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Brooklyn X Pittsburgh: The Industry of Art

Curated by Eric Shiner
July 19–August 24, 2025
BWAC Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition
481 Van Brunt St Door #7A, Brooklyn, NY 11231

Applications are open April 1–April 30, 2025

As one of the world’s most prolific centers of art production, Brooklyn is host to countless artists, studios, arts institutions and fabrication facilities that fuel New York’s cultural production. Pittsburgh, too, plays host to all of the above, set within a long history of industries like steel and aluminum production, much of which literally build New York and Brooklyn’s physical infrastructure so many decades ago.

For this exhibition, we challenge artists from or in Brooklyn and Pittsburgh to submit works that celebrate the innovation and industry of these two cities, and in whatever form you think captures the spirit of creativity and making.

About the juror:
Eric Shiner is the President of Powerhouse Arts, a Brooklyn not-for-profit committed to creative expression that hosts a network of art and fabrication professionals and educators who work together to co-create and share artistic practices. Shiner has served as the executive director of Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, artistic director of White Cube New York, and Senior Vice President of Contemporary Art at Sotheby’s. Shiner was also the director of The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh (2010-2016) and the Milton Fine Curator of Art at The Warhol (2008-2010). A leading scholar on Andy Warhol and Asian contemporary art, he lived and worked in Japan for six years and was assistant curator for the inaugural Yokohama Triennale (2001). He has curated notable exhibitions internationally, including The Warhol Museum’s Andy Warhol retrospective that traveled to Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, and Tokyo (2012-2014). Shiner is the immediate past President of the board of Visual AIDS, a NYC-based nonprofit promoting the artistic legacy of those artists lost to and living with AIDS, and a board member of The Romare Bearden Foundation and Art at a Time Like This. He lives in New York with his partner, Dr. Ishaan Kumar, and their long-haired dachshund, Juno.

NOTE: Applications open April 1st

Are you a member of Associated Artists of Pittsburgh? Members received an application link via email. If you do not have the link in your inbox, please email AAP at aap@aapgh.org.

every speck of dust illuminated

March 14–April 18, 2025
Tomayko Foundation
5173 Liberty Avnue
Pittsburgh, PA 15224

Exhibiting Artists: Alexandra Lakin, Karen Lue, Erin Mallea, Joseph Ryznar, and Shori Sims

every speck of dust illuminated presents a tableau of the everyday. Inspired by Richard Siken’s poem “Visible World,” the exhibition sketches a feeling around quotidian notions of quietude, the banal, dreaming, and interiority. This exhibition is presented by Associated Artists of Pittsburgh and the Tomayko Foundation. every speck of dust illuminated is juried by Patrick Bova and Lucas Regazzi of april april. 

For the full curatorial statement, visit tomayko.foundation/every-speck-of-dust-illuminated

All photos by Chris Uhren

2024–2025 Featured Artists Exhibition

March 1–April 18, 2025
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Exhibition Space
100 43rd Street, Unit 107, Pittsburgh, PA 15201

Returning to AAP on March 1st, the 6th annual Featured Artist Exhibition runs through April 18, 2025. The 2024–2025 Featured Artists Exhibition is curated by Dawn Henry, AAP Exhibitions Coordinator and showcases the work of the last 12 months of Featured Artists (March 2024–February 2025) selected by the Exhibition Committee. This year we are pleased to share the work of these featured member artists: Clayton Merrell, Alyssa Kail, Stephanie Martin, Casey Connelly, John Tronsor, LaVerne Kemp, Ashley Cecil, Joel Kranich, Kim Fox, Robert Bowden, Elizabeth Myers Castonguay, and Laurie Trok.

This year's exhibition will be accompanied by an online store that will present additional work by many of the Featured Artists not seen in the exhibition. The store will open at aapgh.org on March 6th.

In March of 2019, Associated Artists began featuring the artwork of one of our members each month. Artists spotlighted in the monthly Featured Artist Series and yearly exhibition are nominated and voted on by the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Exhibition Committee. The Committee reviews recent exhibition applications to select artist nominees for consideration. The chosen Featured Artist is then highlighted in an email newsletter, shared across our social media channels, and posted to our blog. Every 12 months, the Featured Artist selection culminates in an exhibition at our Lawrenceville gallery. For AAP members to be considered for Featured Artist, an artist's membership needs to be in good standing, and the artist member must have recently applied to an exhibition through AAP's Slideroom platform. See more about all of our past Featured Artists here.

Photos by Chris Uhren

Nearing Each Other

October 18, 2024–January 26, 2025
Carnegie Museum of Art
4400 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Forum 89, Nearing Each Other, invites us to reimagine our own complex connections to place as a site of unfolding relationships. In this exhibition, place may be an environment, a material experience, or a memory to suggest notions of belonging and transformation. Featuring 6 AAP members, this exhibit that took place in Carnegie Museum of Art’s Forum Gallery displayed a wide vaierty of mdiums and practices. To learn more, please visit the CMOA page here.

Visions & Voices

January 28th - March 28th, 2025
Media Arts Gallery @ Robert Morris University
6001 University Blvd, Wheatley Center
Moon Township, PA 15108

AAP returns to RMU with Visions & Voices, an exhibition that celebrates the power of creativity and the richness of expression. It will serve as a platform for artists to explore and share their unique artistic journeys.

On view are works by Pati Beachley, Kathy Boykowycz, Aimee Bungard, Elizabeth Myers Castonguay, Tony Cavalline, Natalie Condrac, Mary Culbertson-Stark, Molly Davis, Jennifer L. Dinovitz, Catherine Drabkin, Norman Ed, Tim Fabian, Lorraine Free, Henry Winslow Hallett, Gary Henzler Allen, Eunsu Kang, Patty Kennedy-Zafred, S Kessler Kaminski, Julie Lee, James Louks, Desiree Matia, Lorrie Anne Minicozzi, Lorrie Anne Minicozzi, Catherine Ryan, Sarah Simmons, and John Tronsor

All photos by Christine Holtz

submissions open:
juried exhibition at Tomayko Foundation

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The Tomayko Foundation and the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh are pleased to announce an Open Call for Art. AAP members are invited to submit works for participation in a spring exhibition, to be on view at the Tomayko Foundation, and will be juried by Patrick Bova and Lucas Regazzi of april april, Pittsburgh.

As the exhibition's framework will not be predetermined, instead generated through the jurying process, artists working across all mediums are encouraged to submit. Artists are asked to submit 2–5 artworks. Uploads of 1-5 images are permitted to show detail or other angles of the work, if preferred. All submitted artwork must be available to exhibit for the entirety of the exhibition. No substitutions will be permitted. If the artwork becomes unavailable for display prior to the opening, the artwork and artist will not be included in the exhibition. With the exception of video, performance, or other mediums not generally suited for sale, artwork can and may be sold through Associated Artists of Pittsburgh. Artist commission from any sale is 60% of list price.

For each artwork submission, artists must include the title, date, medium, dimensions (unframed/framed), and price of work. The following materials are restricted from entry: live or dead plant materials, organic materials such as food products that will decompose during the exhibition, any material that shows evidence of insect infestation or mold growth, and toxic or hazardous materials. Any special installation needs must be mentioned in the application.

2-D and 3-D artwork: selected work MUST be gallery ready, including ready to hang or display, and/or provide installation instructions, as needed. Works do not need to be framed, but hanging method must be provided or noted.

For installation work: artists may provide clear and concise instructions for install, or make arrangements to install their own work.

For video work: include a viewing link for the work with the necessary details of the work, title, date, medium, and length. We have access to some equipment, but artists may be asked to provide the necessary equipment needed to view or experience the piece throughout the duration of the exhibition.

The call is only open to current AAP members. The application is free for AAP members. Deadline to apply is January 13, 2025.
Applicants will be notified of status via email. All selected artists will also be considered for three monetary awards in the amounts of $3,000, $2,000, and $1,000.

AAP artist members have received a live application link in their email. If you do not have the email link and are a current AAP member, please email aap@aapgh.org.

ABOUT THE TOMAYKO FOUNDATION

The Tomayko Foundation was started in 2015 to foster individual creativity through education and the arts.The Tomayko Foundation fosters individual creativity through education and the arts. Started in 2015 by John (Jack) R. Tomayko, the Foundation has since made a significant impact in these fields throughout the Pittsburgh region by supporting individuals pursuing higher education in the fields of engineering and fine art, visual and performing arts, emerging artists, and organizations who support the work of living artists. Jack has been an art collector for over 30 years.

During that time Jack has been collecting the work of artist Frank Mason, making him one of the most prolific collectors of the artist’s work. In partnership with the artist’s estate, the Foundation has access to over 300 works of art spanning the entire career of Frank Mason. The artist passed away in 2009. As a custodian of Frank Mason’s work, The Foundation works to archive, exhibit, and promote awareness of the artist.

In 2022 The Foundation purchased its current building at 5173 Liberty Ave in Pittsburgh, PA. The Foundation holds public exhibitions, art events, and an annual art auction. The Foundation is open to the public weekly, and by appointment on weekends.

Learn more at https://tomayko.foundation/.

ABOUT april, april

april april is an art gallery located in the Regent Square neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the borough of Wilkinsburg. The gallery represents and exhibits a comprehensive range of practices with an artist-driven curatorial sensibility. It was founded by Patrick Bova and Lucas Regazzi in 2021. From 2021-2024, the gallery operated as a project space in the front room of their apartment in Brooklyn, New York.

april april is a member of the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA).

Learn more at https://aprilapril.gallery/.

stop, collaborate, listen


January 15–February 25, 2025
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Exhibition Space
100 43rd Street, Suite 107
Pittsburgh, PA 15201

Closing Reception with DJing by Paul Rosenblatt
Saturday, February 22nd, 2025
6:00pm–8:00pm

This exhibition and accompanying programming are made possible through the support of the Arts, Equity, and Education Fund.

Additional support is provided by achieva Family Trust and Keystone Educational Consulting Group.

stop, collaborate, listen is an inclusive exhibition featuring artwork created from and inspired by vinyl records, record sleeves, album covers, and more. Artists from Associated Artist of Pittsburgh and Creative Citizen Studios worked independently, alongside each other, and in collaboration to create the work on view.

Exhibiting Artists: Ian Abraham, Margaret Bjorklund, Aimee Bungard, Aubrey Boyle, Laren Braun, Megan Bruno, Holden Gerlach, Timmy Gross, Evan Heilman, Jami Johnson, Matt Lewis, Kate Lundy, Daijah Massie, Kallie McCarthy, Robyn McKee, Erin Nash, Eva Perdziola, Julie Piller, Destiny Poindexter, Paul Rosenblatt, Lucy Sapp, Lori Seligman, Megan Shope, William Taylor, Faron Thompson, Lydia Wayman, Patrick Weakland, Suzanne Werder, and Zev Woskoff.

Additional artworks will be featured in an interactive portion of the exhibition. This includes work by Jami Johnson, Daijah Massie, Eva Perdziola, Suzanne Werder, and Zev Woskoff, as well as collaborative pieces by both AAP and CCS artists.

Closing Reception
Saturday, February 22nd, 2025
6:00pm–8:00pm

Join us Saturday, February 22nd, 6pm-8pm to celebrate the closing of “stop, collaborate, listen.” Exhibiting artist Paul Rosenblatt will be manning the turntables and featuring music recommended by his fellow exhibiting artists. Enjoy light bites and drinks while you look at art! This event is free and open to the public.

Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Exhibition Space
100 43rd St. Unit 107.
Pittsburgh, PA 15201

Previous exhibition events

 
 

All photos by Chris Uhren

114 x 114

Online Store + Exhibition:
In-Person: November 15—December 23, 2024
Online: November 18, 2024—January 6, 2025 

Second Drop:
In-Person and Online: December 5, 2024

Opening Reception
November 15, 2024, 6-8pm
Doors open at 5:30pm and sales start at 6pm

Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Exhibition Space
100 43rd St. Unit 107.
Pittsburgh, PA 15201

To celebrate Associated Artists of Pittsburgh's 114th year, 114x114 will feature over 200 works of art over two drops. Each work is priced $114. This is an off-the-wall exhibitions which allows patrons to take works home with them immediately upon purchase. Work will also be for sale in the online store at aapgh.org.

We were featured on YaJagoff during Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council promotion!
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WE:
Within Environment,
Environment Within

An exhibition of works by artists Theresa Antonellis and Barbara Westman

September 21–November 1, 2024
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Exhibition Space
100 43rd St. Unit 107
Pittsburgh, PA 15201

Opening Reception Saturday, September 21, 2024 from 5:00pm to 7:00pm.

The opening reception for WE is part of the Allegheny Regional Asset District's 2024 RAD Days celebration. RAD Days is an annual ‘thank you’ to taxpayers, offering a chance to see the best of Allegheny County's top cultural destinations free of charge. Learn more at https://www.radworkshere.org/events/opening-reception-for-we-within-environment-environment-within.

WE are two artists, observing the environment, places that often go unseen and unnoticed, yet have strong potential in process. One: The external environment,  quiet forgotten landscapes,  rusting places, naturally processing itself. Two: The internal environment, its rhythms, breaths and beats. Seeing the breath, recording a breath generated mark, unseen becomes seen.

WE pose a question, with observation, does a thing change or does the observer change?

WE are two artists, working separately yet the processes and products appear united in spaciousness, and in room for contemplation.

–Theresa Antonellis and Barbara Westman

Since I moved to the U.S. in 2002, the post-industrial landscape of Pennsylvania has always been interesting to me. The images of abandoned structures, steel mills, machinery, pipes, railways and power lines never escape my attention. These monuments of the past remind us about the once existing industrial dominance, but now abandoned, nature gradually takes over. Human alteration of natural landscapes generates interesting forms and linear division of land and sky. These endless power lines, pipes and unusual buildings create a unique visual composition. 

I see direct connection in continues lines of industrial cables, cords and wires to the stitching of a thread on cloth, sewing, making or mending clothes. For me, this mundane task of sewing represents women’s work. Lines of stitching done by woman's hand finds its analogy in the industrial landscape built by men. 

I was interested in documenting this experience in my artwork, before it is altered again.

The Rust Belt series began a few years ago and grew from many photographs I took during my road trips. The printing process of pronto plate lithography on semi-transparent interfacing allowed me to merge printmaking and fiber art in a way that the images seem to "float" and are connected by the threads of handstitched power lines, wires and cords. The actual movement of the hanging artwork emphasizes the lightness of the fabric and perhaps suggests the movement of a cloth hanging on a line.

Barbara Westman
www.barbarawestman.com

The series One Breath One Line originated in 2013, with the intention of merging lifelong artist’s practice with yoga and breathwork practice. The emergence of One Breath, One Line is closely aligned with observing my own breath, and also witnessing the breath of others and the power of the breath in different emotional states.

These drawings and paintings are produced in coordination with my breathing. Each mark, whether a miniscule scrawl of the ballpoint pen or the broad bold ribbon of ink, is a physical expression, is propelled by the exhalation. Every space between the mark represents the inhalation. Just as in the body, inhalation and exhalation are continually adjusting responding, so too the mark-making. The mark maker’s gesture is a key ingredient. In the application of ink there lies hidden limitation of the body. Range of motion is encoded in each mark. The permanence of ink represents a challenge, a risk.

Every year I continue to add to the series. Experiences in nature and immersion in studio are an absolute requirement for continued work. Inspiration arises from artist retreats and retreats to nature. Lucid Art Foundation and Virginia Center for Creative Arts were formative and supportive in re-commitment to my practice. I enjoy visits to the Massachusetts coastline areas on Cape Cod.

Each drawing and each painting are transcriptions of time, of presence lived, of breath observed.

Theresa Antonellis
www.theresaantonellis.com

2024 NEW MEMBER EXHIBITION

August 3—September 12, 2024
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Exhibition Space
100 43rd St. Unit 107.
Pittsburgh, PA 15201

The 2024 New Member Exhibition features work by 24 of our newest members and showcases the breadth and depth of the artistic and creative talent of our region. Works on view range from miniature etchings of cyborg type creatures practicing medicine to a work of fiber art utilizing traditional African fabrics to revisit the traditions of and stories from African-American literature. 

The 2024 New Member Screening was juried by Atlanta-cased Artist, Curator, and Arts Educator Soude Dadras and  Carnegie Museum of Art Assistant Curator Alyssa Velazquez. Velazquez curated the exhibition with assistance from Layne Shaffer, University of Pittsburgh Department of History of Art and Architecture Summer Fellow. 

