Opening Reception @ the Carnegie Museum of Art. This Thursday, June 16th from 5:30 – 9 pm.
The CMA exhibition will feature a multigenerational mix of artists working in a wide range of media, including film, video, drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, and publications. Carnegie Museum of Art’s presentation of the Biennial centers on the notion of labor, most overtly conjured by labored manifestations of craft and the industrial, meditations on the nature of making, and the social contexts of the totems, artifacts, products, and songs of industry. Rather than another examination of the post-industrial condition, this heterogeneous collection of artworks takes a step back to present objects and images in the context of their making, and the cultural, often urban surroundings that reverberate in the double meaning of “work” as action and outcome. To Plan your visit now click here.
Artists on Art Gallery Talks > Carnegie Museum of Art
Sundays, 2:30-3:30pm. Free with museum admission.
June 19: Peggy Ahwesh & Frank Santoro
July 10: Fabrizio Gerbino & Lenka Clayton
Peggy Ahwesh
is an award-winning filmmaker, experimental video artist and educator. Her work uses found footage, noise, the arcane, and a variety of obsolete, low-end technologies. Born in Pittsburgh, she currently she lives in upstate New York.
Stephanie Beroes
is a filmmaker whose 16mm cult-classic film, Debt Begins at Twenty, chronicles Pittsburgh’s punk scene in the 80s through fictionalized sequences and documentary footage. Currently she lives in New York, NY.
Brandon Boan
is a ceramicist and performance artist who will create a site-specific work that connects the Carnegie Museum’s basement to the gallery, examining the institution’s interstitial spaces. He lives in Pittsburgh, PA.
Lenka Clayton
is a British filmmaker/sculptor/installation artist known locally for two projects: hand-written letters sent to every resident of Polish Hill, and a multi-channel sound work based on a day’s recording of 10 strangers around Pittsburgh.
Ed Eberle
is ceramic artist and educator who lives in Pittsburgh, PA. His works includes drawings, ceramic vessels and sculptures.
Fabrizio Gerbino
is an artist who creates paintings, meditative sculptures, drawings, and site-specific installations. He grew up in Florence, Italy and currently lives in Pittsburgh.
Jamie Gruzska
is a painter, photographer, printmaker and educator who lives in Pittsburgh. He will exhibit a series of twenty-five small photographs that he’s been developing since childhood.
Zak Prekop
is a New York-based painter, who grew up in Pittsburgh. In his work he plays with an austere sense of beauty and awareness of abstraction’s history.
