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Asim Waqif

Shohei Katayama

Lenka Clayton & Phillip Andrew Lewis

Lydia Rosenberg

Katie Bullock

Doreen Chan

Andrea Peña

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Asim Waqif Indian b 1978 studied architecture at the School of Planning and Architecture Delhi After initially working as an art director for film and television he later started making independent videos and documentaries before moving into a dedicated art practice He has worked in sculpture site-specific public installation video photography and more recently with large-scale interactive installations that combine traditional and new media technologies Waqif has held solo shows at Nature Morte New Delhi and Galerie Templon Paris in 2013 and the Palais Tokyo Paris in 2012 Select Work includes Durga Puja...

Shohei Katayama received his MFA from Carnegie Mellon University He explores the connection between nature technology and the scientific forces that shape human experiences and interactions His work embraces principles of order and chaos to generate meditative spaces through movement and sound His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally including at the Palazzo Mora in Venice Italy He received the Outstanding Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award by the International Sculpture Center among other awards Currently residing in Louisville KY he serves as an assistant professor of studio art at the Kentucky College...

Lenka Clayton b 1977 Derbyshire UK and Phillip Andrew Lewis b 1973 Memphis Tennessee have solo and collaborative practices and have been working together since they met at Headlands Center for the Arts in 2017 The couple live and work in Pittsburgh PA Their collaborative projects include an ongoing video-based call and response conversation between one rock and one stone a public gallery that is always closed an 8ft long bronze plaque marking the history of their studio building over the last 600 million years and most recently the construction of a full-scale...

Lydia Rosenberg is an artist currently based in Pittsburgh Her work primarily in sculpture is concerned with the impact of language on our perception of physical things She received her MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from the University of Pennsylvania and a BFA in Intermedia from Pacific Northwest College of Art She has exhibited in group and solo exhibitions throughout the US and abroad in Belgium and Chile She has published written and visual works Her project of writing a novel as a way to make a sculpture began in 2018 and is ongoing...

Katie Bullock received her MFA from the Glass Department at the Rhode Island School of Design, and her BFA from the Painting and Drawing Department at Ohio State University. She catalogs and works with observed “everyday” moments and phenomena, driven by the complexity of truth that taking note can reveal. Recent solo exhibitions include As Seen From the Surface, Mattress Factory (March 2023), and Arguments Against the Existence of a Void, Albion College (December 2022). She currently lives and works in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with her partner and two cats.

Doreen Chan Hong Kong b 1987 has received training in visual communication and photography She graduated with an MA in Art Education from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2021 Primarily a lens-based and site-specific artist Chan s ongoing work is realized both online and offline In her current participatory art project HalfDream she blends her deep desire of connecting people and the progressive development of her artistic practices with the focus on the investigation of personal perception materiality and daily details that are often overlooked Key elements in Chan...

A hybrid Latinx artist Andrea Pe a was originally born in Bogota Colombia and has carved her practice in the territory of Tiohti ke Montreal As director of the multidisciplinary company AP amp A Andr a Pe a amp Artists her practice as designer and choreographer merges the body and materiality in performative digital and sculptural works to create living arts universes Andrea is recognized in Canada and internationally for her creations as critical alternative and spatial universes that break with our notions and conceptions of a sensitive humanity and engage in rich...

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"Taking good care of your things leads to taking good care of yourself"

“…and I feel fine.”

“...the Cities blotted into the wilderness”

“Did you get everything?”

“Yes, let’s go.”

(IN)-BETWEEN

(you tie li da tsu)

[11° x 7° x 38°]

@#>*&%^&^$)

>>>>HOST_CAVITY<<<<

~~MOUNTAIN~~

10-30-1999

16 on Center

1913 Revisited in Three Parts 1. The Assembly Line 2. Global Time Synchronization 3. Rite of Spring Premier

27 Correspondents

3 Operettas: Run Leela Run/Pas DeDeux...

3 X 4608

3.5.8

310-312 Sampsonia Way, For Sale by Owner, Great Opportunity

35 x 33 x 32 = 35 x 33 x 34

44 Installations at the Mattress Factory

5 Words

610-3356

7 increments

921 Braddock Summoning 1982

983,000 @ 1414

A Collaboration

A Constant Struggle for Reciprocity

A Generous Act: A Collaboration with Music

a Line

A New Tomorrow That Starts Today

A Quarter Til Ten

A Second Home

A Second Selection from the Greer Lankton Archive of the Mattress Factory, 1975 - 1996

A Selection from the Greer Lankton Archive of the Mattress Factory, 1975 – 1996

A Small Patch of Earth

A-N-M-F (3 fields)

