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Paula Garrick Klein Solo Show

Extended til December 20th by appointment only.
Email pgklein53@gmail.com to make an appointment

Ketchup Center Creative

612 Main St, Sharpsburg, PA 15215

https://www.instagram.com/p/DDm26q9x2Dx/

The exhibition Pittsburgh’s Avant-Garde is on view til March 7th at the Irma Freeman Center for Imagination. This exhibition features over 60 artists, including numerous AAP Artists. This exhibit also celebrates the upcoming release of the book Pittsburgh’s Avant-Garde: 60 Years Inside the Underground Art Scene, compiled and edited by Sheila Ali.

Visit https://www.irmafreeman.org/ for more information on the exhibit, book, and the upcoming programing.

This historic exhibition brings together a community of notable and celebrated artists, collectives, and collectors. We have here: Doug Cooper, Robert Qualters, Thad Mosley, Samir Elsabee, vanessa german, Mr. Imagination, Rick Bach, Ellen Chides Neuberg, Irma Freeman, Tim Kaulen, Tom Sarver, James Shipman, Richard Schnap, James Simon, Larry Rippel, Ron Donoughe, Spaz, Sue Abramson, Emory Biko, Karen Antonelli, Chrisitne Bethea, Mike Bonello, Rob Long, Chuck Barr, Abira Ali, Kenneth Batista, etta cetera, Dennis Childers, Katy DeMent, Ruth Klawansky, Ryder Henry, Laura Jean McLaughlin, Ed Parrish Jr., Jim Brindle, Joan Brindle, Cheryl Capezzuti, Scott Turri, Jim Dugas, Sarah Zeffiro, Ruth Bedeian, subRosa, Bob Ziller, Bekezela Mguni, David Bernabo, Cara Gaetano, Brady Lewis, Pat McArdle, Steve Mendleson, Elizabeth Murray Finkelstein, Laverne Kemp, Evan Knauer, Michael FiG Mangiafico, Jana Conn, Bill Karaffa, Joelle Levitt Killebrew, Hong Zhao, Edgar Um Bucholtz, Teresa Martuccio, and Eric Calfo.

Cory Bonnet: WORK(s)

Now til December 22nd

ZYNKA gallery

904 Main St, Pittsburgh, PA 15215

https://zynkagallery.com/exhibitions#/cory-bonnet-works

Aurora: Illuminating The Holiday Magic of Mellon Square
Joshua Challen Ice

Now til Mid January

Mellon Square Park

Sixth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15222
https://pittsburghparks.org/msq/

Plastisphere: A Sinking Reality
La Vispera

Corner of Sixth Ave and Smithfield St, Pittsburgh PA 15222

https://downtownpittsburghholidays.com/publicart

AIRs Year End Showcase

AAP Artists featured in Exhibition: Clayton Merrell, Catherine Drabkin, Ben Schonberger, and Gavin Benjamin

Now until December 30th

Artist Image Resource

518 Foreland St, Pittsburgh, PA 15212

https://www.airpgh.org/events/exhibitions

Lighting the Way
Rob Long
Coffey Way

“QUIET, please,” at Spinning Plate gallery is open til the end of November with open hours, Wednesday-Sunday, 11-6. The exhibition features the work of:

Michel Demetria Tsouris, John Bond, John Eastman, Lisa Bergant Koi, Glendon Hyde, Constance Merriman, Jean McClung, Catherine Parrish, Paul Rosenblatt, Rachel Rodkey, Emmett Smith, Kara Snyder, Suzanne Werder

5821 Baum Boulevard PGH 15206

Invisible Wounds, a collaboration between Dafna Rehavia and David Hanauer, opens October 18th, 5-9pm at Artist Image Resources. The show will run from October 18th to November 22nd with a closing reception November 22nd, 5-8pm. the show also features Angela Biederman, Trish Foley, Sara Tang, Patty Tran, Margaret Barry, and Ashley Hikey Flavin.

