
Enter the creative world of The Art Institute of Pittsburgh. View the diverse work of design, media arts, and fashion alumni and students, and meet the talented designers.

Urban Pathways 6-12 Gallery
914 Penn Avenue
Start Anew!
Featuring a student photography and two-dimensional art exhibition, Sounds of Steel steel-pan band performances throughout the evening, and craft activities for all.

CAPA Gallery
111 Ninth Street
Places to Go and People to See
Portraits, landscapes, and ceramic works by Pittsburgh CAPA’s 11th and 12th grade visual artists are presented. Students demonstrate how to throw a bowl on the pottery wheel. The bowls will be donated to the Empty Bowl Project, which raises funds to support Just Harvest and The Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank.

Future Tenant
819 Penn Avenue
Radium Girls
Although German Dada artist Hannah Höch was active half a world away as the Radium Girls were painting watch dials, Höch was creating rebellious collages that pointed out the stark difference between reality and the media’s projected images of women. To celebrate her work, visitors are invited to “Make Your Own Radium Girl” using Hannah Höch’s collage method and materials provided.

Live music is provided by Producer Jakeisrain and the C Street Brass.

Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council
810 Penn Avenue, seventh floor
Reflective Locations
An Art on the Walls exhibition curated by D.S. Kinsel, Reflective Locations features the work of artists capturing a place that reflects their personal identity. All of the artists chosen for this exhibition are black males, giving the audience the opportunity to experience varied reflections of modern black masculinity.    

709 Penn Gallery*
709 Penn Avenue
Neverlands
Artist Terry Boyd, through mixed media drawings, presents an interpretation of life and death, with imagery originally depicted by the skies, seas, grounds, and characters described in J.M. Barrie’s stories, such as Peter Pan.

707 Penn Gallery*
707 Penn Avenue
Arena: Remembering the Igloo
The only photographer licensed by the Sports and Exhibition Authority to catalogue the Arena’s demolition process, David Aschkenas chronicles the last weeks of the Civic Arena’s operation and its demise.

131 Seventh Street*
Night Market VII
Join the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership for Night Market VII.  This indoor version of Downtown’s favorite pop-up market will feature curated vendors of unique, handcrafted arts and crafts.

Katz Plaza
Seventh Street & Penn Avenue
Steel Town Fire
Pittsburgh’s premier fire art performance wows crowds with dancing and intricate moves on poi, snakes, swords, and other burning props. Shows at 6:30, 7:30, and 8:30 p.m.

Backstage Bar
655 Penn Avenue
Waves: Perceptions of Light and Sound
Artist Kara Ruth Snyder presents abstract acrylic and mixed media paintings.

Live music by Paul Tabachnek.

PNC Legacy Project
600 Liberty Avenue
The PNC Legacy Project is celebrating Black History Month. Oral histories include Tony Award winner Billy Porter, Pittsburgh Courier Publisher Rod Doss, Olympic champion Swin Cash, civil rights advocate Alma Speed Fox, and trumpet player Sean Jones.

Dream Cream Ice Cream
539 Liberty Avenue
As the sole benefiting Dreamer for the month of January, the CLO Academy performs musical selections from past and upcoming productions. Dream Cream sells ice cream, pastries, Dreamshakes, & Dreamsteam (hot chocolate and hot cider). Performances by the CLO Academy at 6 p.m., 7 p.m., and 8 p.m.

Boutique 208*
208 Sixth Street
Live music by Jon Dull of the Hoffman Road Band and Brandon Yusko.
Arthur Murray Dance Studio**
136 Sixth Street (above Melange Bistro): NOT UNIVERSALLY ACCESSIBLE
Free Dance Lessons and Demos: Bachata at 7 p.m., Rumba at 7:30 p.m., and Salsa at 8 p.m.

Renaissance Hotel
107 Sixth Street
The Lonely Robot Returns
Artist Toby Atticus Fraley brings back the Lonely Robot from his previous Cultural District installation. The robot and his friends appear in a swanky room window display at street level.

Braddock’s American Brasserie
107 Sixth Street
Chef Jason creates deconstructed plates pleasantly familiar to the taste but intriguingly disguised to the eye. Get up-close-and-personal to his mysterious creations and try to figure out what classic dish it could be. The winner who correctly solves the “plating puzzle” receives a complimentary gift card to dine at Braddock’s.