Exhibiting Artists: Sobia Ahmad, Teresa Audet, Ruth Bedeian, Michael Begenyi, Kim Breit, Catherine Drabkin, Christine Fashion, Katy Heinlein, Eli Kessler, Jamie Kessler, Vilyamir Kolesnichenko, Julie Lee, Alli Lemon, James Louks, Dennis Moran, Juliet Phillips, Ségolène Pihut, Meg Prall, Ashley Robles, Libby Scutt, Lisa Toboz, Laurie Trok, Liz Wells, and Madonna Yoder

 

Upcoming Programming

  • 2024 New Member Exhibition: Artist Talk
    with Jamie Kessler and James Louks
    September 7th, 2024, 4-5pm

  • 2024 New Member Exhibition: Juror Tour
    with Alyssa Velazquez
    September 11th, 2024, 6pm

Previous Programming

  • 2023 New Member Exhibition: Artist Workshop
    with Juliet Phillips and Liz Wells
    August 28, 2024, 4:30-7:30pm

You’re Doing It Wrong

Curated by Blaine Siegel
June 1–July 26, 2024
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Exhibition Space
100 43rd St. Unit 107
Pittsburgh, PA 15201

You’re Doing It Wrong, an exhibition of artwork that tests the boundaries of conventional artistic practices and asks the viewer to reconsider their understanding of artistic process and product. The exhibition  is curated by artist Blaine Siegel, and features his work alongside the work of Andrew Allison, Leah Patgorski, Derek Reese, and Barbara Weissberger. 

You’re Doing It Wrong is on view through June 1st - July 26th, and accompanying programming will be announced soon. The exhibition is part of a larger Associated Artists of Pittsburgh initiative to feature artist-proposed and artist-led programs. Each season, artists are given creative, programmatic, and financial support for their exhibition. The next open call for proposals will go live on June 15th. 

About Blaine Siegel

Blaine Siegel is a multidisciplinary sculptor who incorporates broad interests and materials into his studio practice, set design, and socially engaged projects. Siegel has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree (Art Photography) from Syracuse University and a Master of Fine Arts degree (Sculpture) from The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He has exhibited work in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, South Carolina, Florida, Vermont, New York and Arles, France. Projects include set design for Maree Ramalia’s evening length dance piece The Ubiquitous Mass of Us, and the public art project North Side Crossing commissioned by City of Asylum. Blaine is also an arts educator who was Director of Education and Outreach for Conflict Kitchen and Studio Director at Radiant Hall, and he created the Awaken Home Project that showcased local artists working with refugee communities. He currently is the Public Programs Manager at Carnegie Museum of Art.

Shared Concerns

January 25th–April 5th, 2024
​Saint Vincent College 
Verostko Center for the Arts
300 Fraser Purchase Road
Latrobe, PA 15650 

Organized by Verostko Center for the Arts

 

2023-2024 Featured Artists Exhibition

March 9th – May 17th
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Exhibition Space
100 43rd St. Unit 107
Pittsburgh, PA 15201

The 2023-2024 Featured Artists Exhibition marks the 5th iteration of this annual exhibition. The 12 included artists were our monthly Featured Artists spanning March 2023–February 2024.

Exhibiting artists: Lauren Braun, Nancy McNary Smith, Sandra Bacchi, Cheryl Capezzuti, Ulric Joseph, Ben Schonberger, Ling-lin Ku, Jessica Alpern Brown, Lisa Bergant Koi, Paul Roden, Molly Davis, and La Vispera.

Monthly artists were selected by AAP's Exhibition Committee, and the exhibition was curated by AAP's Exhibitions Coordinator, Dawn Henry. More about the Featured Artist program and the 12 included artists can be found at the featured artists blog.

Additional Programming

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Join the artistic team of La Vispera for an upcycled postcard project. Participants will get insight into Kelly Jiménez’s and Alejandro Franco’s collaborative practice and make their own postcard inspired by La Vispera’s work in the exhibition. Celebrate Earth Day 2024 with us at Associated Artists on Saturday, March 20th!

12:00pm–2:30pm, Saturday, April 20, 2024
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, 100 43rd Street, Unit 107, Pittsburgh, PA

Facebook Event: https://fb.me/e/1M7TFRbjU

2023–2024 Featured Artists Lisa Bergant Koi, Paul Roden, Nancy McNary Smith, and Cheryl Capezutti will be in conversation with their work and one another on Thursday, May 2nd. The event is free and open to the public.

5:30pm–7:00pm, Thursday, May 2, 2024
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, 100 43rd Street, Unit 107, Pittsburgh, PA

Facebook Event Link: https://fb.me/e/4h0duxEiQ 

A pink, gray, and purple background with text overlaid describing the event: "Lauren Braun, 2023–2024 Featured Artists Mother's Day Workshop, Saturday, May 4th, Acryllic Skin Flower Making Workshop. Registration Required."

On Saturday, May 4th, Featured Artist Lauren Braun will demo her acrylic skin process. Participants will then be invited to create their own acrylic flowers in time for Mother’s Day.

11:00am–1:00pm, Saturday, May 4, 2024
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, 100 43rd Street, Unit 107, Pittsburgh, PA

 

On Thursday, May 16th, join us to view 2023–2024 Featured Artists Exhibition before it closes Friday, May 17th. Many of the artists will be in attendance. Free and open to the public.

5:00pm–7:00pm, Thursday, May 16, 2024
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, 100 43rd Street, Unit 107, Pittsburgh, PA

Media Coverage

112 x 112

Online Store + Exhibition
November 18 – December 22, 2022

Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Exhibition Space
100 43rd St. Unit 107.
Pittsburgh, PA 15201

Opening Reception: November 18, 2022, 5:00-8:00pm
Online Store opens: November 19th, 2022

In celebration of Associated Artists of Pittsburgh's 112th year, the exhibition will feature over 120 works of art, each priced at $112. As done at our previous off-the-wall exhibitions, patrons are invited to take works home with them immediately upon purchase. Work will also be for sale in the online store at aapgh.org. The goal of this exhibition is to generate artwork sales, when a piece sells, it comes ‘off the wall’.

112 x 112 - Celebrating 112 years of Associated Artists of Pittsburgh
 

In conjunction with our 112 x 112 exhibition, we are hosting an online store that features available works from the gallery. In celebration of 112 years of Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, all artworks are priced at $112 each.

With every sale, 70% goes back to the artist

2024 New Member Screening

Application Window: January 8 - February 12, 2024

Application for membership to Associated Artists of Pittsburgh is open to any visual artist over the age of 18 who resides or maintains a studio within 150-mile radius of Pittsburgh. Members have access to regional exhibitions, professional development programming, discounts at local institutions and artist services, and more. A list of benefits can be found here.

We're pleased to announce our two jurors: Alyssa Velazquez and Soude Dadras. Click the button below to learn more about eligibility and application requirements. 

Meet the 2024 Jurors

Alyssa Velazquez specializes in the material culture of gender, performance, and women’s studies. Prior to living and working in Pittsburgh, she was the Curatorial Research Associate at Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina. She also assisted in the development of exhibitions at Bard Graduate Center Gallery, New York. Velazquez holds a MA in decorative arts, design history, and material culture from the Bard Graduate Center and a BA in history and anthropology from Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland. She organized Locally Sourced, highlighting new work by the Pittsburgh region’s most talented present-day makers of functional goods and furnishings at Carnegie Museum of Art. Other projects include Extraordinary Ordinary Things and Sharif Bey: Excavations. And most recently, The Pittsburgh Satellite Reef, part of the Worldwide Satellite Reef project by Maragaret and Christine Wertheim.

She has published articles in AutoStraddle, GRLSQUASH, The Establishment, Women’s History Magazine, The Fashion Studies Journal, and Votive Project. Velazquez was selected in 2021 to participate in María Irene Fornés Playwriting Workshop, sponsored by the Latinx Theatre Commons that included writers from India, Mexico, Argentina, Canada and Puerto Rico. In 2022 she was writer in residence at City Books, Pittsburgh’s oldest bookstore and a Freshworks Resident at Kelly Strayhorn Theater.

Soude Dadras is a citizen of the world, having lived and traveled all over the globe. Her art is born from her fascination with the transformative properties of language. She uses this passion to show how discarded materials can be given new life. This exhibit is a transfiguration of unwanted materials into textiles that communicate the way data and information are part of our everyday lives, whether we realize it or not.

She has been the CEO and curator of the Ongoing Conversation for the past five years. Ongoing Conversation is a platform for showcasing artists from different backgrounds in venues around the world. Ongoing Conversation's mission is "to bring together disparate voices in the visual arts through an international purview in order to examine cross-cultural similarities of the human condition." She curated international exhibitions that took place in prestigious venues in Japan, Turkey, Iran, Belarus, and the United States.

She is a Ph.D. student in Art Education at the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, United States.

Dadras cherishes the history of each item in her work and allows the materials to directly influence and guide her creative process. Her art is inherently participatory, from the people who donate materials to the audiences who interact with her finished creations. Dadras is enchanted by the language of art and its ability to transcend traditional communication. This language is founded in each item's history and in the emotional response her participants experience witnessing the material's transformation.

Art & Algorithms

January 16 – March 7, 2024
Robert Morris University
Media Arts Gallery
6001 University Blvd, Wheatley Center
Moon Township, PA 15108

Gallery Hours
Monday: 1pm-8pm
Tuesday: 10am-6pm
Wednesday: 12pm-8pm
Thursday: 10am-8pm
Friday: 10am-7pm


Pittsburgh Artists were invited to explore the profound influence of artificial intelligence (AI) on the world of art. This exhibition seeks to showcase the ways in which AI has transformed the art-making process, challenged traditional concepts of creativity, and opened new avenues for artistic expression.


On view are works by Richard Bignell, Aimee Bungard, Matthew Conboy, Casey Connelly, Tim Fabian. Fabrizio Gerbino, Eunsu Kang, Renee Keil, Eli Kessler, Jamie Walters Kessler, S Kessler Kaminski, Jason LaCroix, and Sarah Simmons

Opening Reception:
January 31, 2024
5pm–7pm

Image of artwork by Renee Keil with text overlay of exhibition title (ART & ALGORITHMS), dates (January 16–March 7, 2024), location (Robert Morris University), and logos for AAP and RMU.

CCS + AAP Fiber Art ExhibItion

January 12-Febuary 23, 2024
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Exhibition Space
100 43rd St. Unit 107
Pittsburgh, PA 15201

Hands-on Workshop
Saturday, February 10, 11am-1pm

During the Fall of 2023, Creative Citizen Studios artists partnered with AAP fiber artists to create various works using mediums such as sewing, felting, and embroidery. Through a series of collaborative workshops with AAP artists, CCS artists have integrated these materials into their existing artistic practice.

These works will be featured in the CCS + AAP: FIBER ART EXHIBITION. The exhibition will open to the public on Friday, January 12th, and will run until February 23, 2024 at the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Exhibition Space. This program is supported by the Arts, Equity, and Education Fund.

AAP ARTISTS: Tina Williams Brewer, Michelle Browne, and Leah Patgorski

CCS ARTISTS: Mick Fisher, Jami Johnson, Lauren Lewandowski, Daijah Massie, Robyn McKee, Eva Perdziola, and Gianfranco Schiaretta



113 x 113

ONLINE STORE + EXHIBITION
Gallery: November 10–December 22, 2023
Online: November 11, 2023–January 5, 2024

Second Store Drop
In-person: December 7th
Online: December 8th

Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Exhibition Space
100 43rd St. Unit 107.
Pittsburgh, PA 15201

To celebrate Associated Artists of Pittsburgh's 113th year, 113x113 will feature over 100 works of art, each priced at $113. This is an off-the-wall exhibitions which allows patrons to take works home with them immediately upon purchase. Work will also be for sale in the online store at aapgh.org.

113 x 113 Winter Anniversary Exhibition

 

Photos by Chris Uhren

109th annual exhibition: Transcendental Arrangements

July 29–September 3, 2023
Miller ICA at Carnegie Mellon University
Purnell Center for the Arts
5000 Forbes Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Gallery Hours:
July 29-Aug 20: Thurs-Sun 12-6pm
Aug 22-Sept 3: Tues-Sun 12-6pm

In partnership with the Miller ICA, AAP marks our 109th Annual Exhibition with Transcendental Arrangements, an exhibition that focuses on artistic practices that engage with ritual, magical, and supernatural qualities within everyday encounters, serendipitous connections, and ubiquitous symbols in our daily lives. 

For the first time, AAP’s annual exhibition will include a curated group of artists invited by the juror, who live and work outside of the region, putting local artists in conversation with national and international artists and a broader global discourse.

The 109th Annual Exhibition, Transcendental Arrangements, was organized and juried by the Director of the Miller ICA, Elizabeth Chodos. The AAP Annual Exhibition is one of the longest-running continuous juried exhibitions in the country.

Transcendental Arrangements photo

Image credit: Angie Jennings, Water Weeps in a Vail, 2018.

Exhibiting Artists: Sue Abramson, A.W. Allison, Elijah Burgher, Julia Haft Candell, Jovencio de la Paz, Joshua Challen Ice, Angie Jennings, Ulric Joseph, Eli Kessler, Jessica Labatte, Deanna Mance, Brent Nakamoto, Mikael Owunna, and Paula Wilson.

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Elizabeth Chodos

JUROR: ELIZABETH CHODOS

Elizabeth Chodos is the director of the Miller Institute of Contemporary Art, Assistant Professor of Curatorial Studies in the School of Art, and the Public Art Curator at Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to her positions with Carnegie Mellon, she served as executive and creative director at Ox-Bow, school of art and artists’ residency. She is the curator of Dara Birnbaum: Journey in 2022; Spirits Roaming on the Earth, the first major monographic survey on Jacolby Satterwhite in 2021; the retrospective, Andrea Zittel: An Institute of Investigative Living in 2019; and the thematic exhibition Paradox: The Body in the Age of AI in 2018.

 

“Associated Artists of Pittsburgh… and Beyond,” Bill O’Driscoll, WESA Pittsburgh

Photos by Chris Uhren and Provided by the Miller ICA

This exhibition is made possible with major support from The Andy Warhol Foundation, The Fine Foundation, the College of Fine Arts, Regina and Marlin Miller, and individual donors of both Associated Artists and the Miller ICA.

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108TH ANNUAL EXHIBITION

The 108th Annual Exhibition was held in two locations: the Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) and the Detective Building in East Liberty. The work was on view from November 2021 – January 2022. The 108th was juried and curated by Wendy Given and Ben Owen. For more information & images from both venues, click the button below.

107TH ANNUAL EXHIBITION

The 107th Annual Exhibition opened on November 10, 2019 at The Westmoreland Museum of American Art and Seton Hill University. Juana Williams of the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts served as juror for the 107th Annual Exhibition, and the exhibition featured the work of 53 artists. To learn more about the 107th, click on the button below.

106TH ANNUAL EXHIBITION

The Associated Artists of Pittsburgh held the 106th Annual Exhibition at 2708 Sidney Street in the Southside neighborhood of Pittsburgh. The exhibition was juried by the University of Maryland Art Gallery Director Taras Matla. For more information about the exhibition, click on the button below.

105TH ANNUAL EXHIBITION

The 105th Annual Exhibition opened May 14, 2016 at the Carnegie Museum of Art. Independent curator Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer served as juror. To learn more, click the button below.

Commence

October 6 – November 17, 2023
Tomayko Foundation
5173 Liberty Ave Pittsburgh, PA

“The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.” --Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History

How do we process time? Progress? Histories? Futures? Commence asks us to consider this question through examining beginnings and, more broadly, what occurs between a beginning and an ending. Process, transitions and change mark our individual and collective journey from a starting point, creating the history that comes to define us as individuals.  Nostalgia and memory, familial and personal histories, and rethinking history through elemental forms reveal themselves as agents of history and transition. Each artist in Commence, works within these three themes to illuminate how a starting point can be disguised as a progression and continuum.

Returning to the beginning from a new vantage point, reusing materials and ideas, or addressing elemental concepts expands notions of how we think about starting points. Situating individual consciousness and bodies within the environment, ecosystem, or epoch, Czapinski, Julo, Lorenz, Martin, Ryan, McClure, and Steiner break down history to its bare bones, revealing the elemental forms that shape what we think we know.

