Exhibitions

Worlds Within

Miller ICA, Purnell Center for the Arts 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Co-curated by School of Art Professor John Carson and Lugene Bruno, Worlds Within is on view at the Miller Gallery from September 23 to November 12 and at the Hunt Botanical Institute from September 22 to December 15.

Hadi Tabatabai: Transitional Spaces

Miller ICA, Purnell Center for the Arts 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Opening: September 22, 6-8pm

Hadi Tabatabai: New CFA Installation

College of Fine Arts, 214 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Hadi Tabatabai presents a new original installation in the College of Fine Art Great Hall for the wats:ON? Festival. The installation will open on November 2 with a reception at 5:00pm, followed by a talk with the artist in Kresge Theatre at 6:00pm.

Dine in the Dark: a Dinner pARTy

Dinner pARTy is a community engagement project in the form of a series of dinner events on CMU’s campus.

Summer Leavitt: We have a future, perhaps.

The FRAME Gallery 5200 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

"We have a future, perhaps." is a collection of seeking origins and creating, documenting, archiving moments of the artist's own queer existence and queer desire to prolong them, find representation, take herself into the future.

Darya Kharabi: No Different From Your Other

Ellis Gallery School of Art 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Suffering in a medical context as a woman has historically been dismissed and looked over; one recognizable form is in the history of breast cancer.

Gray Swartzel: Mother Tongue No. II

Powder Room 201 N Braddock Ave, #209, Pittsburgh, United States

Upon 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.

To Exist (Is to Be)

Ellis Gallery School of Art 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Delving into the human existence and their relationship to the cosmos, this exhibition examines the dialogue between the human inclination to control their lives and role of the omnipotent, omnipresent universe.

Jenna Houston: Pass the Butter

Ellis Gallery School of Art 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Pass the Butter queers suburban fantasies and tropes into surreal domestic scenes through photographs, installations, and video.

Earthly Delights

The FRAME Gallery 5200 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Earthly Delights is an exploration of a utopian world. Through painting and installation, undergraduates Sydney Krantz and Coco Allred have created an ethereal scene that offers its audience a much needed respite.