CrawlAfterDark

Wood Street Galleries, third floor, 601 Wood Street
The Freya String Quartet: Electric
10 p.m., $15 / $8 students & seniors
FSQ plugs in its instruments for an amplified concert. Work by Steve Reich, Ingram Marshall, and Sean Neukom. Special Guest: Symbiotic Collusion Orchestra.

Trust Arts Education Center, Peirce Studio, 805-807 Liberty Avenue
FRENDZ: An evening of Pittsburgh-created music
10 p.m., $5, cash bar
Avant-rock band Host Skull, The Gotobeds, and Meeting of Important People’s Josh Verbanets. Host Skull was recently included on NPR’s World Cafe.

Arcade Comedy Theater, 811 Liberty Avenue
After the Crawl Comedy Show
10 p.m., $10 / $5 for students
A mix of local stand-up comedians and some of the Arcade’s best improv comedy troupes. BYOB.

Toonseum, 947 Liberty Avenue
Kartoon Karaoke
9 p.m., $5, ages 21+
Sing along to music from classic animations in this first ever cartoon-themed karaoke party.

Enigma Lounge, 130 7th St
Global Beats
9 p.m., $5
Guest DJ Dave “7up” Sanchez spins globally influenced house and electronica with two percussionists, plus a live light show via LED screens.

CAR FREE FRIDAYS Walk, bike, bus, or carpool to the Gallery Crawl and celebrate another Car Free Friday with the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Port Authority, and BikePGH.

Gallery Crawl sponsors include City Paper, WYEP 91.3 FM, and Kreider Printing.
ALL INFORMATION AND LOCATIONS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE. Visit www.TrustArts.org/Crawl for updated and more detailed information.
All official Gallery Crawl locations will be marked with a Cultural District Stop sidewalk sign.
TEXT “CRAWL” TO SMASH (76274) to receive special exclusive offers and more.

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Redl's Structures of Time and Space at Wood Street Galleries

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Media Contacts:
Jessica Warchall, Visual Art Publicist, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
847-477-8714/Warchall@TrustArts.org
Shaunda Miles, Director of Public Relations, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
412-471-1578/Miles@TrustArts.org      
Diana Roth, Communications Manager, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
412-471-8717/Roth@TrustArts.org

PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST PRESENTS 

STRUCTURES OF TIME AND SPACE

FEATURING A PREMIERE INSTALLATION BY ARTIST ERWIN REDL

January 24 – April 6, 2014 | Wood Street Galleries
Exhibition Opening during Gallery Crawl | January 24 | 5:30 – 10 p.m.

Pittsburgh, PA—The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust announces the opening of Structures of Time and Space, large-scale light installations by internationally exhibited Austrian-born artist Erwin Redl. The exhibition is on view January 24–April 6, 2014, at Wood Street Galleries, and it opens in conjunction with Gallery Crawl in the Cultural District 5:30 to 10 p.m., January 24, 2014.

Known for his work using LEDs, Redl presents two installations in the present exhibition. Premiering at Wood Street Galleries, Twists and Turns uses successive layers of suspended glass plates to reflect four high-intensity light beams. The inherent draft in the room causes the glass plates to move at various speeds, scattering the light reflections across the walls and ceiling. The reflections are replicated again and again by the plates, creating an intense pattern of colored light, effectively dematerializing the architecture of the room.

Speed Shift (Image Courtesy of the Artist, Erwin Redl)

Speed Shift uses two bands of white LED light grids and simple beeps to create subtle shifts in the audience’s perception of time. Each LED band displays a wave animation with synchronized pulses of beeps indicating the wave’s speed. The speed of each individual wave changes slowly overtime, shifting in and out of phase with the other wave.

In both Twists and Turns and Speed Shift, Redl investigates the process of reverse engineering, by translating the abstract aesthetic language of virtual reality and 3D computer modeling into architectural environments through large-scale light installations. Due to the large size of the installations’ architectural dimensions, participation by the viewer being present is an integral part of the artwork.

Erwin Redl earned a bachelor of arts in composition and a diploma in electronic music from the Music Academy in Vienna, Austria. He also received a master of fine arts in computer art from the School of Visual Arts in New York, NY. The recipient of numerous awards, scholarships, and residencies—including a Chinati Foundation Residency in Marfa, TX, and a P.S.1 Studio Residency in Queens, NY—Redl has held solo and group exhibitions worldwide. Select exhibitions have been held at such venues as the Whitney Biennial, New York, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH; Art Miami / Swarovski Crystal Palace, Miami, FL; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH; World Expo 2008, Zaragoza, Spain; among others. Redl presented a large-scale public commission at Wood Street Galleries in 2003 as part of the exhibition After Image.