How do our personal narratives and familial histories converge into the now? Looking back through generational lineages, traditions, and traumas builds bridges to understanding individual journeys through the spatial and the temporal. Baxter, Buncher, Goins and Hepner use narratives surrounding family history and personal growth to illustrate the never-ending continuum of transition and becoming.  

Our memories are often distorted or misremembered, but so frequently leave us with a strong feeling of a time and place. The nebulousness of memory can bring about a melancholic longing for a past that can’t ever be relived. Gerbino, Randall, and Tronsor use memory and nostalgia in concept and form to probe existential wonderings, process lived experiences, and explore unconscious desires.  

Nina Friedman

Director

Tomayko Foundation

Participating artists: Saige Baxter, Robert Buncher, Nicole Czapinski, Fabrizio Gerbino, Lori Hepner, Andy Julo, Stephanie Martin, Christine Lorenz, Peggy McClure, Catherine Ryan, Devina Goins, Michele Randall, Blaine Steiner, John Tronsor 

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Juror: Nina Friedman

Nina Friedman is the Director of the Tomayko Foundation. Before this role, she has held positions at the Andy Warhol Museum, Carnegie Museum of Art, and the Mattress Factory. She has been a board member of Bunker Projects since 2018, where she is currently the Board President. Nina has her Masters of Arts Administration & Policy from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her Bachelor of Arts in Art History from the University of Vermont.

About the tomayko foundation

The Tomayko Foundation fosters individual creativity through education and the arts. Started in 2015 by John R. Tomayko, the Foundation has since made a significant impact in these fields throughout the Pittsburgh region by supporting individuals pursuing higher education in the fields of engineering and fine art, students of dance, emerging artists, and organizations who support the work of living artists. Jack has been an art collector for 30 years.

In 2022 The Foundation purchased its current building at 5173 Liberty Ave in Pittsburgh, PA. The Foundation holds public exhibitions, art events, and art auctions. The Tomayko Foundation seeks to present a representation of the best regional art in Pittsburgh. Over the past 30 years, Jack Tomayko has built a wide reaching collection of contemporary art that includes painting, photography, and sculpture from artists in and around the Pittsburgh region.

Photos by Chris Uhren

CUTTING HOLES FOR EYES

Works by Nicole Czapinski & Centa Schumacher
September 29-November 4, 2023
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Exhibition Space


Nicole Czapinski and Centa Schumacher are artists highly influenced by material exploration. Czapinski is an interdisciplinary artist and Schumacher is a lens-based artist, and both use novel materials to examine and understand their own experiences with reality and the not-so-real. The artists met at the Vermont Studio Center in 2018 and have been supporting each other ever since. They connected over a shared fascination with the unknown–the sometimes wonderful, sometimes frightening potential of the void. Their collaboration started in earnest in 2021 as they explored diving into each other's practices through a series of call and response experiments. They have exchanged sample pieces, inspirational texts, materials and scraps from their studios, and even finished pieces, giving creative freedom to each other to alter, cut up, and filter the items. In this way they are handing their materials and work into the unknown of the other, letting go of control in exchange for an unknowable result. Their exhibition Cutting Holes for Eyes at Associated Artists of Pittsburgh features a new body of work made possible by the trust built between the artists through their collaborative process.

Gallery Hours (starting 9/29):
Wednesday–Friday, 11:00am–6:00pm

Cutting Holes For Eyes

Cutting Holes For Eyes Work Shop
With Nicole Czapinski and Centa Schumacher
Oct 07, 2023
12:00 pm- 3:00 pm

Artist Bios

Nicole Czapinski is an interdisciplinary artist whose long-term explorations of perception combine photography, scanner technology, video, and drawing. Since receiving a BA from Bennington College in 2006, her work has been shown nationally. Recent solo exhibitions include The Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Burlington City Arts, and Silver Eye Center for Photography. Her work is included in numerous private collections. She is looking forward to a two-person exhibition, with collaborator Centa Schumacher, opening at Associated Artists of Pittsburgh in Fall 2023. 

Centa Schumacher is a lens-based artist based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She works with a homemade tool assembled from vintage camera elements, creating work that distorts light and perspective. Schumacher has had solo exhibitions at the 707 Gallery, Silver Eye Center for Photography, and Bunker Projects in Pittsburgh, PA. Her work has also been featured in group exhibitions at Paradice Palase in Brooklyn, NY, Aggregate Space in Oakland, CA, and Art Ark Gallery in San Jose, CA. In Fall 2023 she’ll be opening a two-person exhibition with collaborator Nicole Czapinski with the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh. Schumacher was the director and co-founder of the art gallery Phosphor Project Space from 2018-2021. She received her MFA from San Francisco State University.

Photos by Chris Uhren

Fragments by Wade Kramm

Fragments
Wade Kramm

August 5–September 15, 2023
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Exhibition Space

Fragments plays with architectural space and perception by directing viewers' attention to their bodies within the gallery space. Kramm's "Wall Fragments" — fabricated from common building materials, such as drywall, molding, and floor boards — offer a seemingly arbitrary glimpse into another space. These works and their strategic placement within the gallery encourage the viewer to consider the whole: the work itself, gallery walls, and surrounding architecture.

Artist Talk
5:00pm
Saturday, August 26th

Fragments artist Wade Kramm will be in conversation with Charlie Taylor, the University of Pittsburgh Fine Foundation Fellow. Wade and Charlie will discuss the current exhibition, as well as the artist's practice as a whole.

About Wade kramm

Wade Kramm’s recent works explore Minimalism, architecture and perception to reshape the viewer's engagement with the gallery space. Using construction materials such as drywall, floor boards, molding, light switches, and doors, he fabricates alternative spaces, called Fragments, within the gallery.  Standing in front of each piece the phenomenological experience fluctuates between seeing the materials simply as materials and a perceptual/physical engagement with the new spaces made within the surrounding architecture.

Wade Kramm received his M.F.A. in sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI. He has received multiple prestigious grants, including the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, The Rhode Island State Council for the Arts and an Artist Resource Trust Grant. 

Wade Kramm has participated in exhibitions worldwide at galleries, museums, and art fairs including: Piero Atchugarry Gallery (Pueblo Garzón, Uruguay), Tapir Gallery (Berlin, Germany), Odetta Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), Space 776 (Brooklyn, NY), Sammer Gallery (New York, NY), Concept Gallery (Pittsburgh, PA), Esther M. Klein Art Gallery (Philadelphia, PA); Athens Contemporary Museum of Art (Athens, GA); Expo Chicago (Chicago, IL), and Art Project Fair (Verona, Italy).

Photos by Chris Uhren

2023 New member Exhibition

June 30–September 9, 2023
Brew House Association
411 South 21st St. #210
Pittsburgh, PA 15203

Opening Reception: June 29th, 6:00-9:00pm

This year's New Member Exhibition was juried by Natalie Sweet (Executive Director of Brew House Association) and Sara McCorriston (co-owner of Paradigm Gallery + Studio and Director of Paradigm Art Advisory).

Exhibiting Artists: Cheryl Capezzuti, Casey Connelly, Molly S. Davis, Meris Drew, Jessica Peña Heberle, Angie Jennings, Ulric Joseph, La Verne Kemp, Ling-lin Ku, LUCA, Erin Mallea, Natalie Miczikus, Josie Norton, Leana R. “Quade”, and Nicholas Sardo

New Member Exhibition

Image above: Meris Drew

Photos by Chris Uhren

the grandeur of power

curated by Eric Shiner
May 6 – June 23, 2023


Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Exhibition Space
100 43rd St. Unit 107
Pittsburgh, PA 15201

Want to preview the exhibition, meet curator Eric Shiner, and talk with the exhibiting artists? You can do this by attending our fundraiser, Spring Thaw, on May 5th!

Public opening reception:
Saturday May 6, 2023
4:00-7:00pm

The Grandeur of Power

Power is a complex notion that energizes and subjugates in equal measure.  Darwin, speaking on the seismic shifts in the Andes which gave birth to volcanoes there, describes it in terms of grandeur.  Andrew Carnegie, patron saint of the arts here in Pittsburgh, referred to it thus:  “Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.” Of course, these two opposing notions create a central paradox:  one based in human control; the other, based on the force and uncertainty of nature.  Art, it seems, becomes the ideal interstitial zone between nature and culture, as it is both fully and radically free, yet  it is authored by those who, by their very nature, so often oppose and protest systems of control. The selections in this juried exhibition examine notions of power from myriad viewpoints and through numerous media.  In the end, they all share the common thread of urging us to question power, and ultimately to harness it to benevolent ends. 

-Eric Shiner

EXHIBITING ARTISTS: Ruthanne Bauerle, Gavin Benjamin, Robert Buncher, Alan Byrne, Dino DeIuliis, Dan Droz, Rebecca Einhorn, Fabrizio Gerbino, Henry Winslow Hallett, Hannah Harley, Ulric Joseph, Renee Keil, S. Kessler Kaminski, Laura P. Krasnow, Alexandra Lakin, Deborah Lieberman, Ignacio Lopez, Christine Lorenz, Penny Mateer, Ben Matthews, Richard McWherter, Brent Nakamoto, Ellen Chisdes Neuberg, Thomas J. Norulak, Emily Paige, Brian Pardini, Paul Roden, Christopher Ruane, Nicole Renee Ryan, Patrick Schmidt, Ben Schonberger, James Simon, Henry J. Simonds, Carol Skinger, Becky Slemmons, Kara Snyder, Zim Syed, Mia Tarducci, Tresa Varner, LaVispera, Thomas Waters, Suzanne Werder, Hisham Youssef, Kathleen Zimbicki

THE GRANDEUR OF POWER: ONLINE STORE

In conjunction with our current exhibition, The Grandeur of Power, we are launching an online store that features works from more members of Associated Artists in the theme of ‘Power‘. Browse through the store and find a piece that resonates with you!

With every sale, 70% goes back to the artist

about eric shiner

Eric Shiner is the President of Powerhouse Arts, a Brooklyn not-for-profit committed to creative expression that hosts a network of art and fabrication professionals and educators who work together to co-create and share artistic practices.

Shiner has served as the executive director of Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, artistic director of White Cube New York, and Senior Vice President of Contemporary Art at Sotheby’s. Shiner was also the director of The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh (2010-2016) and the Milton Fine Curator of Art at The Warhol (2008-2010). 

A leading scholar on Andy Warhol and Asian contemporary art, he lived and worked in Japan for six years and was assistant curator for the inaugural Yokohama Triennale (2001). He has curated notable exhibitions internationally, including The Warhol Museum’s Andy Warhol retrospective that traveled to Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, and Tokyo (2012-2014). 

Shiner is the immediate past President of the board of Visual AIDS, a NYC-based nonprofit promoting the artistic legacy of those artists lost to and living with AIDS, and a board member of The Romare Bearden Foundation and Art at a Time Like This. He lives in New York with his partner, Dr. Ishaan Kumar, and their long-haired dachshund, Juno.

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Photos by Chris Uhren

2022–2023 FEATURED ARTISTS EXHIBITION

March 4 – April 15, 2023**
**Exhibition Extended through April 22nd!


Opening Reception: March 4th, 4:00-6:00pm
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Exhibition Space
100 43rd St. Unit 107
Pittsburgh, PA 15201

Exhibiting Artists: Theresa Antonellis, Gavin Benjamin, Tara Fay, Henry Winslow Hallett, Scott Hunter, Joshua Challen Ice, Kristen Letts Kovak, Christine Lorenz, Natalie Moffitt, Evan Rumble, Louise Silk, Kara Zuzu

2022-2023 Featured Artist Exhibition

Additional programming

ICE @ NIGHT
Thursday April 6th, 7:30-9:00pm

Currently installed in our 'Featured Artists Exhibition' is a light piece by sculptor and installation artist Joshua Challen Ice. Join us in the evening on April 6th at 7:30pm for a chance to see Josh's light works at night. The gallery lights will be dimmed to provide guests with a unique viewing opportunity of his light pieces.

Joshua Challen Ice will be present to answer any questions about the piece and talk about his practice. Drinks and snacks will be provided.

2022-2023 Featured Artists Online Store

FEATURED ARTISTS EXHIBITION: ONLINE STORE

March 4 – April 21
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Shop prints, ceramics, small editions, original works, and more from our exhibiting Featured Artists! With every sale, 70% goes back to the artist.

GROWTH

January 14 – February 18, 2023
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Exhibition Space
100 43rd St. Unit 107
Pittsburgh, PA 15201

Associated Artists of Pittsburgh and Creative Citizens Studios
Juried by Disparate Minds - an interdisciplinary project dedicated to increasing visibility for marginalized self-taught artists in a contemporary context.

Opening Reception:
January 14, 2023 4:00-7:00pm
Sensory Friendly Opening Reception:
January 14, 2023 4:00-5:00pm

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Associated Artists of Pittsburgh and Creative Citizens Studios present GROWTH, an exhibition of work by artists from both organizations, side by side, at Associated Artists’ exhibition space in Pittsburgh’s Lawrenceville neighborhood. Curated by Chicago-based Disparate Minds, the exhibition presents an inclusive take on visual understandings and interpretations of growth in an artist’s practice, career, and style.

“GROWTH features a selection of artists that reflects diverse approaches to art-making - from abstract to representational, personal to universal, the handmade to digital - offering a glimpse into the wide range of complex works currently being produced by Pittsburgh-based artists,” notes Disparate Minds team Andreana Donahue and Tim Ortiz. “Our primary curatorial focus for this group exhibition has been to highlight connections between artists from CCS and AAP, in both creative process and relationship to the overarching concept of growth.”

The exhibition features work from 26 artists, and it marks the second collaboration in two years between these two organizations. The exhibition is made possible through a grant from the Arts, Equity, & Education Fund, a private foundation established in late 2017 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to amplify change and elevate underrepresented voices in the arts and education ecosystems.

Growth Special Event

ADDITIONAL PROGRAMING

Valentine’s Day Make & Take
Saturday February 4th, 11:00am-1:00pm
100 43rd St. | Unit 107. Pittsburgh, PA 15206

Work alongside guest artist Lauren Braun, whose piece 'Jewel Box Garden' is featured in the exhibition, and use materials and mediums reflected in the artwork on the walls surrounding you. Try out a new technique and make a card for someone you love! Light refreshments and art materials provided.

EXHIBITING ARTISTS: Hailey Abrams, Lauren Braun, Matthew Carroll, Dan Droz, Noah Emhurt, Tom Estlack, Mick Fisher, Kylie Ford, Holden Gerlach, Emily Glass, Henry Winslow Hallett, Jami Johnson, Andy Julo, Kurt Kornacki, Kristen Letts Kovak, Lauren Lewandowski, Carrie Smith Libman, Heather McGreevy, Robyn McKee, Eva Perdziola, Sherri Roberts, Paul Rosenblatt, Hilary Schenker, Gianfranco Schiaretta, William Taylor, Tresa Varner

Thank you to our sponsors who made this exhibition possible.

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Balanced Response

January 17 – March 17, 2023
Robert Morris University
Media Arts Gallery
6001 University Blvd, Wheatley Center
Moon Township, PA 15108

Opening Reception: January 31, 2023, 5:00-7:30pm

Balanced Response features work by 26 artists, and the work on view shares their reaction, reply, or resolution to current experiences of the world. In a time of extremes, the work in the exhibition speaks to moments of stillness and acceptance, heightened emotional engagement, and ways to move forward.

This exhibition was juried by Andrew Y. Ames and Christine Holtz. For over a decade, Ames and Holtz have curated exhibitions together at the Media Arts Gallery and for the Sewickley Arts Initiative. They are also professors in the Arts and Humanities Department in the School of Informatics, Humanities and Social Sciences at Robert Morris University.

