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.
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Will Taylor: The End of the Rainbow
Ellis Gallery School of Art 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesThe imagery depicted in the artwork was created through memories, photo and video documentation, objects collected from the ruins, and abstract representations of experiences we shared at the Rainbow Lounge, in addition to the fire that destroyed it.
Lecture Series: Allison Smith
Kresge Theatre 4919 Frew Street, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesAllison Smith takes an expansive view of sculpture, combining social practice, performance, and traditional crafts to examine how American history has been constructed and how it may be revised, retold, and reinterpreted.
Lecture Series: Cristóbal Martínez
Kresge Theatre 4919 Frew Street, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesCristóbal Martínez's work seeks to reveal the vexing nature of our complex memories, amnesias, behaviors, beliefs, assumptions, choices, and relationships to create experiences that move beyond the human instinct to simplify.
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.
Chantal Striepe: Here Somewhere There
Ellis Gallery School of Art 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesThis exhibition presents a singular representation of the boundaries of the human mind and body with regards to being present, aware, and mindful through the use and unspoken restrictions of materiality and other formal components of the installation works.
Ephmera
Future Tenant 819 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States"Ephemera" highlights a diverse selection of artwork that explores the duality of transience and permanence through a rich variety of techniques and themes. The exhibition features School of Art students Matthew Constant, Ariana Daly, October Donoghue, Andrew Edwards, and Summer Leavitt.
Lecture Series: Dread Scott
Kresge Theatre 4919 Frew Street, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesDread Scott works in a range of media including performance, photography, screen-printing, and video, challenging viewers to reexamine unifying ideals and values of American society, often by focusing on African American experience.
Angela Washko Plays “The Game: The Game”
Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry CFA 111, 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesTo coincide with her current solo exhibition at the Museum of the Moving Image and the online release of "The Game: The Game," Professor Angela Washko will discuss the multi-year research process behind her pick-up artist dating simulator.
Lingdong Huang: {Shan, Shui}*
College of Fine Arts, 214 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States{Shan, Shui}* is an automated process of producing a never-ending scroll of Chinese landscape painting.