About Wood Street Galleries
Wood Street Galleries is located at 601 Wood Street. Gallery hours: Wed. & Thur. 11 a.m.–6 p.m.; Fri. & Sat. 11 a.m.–8 p.m.; Sun. 11 a.m.–5 p.m. The gallery is free and open to the public. Wood Street Galleries is a project of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. Support for Wood Street Galleries has been provided by the Howard Heinz Endowment and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Additional support provided by the Port Authority of Allegheny County. For more information about all gallery exhibitions featured in the Cultural District, please visit www.TrustArts.org.

About the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has overseen one of Pittsburgh’s most historic transformations: turning a seedy red-light district into a magnet destination for arts lovers, residents, visitors, and business owners. Founded in 1984, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is a non-profit arts organization whose mission is the cultural and economic revitalization of a 14-block arts and entertainment/residential neighborhood called the Cultural District. The District is one of the country’s largest land masses “curated” by a single nonprofit arts organization. A major catalytic force in the city, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is a unique model of how public-private partnerships can reinvent a city with authenticity, innovation and creativity. Using the arts as an economic catalyst, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has holistically created a world-renowned Cultural District that is revitalizing the city, improving the regional economy and enhancing Pittsburgh’s quality of life. Thanks to the support of foundations, corporations, government agencies and thousands of private citizens, the Cultural Trust stands as a national model of urban redevelopment through the arts.
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Comfort Women Wanted at Wood Street Galleries

For Immediate Release

Media Contacts:
Shaunda Miles, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
412-471-1578/Miles@TrustArts.org      
Diana Roth, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
412-471-8717/Roth@TrustArts.org

Images available: http://TrustArts.org/press
Search: Comfort 2013

PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST PRESENTS THE VISUAL ART EXHIBITION

COMFORT WOMEN WANTED

BY INTERNATIONALLY EXHIBITED ARTIST CHANG-JIN LEE

November 1–December 1, 2013 | Wood Street Galleries | Third Floor

Exhibition Opening | November 1, 5:30–8 p.m. | Artist Talk 6:30 p.m.


Pittsburgh, PA—The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust announces the opening of Comfort Women Wanted, an exhibition by Korean-born, New York-based visual artist Chang-Jin Lee. The exhibition is on view at Wood Street Galleries, third floor, November 1–December 1, 2013. The opening night event, 5:30–8 p.m., features an artist talk with Chang-Jin Lee at 6:30 p.m.

Comfort Women Wanted exposes the fates of nearly 200,000 young women who were exploited as sex slaves by the Imperial Japanese Army in Asia during World War II. The artist uses the remembrance of these “comfort women”—some of whom are still alive today—to increase awareness of sexual violence against women during wartime.

“In Asia, the comfort women issue remains taboo and controversial, while at the same time, it is almost unknown in the West,” says artist Chang-Jin Lee. “The comfort women system is the largest case of human trafficking in the 20th century. Human trafficking is the fastest growing industry in the world, and the second largest business after arms dealing in the 21st century. So, the comfort women issue is not just about the past, but it is very relevant today.”

The exhibition features a video documentary featuring interviews of Korean, Chinese, Taiwanese, Indonesian, Filipino, and Dutch “comfort women” survivors, and a former Japanese soldier, each speaking about their experiences at military “comfort stations”, as well as about their own hopes and dreams. Additional projections show former military “comfort stations” in China and Indonesia, recalling the history and memory of place.

The exhibition’s print works include posters reminiscent of advertisements that feature images of the young “comfort women” and are set alongside posters featuring the silhouettes of the now aged women. Each image is enclosed by the bold, black text COMFORT WOMEN WANTED, which refers to the language newspapers used to advertise for “comfort women” during WWII.

Chang-Jin Lee’s artworks deal with identity, gender, globalism, nationalism, human trafficking, and religion. She based this project on her visits to Asia since 2008, where she met Korean, Chinese, Taiwanese, Indonesian, Filipino, and Dutch “comfort women” survivors, as well as a former WWII Japanese soldier. Comfort Women Wanted has been exhibited at The Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale, Korea; The Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany; 1a Space Gallery, Hong Kong; Spaces Gallery, Ohio; George Mason University Gallery, Virginia; and The Boston Center for the Arts, Massachusetts. Video screenings have been shown at Hauser & Wirth Gallery, New York; and Columbia University, New York. Lee’s artwork Floating Echo—a transparent inflatable statue of Buddha—was featured at the 2013 Pittsburgh Three Rivers Arts Festival.