Balanced Response

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EXHIBITING ARTISTS: Carolina Alamilla, Gary Henzler Allen, Sandra Bacchi, Eric Charlton, Dino Deluliis, Dan Droz, Rebecca Einhorn, Joshua Ice, Andrew Julo, Laura Krasnow, Kristen Letts Kovak, Christine Lorenz, Lu, Craig Marcus, Sharon Massey, Linda Price-Sneddon, Derek Reese, Dafna Rehavia, Evan Rumble, Hilary Schenker, Miriam Scigliano, Blaine Siegel, Sarah Simmons, Michel Demetria Tsouris, La Vispera, Annie Weidman

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Plain Silk, uncarved wood

curated by brent nakamoto

September 10–November 5, 2022

Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Exhibition Space
100 43rd St. Unit 107
Pittsburgh, PA 15201

Opening Reception: September 10th, 4:00-7:00pm

Exhibiting Artists: Anny Chen, Eriko Hattori, Karen Lue, Brent Nakamoto, Paul Peng, Sarah Kim, Julie Lee, Imin Yeh

Plain Silk, uncarved wood

Image: Karen Lue

Plain Silk, Uncarved Wood is an exhibition of Asian American artists living in Pittsburgh, and will feature the work of Anny Chen, Eriko Hattori, Sarah Kim, Julie Lee, Karen Lue, Paul Peng, Imin Yeh. This exhibition seeks to claim space for Asian American artists in what is still predominately a white cultural space, and in doing so draw attention to the innovative work that these artists are making. It is not an attempt to define “Asian American” art, but rather, to re-define what it means to be an artist in Pittsburgh, and to examine the many ways that Asian American artists are contributing to art in the Pittsburgh area.

The opening reception will be a celebration of the Asian diaspora in Pittsburgh and will include music from DJ Formosa, food by AmBoy Urban Collective’s Rafael Vencio, and performances by Caroline Yoo & Anny Chen.

Accompanying programming

Plain Silk, uncarved wood artwork

Image: Paul Peng

Statement from curator, Brent Nakamoto:

“The title, Plain Silk, Uncarved Wood, comes from the nineteenth verse of the Tao Te Ching. In most english translations, the phrase is translated similar to “Show simplicity, hold fast to honesty,” but the literal meaning is closer to “Look at plain silk, hold uncarved wood.” As an artist, I like this literal translation because it grounds the idea of authenticity in the materials of painting and sculpture. It’s a taoist phrasing of the tenet of truth to materials, and it says: everything we need to know is in the materials themselves; there is a beauty in these materials even before we touch them. And yet, this understanding is also just a starting point; as artists, we are always here to add something of our own. 

For the artists in this exhibition, the relationship to identity and culture—often complicated—is a fundamental material for much of the work that they make. And yet, it too, is just a starting point. 

In curating this show I’m less concerned by how these commonalities tie us together—the imagined starting point—than I am by the breadth of different styles, ways of working, and ways of seeing, exhibited in the work. The show is structured less around a conceptual idea—that there is something shared—and more around a proposition: that the work included be the work that is newest, most exciting, unknown, on the edge of being. The show is not an attempt to define, but to celebrate. Not about fitting work into a conceptual framework, but about following the creative process—exploration, curiosity, liberation, joy—as a way to explode the conceptual frameworks that bind us, which define what we, or what our work, might be.”

This exhibition is supported in part by the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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2022 new member exhibition

AT Slippery rock university

August 30–November 3, 2022
Martha Gault Art Gallery*
108 Maltby Ave
Slippery Rock, PA 16057

Gallery Hours: Monday - Thursday 11:00 am - 5:00 pm

Opening Reception: August 30th 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

*Martha Gault Art Gallery is located in the Maltby Building. Click the button below for more information on visiting the University & Martha Gault Art Gallery.

2022 New Member Exhibition

Image: Tom Sarver

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Artist Talks - 2022 New Member Exhibition

Associated Artists of Pittsburgh and Slippery Rock University presents a virtual artist talk with three new member artists. Recorded on October 26, 2022. Artists Tiffany Budzisz, Emily Glass, & Tom Sarver presented images of their work, talked about their respective practices, and shared insights as practicing artists.

2022 New Member Exhibition

At Associated Artists of Pittsburgh

August 3–September 1, 2022
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Exhibition Space
100 43rd St. Unit 107
Pittsburgh, PA 15201

Gallery Hours:
Wed-Fri 11:00am-6;00pm
Friday Aug. 12 11:00am-4:00pm

2022 New Member Exhibition

Image: Andrew Spanoudakis

Exhibiting Artists

Running Out of Time

Works by Sheila Cuellar-Shaffer & Sharon Massey
July 30 – October 1, 2022

Artist Reception: Sunday August 14th, 3:00-5:00pm

Touchstone Center for Crafts
1049 Wharton Furnace RD
Farmington, PA 15437

Touchstone currently requires facemasks be worn in all indoor spaces on campus.

Gallery Hours: Thursday - Sunday 10:00am-4:00pm.

Running Out of Time: Works by Sheila Cuellar-Shaffer & Sharon Massey

Running Out of Time is an exhibition featuring the work of artists Sheila Cuellar–Shaffer and Sharon Massey. Massey's sculptural work explores recollections and collections – specifically how our memories are caught up in souvenirs, talismans, and the assemblages of these objects. Cuellar-Shaffer roots her fantastical paintings in specific visual idioms to convey a sense of urgency and nowness. Together their work asks the viewer to understand how time shapes our shared lived experience and how time is shaped by it.

About the artists

Sheila Cuellar-Shaffer
Colombian-American artist Sheila Cuellar-Shaffer’s work has been shown at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Susquehanna Museum of Art, Kniznick Gallery at Brandeis University, The Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, and The State Museum of Pennsylvania. In 2018, her design Democracy is Power was chosen by the Amplifier Foundation curatorial team, which includes Shepard Fairey and America Ferrera, to travel around the country with #powertothepolls. In 2020, Sheila was awarded funds from the Heinz Endowments Just Arts program as Lead Artist of the recently completed Billboard Art Project. Her work has been mentioned in publications including Forbes.com, Bloomberg CityLab and The Boston Globe.

Sharon Massey
Sharon Massey is a metalsmith, jeweler and enamelist based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her jewelry has been exhibited in Germany, Estonia, Poland, Italy, Spain, China, Japan, Canada, Brazil and Australia, as well as across the United States. Sharon’s work has been included in numerous publications, including American Craft and Metalsmith magazines, The Art of Enameling, and Art Jewelry Today 2nd , 3rd , and 4th editions. Her work is included in several public collections including the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Yale University Art Gallery. She received a BFA from Winthrop University in 1999, and an MFA from East Carolina University in 2006.

DRAWN FROM EXPERIENCE

A Retrospective of Works by Mary Culbertson-Stark
June 18–July 23, 2022

Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Exhibition Space
100 43rd St. Unit 107
Pittsburgh, PA 15201 

Opening Reception: June 18th, 5:00-7:00pm

Drawn From Experience culls images from the rich and varied work of Pittsburgh artist, Mary Culbertson-Stark. Fifty mixed media works dating from 1984 to the present weave a visual journey capturing her celebrated style. Replete with highly personal and expressive imagery rooted in drawing; the exhibition invites the viewer into the world of a unique artist, a Pittsburgh original, whose mixed media musings align symbolism, humor, and wisdom with a life of shared experience. 

Drawing has always been a driving force in Mary’s work and is again at the center of this exhibition. She is a storyteller. Her drawings are her narratives. She charges her compositions of familiar objects and scenarios with a candor and emotion that often suggest a metaphorical, sometimes mystic twist. The results are tooled commentaries reflective of the journeys of her life and the lives of those she has witnessed. Cerebral and playful, her work invites the viewer into a world which she views as an unfolding story.

Proceeds from Drawn From Experience will fund an endowment currently in development with the Pittsburgh Foundation which will offer legacy exhibition and publishing grants to late career women artists.

Upcoming Events:

Artist-Led Tour
Friday June 24th
11:00am-12:30pm
Free and open to the public

Automatic Brunch - Drawing Workshop + Brunch
Saturday June 25th
11:00am-1:00pm
$25 - materials + brunch provided

Artist-Led Tour
Thursday July 14th
4:30-6:30pm
Free and open to the public

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Mary Culbertson-Stark

  • Known in the Pittsburgh region for her compelling images addressing life from the female perspective; Mary Culbertson-Stark has been creating visual narratives for almost four decades.

    A graduate of the University of South Carolina and the University of Pittsburgh, Mary credits early theater training at the Pittsburgh Playhouse as setting a solid stage for her individual style of expression. Artfully recreating stories and observations from her personal life and the lives of those she encounters; Mary embodies seemingly simple images of objects, women and landscape with a mystical, emotive spirit. Her image making process is rooted in drawing which she expands upon with an application of mixed media overlays to form surfaces that are ethereal and enigmatic.

    Included among the many subjects her work has addressed over the years are: the soul as illustrated through drawings of lingerie and dresses, the loss of a child using embossed book pages, a memoir of western landscape using postcards sent to herself, healing tomes generated from working with patients in a holistic medicine practice, boats and shoes as references to traversing life’s transitions, umbrellas as metaphors for shelter, and most recently, Renaissance iconography in the address of the losses incurred during the Covid-19 pandemic.

    Mary has been honored with many awards of excellence throughout her career. She was the recipient of three Skidmore College Art Fellowships for Painting and Drawing, an Associated Artists of Pittsburgh grant to engage at risk adolescents in the skills of art entrepreneurship, and has been honored by the Pennsylvania House and Senate for her work in arts education. Mary has also served in many capacities for a variety of art constituencies in the Pittsburgh area. These include Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Watercolor Society, Pittsburgh Fund for Arts Education, Master Visual Artists of Pittsburgh and The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. She taught art for 35 years in the Bethel Park School District, additionally facilitating workshops at CCAC, Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie Mellon University Saturday Program and Gannon University. Mary has donated her art and worked on behalf of a number of charitable organizations in Pittsburgh to further raise awareness of their missions.

    Prolific and dedicated; Mary has presented 37 solo exhibitions since 1984. She has exhibited at The Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie Mellon University, The Andy Warhol Museum, University of Pittsburgh, Indiana University, Slippery Rock University, Seton Hill University, Duquesne University, The Westmoreland Museum of American Art, and The State Museum of Pennsylvania. Her work is included in over 375 private and corporate collections across the US and as far reaching as China, Spain, and Bulgaria.

  • Drawn From Experience is a collection of mixed media drawings about many of my life experiences. Each image holds, within its surface, a remarkable story. As the artist, I am the narrator. My dialogue is the medium. The images reveal the clues.

    In many drawings throughout my career, I’ve employed ordinary objects as subject matter in my work. These objects are symbols chosen with metaphoric intent meant to represent the culminating effects of an experience. Their ordinary qualities appeal to me as familiar and universal, yet their application can result in multiple interpretation. I embrace that duality. It allows the viewer more latitude in bringing their own experience to the viewing of my work.

    In other drawings, a portrait has been constructed to represent the facing of a moment or to give face to an experience. Most portraits are composites of others, some are reflections of myself, caught in a moment. Houses, landscapes and other recognizable objects are all employed in the same manner - as vehicles to construct a story of expounded meaning.

    Whether it is a pair shoes speaking of a personal struggle, an umbrella commenting on the joy of life, the flirtatious dialogue between a nest and a rogue twig, or a portrait musing about a relationship; my images always tell a human story.

    Drawing has been at the nucleus of my work for decades. Its accessibility has always offered me an open path to script an image. I attach a sense of reverence to working on the drawing surface. Frequently, my work returns the favor resulting with images possessive of a mystic and ethereal charge.

    Most of my drawings are initiated by the simple act of random mark making ignited by an emotion or something I have seen or read. This random mark making is a way to break the surface of conscious thought. It is a method to access what truly resonates. Though my work is far from resembling the work of the Surrealists; I’ve often employed their common practice of automatic drawing to tap into my subconscious and the source where I believe clear impressions are stored. From that access point, I choose a symbol and begin to work.

    Drawing is at once intimate and exposing. There is a relationship an artist establishes with their medium and subject which is difficult to articulate. It is like a second voice rising in the process of creation urging a truthful dialogue in the exposition of an idea. The emergence of a finished drawing is not always an easy path. As in life, there exists within the creative process a great deal of push and pull in order to evidence a desired solution.

    For me, a quality of wisdom or knowingness rises during the creative process, attaching special meaning to each image I complete. I have always manipulated the surfaces of my images - so whether gently worked, radiantly embossed or harshly scratched; the surface always acts in concert with the intent and wisdom of the story.

    Art, at its most potent, springs from an artists longing to link their private truths and experiences with the truth and experiences of others in a tangible form. Drawing is my tangible form. It is my link.

turning the corner

May 28 – July 23, 2022
Works by Natalie Moffitt & Kara Zuzu

Touchstone Center for Crafts
1049 Wharton Furnace RD
Farmington, PA 15437

Touchstone currently requires facemasks be worn in all indoor spaces on campus.

Gallery Hours: Thursday - Sunday 10:00am-4:00pm.


Turning the Corner: Works by Natalie Moffitt & Kara Zuzu

What does “turning the corner” mean to you?

The opportunity to do this show came up right in the middle of a big transitional period in my life. Right before I was approached about the show, I finished a month’s work of deep cleaning my apartment from top to bottom and expanding my home studio. I would not have had the space to make the work I wanted to make for this show before this expansion was finished. The show will open a few days before my last day at my job and my first day as a full-time artist, something I have been planning for and taking active steps towards for months, and dreaming about for years. 

I have a tendency to live my life in chapters, with clear endings and beginnings. Usually these chapters have been tied to a change in locations, and none have lasted longer than four years in a row for me before. I’m currently in my fourth year living in Pittsburgh, with no plans or inclination to end this chapter yet. I don’t know what happens in the fifth year in a row of living in a place, and I don’t know what will happen as I make this attempt at painting full time. I am about to find out, and it is both exciting and frightening.

I’ve been anticipating turning this corner for years, but I am finally in a place where I feel like I can approach it with more curiosity than fear.

-Natalie Moffitt

No one can truly predict or plan for what comes next. We can attempt to prepare ourselves, to take necessary precautions, yet the wheel of fortune of which is life will continue to spin, and we must find the resolve that it is out of our control.  There is an uncanny ability of an artist to pivot when life is happening at them. It is in our nature to respond to and reflect back on our life experiences through our artistic practice. “Turning the Corner” is a celebration of where we have come from and a toast of things to come. Exposing ourselves intimately to the viewers, sharing our responses to our experiences in life, and yet building confidence and momentum in anticipating the future with the excitement of what is to come.  We have our art, We have our practice, and with that, we navigate our lives. 

Turning the corner is an exhibition of where I was, and where I am going.

-Kara Zuzu

About the artists

Kara "Zuzu" Zupancic received her BA in Studio Art and Art Education from Saint Vincent College in 2007. She continued her education at Edinboro University and earned her MA in Art Education in 2012. She maintained a professional career as an arts educator while pursuing her work as a professional artist. 

As a Pittsburgh-based ceramic sculpture artist, Zuzu makes both smaller, functional art (like mugs with hand-sculpted embellishment) as well as large sculptures. Her one-of-a-kind sculptures are inspired by animals, women, and narratives from her lived experiences. To further deepen her skills, Zuzu attends workshops held by a variety of independent studio artists. She also traveled to Bali, Indonesia to complete a workshop with artist Allesandro Gallo. Most recently, Kara completed an artist residency at the Arizona Sonoran Desert Museum.  She connects with other sculptors through her membership in the Pittsburgh Society of Sculptors and Associated Artists of Pittsburgh. 

Especially an animal lover, the creatures Zuzu chooses to sculpt are often those that cross her path and leave her imprinted with a feeling evoked by that animal.  Intentionally chosen, Zuzu relies on the calming energy of animals to tell humanistic and personal stories. Her sculptures draw you in, asking you to look beyond an initial impression for interpretation. Animals are a non-threatening way to engage an audience in an experience of allowing for multiple perspectives and self-reflection.

Bird sculture

Image: Kara Zuzu

Artwork photo

Image: Natalie Moffitt

Natalie Moffitt is an artist living and working out of her home studio in Pittsburgh. She is an abstract oil painter who uses color as a tool to create intuitive, emotional paintings. Her work draws from a specific, deeply personal, and ever-growing vocabulary of colors, lines, and methods of mark making that she has been compiling over the past ten years of her practice. She considers her paintings visual streams of consciousness that are heavily influenced by her surroundings, as well as by her day to day emotions, experiences, and memories.

Performance Series

April 16 – May 21, 2022
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Exhibition Space
100 43rd St. Unit 107
Pittsburgh, PA 15201
Parking and Accessibility

This exhibition Is a series of seven performances over a seven-week period. As part of the performance, each artist will leave an item behind for the next artist to engage. These remnant objects will build over time with each following performance having to engage, interpret, and implement those items occupying the performance space.

