Highest Grossing Film: The Sequel
Powder Room 201 N Braddock Ave, #209, Pittsburgh, United StatesProduced alongside the political theatre of 2017, "Highest Grossing Film: The Sequel" approaches issues of capital, entertainment, and collapse.
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KR Pipkin: 24 Hour Water
Powder Room 201 N Braddock Ave, #209, Pittsburgh, United StatesMFA Candidate KR Pipkin presents an exhibition of new drawings, sculpture, video, and generative work around the idea of digital water.
Gray Swartzel: Mother Tongue No. 1
Ellis Gallery School of Art 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesUpon coming across a home video that presents both his pregnant mother and the artist as a newborn, MFA Candidate Gary Swartzel acts as a drag character of his mother in order to queer his existence prior to birth.
Alex Lukas: 87.5 to 107.9, 530 to 1710
Powder Room 201 N Braddock Ave, #209, Pittsburgh, United States87.5 to 107.9, 530 to 1710 presents new sculptures and paintings by Alex Lukas examining this space of breakdown
Gray Swartzel: Mother Tongue No. II
Powder Room 201 N Braddock Ave, #209, Pittsburgh, United StatesUpon coming across a home video that presents both his pregnant mother and the artist as a newborn, Gray Swartzel performs a slapstick drag persona of his mother in order to queer his existence prior to birth.
Lee Webster: CHROMINANCE
Powder Room 201 N Braddock Ave, #209, Pittsburgh, United StatesIn CHROMINANCE, Webster imagines her mother’s brief time in the spotlight, rendering a black and white memory in full, chromatic brilliance.
Shohei Katayama: 怪光 – “KAIKOU”
Powder Room 201 N Braddock Ave, #209, Pittsburgh, United StatesMFA Candidate Shohei Katayama presents an immersive light installation around the ideas of impermanence and contamination.
Erin Mallea: Maintaining Utopia
Powder Room 201 N Braddock Ave, #209, Pittsburgh, United StatesIn 2017, Erin Mallea spent three months at Old Economy Village (OEV) a regional museum and historic site to learn more about the living history of historic maintenance.
Nick Crockett: The Sun Lies Heavy
Powder Room 201 N Braddock Ave, #209, Pittsburgh, United States"The Sun Lies Heavy" is an exhibition by MFA Candidate of new scenes from an ongoing project presenting an alternative history of coal mingled with myths of forgotten forests, crawling proto-reptiles, and chthonic infernos as real-time virtual puppet theater.
Yejin S. Lee: Daily Rhythm
Powder Room 201 N Braddock Ave, #209, Pittsburgh, United StatesAs a Korean-American straddling two consumerist cultures, MFA Candidate Yejin Lee’s work offers an alternative to the excessive stimulations in our daily life by advertisements, social media, and news in a mass-consumer culture.