Learn more at the link below:
Www.Dafnarehavia.work/invisible-wounds-project

Exhibition put together by The Bee Collective to raise awareness and funding for pollinator habitat. The juried exhibition consists of 15 artists in utilizing various mediums such as ceramic, wood, steel, glass and fabric, and placing them in one of The Bee Collective's hives over the summer so bees could build comb onto the pieces. Artists included in the show are from across the country. The goal of this project is to connect work from artists in this community to the honey bees in a way that truly binds our culture and nature. Creating a true physical symbol of our initial steps to merge these two cornerstones in Franklinton, Ohio. As the honeybees fill spaces, build comb, and fill the cracks to fit their needs, they are a reminder that we do this in our own lives. Opening is October 12 2-8pm, with live music 5-7:30pm

The exhibition runs from October 12-October 27, 2024 and located at The Mansion 731, 731 E. Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio.

Currently three shows are on view, two of which prominently featuring AAP Members, are celebrating their opening reception October 3rd. All three exhibitions will be on view til March 21st, 2025. Learn more about all three shows below.

Broken Ground
In Western Pennsylvania and beyond, images of workers taming the earth were among the most powerful symbols of human achievement. Contemporary concerns over the ecological and social impacts of extractive industries, however, now cast scenes of mining, farming and steel production in a very different light. This exhibition brings together works from the UAG collection with loans from local partners and contemporary artists to reconsider these once seemingly heroic images of land and labor. 

This exhibition includes works from the UAG’s permanent collection, loans from the Senator John Heinz History Center, Rivers of Steel and the University Library System, and works by local artists Jamie Walters Kessler, Chris McGinnis, and Clayton Merrell.

Joe Magarac Returns
As legend tells it, Joe Magarac, a Slavic immigrant from Braddock, Pennsylvania, stood over seven feet tall and was literally a man of steel. This untiring goliath worker gave his life to the mills, turning out 2,000 tons of steel per day. Using William Gropper’s 1947 painting of Joe Magarac as the central focus, this exhibition explores the cultural and social dimensions of Pittsburgh’s most famous folklore hero and his resonances in the local imagination, then and now. 

This exhibition includes a new installation by artist Quaishawn Whitlock that explores the resonances between the stories of John Henry and Joe Magarac.

Presented by the University Art Gallery with generous support from Humanities Engage, the Mellon Foundation, and the Marstine Family Foundation. Special thanks to Rivers of Steel, the University Library System (ULS), and the Society to Preserve the Millvale Murals of Maxo Vanka.

Rewilding
How can we reclaim nature from industry, extractive labor, and consumer culture? Filmmaker Sarah Moore explores this question in a seven-channel video installation specially designed for the UAG. This immersive installation projects footage of rewilded golf courses from across the Eastern United States on the ceiling, walls, and screens in the historic Rotunda. Together, the video projections celebrate spaces given back to nature after centuries destroying land for industry, greed, or sport.

This installation is presented by the University Art Gallery with generous support from the Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation, the Film and Media Studies Program, the Mellon Foundation, and the Marstine Family Foundation.

Special thanks to Scott Andrew, Tony Balko, Ian Cartwright, and Joshua Challen Ice.

To learn more about the exhibitions and visiting click the link below!

https://www.uag.pitt.edu/exhibitions/current

New exhibition, smash the ceiling, floor, and walls; take the broken shards and blow it back, opening October 4th at the Pittsburgh Glass Center from 6-9pm. The exhibition will be on til January 20th, 2025.

smash the ceiling, floor, and walls; take the broken shards and blow it back critically analyzes the personal, professional, and political implications of heteronormative and patriarchal barriers through the creative work of femmes and gender non-conforming artists. By reframing the social issue through interactions: smashing, gathering, and blowing, this exhibition references some of the ways artists are actively processing their lived experiences. 