All performances are free and open to the public.

The jurors for this series are Samira Mendoza and Talia Heiman. Samira is an interdisciplinary performance artist, curator, and educator based in Pittsburgh, PA. Talia is Curatorial Assistant for the 58th Carnegie International at Carnegie Museum of Art.

Performance Series
Schedule

Saturday April 16, @ 6:00pm - Princess Jafar

International sensation and star of stage and screen, Princess Jafar, returns to her hometown of Pittsburgh, PA hot off a world tour to further research and develop a new form of brainwashing. Her plans to control people's minds through the airwaves, TV shows and feature films have all been foiled by her archnemeses N8 Puppets, slowdanger, Gia Fagnelli, Snugglzs, Livefromthecity and the moon baby, but her next plan is even more evil than any before. Your mission is to stop her before it is too late and her brand of saccharine pop singles and mindless TV specials have infected the whole world. Approach with extreme caution and always use a flash when photographing her. End transmission.

Saturday April 23, @ 8:00pm - CACOPHONY by Carson Sestili & Alexis Retcofsky

CACOPHONY is an experimental dance and electronic music show by synthesist Carson Sestili and tap dancer Alexis Retcofsky. The sounds of Retcofsky’s explosive tapping crash through layers of electronic processing guided by Sestili, emerging larger than life in dramatic new shapes. A delay-feedback system absorbs each tap and twists it back on itself in time, accumulating a pulsing, rolling avalanche of sound. In a collaboration that centers improvisation, spontaneity, and play, dancer and musician explore a space at the intersection of movement and sound.

Carson Sestili creates experimental electronic music as Actias. Sestili’s performances center improvisation, often with dynamic systems that evolve autonomously, but respond expressively to input. Sestili’s pieces are both slow-moving, gentle atmospheres and distorted walls of sound, and explore the liminal space between these extremes. Sestili works in live sound for theater and music for the New Hazlett Theater and City of Asylum.

Alexis Retcofsky is a theater artist focused mainly on prop making and dance. She is a teacher, performer, and general stage tech at the Carnegie Performing Arts Center dance school. She is part of the front of house staff at the New Hazlett Theater and freelances as a prop master for local theater companies. She has a BFA in Theater Arts from Point Park University.

Saturday April 30, @ 4:00-6:00pm, 7:00-9:00pm - Ariel /; pvkvsv

Sonic producer pkvsv & interdisciplinary artist Ariel / are collaborating on bringing a temporary solarpunk commons to the AAP gallery. Upon entering the space, visitors will be encouraged to enter into a state of collective resting, relaxation, and non-verbal communication via various supportive structures while a soundscape aimed to reflect on the cycles of water flow in and out of different states.

Ariel / is multidisciplinary artist, educator, performance practitioner, and contemporary butoh dancer that has worked in sound, drawing, painting, collage, holography, theatre and film in commercial as well as experimental environments/projects. Their creative process is often a performance/celebration that simultaneously functions as an archiving of ancestral modalities for long-term wellness and liberation.

pvkvsv (pah•kah'•sah) is an emerging beatmaker, producer, and DJ from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In his music production he expands upon jazz and hip-hop roots & incorporates electronic elements as well as samples from music that moves. His instrumentals are often topped with environmental nature cues to create a more immersive experience for listeners to ground themselves in. pvkvsv released his first album, peels 2, in January 2019 as part of the Stacks Collection by the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. On MSYH.FM, a Pittsburgh-based independent radio platform, pvkvsv also curates an eclectic mix series called Currents.

Saturday May 7, @ 5:00pm - Vigil - Jessica Fuquay

Jessica Fuquay’s performance Vigil will bring together the strategies of musique concrete, vocal improvisation, and the manipulation of field recordings from her personal archive in order to create ambient sonic textures that explore the affective space of grief. The performance will feature live renditions of compositions made in 2020-2021 as well the debut of new original work.

Jessica Fuquay is a Colombian American interdisciplinary artist, composer, and DJ currently based in Pittsburgh, PA. She makes videos, performances, and sound compositions that activate the embedded histories of specific sites and events through sustained observation, listening, and sometimes intervention. She is currently a MFA Candidate at Carnegie Mellon School of Art in Pittsburgh, PA and has participated in residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Madison, ME and Project Row Houses in Houston, TX.

Thursday May 19, @ 6:00pm - Tara Fay

2019’s Pittsburgh’s Inequality Across Gender and Race is a research study that affirms how Pittsburgh is one of the worst cities in the country for health and economic outcomes of Black women. For this durational performance, I will read this report in its entirety while balancing a steel beam across my shoulders. This act of labor and endurance is a reference to what Black women in this city have to fight against everyday; the marginalization, racism, lack of opportunities, and discrimination. The usage of a steel beam is an obvious allegory to Pittsburgh’s title of the Steel City, but also functions as a more indirect reference to its reputation as the “Most Livable City”, a reputation that has historically excluded Black populations.

Tara Fay’s work consists of a multidisciplinary praxis which exists as a study in duality, a constant work in progress, and a continued exploration of Black female subjectivity, language, selfhood, and self-presentation. Through performance, photography, text, and mixed media works, Fay mines her lived experience for subject matter with a goal to intertwine life and work. Fay describes her practice overall as constantly reframing her own artistic record, as her work grows and evolves.

ongoing - Teal Fitzpatrick

Teal Fitzpatrick is a fiber artist and writer living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Their work is an ongoing project of giving form to the invisible with particular interest the relationship between symbolic image and interior psychological space. Teal's work is featured in the 2021 Fiber Art Now Emerging Artist Showcase.

About the Jurors

Samira Mendoza is an interdisciplinary performance artist, curator, and educator based in Pittsburgh, PA. Their work centers improvisation through different mediums including sound, sculpture, organizing, and movement to investigate oppressive systems, familial history, and personal experiences. Mendoza is the founder of hodgepodge, an interdisciplinary arts network that features performances, installations, and curated ensembles. Mendoza’s work has been featured at the Experimental Sound Studio, Fuse Factory and Digital Arts Lab, Queens Museum, Panoply Performance Laboratory, Pittsburgh Filmmakers & Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Public Space One, and the Woods Cooperative. Mendoza serves on the Artists Council for the Kelly Strayhorn Theater and is currently a Distillery Resident artist at the Brew House Association. 


Talia Heiman, curatorial assistant for the 58th Carnegie International, has held curatorial positions at the Center for Contemporary Art and Artis in Tel Aviv, the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and Museum of Modern Art, New York. She has curated exhibitions and programs at The Kitchen in New York City; the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; as well as AA|LA Gallery in Los Angeles. She has published catalogue essays for the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery and the 57th Carnegie International. Heiman received an MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and a BA from New York University.

Featured Artists Exhibition 2022

Featured Artists Exhibition

February 23 – April 2, 2022
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Exhibition Space
100 43rd St. Unit 107
Pittsburgh, PA 15201

From horsehair pattern ceramics to laser-cut acrylic pieces, the 2021–2022 exhibition shows the variety of practices and styles of Pittsburgh-based artists. Exhibiting artists include Shori Sims, Derek Reese, Dan Droz, Eriko Hattori, Tina Williams Brewer, Saige Baxter, Sarah Tancred, Centa Schumacher, Sandra Moore, Ignacio Lopez, Lizzee Solomon, and Gadi Leshem. The exhibition will be on view until April 2, 2022 at the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Exhibition Space.


Opening Reception: February 23rd 6:00-8:00pm

Meet the Artists

  • Click here to learn more about Shori and their background.

    An interdisciplinary artist, Shori finds themself grounded in representation. Essential themes of their work include the female body as a site of resistance, the blurred lines between subjectivity and objectivity, and African American identity as propagated through online space. In much of their work, Shori is interrogating memory and generational trauma. Shori is fascinated by the possibilities found within alternate universes and liminal space: both through and beyond the body. References in Shori’s work include shoujo anime, beauty-supply stores, the aesthetic language of pornography, bodegas and gas-stations: combining to form a visual autobiography of their girlhood experience.

  • Click here to learn more about Derek and his background.

    Derek Reese creates sculpture, assemblage, flat works, and installations using objects, materials, photography, and video in a way that is informed Derek Reese creates sculpture, by his upbringing in a former coal-camp turned "holler" community in West Virginia. With plenty of absurdity and irony, his aim is to examine and subvert the hierarchical value of objects and materials in order to create a cache of visual vocabulary with which he can use to better describe and understand the impact of Place on an artist's psyche. Through a process of breaking down and re-building imagery, objects, and materials, more subtle yet insidious threads are revealed in his work: topics such environmentalism, toxic masculinity, white supremacy, and poverty. Derek seeks to make art that, like life, can feel at once beautiful and precarious.

  • Click here to learn more about Dan and his background.

    Droz’s work explores the boundaries between two and three dimensions, calling attention to the limits of perception. Using novel methods of folding and forming metal, glass, wire mesh and polymers with reflective surfaces and sinuous forms, Droz’s sculptures reference the ‘layers’ of understanding the world around us.

    Droz’s work explores the boundaries between two and three dimensions, calling attention to the limits of perception. Using novel methods of folding and forming metal, glass, wire mesh and polymers with reflective surfaces and sinuous forms, Droz’s sculptures reference the ‘layers’ of understanding the world around us.

    Droz’s work explores the boundaries between two and three dimensions, calling attention to the limits of perception. Using novel methods of folding and forming metal, glass, wire mesh and polymers with reflective surfaces and sinuous forms, Droz’s sculptures reference the ‘layers’ of understanding the world around us.

    “Looking back over this oeuvre, one thing is clear: Droz has not felt constricted by two dimensions. In space Droz feels sure of himself, in space he finds himself, in space he is established.” –Kurt Shaw, art critic

    “Dan Droz’s work rewards the curious and probing inquiry of imaginative and active looking. It’s a rich and expanding experience.” –Todd Keyser, Curator/Gallery Director, Harlan Gallery, Seton Hill University

  • Click here to learn more about Eriko and their background.

    “My work centers around personal mythologies and cultivating folkloric narratives that relate to sexuality, fetish, and perceptions of femininity. I base my mythologies around a cast of icons that exist in the worlds I'm creating: The masked femmes that live and play between heavenly and hellish realms with their companions (the masked cats, the 'nureonna' or snake-woman, the harpy, and the green human-horse hybrid); the spectating 'jorogumo' or woman-spider, and the pearl divers who live and work next to a volcano with a 'yurei' or ghost, and most recently the ‘kitsune’ or fox spirit who uses her tail to seduce women. I depict scenes and interactions between these characters that are intimate and playful, blurring the lines between relationships that can be perceived as romantic/sexual or platonic. I draw heavily from Japanese folktales, ghost stories, and cinema to create my mythological scenes and use them as launching points to talk about gender and sexuality in relation to my heritage and the perception of the culture. The characters I gravitate towards are often figures who were shunned by their societies or lived through a great loss or trauma, continuing to haunt the places they used to inhabit or called home. Many of the characters I depict in my work come directly from folktales and ghost stories (the ‘nureonna,’ ‘jorogumo,’ ‘yurei,’ and the harpy), and the work I make places these characters in new worlds and contexts in attempts to redeem and honor them.

    The narratives in my work are a response to my experiences with gender and sexuality in relation to my Japanese heritage and my upbringing and life within the US. Though I identify as non-binary, I am mostly perceived as a woman and that perception shapes the way I interact within the cis-hetero white patriarchy that predominates the US. Being part of a culture and demographic that’s highly sexualized and fetishized influences my work heavily, and my work is a result of the confusion and pain that I’ve felt in navigating these paradigms. My aim is to present scenes that subvert ideas of gender and sexuality that are often associated with Japanese culture and how it’s perceived. It’s also my attempt to heal from past traumas and gain ownership of my identity.”

  • Click here to learn more about Tina and her background.

    Through my work I tell a story, carrying messages from ancestors. My work is a celebration of the profound joy of gathering with loved ones and the strength of spiritual connections. It is an expression of the deep pain of racism and the pathways forward, the resilience of African American families and the light that lifts them up.

    My intention is to give dignity to human suffering, finding rhythms that are both mind-stirring and soul-soothing. When I create a piece, I need silence to listen to the words inside myself. As a woman, and as an African American, looking for a place of peace and calm, I channel those messages in a visual interpretation. My designs are a free-flow approach to quilting akin to the crazy quilt patchwork and applique traditions that use layers of fabric to tell a story. The works are primarily hand-quilted mixed-media, and include photo transfer images, beading and scraps of commercial and handmade cloth. Each piece is embellished with symbols and articulated with rich colors and patterns that have personal and cultural meanings, acting as a reminder of the often-obscured African American story.

  • Click here to learn more about Saige and her background.

    “I am learning how to sit with the unknown. In a time of global uncertainty I sheltered in my house in an unfamiliar city as vulnerabilities and nostalgia seeped from childhood cracks and bubbled to the surface. As my life remained mostly idle, I gave myself a chance to marinate in memories of being in the kitchen with my grandmother, birthday parties with mom and chasing ice cream trucks. With nearly no tools I played with reused materials and attempted to liberate myself from expectations.”

  • Click here to learn more about Sarah and her background.

    My work seeks to question the socially constructed gender role of those who identify as women and its historical evolution over time in American society. I draw inspiration from advertising, prescriptive literature and Americana, utilizing everyday objects that symbolize invisible labor as they relate to the domestic realm. My choice to primarily use porcelain is intended to conceptually elevate objects that would otherwise be viewed as ordinary.

    My research investigates post World War II culture and its subsequent influence on the dynamic of the domestic realm during a time when more women were entering the workforce and taking on the dual roles of workingwomen and caretakers of the home. The objects I employ reference popular symbols of American culture that continue to resonate today.

    My ongoing body of work, Heirloom, investigates everyday objects and specific foods in relation to cultural identity; speaking to the ways in which familial traditions evolve and are often lost through the passage of time. Through recontextualizing these objects, my intention is to facilitate a meaningful dialogue related to the culture of which they are a part. This act of storytelling is inherent to the process of sharing memory, tradition and loss.

  • Click here to learn more about Centa and her background.

    In her lens-based practice, Centa Schumacher uses abstraction and luminance to explore ideas of consciousness and the indefinite. Uninterested in what the camera can do as a factual recording device, she works with a homemade lens assembled from vintage camera elements, creating a tool that distorts light and perspective. If photography is the act of capturing light and time, then this lens acts as a tool to view these realities on another wavelength, much like deep space telescopes capture non-visible spectra to bring us otherwise hidden views of the universe. In this way, these images become a portal between natural phenomena and the unseen world.

  • Click here to learn more about Sandra and her background.

    “I throw my forms on a wheel and fire them without glaze using a bare clay technique called horsehair raku. Building multiple forms from different clay bodies for one piece lets me blend pink, yellow ocher, and neutral colors together. The highly burnished forms take a month or longer to create. After the forms are burnished, they are bisque and gold fired. The final phase is the primal creative experience for me. It is a very fast and fluid process. The kiln is raised to 1800 degrees Fahrenheit. I watch for heat radiant cues on the ware to pick the exact moment to stop the firing and immediately reduce with horsehair. I am drawn to the intimate and painterly approach of horsehair reduction. The carbon from the hair embeds into the burnished layers of the clay resulting in translucent planes of line and smoke in the surface.”

    “The photographs are images of the tidal pools and estuaries from Maine to Key West. When I am photographing I feel the awe and grandeur of our fragile world. I am deeply concerned about the negative effects that humans have on our environment. By documenting small overlooked moments, I hope to share with others the beauty that is all around us.

    I use a Nikon D-90 and a Karl Zeiss, Makro Planar 2/100m lens to capture small moments and make them bigger than life. I will work in a small area during different lighting situations for days. Hundreds of photos are taken in different focal planes representing the waters depths. I love being spontaneous during this process too; it enables me to see things that are unexpected. A big bonus is when a creature visits for long periods of time in close proximity to me. The building of the digital compilations is fluid and I feel very connected to the process sorting through my photo files to build the final image.

    My work intends to bring humans and nature closer together harmoniously, expressing beauty in every microcosm.”

  • Click here to learn more about Ignacio and his background.

    His current inspirations take him to the medium of screen printing which are inspired by alchemical diagrams and the Japanese concept of Ma, the space or gap between two structural points. It is these two themes which he uses to explore shape and space to find resonating compositions.