Abramson Family Crest

ACE

Active Denial System

Active Denial System: Metadata

Active Energy: Pittsburgh

Acupuncture

ADA

Africa Magazine

Afrum II

After A. W. Hunt

Again and Again

Aging a Decaying Mill Town

Alexandria Series

All at the Same Time

All is Not Forgotten

Ambit

An Indian from India

Ancient Instincts

Ancient New York Mosaics

Apparition of Our Lady of Peace, Jacksonia Street, Pittsburgh

April 15, 1989, 32 minutes, 4B

Archives of the Carnegie International, 1896-1991

Art You Can Get Into…if you have $12

Artificial Breathing

Artist Studio

As Below, So Above

As Seen From the Surface

Ascending City

Ash

Assume the Risk

Audio Jackets

Aurora

Avatar

Ave Machina: Instant Before Incident

Ave Maria

B.C.C 3000

Baby, I Just Don't Understand You

Bad Environment for White Monochrome Paintings

Beanie

Beautiful Violence

Bed sitting Rooms for an Artist in Residence

being here

Bicycle

Big Red

Bird from Muybridge

Bizarre Love Triangle

Black Ceiba

Black Community Survival Conference Tea Party Ice Cream Social Moonlit Cinema

Black Marat

Blood and Honor

Bob-ette’s Feast

Body Memory Architecture

Body Temple

Book People

Bottled Air

Boulder Tending

Bower

Break It Down

Breasts in the Press

Bricks

Bricks for Bread (The Pittsburgh Community Brick Oven Project)

But if the Crime is Beautiful... (Strangers to the Garden)

Buttresses

by and about

Campus

Capturing Robotic Gestures

Castles in the Air

Catso, Red

Celebration

Ceremonial II

Chair Tending

Chance

changing installation

Chapel: In the Mexican War Streets

Choreography

Chris Beauregard & Jesse Hulcher (Both Deceased)

Citizen of the Future

City Council Wrestling

Cold Comfort

Cold Fashioned Room

Collective assembly

Collective Corrected Vision

Colorful Juxtapositions

Common Oddities

Community Mural Project

Connections

Contrasting Metaphors

corner piece (bat)

Coronal Mass Ejection

Cotyledon Gesture Paintings

Countdown

Countries

Crawling House

Credible, Small Secrets

Cured

Curiosity and Joy

D-Gravitizer

Damn everything but the circus

Danaë

DARK CLOUD

Dark Matter

Dark Room

Dark Side of Light

Deep Sky Portfolio

Deer

Denied

Derelict

Descension

Diaspora

DID YOU FIND EVERYTHING YOU WERE LOOKING FOR TODAY?

Dionysos

Diorama Obscura: Riding Fences

Diptyching

Do this while I wait

Documentation

Don't Get Too Comfortable

Dots Obsession

down with all kings but King Ludd!

Dragonfruit

Drama for Strings in Three Movements: Light, Sound, Gesture

Dreamland

Driving Directions for Five Ornamental Surfaces

DROPTET

DRYWALL 19: Wetland

Dual Quartet

Dust

Early Figurative Works (1967-77)

Earth Works

East Portal (model)

Easter or Ishtar

Ecclesiastes 12:6-12:7

Echoes of Objects

Ecosystem

Egypt Was a Test

El camino de la incertidumbre (The Uncertain Road)

Elastic, Plastic, Echoes, Edges

Electrical box

Elemental Correspondence

Embroidery Frieze (The Politicians)

Empathy Implant

Empty Music

Endless Self-Portrait / Portrait of an Audience

Enjoying Freedom

Enoch's Hammer

Even If We Go to Heaven They Will Always Remember Us

Even In Darkness There is Light

Every Person a Pollock!

Every Time a Bell Rings...

Everyday

Everything West of Here is Indian Country

Examination

Excerpts from the Palace of Anxiety

Executives of Distinction, ASAVAVS reigns here.

Expanding Magnetic Molten Symmetry

Eye of the Crater (model)

Faculty

Faith and Aphasia

Fall

Fantastic

Fathers of the Elevator

Feeling The Spirit In The Dark

Fifty-cent Morality

Fire Making Darkness

First Communion

Five neighbors, Five countries

Flesh of the Body

Flight Mound

FLY

Follow Me

Following the Sun 2

For everything I’ve done and for everything I’ll do.

For Stuart Callan. 1962-2005

France

Friday, 7pm, Three Times

From the Dawn's Early Light Until Twilight's Last Gleaming

furniture music

Further Progress (Champagne and Argonne)

Future Lines 3

Gallop Pole

Gard Blue

Garden

GardenLab@510

Gastronomic Tapestry

Gasworks

GAZ COFFEE build #1

George's Legacy

Glaze

Glory Holes

Good/Bones

Graces Can Be Grown

Grenadine

Grey Lift

Groovy Lounge

Ground

Guardarraya

Guestroom for Lareese's Dream

Habitat

HalfDream: Another Room

Hand-grazing

Happy Birthday 2003

harvest(color) or Remedy for Winter Listlessness

he had a vague sense of an elusive meaning, a light in the distance, a glimmer on the horizon, something he wanted to say if only he had the language for it