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Responding
Curated by Anna Mikolay
Spring 2010
Have you ever had the experience of passing by a place where you are drawn to it and then later find yourself thinking about it? Is it the beauty, mystery, sadness and or history of it that causes you to linger?
And if you had the opportunity to respond to this place what would you do? How would you proceed?
Curator, Anna E. Mikolay asked five local artists these same questions this past January. The exhibition, Responding, highlights the new works created in response to these questions. Selected sites include the block of an abandoned church, an urban intersection, a private garden, a collapsed barn and a collection of postcards from the past. Each artist responded differently to this challenge including creating hidden shrines, photo documentations, sculptures, maps, dis-assembling of materials and more.
April 16-May 15, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, April 16, 6-9pm
Gallery Crawl: Friday, April 23, 5:30-9pm
Artists:
Rose Clancy
Vanessa German
Maria Mangano
David Montano
David Pohl
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Quiet in the Land?
Carnegie Mellon Master of Fine Arts student exhibition
Curated by Dan Byers
March 26 - April 10, 2010
Opening: March 26th @ 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Gallery Hours:
Wednesday 12:30-6:00pm
Thursday 12:30-6:00pm
Friday 12:30-6:00pm
Saturday 12:30-6:00pm
Featuring the work of twelve Carnegie Mellon
MFA students, Quiet in the Land? brings together work that, in different ways, is going silent, disappearing, or hiding in its own presence. Raising questions of communication and relationship to audience, the exhibition includes a mix of existing work, and pieces made for the exhibition, including, among other things, a silent explosion, evaporating video, an absent artist, a flag of surrender that won’t back down, videos of obliteration, and photographs of removal.
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Do You Understand?
Curated by Kim Rullo
January 15 – February 13, 2010
Technological advancements have opened our world like never before. We reunite, collaborate and express our deepest emotions through lines of typed text. We do business at light speed through the click of a button. For some of us, it is a breathtaking and necessary utilitarian device to aid us in connecting and communicating with the world for our personal and business needs. For others, it is a new form of social hermitism, with the illusion of real connectivity. Texts and IM chats replace phone calls and face to face communication. Facebook friends have become closer to us than our next door neighbors, and sending a virtual drink to a fellow coworker replaces the idea of hanging out in our "down" time. Classmates, exes and the general garden variety acquaintances from the past are now the forefront of everyday life. But are we as close to each other as we think we are? Are we communicating or are we becoming virtual and physical hermits? Are we understanding each other? Is this better living through technology or are we avoiding life but filling it with emotionless words often misunderstood? There are pro and cons to this brilliantly advanced age. Can we evolve with this technology without losing ourselves?
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Dividing The Goose
Co- Curated by Jeffrey Schreckengost and Lisa Toboz
September 18 - October 20, 2009
Dividing the Goose will explore the role of fairy tales in shaping artistic creativity. We ask the artists, as well as the audience, to set aside abstract, conceptional notions of art and think back to their childhoods. Fairy tales served as ways of escapism, fueling our imaginations. They fascinated and frightened us. The lessons imparted to us from magic mirrors and big bad wolves were more real to us than reality. Some tales added a humorous dimension to our everyday lives. Fairy tales have endured countless interpretations through literature, film and art. It is the essence of their timelessness that allows us to never tire of them. The artists in Dividing the Goose will retell a fairy tale existence in a modern‐day world.
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