  • Click here to learn more about Lizzee and her background.

    "To me, beauty is looks you can never forget. A face should jolt, not soothe." - John Waters

    I create mixed media portraits that explore color, texture, and the juxtaposition of natural and manufactured materials. The idea of releasing something wild and unexpected into the world is one I revisit with each portrait I create. Each begins as a precise, high-contrast drawing. I distort and abstractify physical features, creating a playful, semi-nightmarish portrait. My subjects of choice include imaginary monsters, reality TV stars, and family members. After software processing, I use CNC technology to fabricate components from colorful acrylic, birch plywood, and adhesive vinyl. After assembly, the final result is a freakish and frenetic portrait that jolts more than it does soothe.

  • Click here to learn more about Gadi and his background.

    “I was always impressed with the complexity of the forms of the human figure, especially intrigued by features of the face. I enjoy the challenge of capturing an emotion, an expression, a gesture - into a three dimensional piece. The process of creating a sculpture, starting with the touch and feel of the clay, the modeling process and the finishing stages is an exciting journey. I find my inspiration online and from daily encounters and situations. I love sculpting portraits and figures from life, and I also like to sculpt camels - I find them very expressive and fun.”

SUBCUTANEOUS: Exposing Human and Material Narrative

Works by Josh Mitchel and Tyler Stanton

July 31–October 2, 2021

Touchstone Center for Crafts
1049 Wharton Furnace RD
Farmington, PA 15437

Gallery Hours:
Thursday–Sunday 10:00am-4:00pm

Subcutaneous : Exposing Human and Material Narrative

My work explores the psychological conflict that exists within all of us and the anxiety which hides just below the surface of banality and daily pleasantries. Fascinated by personality, Freud’s personality construct, and alter ego, the figurative elements in my work allude to the id, the source of our rage and lust, pleasure and gluttony. Enshrouded figures and truncated torsos plea for empathy as something familiar. Yet suspended in darkness and stripped of identity – these articles exist only as the encapsulated trace of what was.

Serving as both a vehicle for human form and as a metaphor, I deploy these artifacts in place of the figure. I endeavor to create a haunting stillness – one that permeates the environment of each piece. Consequently, in place of something figurative exists a disturbing surrogate. I toil to achieve a disquieting tension which serves both as a metaphor and as symbol with empathy revolving around the human experience.

–Josh Mitchel

My work is an examination of the identities innate to discarded materials, identities that are rich in potential and narrative. I believe discarded materials have both a history and the potential for a future. We live in a country built on narratives and potential. The narrative of our past and the potential for our future, “making something out of nothing”, it’s the American Dream. In this modern era we now see its social and economic flaws, yet we as a society are still fascinated with potential. Traditionally potential for betterment is applied to people and individuals, as is a personal narrative; however, rarely do we identify narrative or potential inherent to inanimate materials. 

My practice of examining the potential of salvaged materials is informed deeply by the materials themselves. The contemporary forms of my furniture and wooden objects are characterized by clean lines, functionalism, and the use of negative space. My work uses a familiar language not only in materials but also in joinery inspired from living spaces and homes. The furniture forms serve as platforms for the reclaimed materials to present evidence of their previous uses. These narratives of previous use are highlighted in my work through exploiting found surface treatments, weathering, and scars left from mechanical fasteners like nails and screws. The parallel goals of my practice are to investigate a personal history with these materials, while also preserving narratives and invoking potential from them. 

–Tyler Stanton

Interaction Now

January 26 – March 7, 2022

Robert Morris University
Media Arts Gallery
6001 University Blvd, Wheatley Center Moon Township, PA 15108

Associated Artists of Pittsburgh presents an exhibition of artworks reflecting on our interactions and how they have changed or been impacted by the pandemic. From Zoom calls with family, working from home, to outdoor events held at arm's-length, jurors are looking for work that shows how our engagements with one another have adapted or been altered since February 2020.

Exhibiting artists include Jo-Anne Bates, Heather Brand, Jessica Brown, Robert Buncher, Eric Charlton, Brian Cohen, Dan Droz, Kirsten Ervin, Joshua Ice, Dana Ingham, Christianna Kreis, Naomi Lees-Maiberg, Gadi Leshem, Cristin Millett, Brent Nakamoto, Manjushree Roy, Christopher Ruane, Evan Rumble and Sarah Simmons, Samira Shaheen, Blaine Siegel, and Dan Winter.

A closing reception will be held Tuesday, March 1, 2022

Gallery Hours:
Monday and Tuesday 10am - 5:30pm
Wednesday 10am - 4pm
Thursday 10am - 6pm
Friday by appointment 9am - 11am.

Interaction Now

“Interaction Now” - Artist Talk with Brian Cohen & Cristin Millett

This exhibition was juried by Andrew Y. Ames and Christine Holtz. For over a decade, Ames and Holtz have curated exhibitions together at the Media Arts Gallery and for the Sewickley Arts Initiative. They are also professors in the Arts and Humanities Department in the School of Informatics, Humanities and Social Sciences at Robert Morris University. Ames is a new media artist and designer that makes meaningful games and interactive works of art that foster play, wonder and encourage critical reflection on conflict and social media. Holtz is a photographer that makes images that highlight public spaces to foster contemplation on our impact on the places we spend our time.

Dynamic Duos

Dynamic Duos: Collaborative Works by AAP & CCS Artists

January 8 – February 15, 2022

Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Exhibition Space
100 43rd St. Unit 107
Pittsburgh, PA 15201

Dynamic Duos: Collaborative Works by AAP & CCS Artists is an exhibition that features works of art created by artists of the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh and Creative Citizens Studios. With support from Arts, Equity, & Education Fund, AAP and CCS artists worked side-by-side throughout the fall learning from one another and creating together. The works on view are one facet of their working relationship.

A closing reception will be held Saturday, February 12th, from 2pm-5pm. Registration is required.
Guests can sign up for a 30-minute viewing here.

You can read more about our collaboration with Creative Citizens Studios here.

Exhibiting Artist Duos:
Jami Johnson x Haylee Ebersole
Julia Fieldhammer x Curtis Reaves
Mick Fisher x Lauren Braun
Faron Thompson x Lizzee Solomon
Jacob Schmitt x Brent Nakamoto
Matthew Carroll x Zachary Brown
Robyn McKee x Linda Price Sneddon
Daijah Massie x John Burt Sanders

108th Annual Exhibition

We are excited to announce the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh’s 108th Annual Exhibition will open Fall 2021 at the Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) and the Detective Building in East Liberty.

The 108th was juried and curated by Wendy Given and Ben Owen. You can read more about Wendy and Ben at the bottom of this page.

108th Annual Exhibition: The Detective Building

108th Annual Exhibition

The Detective Building

108th Annual Exhibition: Pittsburgh International Airport

108th Annual Exhibition

Pittsburgh International Airport

108th Annual Jurors
 
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Wendy given

Wendy Given is a visual artist and curator living and working in Portland, Oregon. With a production of vivid, uncanny contemporary photography, sculpture, drawing, and installation, her practice stems from and is profoundly guided by nature, myth, and magic. Given’s visual craft conveys an intense yearning to honor and utilize our inherent awareness—to regain the unspoken understanding of the fact that we are all, and always will be (as humans), integral to and dependent on the natural world.

Given studied painting, printmaking, photography, and sculpture during her BFA undergraduate work at Atlanta College of Art in Atlanta, Georgia. She received her MFA from Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, California. Given has exhibited nationally and internationally and is represented by Whitespace Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia. She is the Art Program Coordinator/Curator for the Port of Portland and Portland International Airport (PDX), a Wilderness Guide with Portland’s Signal Fire Artist Residency as well as a Certified Wilderness First Responder (WFR).

Ben Owen photo

Ben Owen

Ben Owen is the Director of Arts@MSP at Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport, a program of the Airport Foundation MSP. In this role, he oversees all visual and performing arts activities at the airport. He has more than a decade of experience in public art management for statewide public art agencies in the United States. Most recently, he managed the Minnesota Percent for Art in Public Places program at the Minnesota State Arts Board, acquiring works of art for communities throughout Minnesota using up to one percent of state-funded capital improvement projects. Prior to moving to Minnesota, he served as project coordinator for the Art in Public Places program at New Mexico Arts, a Division of the Department of Cultural Affairs and the state arts agency for the State of New Mexico.

Notable public art acquisitions that he has facilitated include the Student Innovation Center at Iowa State University in Ames, IA; the Mayo Civic Center in Rochester, MN; the Minnesota Veterans Home in Minneapolis, MN; the Bioscience and Health Careers Center at North Hennepin Community College in Brooklyn Park, MN; the Wade Municipal Stadium in Duluth, MN; WisePies Arena at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM; the Mark and Stephanie Medoff Theatre in New Mexico State University’s Center for the Arts in Las Cruces, NM; and Spaceport America in Upham, NM.

In December of 2018, members of Americans for the Arts elected Ben to its Public Art Network Advisory Council. In this role, he advises Americans for the Arts staff on developing programs and services that will build a deeper connection to the field and the network membership. Owen holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography from the University of Memphis and an Associate of Science in Fine Art from Chattanooga State Community College.


 

107TH ANNUAL EXHIBITION

The 107th Annual Exhibition opened on November 10, 2019 at The Westmoreland Museum of American Art and Seton Hill University. Juana Williams of the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts served as juror for the 107th Annual Exhibition, and the exhibition featured the work of 53 artists. To learn more about the 107th, click on the button below.

106TH ANNUAL EXHIBITION

The Associated Artists of Pittsburgh held the 106th Annual Exhibition at 2708 Sidney Street in the Southside neighborhood of Pittsburgh. The exhibition was juried by the University of Maryland Art Gallery Director Taras Matla. For more information about the exhibition, click on the button below.

105TH ANNUAL EXHIBITION

The 105th Annual Exhibition opened May 14, 2016 at the Carnegie Museum of Art. Independent curator Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer served as juror. To learn more, click the button below.

111 x 111

November 18–December 28, 2021
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Exhibition Space
100 43rd St. Unit 107
Pittsburgh PA, 15201

In celebration of Associated Artists of Pittsburgh's 111th year, the exhibition will feature works of art priced at $111 each. As done at our previous off-the-wall exhibitions, patrons are invited to take works home with them immediately upon purchase. The goal of this exhibition is to generate artwork sales, when a piece sells, it comes ‘off the wall’.

Opening Reception: Saturday November, 20th from 4:00-6:00pm

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EXTENDING A HAND

Guild of American Papercutters and Associated Artists of Pittsburgh

October 14 – November 12, 2021

Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Exhibition Space
100 43rd St. Unit 107
Pittsburgh, PA 15201

Gallery Hours:
Wed-Fri: 11:00am–6:00pm

Now, at the end of its second millennia, Paper has had a leading role in the human story. This exhibition will celebrate the endless way that Paper, the most commonplace of materials, can be manipulated while focusing on artworks where Paper, the material and its specific cultural history is at the technical and conceptual center of the work. In this time of remote work and learning, digital file sharing and clouds, streaming everything, this exhibition will show how Paper continues to carry the tactity and warmth of the human hand.

Extending a Hand

Exhibiting Artists: John T. Adams, Sr., Alison Balcanoff, Jessica Brown, Tiffany Budzisz, Debra Collins, Nicole Czapinski, Dan Droz, Virginia Farnsworth, Richard Goodall, Reni Gower, Ryder Henry, David Jenkins, Karen Krieger, Bianca Levan, Emily Sciulli, Sarah Simmons, Stephen Grebinski, Janelle Washington, Annie Weidman, Zev Woskoff

This exhibition will be juried and curated by Imin Yeh. Yeh works predominantly in paper, and her art uses repetitive handcraft and mimicry as a strategy for exploring the issues around the unseen labor and production that lies behind our many unconsidered everyday objects. Imin Yeh is an interdisciplinary and project-based artist working in sculpture, installation, and participatory events. Recent exhibitions include university galleries at Ithaca College and the College of New Jersey, San Jose Museum of Art, Asian Art Museum (San Francisco), and at the Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco). Imin has been an Artist in Residence at Montalvo Art Center (Saratoga, CA), Blue Mountain Center (New York), Sandarbh Artist Workshop (Partapur, India), and at Recology San Francisco. She is the recipient of a Eureka Fellowship from the Fleishhacker Foundation and an Individual Artist Grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission. Imin Yeh holds a MFA from the California College of Arts. She is currently an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University School of Art and is currently based in Pittsburgh, PA.

Push and Pull

September 17–October 9, 2021
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Exhibition Space
100 43rd St. Unit 107
Pittsburgh, PA 15201

The juror and curator for this exhibition is Grace Chin, Executive Director of The Sculpture Center, Cleveland.

This exhibition will feature sculptural and three-dimensional work that considers community: who are our communities, how we exist within our communities, and what our communities mean to us.

Exhibiting Artists: Halla Abubaker, Sandra Bacchi, Eric Charlton, Dan Droz, Tom Estlack, Joshua Ice, Stephanie Martin, Sharon Massey, Joaquin Navarro, Dafna Rehavia, Emily Sciulli, Sculpture Support System, Samira Shaheen, Sarah Simmons, Sarah Tancred, Gail Trunick.

Exhibiting Artists: Halla Abubaker, Sandra Bacchi, Eric Charlton, Dan Droz, Tom Estlack, Joshua Ice, Stephanie Martin, Sharon Massey, Joaquin Navarro, Dafna Rehavia, Emily Sciulli, Sculpture Support System, Samira Shaheen, Sarah Simmons, Sarah Tancred, Gail Trunick.

OFF THE WALL

december 1–December 29, 2018
FrameHouse & Jask Gallery, 100 43rd St., Pittsburgh, PA
Juried and curated by Jill Larson

Opening: Saturday, December 1st, 6:00pm–9:00pm.
Happy Hour: Thursday, December 20th, 5:30pm–8:00pm

Juried and curated by Jill Larson, Off the Wall features the work of 39 artist members. All artwork is priced at $500 and under, with the majority of the work priced under $300. Upon purchase of a work, visitors are invited to take their work ‘off the wall.’

A Permanent Home in the Mouth of the Sun

Works by Hannah Altman

August 14 – September 10, 2021
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Exhibition Space
100 43rd St. Unit 107
Pittsburgh, PA 15201

A Permanent Home in the Mouth of the Sun explores Jewish diaspora, world building, and sacred time through photographic narratives that build from interpreted ritual and motifs in Yiddish folklore. Judaic stories often consider the polarity of exile; with one hand we tend to ancestral wounds that compel the notion to shield and assimilate, with the other we knead an ancestral resilience that allows us to continually revisit actions, places, and objects as they fit into new spaces of care and translation. The Jewish ritualization of time is similarly elastic. Through repeated cycles of practice sanctified by the setting sun, the past weaves through the arteries of the present, encouraging photographs born from Jewish memories to perform time in open-ended worlds. To approach an image in this way is not only to ask what it looks like but asks: what does it remember like?

A Permanent Home in the Mouth of the Sun: Works by Hannah Altman

Artist Bio

Hannah Altman is a Jewish-American artist from New Jersey. She holds an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. Through photographic based media, her work interprets relationships between gestures, the body, lineage, and interior space. 

She has recently exhibited with the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Blue Sky Gallery, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, and Photoville Festival. Her work has been featured in publications such as Vanity Fair, Carnegie Museum of Art Storyboard, Huffington Post, New York Times, Fotoroom, Cosmopolitan, i-D, and British Journal of Photography. She was included in the 2020 Critical Mass and Lenscratch Student Prize Finalists and in the Silver Eye Center For Photography’s 2021 Silver List. 

She has delivered lectures on her work and research across the country, including Yale University and the Society for Photographic Education National Conference. Her first monograph, Kavana, published by Kris Graves Projects, is in the permanent collection of the MoMa and Metropolitan Museum of Art Thomas J Watson libraries.

VARIATION of LINE AND FORM

May 29 – July 24, 2021
Touchstone Center for Crafts
1049 Wharton Furnace RD
Farmington, PA 15437

Featuring the works of Katie Rearick and Nancy McNary Smith.

GALLERY HOURS:
Touchstone gallery is open 9:00am-5:00pm daily. Touchstone asks that all visitors wear a face covering and abide by the current social distancing guidelines.

These quite different pieces all celebrate the adaptability —“willingness”— of clay to go where I want. They also reflect  my delight in whimsy, the female grace of vessels, and a preference, right now, for muted tones.