FEATURED ARTISTS

Sandra Bacchi, Dawn Bendick, Layo Bright, Scout Cartagena, Laura Adelaide Hudspith, Michelle Young Lee, Aullar Mateo, Anna Mlasowsky, Audie Murray, Kathleen Mulcahy, Gracia Nash, Karen Donnellan and Suzanne Peck, Renata Petersen, Georgia Saxelby, Kristiina Uslar, Ann Weathersby

Curated by Alyssa Velazquez

Learn more at the link below.

https://www.pittsburghglasscenter.org/event/exhibition-smash-the-ceiling-floor-and-walls/

'Not Still Lives' featuring the work of Charlee Brodsky and Nancy McNary Smith, opens October 5th, 1-4pm, at BE Galleries. The exhibition continues November 30th. Learn more at the link below.

https://begalleriespgh.com/

'24 Minis,' features works from a selection of artists that include AAP Members. This fundraiser exhibit opens September 7th, 4-8pm, at the Manos Gallery in Tarentum, PA. Visit https://themanosgallery.webflow.io/ for more information.

Artists:

Madonna Yoder, Wayne Niemi Deborah Kollar, James Powell Darcy Tomayko, Sally Brown, Ruth Ann Bauerle, Deborah Reese Lynda Sadecky, Larry Brandstetter, Lorraine Free, Luanne Haak Kristi Adkins, Hannah Powell, Andrew Thorton, MJ Fields, Toby White, Leanne Longwill, Dave M. Howard, Mary Jean Stabile, Rachel Wheeler, Rafi Perez, Betty Trout, Kim Williams, Jane Armstrong, Ari Wulff, Travis Benn, Maggie O'Lear, James Sabulsky Lisa Coombs, Rachel Rodkey, Joan Bohnet, Kelly Stouffer,, Trish Housman, Shannon Mazzei, Julia Berenson Emily Glass, Hanasu- Jane Grasso, Lynn Manley, Sheila Klotz, Ernesto Camacho Jr.

Visit the studios of AAP members Lisa Bergant Koi, Paula Garrick Klein, Kitty Spangler, and other artists in the Why Not Etna studio building during the annual Etna Art Market Block Party. September 21 from 2-7 p.m. Learn more here: https://www.facebook.com/events/510944235200547

A piece by Penny Mateer is featured in 'Free Speech: Art and Activism' at Lexington Arts and Crafts Society located in Lexington, MA. The exhibit runs from July 21 - August 25, 2024.

About the show:
This exhibit will showcase artists who are passionate about our national dialogue. We seek artwork that challenge norms, ignite conversations, and shed light on diverse political narratives. Join us in creating a space for dialogue and reflection on the major issues of our time and help us answer the question, how can we as artists contribute to actively provoking and engaging an audience to participate in the civic life of the nation.

https://www.lexart.org/exhibit-information/free-speech%3A-art-%26-activism

Brian Sesack featured in this years Photo Review 2024 Competition. The Photo Review Competition enables thousands of people across the country and the world to see the accepted work in our 2024 competition issue and on our website. The Photo Review, a journal of fine art photography, selected Brian Sesack's "Thru the Haze" for their 2024 Competition Web Galleries.

To learn more click the link below:
https://photoreview.org/2024-competition-landscapes/

Reception August 2, 6:00 PM- 8:30 PM

Artist Talk 6:30 PM
Food and Drinks  7:00- 8:30 PM

​"This retrospective exhibition embodies my favorite dances and explorations from twenty years of wood-firing. While alluding to function, many sacrifice their function to aesthetic exploration. I intend them as aesthetic objects, not as pots for use. " ~ Dale Huffman

​After earning a BS in Physics from Carnegie-Mellon and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Dale Huffman spent several years as part of a ragtag, over-educated crew repairing air-cooled Volkswagens in Illinois. Returning to Pittsburgh he and Betsy spent two decades as full-time artists before Dale was asked to join the faculty at Carlow University. Dale has been included in wide-ranging national and international exhibitions as well as books and leading periodicals from England, Germany, Ireland, Australia and the US. His work has taken him to Japan, Denmark, Spain, Sweden, and Taiwan. Dale is now Professor Emeritus at Carlow and enjoying the time to explore paths not taken. 

