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
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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.
Immutable Stage: MFA Exhibition
Miller ICA, Purnell Center for the Arts 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesCreated within the current political tumult, new works by the 2018 CMU School of Art MFA candidates examine pop culture fantasies of entertainment, capital, and collapse.
Talya Petrillo: Emotional (Re)location
Powder Room 201 N Braddock Ave, #209, Pittsburgh, United StatesEmotional (Re)location, a solo exhibition by MFA Candidate Talya Petrillo, uses sentimentality and satire to question the mental space of loss, acceptance and moments of insanity.
It’s A Long Story I’ll Save For Later
Powder Room 201 N Braddock Ave, #209, Pittsburgh, United States"It's A Long Story I'll Save For Later," a solo exhibition by MFA Candidate Paper Buck, traverses the former homesites of his (post-) Irish Catholic family across backwoods Pennsylvania and Southwestern Ireland.