–Nancy McNary Smith

We immerse ourselves in patterns in our day to day lives from the designs woven in our textiles to the patterns of behavior within ourselves and through our interactions with others. In my current studio research, I am investigating a formalist approach to line and how line translates into pattern. Using a jeweler’s saw I meditatively hand pierce steel and silver to become sculptures and one of a kind wearable jewelry. Variations of Line draws inspiration from the repeated decorative designs found among the quotidian objects in our homes and the evolving layers that are created within relationships. 

–Katie Rearick

Variation of Line and Form

Elusive Spaces

Associated Artists of Pittsburgh presents Elusive Spaces, an exhibition featuring more than 30 new works by artist member and award-winning sculptor, Dan Droz. This exhibition showcases Droz’s unique interlocking and folded metal sculpture, as well as many new experimental works employing innovative techniques with crocheted wire mesh, folded and cast glass, and extruded polymers that explore the boundaries of perception.

Exhibition is cosponsored by James Gallery.

May 20 – June 25, 2021
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Exhibition Space
100 43rd St. Unit 107
Pittsburgh, PA 15201

Health and safety are our priority at Associated Artists of Pittsburgh. For the time being, our Lawrenceville location is open for gallery hours and by appointment. See hours below or schedule an appointment.

GALLERY HOURS:
Thursday: 1:00-6:00pm
Friday: 1:00-6:00pm
Select Saturdays: May 29, June 12, June 26
12:00-5:00pm

Make Gallery Appointment here

Elusive Spaces

Elusive Spaces Exhibition, featuring over 40 new sculptures, at the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Main Gallery, May 20 - June 25, 2021, co-sponsored by AAP and James Gallery.

 

Find Your Way Home is Associated Artists of Pittsburgh’s third and final new member exhibition curated by Emma Vescio. Find Your Way Home includes an abundance of portrait and landscape-oriented works. There are moments of sincere connection through…

Find Your Way Home is Associated Artists of Pittsburgh’s third and final new member exhibition curated by Emma Vescio. Find Your Way Home includes an abundance of portrait and landscape-oriented works. There are moments of sincere connection throughout the exhibition. It is intimate to share a portrait with an audience. Find Your Way Home showcases works that allow the viewer to connect with the works in such a vulnerable way. The themes throughout all of the new member exhibitions are prevalent: artists are searching for comfort, sharing parts of themselves, and giving the viewer a moment of solace.

FIND YOUR WAY HOME

March 18 – April 11, 2021
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Exhibition Space
100 43rd St. Unit 107. Pittsburgh, PA 15201

This exhibition is on view by appointment only. Please schedule a visit by clicking the button above.

Curated by Emma Vescio

Exhibiting Artists: Gary Henzler Allen, Gregory Anderson, Pamela Cooper, Christiane Dolores, Kirsten Ervin, Tony Havrilla, Dan Hendrickson, Glendon Hyde, Sarah Kim, Jason LaCroix, Gadi Leshem, Natalie Moffitt, Dyvika Peel, Manjushree Roy, Shori Sims, Evan Rumble, Grace Simmons, Jody Shell, Katie Stone, Tresa Varner

 

INTO THE LIGHT 

February 22-March 14, 2021
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Exhibition Space
100 43rd St. Pittsburgh, PA 15201

Into the Light is Associated Artists of Pittsburgh’s second new member exhibition curated by Emma Vescio.

Throughout Into the Light, the common denominator is a need for light in a multitude of ways. In a literal sense, artists need light to create their work, while viewers need light in order to fully enjoy the works. Under the surface, this exhibition reflects a hope for light in our day-to-day lives, while looking forward to a lighter future. While there seems to be a shared motif of brightness within these works, many are in alignment with worrying, but still feeling hopeful for what is to come. There is a general craving for light in a world that feels heavy and in darkness at the moment. Within this exhibition, we are able to take a moment to appreciate all that there is and will be to come.

Exhibiting Artists: John Altdorfer, Emily Paige Armstrong, Lisa Austin, Sandra Bacchi, Bill Brunken, Guy J. Bellaver, Norman Ed, Stephen Grebinski, Eriko Hattori, Andrew Julo, Naomi Lees-Maiberg, Natalie Moffitt, Sherri Roberts, Centa Schumacher, Becky Slemmons, Jack Taylor, Chanda Weigel, Dan Winter, Heidi Wiren Bartlett, Kara Zuzu

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Alone, Together

January 17 – February 14, 2021
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Exhibition Space
100 43rd St. Unit 107. Pittsburgh, PA 15201

Curated by Emma Vescio.
Exhibiting artists: Jason Boone, Tony Cavalline, Natalie Condrac, Margot Dermody, Brooke Ebeling, Catharine Fichtner, Geoffrey Gordon, Paige Kleinfelder, Wade Kramm, Jake McCauley, Emily Sciulli, Sarah Simmons, Lizzee Solomon, Zev Woskoff, & Katie Winter.

Vertigo Sculpture Exhibition

VERTIGO

November 27 – December 20, 2020
422 Wood St. Pittsburgh, PA 15222

This exhibition is in collaboration with the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership’s Safe Holiday Season of Creative Experiences and Reimagined Traditions. This exhibition was juried by Grace Chin, Executive Director of The Sculpture Center in Cleveland, Ohio.

Juror’s Statement:

The affiliated Associated Artists of Pittsburgh demonstrate a solid foundation in technique and a deep practice affiliated with materiality. The works by the artists in the exhibition demonstrate a feeling of vertigo, that is a feeling of being off-balance. Some works question what we take for granted; others deconstruct what is normal; and other sculptures alter our perspective of space. No doubt the artists' works unabashedly communicate personal, individual narratives.

Gallery hours:
Friday 12:00-6:00
Saturday & Sunday 10:00-4:00

Exhibiting artists: Anders Anderson, Saige Baxter, Pati Beachley, Eric Charlton, Thomas Como, Dan Droz, Norman Ed, Amanda Gross, Robert Kirschner, Wade Kramm, Gadi Leshem, Kevin O’Toole, Katie Ott, Dyvika Peel, sherri roberts, Emily Sciulli, Louise Silk, Sarah Simmons, Henry Simonds, Shori Sims, and Kara Zuzu

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Visions, ETC. 

Tomayko Gallery @ Point Park University
212 Wood St. Pittsburgh, PA 15222

On view December 11, 2019 – March 11, 2020

Selected Augmented Reality works from Christopher Ruane's Visions Series and beyond. Experimentations combining mixed reality, photography, and film. Forming a symbiotic relationship the works are both physical and virtual, existing in 2D space and a created 4th dimension. Each piece takes the viewer on an interactive journey and highlights the evolution of a new art form. With Pittsburgh as a backdrop, topics of mortality, human impact on our environment, freedom of expression, and religion are explored.

Gallery open by appointment only. Please call the AAP office to schedule an appointment at 412-361-1370.

ARTIST TALK & RECEPTION
Tuesday, February 11th @ 5:30pm
Light beverages and snacks provided.
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110 x 110 x 110

November 23 – December 28, 2020
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Exhibition Space
100 43rd St. Unit 107. Pittsburgh, PA 15201

The exhibition will feature 110 works of art by over 80 member artists priced at $110 each. In the vein of our previous off-the-wall exhibition, patrons are invited to take works home with them immediately upon purchase. The goal of this exhibition is to generate artwork sales, when a piece sells, it comes ‘off the wall’.

This exhibition is on view by appointment only.

Exhibiting artists: Atticus Adams, Andrew Allison, Carol Amidi, Karen Antonelli, Theresa Antonellis, Lisa Austin, Shelle Barron, Jo-Anne Bates, Saige Baxter, Pati Beachley, Angela Biederman, Christopher Boring, Robert Bowden, Kathy Boykowycz, Lauren Braun, John Brewer, Duane Cacali, Ashley Cecil, Eric Charlton, Marcia Comer, Mary Culberston-Stark, Margot Dermody, Mary Dorfner Hay, Dan Droz, Haylee Ebsersole, Glen Gardner, Henry Hallett, Adrienne Heinrich, Heather Heitzenrater, Claira Heitzenrater, Lori Hepner, Robert Howsare, Alyssa Kail, Diane Keane, Patricia Kelly, Todd Keyser, Paula Garrick Klein, Lisa Bergant Koi, Christianna Kreiss, Yelena Kukharenko, Jason LaCroix, Yelena Lamm, Seth LeDonne, Kristen Letts Kovak, Ignacio Lopez, Pamela Meighan, Sandra Moore, Brent Nakamoto, Ellen Chisdes Neuberg, Alison Newman, Thomas Norulak, Jane Ogren, Desiree Palermo, Brian Pardini, William Pfahl, Linda Price Sneddon, Holly Pultz, Derek Reese, Sherri Roberts, Brenda Roger, Allan Rosenfield, Catherine Ryan, John Burt Sanders, Rachel Saul Rearick, Lauren Scavo, Patrick Schmidt, Miriam Scigliano, Lisa Seligman, Brian Sesack, Samira Shaheen, Phiris Kathryn Sickels, Louise Silk, Kara Snyder, Nina Sowiski, Kathryn Stanko, Jack Taylor, Kristin Turcsanyi, Thomas Waters, Paula Weiner, Diane White, Dan Winter, Theresa Wood, Charlotte Zalewsky, Robert Ziller, and Kathleen Zimbicki.

to the republic for which it stands

October 12 – November 11, 2020
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Exhibition Space
100 43rd St. Unit 107 Pittsburgh, PA 15201

to the republic for which it stands is an exhibition of works by 26 artists that tackle our current global political climate. This exhibition was juried by Kathleen Zimbicki, Sheila Cuellar-Shaffer, and Tony Norman.

Exhibiting artists: Shelle Barron, Jo-Anne Bates, Ruthanne Bauerle, Ron Bayuzick, Robert Buncher, Dennis Childers, Nick Childers, Mary Culbertson-Stark, Jerome D’Angelo, Dan Droz, Tara Fay, Tom Ferraro, Joan Iversen Goswell, Amanda Gross, Allison Jones, Jacquet Kehm, Mary B. Mason, Penny Mateer, Ben Matthews, Cristin Millett, Ellen Chisdes Neuberg, Sherri Roberts, Phiris Sickels, Tina Williams Brewer, Teresa Dalla Piccola Wood, & Robert Ziller.

This exhibition is on view by appointment only. Please click the button below to schedule your gallery visit. We ask that all attendees wear masks in the space and do your best to maintain a safe 6-feet distance from other visitors.

to the republic for which it stands

 

2020–2021 Featured Artist Exhibition

April 19–May 16, 2021
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Exhibition Space
100 43rd St. Unit 107
Pittsburgh, PA 15201

Featuring the work of our March 2020–February 2021 Featured Artists. Featuring the work of Andrew Allison, Brent Nakamoto, Atticus Adams, Haylee Ebersole, Pati Beachley, Ellen Chisdes Neuberg, David Stanger, Njamieh Njie, Sheila Cuellar-Shaffer, Linda Price-Sneddon, Dyvika Peel, & Cristin Millett.

This exhibition is on view by appointment only. Your health and safety is our priority. In the space, masks must be worn and social distancing observed.

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BARELY BREATHING

Associated Artists of Pittsburgh’s new Emerging Curator Program will conclude with the opening of the Emerging Curator Exhibition in July 2019. Vania Evangelique is the 2019 Emerging Curator. Opening July 17th. This exhibition will be on view at our new exhibition space: 100 43rd St. Suite 107, Pittsburgh, PA 15201.

The exhibition opens to the public on the evening of Wednesday, July 24, 2019, from 6:30pm–8:30pm at the new Associated Artists of Pittsburgh 
Office and Exhibition Space. Hours for the exhibition are 11:00am–3:00pm, Mondays–Fridays, with additional viewing hours available upon request. 

The exhibition features the work of Ashley Cecil, J Houston, Kristen Letts Kovak, Corrine Jasmin, Natiq Jalil, Stephanie Martin, and Elizabeth Rose.

2019–2020 Featured Artist Exhibition

July 2020 – August 2020
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Exhibition Space
100 43rd St. Unit 107 Pittsburgh, PA 15201

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Beginning in March 2019, AAP’s Exhibition Committee began nominating and selecting a monthly Featured Artist from past submitted applications. Each month the selected artist is highlighted on AAP’s Featured Artist Blog on our website, featured on our social media accounts, and through an emailed newsletter. Extending the benefits of Featured Artists, AAP has added an exhibition to showcase the 12 members. Artists selected for the Featured Artists Program between March 2019-February 2020 will be included in the exhibition. Each artist will be designated a specific area/wall to fill with their work as they choose.

Artists include:
March 2019- Susan Palmisano
April 2019- Paige Tibbe
May 2019 Allison Blair
June 2019- Zach Brown
July 2019- Adrienne Heinrich
August 2019- Paul Mullins
September 2019- Tressa Jones
October 2019- Annie Heisey
November 2019- Jo-Ann Bates
December 2019- Kathleen Zimbicki
January 2020- Rachel Saul Rearick
February 2020- Patrick Schmidt

This exhibition by appointment only at Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Exhibition Space in Lawrenceville. To schedule an appointment to see the exhibition, please call the office at 412-361-1370 or you can schedule an appointment online by clicking here.

 

counterpressures

Counterpressures

The Carnegie Museum of Art
4400 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
February 20, 2020–January 3, 2021

The 83rd installment of Carnegie Museum of Art’s Forum series presents a thematic group exhibition that addresses the urgency of climate change. The title, taken from a quotation in Pittsburgh environmentalist Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962), identifies the show’s focus on the fraught relationship between humans and the environment.

This exhibition features new and existing work by ten Pittsburgh-area artists that acknowledges the transitory state of the environment; the ecological, economic, and public health consequences on the horizon; and how these conditions intersect with their own lived experiences. Through their selections of materials, the use of data and documentation, their surrealist imaginings, or references to urban development and disconnection from nature, these artists grapple with the ecological present and its uncertain future.

Counterpressures has been developed in partnership with the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, the oldest continuously–exhibiting visual arts organization in the country. Artists include Allison Blair, Paper Buck, Seth Clark, Tara Fay, Christine Holtz, Stephanie Martin, Travis Mitzel, Njaimeh Njie, Su Su, and Ginger Brooks Takahashi.

CMOA’s Forum series is a dynamic program of exhibitions by some of today’s most innovative contemporary artists hosted in a dedicated gallery located just off the museum’s main lobby. Initiated in 1990, the series has presented more than 80 exhibitions, including museum debuts for many artists who have gone on to achieve international renown.

Counterpressures is organized by Hannah Turpin, Curatorial Assistant for Modern and Contemporary Art and Photography, Carnegie Museum of Art.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, The Carnegie Museum of Art asking that all visitors and members have a confirmed timed ticket to enter the museum. You can find out more information about this exhibition and timed ticketing by clicking here.

 

THREE ARTISTS (THREE WOMEN)

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University Art Gallery at the University of Pittsburgh
650 Schenley Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15260
February 13–March 28, 2020

University Art Gallery - University of Pittsburgh (UAG) announces that it will devote its major exhibitions and programs to women and female-identifying artists throughout 2020. The initiative begins with the opening of two companion exhibitions "Mary Ethel McAuley: Behind German Lines" and "Three Artists (Three Women)", created in partnership with
the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh (AAP).

"Three Artists (Three Women)" examines the work of three current AAP artists: Tina Williams Brewer, Sheila Cuellar-Shaffer, and Fran Gialamas. The works by these three artists use personal and cultural symbolism to explore themes of migration, family, history, and place– themes that parallel those in McAuley’s works - who was also an AAP member in the early 20th century.

The opening reception both both exhibitions is February 13th from 5:00-7:00pm.

The exhibition will be on view from February 13 – March 28, 2020. Gallery hours are 10:00am-4:00pm Monday–Friday.

Lost in the Flood

lost in the flood

Kipp Gallery, First Floor Sprowls Hall
Indiana University of Pennsylvania 

On view January 21–February 14, 2020

Associated Artists of Pittsburgh and Indiana University present lost in the flood, an exhibition juried and curated by Courtenay Finn, Chief Curator of MOCA Cleveland. lost in the flood features the work of Karen Antonelli, Lauren Braun, Jessica Alpern Brown, Kathleen Kase Burk, Kevin Clancy, Dan Droz, Lisa Bergant Koi, Thomas Norulak, Kevin O'Toole, Derek Reese, Lauren Scavo, Tyler Stanton, and Richard A. Stoner. 

