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.

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.