Upon 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.
Capturing the past through a lens of make-believe and revision, "6 or 7 Souls" is a collection of paintings that we see as an attempt to “reincarnate” via portraiture, or through spaces once inhabited.
The Frame Gallery presents "Polis," an exhibition of the winners of the Grindroz prize, a stipend to support summer research in Europe by a music or architecture student.
"Body Drift" is an immersive audiovisual performance that uses video-driven animation and multi-channel sound to examine the subtle shifts that take place in the development and degradation of sensory perception.
87.5 to 107.9, 530 to 1710 presents new sculptures and paintings by Alex Lukas examining this space of breakdown
Dinner pARTy is a community engagement project in the form of a series of dinner events on CMU’s campus.
"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.
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.
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.
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.