I’m really excited to share the work of Pittsburgh-based artist Haylee Ebersole with you because she uses an unusual material – dehydrated gelatin. Four years ago she bought 100 pounds of the stuff, learned about its chemistry, and has been using that same quantity to create her sculptures over and over again. Different additives create different textures.
Inspired by more traditional baskets, designer Saif Faisal created a group of cork trays. The soft square, circular, and loop shapes are made from two types of the material – one for the main piece and a second for the strap. They’re so beautifully versatile that you can use them in the kitchen, on your dresser, or even hang them on the wall.
An Italian artist working in London, Naomi Vona‘s work combines the things she’s drawn towards – photography, collage, and video art. Her latest creations are collages featuring vintage found vinyl covers, photos, and postcards. Vona creates an interpretation of the originals by using pens, paper, colored tape, and stickers to create a new life.
The Limited Edition NASA Posters by Best Made Co. and Standards Manual
Dans le vent by Stephanie Rivet
Contemporary Pig Meat by Raymond Biesinger
Floating Leaves 04 by Norm Architects
girl in black dress by Jordan Grace Owens
Abstract Landscape by Nancy Knight
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Vanessa German, sometimes. we. cannot. be. with. our. bodies., 2017
This past weekend I visited the Mattress Factory here in Pittsburgh for the first time in years. The non-traditional museum was founded in 1977 in an old mattress factory by artists to support artists, working in residence to create site-specific installations. Since then the museum has presented and commissioned new installation and performance works by more than 750 artists, and grown to take up three buildings in the city’s Mexican War Streets neighborhood. The museum supports established and emerging artists through a residency program that provides leadership, guidance, resources, and opportunities to create artwork that is unconventional, challenging and thought-provoking. The flexibility and inventiveness offered allows artists to respond to developments in technology, explore audience interaction, and challenge traditional artistic ideals and practices.
Dennis Maher, A Second Home, 2016
Dennis Maher, A Second Home, 2016
Dennis Maher, A Second Home, 2016
Dennis Maher, A Second Home, 2016
Dennis Maher, A Second Home, 2016
Vanessa German, sometimes. we. cannot. be. with. our. bodies., 2017
Vanessa German, sometimes. we. cannot. be. with. our. bodies., 2017
David Pohl, furniture music, 2017
David Pohl, furniture music, 2017
David Pohl, furniture music, 2017
William Anastasi, Untitled (Calisthenic Series), 1997
Vanessa Sica and Chris Kasabach, Unbrella, 2009
Allan Wexler, Bed Sitting Rooms for an Artist in Residence, 1988
David Ellis, Summer Quintet #17, 2017
Jene Highstein, Untitled, 1986
Bill Woodrow, Ship of Fools: Discovery of Time, 1986
Sarah Oppenheimer, 610-3356, 2008
Meg Webster, Solar Grow Room, 2017
Meg Webster, Solar Grow Room, 2017
Allan Wexler, Sculpting Gravity, 2017
Allan Wexler, Sculpting Gravity, 2017
Allan Wexler, Sculpting Gravity, 2017
Yayoi Kusama, Infinity Dots, 1996
Yayoi Kusama, Repetitive Vision, 1996
James Turrell, Catso, Red, 1994
Rolf Julius, Red, 1996
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Check out this mirror bookmark originally designed as a palindrome machine! It’s the size of a standard bookmark and its polished surface reflects text and generates palindromic phrases while saving your page.
Ian Brill, NYC native and Pittsburgh resident, creates installations that focus on the accumulation of form through process. Through the creation of interactive, performative, and multi-sensorial environments, he considers the boundaries of becoming and our relationship with technology. His installations, performances, and writing have been presented internationally, at conferences, festivals museums and galleries.
Doucement is an independent textile art and design studio helmed by Monica Hofstadter. The textile objects she creates from natural fibers and radiant plastics blur the line between minimalist art and over the top creature comforts. Each piece is inspired by the love of being home, creating serene moments for the senses, and the magic and spirituality of the tangible world.
Victoria Bradley is a Pittsburgh-based illustrator and painter, as well as editor-in-chief of Table magazine. Her focus on the female form is powerful, sensual, and at times voyeuristic. The way Victoria mixes mediums and styles effortlessly always leaves me waiting to see what she creates next.
Just some artfully smeared blobs of paint, right? Wrong. (Of course.) Cj Hendry‘s Complimentary Colors are actually a collection of hyperrealistic colored pencil drawings. Layer upon layer mimics the sheen of oil paint for the series commissioned by Christian Louboutin for Art Basel Hong Kong. What surprised me most, after the unexpected medium reveal, is how Cj was able to achieve such a consistency in color throughout each piece.