Learn more here: https://www.mcgyouth.org/events-exhibitions

Opening reception Saturday, July 27th, from 5-8pm

Dark Mode. That ubiquitous viewing setting on our devices is not only a visual theme to reduce eye strain but is something of a daily ritual of gradual psychic decomposition. In this twilight state, cellular renewal occurs - we shed dead cells and generate new ones in an unseen yet constant coming and going of thought/matter within the body. Here, “dark” also suggests that which eludes direct observation - the work inspired by deep field images captured by the Hubble Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope.

Sanders' initial curiosity about humanity's presence in outer space has mutated over time into a contemplation of the ability to see into the endlessness of the cosmos: what does it mean to see so much? 

Tracing an Outline Around a Man's Shadow, A group exhibition featuring Atticus Adams, Aaronel deRoy Gruber, Michael Morrill, Ed Panar, and La Vispera. The Opening reception is Thursday, August 1, 6-8 pm and runs August 1 - September 13, 2024.

Tracing an Outline Around a Man’s Shadow is a group exhibition of works that explore shadows, cast light, color, and negative space. Six artists working across entirely different mediums and thematic concepts come together, playfully casting shadows, capturing darkness, and employing materials that diffuse light in unique cascades and hues. 

The exhibition’s title is in reference to the myth of the Corinthian Maid, who, in an effort to capture the likeness of her lover before he went off to war, drew an outline of his shadow on the wall behind him as he slept. The myth, recounted by numerous philosophers throughout history, is often referenced as the birth of painting, and as humanity’s primary foray into the depiction of the self. When considering the shadow’s mythical place in history to bring us out of the proverbial darkness, one discovers that is has also been associated with the soul, evil, and the self’s own doppleganger. A shadow’s many associations serve as a psychological mirror to our existential fear and wonder and is explored here by the containment and diffusion of light and darkness within the gallery setting. 

Simultaneously highlighting the psychological impacts of shadows and darkness, Tracing an Outline Around a Man’s Shadow explores materiality through the various mediums employed by each artist. In focusing on the presence of each work, how can viewers contend with the underlying nothingness that gives a shadow its unique significance? In approaching each work, viewers will find that the fleeing intangibility, which is a central element of both shadows and light, acts as a unifying force throughout the exhibition.

The Flock Artist Collective is composed of artist/mothers whose creative practices explore the wide-ranging, multifaceted, often-unseen work of parenting. Artists include Eileen Alcalde, Sandra Bacchi, Aimee Bungard, Sophia Cardillo, Naomi Chambers, Megan Lindsey, Christine Lorenz, Michele Randall, Megan Shope, Carrie Smith Libman, Masha Solus, Janet Watkins, Courtney Williams, Alisha Wormsley, Alecia Dawn Young, and Stefanie Zito.

Each artist has their own way of tracing out the lines that connect artmaking to mothering, and none of them look like simple geometry. They are lines with mass and weight, lines that meander like rivers over time, lines that blur, lines that start to fray where they are stretched near breaking. Above all, they are lines that converge, sketching out the arcs of lives. Above all, they are lines that converge, sketching out the arcs of lives. Long or short, they are also wide.

July 25th, 6-9pm is Tomayko Foundation's Summer Silent Auction, which features a number of AAP Members. The proceeds from the auction will be split evenly between the artist and the foundation. The funds raised not only support our community of artists, but will increase the Foundation’s giving capacity to even more creatives and scholars within the Pittsburgh region. Enjoy an evening of art and great wine! To get tickets click the following link: https://tomayko.foundation/2024-Summer-Silent-Auction

Participating artists include:

Andy Julo
Atticus Adams
Frank Mason
Chris McGinnis
Christine Lorenz
Clayton Merrell
Dan Droz
David Aschkenas
Fabrizio Gerbino
Gavin Benjamin
John Tronsor
Mark Perrot
Michele Randall
Ron Donoughe
Nancy McNary Smith
David Stanger

The Carol R. Brown Creative Achievement Awards 2024 honorees have been announced, with fiber artist Tina Williams Brewer named Established Artist and director-writer-performer Adil Mansoor tapped as Emerging Artist.