About Wood Street Galleries
Wood Street Galleries is located at 601 Wood Street. Hours: Wed. & Thur. 11 a.m.–6 p.m.; Fri. & Sat. 11 a.m.–8 p.m.; Sun. 11 a.m.–5 p.m. The gallery is free and open to the public. Wood Street Galleries is a project of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. Support for Wood Street Galleries has been provided by the Howard Heinz Endowment and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Additional support provided by the Port Authority of Allegheny County. For more information about all gallery exhibitions featured in the Cultural District, please visit www.TrustArts.org.

About The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has overseen one of Pittsburgh’s most historic transformations: turning a seedy red-light district into a magnet destination for arts lovers, residents, visitors, and business owners. Founded in 1984, The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is a non-profit arts organization whose mission is the cultural and economic revitalization of a 14-block arts and entertainment/residential neighborhood called the Cultural District. The District is one of the country’s largest land masses “curated” by a single nonprofit arts organization. A major catalytic force in the city, The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is a unique model of how public-private partnerships can reinvent a city with authenticity, innovation and creativity. Using the arts as an economic catalyst, The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has holistically created a world-renowned Cultural District that is revitalizing the city, improving the regional economy and enhancing Pittsburgh’s quality of life. Thanks to the support of foundations, corporations, government agencies and thousands of private citizens, the Trust stands as a national model of urban redevelopment through the arts.

Image Courtesy of the Artist Chang-Jin Lee
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Multimedia Exhibit Holdup in the Hood Explores Self Identification through Race, Class, Gender

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Media Contacts:
Shaunda Miles, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
(412) 471-1578, Miles@TrustArts.org
Diana Roth, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
(412) 471-8717, Roth@TrustArts.org
Images available: http://TrustArts.org/press
Search Name: 707 Penn Gallery

MULTIMEDIA EXHIBITION EXPLORES SELF IDENTIFICATION
THROUGH RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER
 
Pittsburgh, PA—The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust announces the opening of artist Francis Crisafio’s multimedia exhibition HOLDUP in the HOOD at 707 Penn Gallery on Friday, September 13, 2013. The exhibition incorporates drawings, recycled photographs, and print media as well as body gesture to explore issues of race, class, and gender. The exhibition is open to the public Friday, September 13, through Sunday, November 3, 2013.

“HOLDUP in the HOOD is both a personal and communal exploration of self,” Crisafio says. “It concerns the identity of self that comes with the realization of making one’s mark.”

Together with his teaching partner Meda Rago, Crisafio co-authors and teaches an after-school, inner-city arts collaboration in the Manchester section of Pittsburgh, PA. The images included in this exhibition are culled from a larger body of work that documents the after-school, collaborative arts curriculum rooted in self-portraiture. The program and subsequent documentation have run continuously for 11 years.

HOLDUP in the HOOD has been extensively exhibited in 2013, in both national and international venues, including the Filter Photo Festival, Chicago, IL.; Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR.; Photo Center NW, Seattle, WA.; Griffin Museum of Photography, Boston, MA.; Flash Forward Festival/Magenta Foundation, Brooklyn, NY., and Boston, MA.; and Onward 13/Project Basho, Philadelphia, PA.

The exhibition has also received numerous awards, including first and second prize at Prix de la Photographie, Paris, France; third prize at the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA.; and “best of show” at the Hoyt Museum, Pittsburgh, PA. Additionally, two images will be included in the 2012 Photo Review, the International Journal of Photography, Philadelphia. PA. Two images were selected and one of them was awarded first prize in the Texas Photographic Society international competition, and one image was selected from the series and awarded an honorable mention at the Griffin Museum of Photography.

Self-taught photographer Francis Crisafio studied painting and printmaking at Carnegie-Mellon University. www.franciscrisafio.com

About 707 Penn Gallery
707 Penn Gallery is a project of The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. The gallery is located at 707 Penn Avenue, in downtown Pittsburgh’s Cultural District. Gallery Hours: Wed. & Thurs. 11 a.m.–6 p.m.; Fri. & Sat. 11 a.m.–8 p.m.; Sun.11 a.m.–5 p.m. Free and open to the public. For more information about all gallery exhibits featured in the Cultural District, please visit www.TrustArts.org.

