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Do this while I wait 2023

Lydia Rosenberg
Materials
Wood, paint, smokebush stems, assorted houseplant roots, carrots, dryer lint, matchsticks, rubber, cement, stone, beads, broom, wire, dustpan, carpet, ink, paper, light socket, plain words paperback, instant vocabulary paperback, parrots and related birds paperback, ceramic spaghetti, glue, yellow onion skins, peach pits, verbs, plastic shopping bags, pillowcase, bucket, hardware

"My project is writing a novel as a physical act of making, a novel-as-sculpture. How is a book made? What are the materials? I am using this fiction space to experiment with the exchange between the making of things and the act of describing them."

Lydia Rosenberg

The Museum Collects Itself 2023

Lenka Clayton & Phillip Andrew Lewis
Materials
All trash generated by the general operations of the Mattress Factory Museum during the exhibition period

Clayton and Lewis continue their ongoing exploration of archaeology in The Museum Collects Itself which focuses on the perceived antiseptic space of the museum...

Lenka Clayton & Phillip Andrew Lewis

As Seen From the Surface 2023

Katie Bullock
Materials
Graphite on vellum paper, glass, acrylic, wood, LED lighting

Bullock brings an ongoing archive of videos interspersed with diagrammatic drawings to life – offering the opportunity to tell us her stories and to merge the personal with the universal.

Katie Bullock

HalfDream: Another Room 2022

Doreen Chan
Materials
acrylic, bookshelf, clay, plastic, laser printed photos, resin, video, table, chairs, booklets, bench, oil pastel, printed transparency film, computer kiosk, stickers, directional speaker, contact microphones

Chan sets into motion a system for gathering and sharing the ephemeral, idiosyncratic dreams of the collective, transforming them into artwork with the participants, and asking visitors to reflect on their own dream memories.

Doreen Chan

PERFORMANCE FOR RELATIVES 2022

Syanda Yaptik
Materials
Photos, texts, video documentation, instruction cards

"I wrote down stories that are especially memorable for me and, on their basis, made instructions with actions through which I can simultaneously share these experiences while simultaneously turning them into something new."

Syanda Yaptik

The Artist’s Uniform 2022

Untitled
Materials
Fabric, sewing machine

The Artist’s Uniform is professional work clothing, an identifying mark of the art community.

Untitled

I come from a holy place 2022

Bekezela Mguni
Materials
Salvaged materials from Pittsburgh treasure hunting and shared offerings (tin tiles, steel sheets cut to shape and fireplace mantle), family heirlooms, cocoyea broom, antique iron, mortar and pestle, video, family photographs, audio, screenprint, digital print, neon sign, dried flowers, books, mirror glass, wood, African print

Mguni uses text, found objects, flowers, video, and print media to carve out space for Black presence and to offer affirmation in a world that continues its violent attempts to erase, devalue, and disappear Black people. 

Bekezela Mguni

Instability, Scattering, Wandering, Success 2022

Lera Lerner
Materials
Video, pink fluffy bed, music

You are entering the educational chillout zone. A kind of lecture overheard at a disco. Here is a play for a video that is a polylogue of neoplasms among themselves. 

Lera Lerner

Under the table 2022

Veronika Rudyeva-Ryazantseva
Materials
Mixed media, wood, textiles, video, ticker

"Under the table" is a reflection on the inner and outer, about man and power, about the fact that history is always happening, constantly and we are also participants and observers of what is happening.

Veronika Rudyeva-Ryazantseva

A Second Home 2016

Dennis Maher
Materials
architectural salvage, construction materials, antique furnishings, toys, architectural models, video projection, audio

A Second Home 8221 transforms the Mattress Factory row house at 516 Sampsonia Way into a mysterious wonderland that cleaves intermingles and collages a...

Dennis Maher

Danaë 1983

James Turrell
Materials
drywall, paint, ultraviolet light, incandescent light

Turrell manipulates light in his installations. He uses no magic tricks, no sleight of hand, just a well-researched understanding of the possibilities of light and the known perceptions of the eye.

James Turrell

Pleiades 1983

James Turrell
Materials
drywall, paint, incandescent light

You approach the gallery through an inclined corridor so dark that you are virtually without sight At the top of the ramp you sit...

James Turrell

Ship of Fools: Discovery of Time 1988

Bill Woodrow
Materials
metal cabinets, existing kitchen, wood, paint

The artist left the turn-of-the-century kitchen in its worn state with peeling paint neglected wood and antiquated fixtures He added forms cut from old...

Bill Woodrow

Untitled 1988

Jene Highstein
Materials
concrete, wood, wire

A form of smoothly troweled unfinished concrete occupies most of the room It is compressed between ceiling and floor swelling out around its middle...

Jene Highstein

Bed sitting Rooms for an Artist in Residence 1988

Allan Wexler
Materials
drywall, wood, paint, carpet

Two rooms are connected by a flexible functional installation where visiting artists live while they work on their own installations in other spaces The...