The awards program, co-sponsored by The Heinz Endowments and The Pittsburgh Foundation, is guided by a shared belief in artistic excellence, creative development and the need for continuous career advancement.

In the tradition of the Creative Achievement Awards created by Carol Brown during her tenure as president of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust more than three decades ago, two artists are honored. One award is directed to an established artist and one to an emerging artist, and both must live and work in the southwestern Pennsylvania region. Each of this year’s awardees receives $50,000 in unrestricted funding.

Visit the following link to learn more: https://www.heinz.org/strategic-areas/creativity/carol-r-brown-creative-achievement-awards

Stu Chandler has been fortunate to travel the world, always with a camera in one hand, usually a cup of coffee in the other. In 2021, he closed the chapter on his career as an engineering manager for a major semiconductor manufacturer and is now free to explore the world through the eyes of an artist.

Photography is often expected to be a documentary representation of what the photographer saw.  As an artist, however, Stu seeks to create images with a sense of place, interest, moment, drama, beauty. Through the digital darkroom, he embraces the freedom to shape an image to realize the full potential of a scene, with no apologies.

Stu is a proud member of the Professional Photographers of America.

The Art of Travel will be on view daily through 7/5.

Support Stu and his work and attend the closing reception on Friday 7/5, 6:30pm-8pm!

For more information follow the link: https://coopersiegel.librarycalendar.com/event/art-travel-photographer-stu-chandler-23280

'This Magic Moment’ - an exhibition of Danny Devine's art at PULLPROOF Studio (5112 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15224) on July 5th from 6-9PM. This is the second showing of Danny's work since his unexpected passing in 2021. The first showing, ‘Simply Devine: A Retrospective of Danny Devine’ spanned Danny’s entire artistic career. ‘This Magic Moment’ focuses on Danny’s toner transfer process and prints.

To learn more about Danny Devine and his work, click the link below:
www.dannydevinestudio.com

'Holding Still,' a published essay written by Helen Trompeleter, reviews Bryan Martello's solo exhibition 'The Front Yard.' TO read this great write up visit the following link: https://bunkerprojects.org/holding-still/

Currently at the Monroeville Public Library is Origami Tessellations by Madonna Yoder in the display case and DOTS: The Pointillist Art of Jack Puglisi in the Gallery Space. Origami Tessellations by Madonna Yoder is on view now through June and DOTS: The Pointillist Art of Jack Puglisi opens with a reception June 15th, 6-8, and is on until June 25th.

In the 28th Presence Almanac, Elliott Desai features the exhibitions and art of a selection of Pittsburgh Neighborhoods. Incuded in the 2023-2024 Featured Artist Exhibition at the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Exhibition Space, as well as exhibitions that highlight AAP members. Click here or follow the link below to read the online edition or order a physical copy:
https://onthetrendnow.com/2024/04/08/28th-presence-almanac/

AAP Members Featured:
Lauren Braun, Cheryl Capezzuti, Paul Roden, Ling-Lin Ku, Seth Clark, Laurie Trok, Ruth Bedeian, Joshua Hoffman, Ulric Joseph, Bryan Martello, and Centa Schumacher.

Mattress Factory Presents three new and distinct exhibitions at the museum’s 1414 Monterey galleries from artists Isla Hansen, Marvin Touré, and Cata Schliebener Muñoz. These three artists were selected for exhibition by Guest Curator, Monique Long

Opening Reception Friday, March 8th, 2024

1414 Monterey St. Pittsburgh, PA 15212

6-8pm

Member Quade Leana featured in Netflix’s glass blowing competition show, ‘Blown Away.’