About The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has overseen one of Pittsburgh’s most historic transformations: turning a seedy red-light district into a magnet destination for arts lovers, residents, visitors, and business owners. Founded in 1984, The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is a non-profit arts organization whose mission is the cultural and economic revitalization of a 14-block arts and entertainment/residential neighborhood called the Cultural District. The District is one of the country’s largest land masses “curated” by a single nonprofit arts organization. A major catalytic force in the city, The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is a unique model of how public-private partnerships can reinvent a city with authenticity, innovation and creativity. Using the arts as an economic catalyst, The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has holistically created a world-renowned Cultural District that is revitalizing the city, improving the regional economy and enhancing Pittsburgh’s quality of life. Thanks to the support of foundations, corporations, government agencies and thousands of private citizens, the Cultural Trust stands as a national model of urban redevelopment through the arts.

Photo Credits:  Francis Crisafio
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Aurora Productions Presents Viagra Falls

The D.A.P. Co-Op for Dance, Arts, & Photography
26, East Main St. Carnegie Pa. 15106 (412)-403-7357
www.dapcoop.com, thedapcoopzumba@hotmail.com


Contact Person Virginia Nicoll-(412)-403-7357


Aurora Productions will present a new Dramedy, Viagra Falls by Jackie Nicoll at the Dap Co-Op, 26 E. Main St., Carnegie, on June 21,22,28 & 29, at 7:30 pm. An Art Exhibition will be on display in the first floor Gallery. All tickets are $10.00 and no one under the age of 18 will be admitted.

Featured in the cast are Paul Laughlin, Charlene Dolfi, Gus Melis, Logan McCurdy, Jerry Wienand, Cindy Swanson, Jesse Warnick and Kathi Finch.

For reservations call, 412-403-7357

Contact Person Virginia Nicoll  (412)-403-7357

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Capture Inc Gallery Art Exhibition Opening

Capture, Inc. Gallery Art Exhibition Opening

On December 15th 2012 from 5-9 PM, Capture, Inc Gallery of Brownsville is hosting an art show opening featuring artwork from high school students and local artists.  "Operation Chestnut: An Exhibition of Local and Aspiring Artists" showcases diverse art pieces from over 20 students, grades 9-12, from Brownsville Area High School art classes and art club, led by art teacher and advisor Brian Nicholson. The exhibition also incorporates pieces from established artists Bethany Anderson, Joe Materkowski, and Jeff Jones.

Bethany Anderson has been a professional airbrush artist for 5 years. She moved to Brownsville last year from Las Vegas.In a studio at the Flatiron building in Brownsville, Anderson makes custom ordered artwork and pursues projects that challenge and inspire her.

Joe Materkowski is a Western Pennsylvania native with a Master of Fine Arts Degree from The New York Academy of Art. In his most recent series of paintings, Materkowski works within the realm of abstraction. Materkowski exhibits his artwork in New York City and in the Pittsburgh area.  He also works as an adjunct art professor for Penn State University and St. Vincent College.

Jeff Jones is a photographer, artist, and owner of the Capture, Inc Gallery.   He purchased his first camera in 1972, and has been creating beautiful images ever since. Jones has mastered the digital medium for capturing and manipulating his images.  He has exhibited work at Modern Formations, Carnegie Museum of Art, and the August Wilson Cultural Center. His photography has also been published in Popular Photography magazine

This is the first in a series of planned gallery openings featuring the art work of Brownsville youth intermixed with that of local artisans. The goal of the "Operation Chestnut" exhibitions is to showcase local talent. Student artists will be able to interact with those who have chosen art as their career. These exhibitions will encourage the students to produce artwork that displays their talents to the public.

Capture Inc, Gallery is located on the basement level of the Flatiron Building, 69 Market Street in Brownsville.  Capture Inc will be open from December 15th 2012 until January 12th 2013.  Hours will be 11-5 Monday through Saturday, and Sundays by appointment. Anderson will be painting in the gallery, and taking custom artwork orders from visitors. Stop by the gallery to watch her work and learn more about airbrushing. For more information contact Sara Goots at 724-785-9331 or Jeff Jones at 724-785-2056.

Sara Goots
BARC Americorps Participant
work: (724)-785-9331
cell: (216)-272-4611
manager@barcpa.org
www.barcpa.org

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