Allan Wexler

Trespass 1991

William Anastasi
Materials
wall removal with stone

This work is located in the second room of Allan Wexler 8217 s Bed Sitting Rooms for an Artist in Residence on the wall...

William Anastasi

Catso, Red 1994

James Turrell
Materials
projection, drywall, paint, xenon projector

Light is a material with a three-dimensional quality in this cross corner projection from the first series of light works Turrell made as a...

James Turrell

Untitled (Calisthenic Series) 1997

William Anastasi
Materials
graphite

Anastasi has been creating timed drawings while blindfolded for close to forty years The radius of this circular wall drawing is equal to the...

William Anastasi

Music for a Garden 1997

Rolf Julius
Materials
audio, speakers, amplifier, CD player

[My work] is as high as the building, and fills the entire lot adjacent to it. In this way, I have created rooms. As the visitor moves from one room to another--either vertically or horizontally--the experience of the work changes.

Rolf Julius

Ash 1991

Rolf Julius
Materials
terra-cotta pots, speakers, ash, sound installation

Clay pots with light brown ash inside, and moving and sometimes jumping dark sounds (some are quiet but these are difficult to understand).

Rolf Julius

Red 1996

Rolf Julius
Materials
speakers, amplifier, CD player, red pigment, wire

Two speakers suspended from the ten-foot ceiling by thin wire hang just inches from the ground They are coated with a brilliant powdery orange-red...

Rolf Julius

Acupuncture 2016

Hans Peter Kuhn

Acupuncture an imaginative light sculpture by German artist Hans Peter Kuhn will appear to 8220 pierce 8221 the roof and south-facing side of the...

Hans Peter Kuhn

Repetitive Vision 1996

Yayoi Kusama
Materials
formica, adhesive dots, mannequins, mirrors

A mirror is a device which obliterates everything including myself and others in the light of another world or a gallant apparatus which creates nothingness. 

Yayoi Kusama

Infinity Dots Mirrored Room 1996

Yayoi Kusama
Materials
adhesive dots, black light, formica, mirrors

A passage to Another World.

A mirror is a device which obliterates everything including myself and others in the light of another world or a gallant apparatus which creates nothingness. 

Yayoi Kusama

It's All About ME, not you 1996

Greer Lankton
Materials
wood, vinyl siding, AstroTurf, paint, artworks

Artificial Nature
Total Indulgence
Dolls engrossed in glamour and self abuse
The vanity
The junkie
The anorexic
The chronic masturbator
“Its all about ME”
Not you
Trapped in my own world in my
H\head in my tiny tiny
apartment

Greer Lankton

Garden 1997

Winifred Lutz
Materials
stones, concrete, rebar, wood, plant materials

I was interested in uncovering the urban and natural history here to reveal the physical memory in the site. Everything in the garden comes from this: all the different layers and boundaries.

Winifred Lutz

610-3356 2008

Sarah Oppenheimer
Materials
aircraft grade plywood

For this installation Oppenheimer created an opening in the floor of a small gallery on the fourth floor This is the first time in...

Sarah Oppenheimer

Unbrella 2009

Vanessa Sica & Chris Kasabach
Materials
nylon, metal, plastic, paint

Asked to take inspiration from the Mattress Factory s annex gallery we entered the 2nd floor apartment and recalled our first experience seeing Alan...

Vanessa Sica & Chris Kasabach

Ground 1988

Dove Bradshaw
Materials
drywall compound

Ground, a rectangular form of white drywall, acts as a reflection of the effects that light, air and time have on the space in which it is installed.

Dove Bradshaw
Lydia Rosenberg
Do this while I wait
Lenka Clayton & Phillip Andrew Lewis
The Museum Collects Itself
Katie Bullock
As Seen From the Surface
Doreen Chan
HalfDream: Another Room
Syanda Yaptik
PERFORMANCE FOR RELATIVES
Untitled
The Artist’s Uniform
Bekezela Mguni
I come from a holy place
Lera Lerner
Instability, Scattering, Wandering, Success
Veronika Rudyeva-Ryazantseva
Under the table
Dennis Maher
A Second Home
James Turrell
Danaë
James Turrell
Pleiades
Bill Woodrow
Ship of Fools: Discovery of Time
Jene Highstein
Untitled
Allan Wexler
Bed sitting Rooms for an Artist in Residence
William Anastasi
Trespass
James Turrell
Catso, Red
William Anastasi
Untitled (Calisthenic Series)
Rolf Julius
Music for a Garden
Rolf Julius
Ash
Rolf Julius
Red
Hans Peter Kuhn
Acupuncture
Yayoi Kusama
Repetitive Vision
Yayoi Kusama
Infinity Dots Mirrored Room
Greer Lankton
It's All About ME, not you
Winifred Lutz
Garden
Sarah Oppenheimer
610-3356
Vanessa Sica & Chris Kasabach
Unbrella
Dove Bradshaw
Ground