SOA

Composition for the unrealized Governor’s Palace

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

Composition for the unrealized Governor’s Palace is a multi-channel audio work divided between loudspeakers, headphones, and the movement of the listener.

Gray Swartzel: Mother Tongue No. 1

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

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.

Lecture Series: Angela Dufresne

Kresge Theatre 4919 Frew Street, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Angela Dufresne’s work articulates porous ways of being in a world fraught by fear and possession.

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.

Lecture Series: Sarah Oppenheimer

The Mattress Factory 500 Sampsonia Way, Pittsburgh, United States

Sarah Oppenheimer is an artist operating on the boundary conditions of spatial and temporal adjacency.

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.