From the Curatorial Statement: 
lost in the flood examines the fragile relationship between success and failure, fear and desire, and the promise of the past and the promise of the future. Taking inspiration for its title in equal measure from CAConrad’s 2013 poem “coping skills lost in the flood” and Bruce Springsteen’s 1973 song “Lost in the Flood” the exhibition reminds us that art, like literature and music, has the power to transport us, allowing entry into new landscapes and the opportunity to see beyond what is right in front of us. 

RECEPTION
February 6th, 6:00-8:00pm
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 OFF THE WALL

December 13-31, 2019
Gallery One | Collective Works
4106 Howley St. Pittsburgh PA 15224

Associated Artists of Pittsburgh’s December member exhibition, Off the Wall, opens to the public on Friday, December 13, 2019. Hosted at Gallery One | Collective Works, this second iteration of Off the Wall features the work of 41 artist members. . Juried by AAP’s Exhibition Committee, this second occurrence of Off the Wall will feature over 80 works of art available for immediate purchase. All artwork is priced at $300 or less.

Gallery Hours are

Friday, December 13th, 2019, 6:00pm – 9:00pm (opening)
Saturday, December 14th and Sunday, December 15th, 12:00pm–6:00pm)
Thursday, December 18th 6:00pm – 8:00pm for COPYRIGHT/COPYWRONG workshop
By appointment. Email aap@aapgh.org.

Fran Gialamas | Art Saves Lives 1 | 12 x 12 in. | mixed media | 2019 | $225

Fran Gialamas | Art Saves Lives 1 | 12 x 12 in. | mixed media | 2019 | $225

107th Annual Exhibition

107th annual exhibition

November 10, 2019 – January 26, 2020
The Westmoreland Museum of American Art
221 N Main St, Greensburg, PA 15601

107th Annual Exhibition is on view at The Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, with an additional four installations at the Seton Hill University Arts Center, also located in Greensburg. Showcasing work from some of the most esteemed contemporary artists in the region, the 107th Annual Exhibition will be on display in the Museum’s Cantilever Gallery and the Arts Center Nov. 9, 2019 through Jan. 26, 2020.

Serving as juror for the Exhibition is Juana Williams, Exhibitions Curator at the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. A specialist in contemporary African American art, she has curated exhibitions for both private and public institutions and has held positions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, the Detroit Institute for the Arts, and Wayne State University. Most recently, she served as juror for ArtPrize’s 2018 Contemporary Black Art Award.

AAP X PIT AIRPORT

From September 11 – December 2, 2019, Associated Artists of Pittsburgh (AAP) and the Allegheny County Airport Authority present recent sculptural work by six AAP members. Featured in the landside terminal cases of the Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) is the work of Atticus Adams, Angela Beiderman, Ron Copeland, Dennis Doyle, Dan Droz, and Tyler Gaston. The exhibit was curated by AAP exhibition committee members Sheila Cuellar-Shaffer and Sheila Swartz in partnership with AAP staff and the airport.

 

AAP X PIT AIRTPORT

All images courtesy of Pittsburgh International Airport©2019.

Mixed Red

Mixed Red 

A selection of new mixed media work by Scott Hunter and starring the color red. Work made by responding to the spark that comes from recognition of similarity or sympathy demanding placement above or below.  Scaled up or scaled down, impatient, messy, explained, self-explanatory, self-congratulatory, framed and then finished. Work steeped in the mysteries of random pairings of images found in everyday detritus.  Forging connections that might offer deeper introspection than a contrived plot when looking back upon them as if planned. 

Read or misread.

This exhibition is on view to the public from August 16-December 8, 2019.

 

BIOGRAPHY 

Scott Hunter tried to make his own Muppet once.  It went pretty well.  He hates mayonnaise but apparently eats it all the time.  Recently, he lost a piece of a three-piece suit but wore it anyway.  Once he thought he was a genius, but it turned out he was watching Teen Jeopardy.  He still cries after most episodes of “The Courtship of Eddie’s Father”.

He lives with his wife and two kids in Bethel Park.

mutual understanding

Mutual Understanding will showcase the work of Judith Musser and Adrienne Heinrich, curated by Jennifer Panza. On view August 2 - September 30.

Opening reception August 4th, 2:00-5:00PM at Touchstone Center for Crafts.

Curator’s Statement:

"When I first met Judith Musser and Adrienne Heinrich I knew I would be impressed by their talents and experience. However, meeting them and seeing what they have done sheds light on the creative needs and desires we all crave to express. Some may find their outlet in various other forms but here it is expressed in painting, collage, and sculpture. Mutual feelings between the artists can be found even though expression may be very personal.
Their artworks and chosen mediums while unique to them as individuals are relatable in that their own creative evolutions shine forth. One method may seem calculated while the other random. However, I get the sense that each object holds a tangible and metaphorical personal memory or attachment.
When visiting Judith’s studio, she shared with me that her life and experiences have allowed her to evolve both personally and in her art. Feelings and memories are attached in her work titled Duet. The couple reminds Judith of her and her late husband together. Conversely, when I asked Adrienne why she had chosen a particular object to float inside the rubber, she replied “I don’t know, I just like them.” As our conversation continued, memories and attachments to the objects arose, such as the skull given to her by a good friend in the work titled Woman in Pain. Vicky Clark was on point when she wrote about Adrienne in her 2002 Artist of the Year Catalog, “The process of looking at her work replicates her process of making sense of the world.” I agree as I look at the work of Judith Musser as well.
Judith and Adrienne guide us through layers of feeling, memory, and personal attachments, gravitating us further in thought and appreciation with their ingenious way of utilizing both grace and power in their execution.
I remain in awe of their talent and uniqueness. It has been a great honor to get to know them at their studios and through their artwork."

Jennifer Panza

Mutual Understanding

Image: Judith Musser

VESSELS IN FIVE DIMENSIONS

JUNE 2–JULY 27, 2019

IRON GATE GALLERY, TOUCHSTONE CENTER FOR CRAFTS

Touchstone Center for Crafts is hosting two Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Exhibitions in the summer of 2019. Both exhibitions will take place at the Iron Gate Gallery, and will are juried and curated by Lindsay Ketterer Gates, Executive Director of Touchstone and Travis Winters, Programs Manager at Touchstone.

Vessels in Five Dimensions is a duo exhibition between Kristen Letts Kovak and Silvija Singh.

Vessels in Five Dimensions explores the fluidity between two-dimensional images and three-dimensional forms. Augmenting the static dimensions of height, width, and depth with time and individual perception, both Kovak and Singh create vessels that subvert function while alluding to meaning.  Both artists intentionally leave gaps in information. Using the fragments to construct new and more complex narratives, they reform instability into strength and surface into transparency.  Kovak’s paintings depict forms whose context has been removed or interrupted. Similarly, Singh’s ceramic forms are carefully pieced together, revealing cavities interrupting their function. The resulting physical and pictorial vessels are not empty bodies but bodies reformed by history, observation, and cognition. 

Vessels 01

 2019 New Member exhibition

2019 New Member Exhibition

The Associated Artists of Pittsburgh presents an exhibition of work by the recently accepted members of AAP at the Pittsburgh Center for Arts and Media. The exhibition opens to the public on the evening of Saturday, May 11, 2019, from 6:00pm-9:00pm. The exhibition is open to the public, and admission is free. 

Pittsburgh Center for Arts and Media
6300 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15232
Tuesdays–Saturdays, 10:00am–5:00pm
Sundays 12:00pm–4:00pm
(Closed Mondays)

The 2019 New Members are Karen Antonelli, Allison Blair, Cory Bonnet, Eric Charlton, Kevin Clancy, Thommy Conroy, Matthew Constant, Dennis Doyle, Dan Droz, Tara Fay, Kylie Ford, Adrienne Grafton, Hannah Harley, Megan Herwig, Christopher Hofmann, J Houston, Selena Hurst, Tressa Jones, Alyssa Kail, Ignacio Lopez, Karen Lue, Stephanie Martin, Paul Mullins, Brent Nakamoto, Njaimeh Njie, Joe Perry, Cassandra Pfaff, Justin Pope, Allan Rosenfield, John Sanders, Rachel Saul Rearick, Tyler Stanton, and Sarah Tancred. Artist Annie Weidman, who was juried in at the 106th Annual Exhibition, will also have work featured in the exhibition.

HOMEOGRAPH

JUNE –JULY, 2019

The Union Hall
2216 Penn Ave, Fl 2nd Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 15222

Homeograph, a word that shares the same form but has different meaning. the show reaches towards unifying themes of the reconceptualization, deconstruction, and redefinition of utility and history in the works of Mary Dorfner Hay, Melissa Riggatire, and Crystal Latimer. With the combined forces of the artists, AAP, and the Union Hall; Homeograph reconsiders time, events, and space and allows it to be viewed through divergent angles.

Curated by Andrew Hefner and Shelby Ciarallo.

There will be an artist talk on JULY 23rd, from 6PM until 8PM

La Batalla, una. Crystal Latimer

La Batalla, una. Crystal Latimer

 Object/Oggetto

December 7–28, 2018
Gallery One Collective Works
4106 Howley Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15224

Opening: Friday, December 7th 6:30pm-9:30pm
Opening and exhibition are free and open to the public.

Artist Talk: Tuesday, December 18th, 6:30pm-8:00pm.

Associated Artists of Pittsburgh is bringing our fall 2018 exhibition Object/Oggetto to Pittsburgh. Installed in partnership with the Allegheny RiverStone Center for the Arts in Foxburg, PA, juror and curator Graham Shearing will recreate the exhibition at Gallery One Collective Works in the Bloomfield neighborhood of Pittsburgh. The exhibition examines the interpretation and re-presentation of the object in contemporary art and features the work of AAP members Fabrizio Gerbino, Ben Schonberger, and Imin Yeh.

OBJECT/OGGETTO

October 5–November 11, 2018
Red Brick Gallery
17 Main Street, Foxburg, PA
Juried & Curated by Graham Shearing

From October 5–November 11, 2018, Associated Artists of Pittsburgh (AAP) in partnership with the Allegheny RiverStone Center for the Arts (ARCA) presents Object/Oggetto, an exhibition examining the interpretation and re-presentation of the object in contemporary art. The exhibition features the work of AAP members Fabrizio Gerbino, Ben Schonberger, and Imin Yeh.

M. Thomas, “AAP opens shows in Lawrenceville, Foxburg,” Pittsburgh Post Gazette, 3 October 2018.

Images provided by Allegheny RiverStone Center for the Arts. ©2018 Kathy Soroka.

SIX FEET

September 8 – October 2, 2020
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Exhibition Space
100 43rd St. Unit 107 Pittsburgh, PA 15201

SIX FEET is an exhibition of works made during the quarantine. Exhibiting artists include:

John T. Adams, Sr., Andrew Allison, Theresa Antonellis, Ellen Bjerkile Hanna, Heather Brand, Jessica Alpern-Brown, Alan Byrne, Sean Carroll, Ashley Cecil, Ron Donanoughe, Dan Droz, Henry Hallett, Tony Havrilla, Annie Heisey, Sandy Kessler Kaminski, Todd Keyser, Kristen Letts-Kovak Christine Lorenz, Ben Matthews, Josh Mitchel, Dyvika Peel, Derek Reese, Melissa Riggatire, Lauren Scavo Fulk, Daniel Shapiro, & Dan Winter.

This exhibition is on view by appointment only. We ask that all attendees wear masks in the space and do your best to maintain a safe 6-feet distance from other visitors.

Image: Josh Mitchel

Image: Josh Mitchel

The end

october 4 - 27, 2018
Framehouse & jask Gallery, pittsburgh, pa

The End is an Associated Artists of Pittsburgh exhibition featuring artworks that reflects on ideas of when something ends, stops, or ceases to exist. The AAP artists featured in the exhibition are John Belue, Zachary Brown, Kathleen Kase Burk, Seth Clark, Tyler Gaston, Gil Gorski, Seth LeDonne, Adam Linn, Tracey Parker, Aaron Regal, David Stanger, Su Su, Zachariah Szabo, William D. Wade, and Lauren Wilcox. The opening reception is Thursday, October 4th from 7pm to 9:30pm, and the show runs through Saturday, October 27th.

FrameHouse & Jask hours are Tuesdays–Fridays, 11am–7pm and Saturdays 10am–4pm.

Links:

Curator’s Essay: The Big RIP
”AAP opens shows in Lawrenceville, Foxburg,” Mary Thomas, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 3 October 2018.
’Associated Artists Show Examines “The End”,’ Nick Eustis, Pittsburgh Current, 9 October 2018.
”Sculpture Grad Gaston Included in Pittsburgh Exhibition,” Indiana University of Pennsylvania website, 1 October 2018.

© 2018 Zachariah Szabo

EARTH PT. 2

SETH LEDONNE

“The exhibition is called Earth Part 2 because we deserve to be hopeful and envision new futures. We also have to recognize that there are some dreams that cannot come true- there is no Earth Part 2.”

NOVEMBER 2018 - FEBRUARY, 2019
Tomayko Gallery, Lawrence Hall
Point Park University, Pittsburgh, PA

Artist Talk: Wednesday, January 23rd, 5:30pm–7:00pm at the gallery. RSVP on Facebook

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2018 New Member Exhibition

August 4 - 19, 2018
Butler Street Lofts, Pittsburgh, PA
Juried & Curated by Eowyn Mays, National Gallery of Art.

The 2018 New Member Exhibition features the work of the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh newest members. The exhibition, presented at the Butler Street Lofts, is curated by Eowyn Mays of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The artists are Jessica Alpern Brown, Erin Bechtold, John Belue, Heather Brand, Robert Buncher, Tana Cadena-Vuignier, Sean Carroll, Dennis Childers, Nicole Czapinski, Fabrizio Gerbino, Gil Gorski, Jon Hall, Henry Hallett, Joshua Hogan, Christine Holtz, Sarah Jacobs, Natiq Jalil, Elzbieta Kazmierczak, Mandy Kendall, Alexandra Lakin, Kristen Letts Kovak, Adam Linn, Katie McMurtry, Maura O'Connor, Susan Palmisano, Tracey Parker, Paul Peng, Joseph Ryznar, Liz Sabol, Lauren Scavo, Miriam Scigliano, Nick Silvis, Henry Simonds, Marc Snyder, Bernard Stote, Brenda Stumpf, Su Su, Karly Takach, Ian Thomas, Mike Weber, Suzanne Werder, Bernie Wilke, Travis Winters, and Terri Wolfe Izzo. 

The exhibition runs August 4th – 19th. It is open to the public, and admission is free. Gallery hours are Saturday and Sunday, 11am-4pm, as well as by appointment. Please email or call AAP for an appointment. 

AAP exhibitions are supported in part by AAP members, individual donors, The Heinz Endowments, The Pittsburgh Foundation, Opportunity Fund, Jack Buncher Foundation, Allegheny Regional Asset District, The Buhl Foundation, S Kent Rockwell Foundation, and Irving and Aaronel deRoy Gruber Charitable Foundation.

© 2018 Nick Childers.

by means of play

April 18 - May 20, 2018
Gallery One, 4106 Howley Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15224

By Means of Play is an exhibition juried and curated by Emma Vescio that explorse celebratory and vibrant art and artmaking as practices of self-care, expressions of joy, and political engagement. The exhibition features both two-dimensional and three-dimensional works that highlight intimate, joyful, and passionate moments. 

I See You

April 2 - May 4, 2018
Tomayko Gallery, Lawrence Hall, Point Park University

I See You, curated by Jen Melvin, features a range of contemporary portraiture from five members of the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh. Unlike traditional portraiture, these works do not aim to portray their subjects realistically. Instead, these works depict their subjects in emotional atmospheres that implore the viewer to explore the stories behind them. Featured artists are Peggi Habets, Annie Heisey, Kenneth Nicholson, Marian Phillips, and Paige Tibbe.

Stop, Collaborate, listen Audio Guide

The following audio guide is an introduction and object description for the exhibition stop, collaborate, listen. Please note that object descriptions will start with artwork on the left-side wall. The tour will then follow clockwise through the gallery. There are additional sculptures in the center of the gallery. They are included at the end of the audio tour.

If you have any questions or need any assistance, our staff is on hand to help you out.