Artist and musician David Pohl's environment turns old record players (picked up in secondhand stores) into a series of expressive altars, whose insistent sounds evoke the repetitive mantras of Eastern spirituality. Other elements, often obsessively worked, sustain the concept of both universal and private religious experience.

Artist Linn Meyers normally creates work characterized by a cumulative sequence of marks, meditatively applied. Here, in a darkened room, natural and artificial light is introduced and animates Two Works. The light passes through plain and colored gauze, creating three-dimensional, illusionistic works which reveal a painterly sensibility.

Lonnie Graham, who has chosen to live in this space for the duration of the show, has invited other artists to join with him to create collaborative works of art, thus extending the concept of the studio and anticipating other, possibly unexpected, results.

Sculptor Paul Bowden's reflections on the spider (male and female), coexisting on the precarious web, takes on a wider significance. Ominously suspended over a narrow corridor, the web and its occupants suggest unease and dis-ease, an ecological imbalance; perhaps, even, a world gone wrong.

Dennis Bergevin, who makes wigs for no less than twenty opera companies in this country, has recreated his studio space with so rich a mixture of personal memorabilia, that it becomes a moving self-portrait. The site becomes a performance place where his public and private lives become one.

Tom Bedger, a floral designer and shopkeeper, creates the atmosphere of Fall in the rooms normally occupied by visiting artists to the Mattress Factory. Deep drifts of fallen leaves cover the furnishings; the mixed scents of autumn and a pervading chill (the windows are kept open) convey a sense of beauty, loss and decay.

Robert Ziller is an artist and a poet. Remembering a drawing by Man Ray in which a woman's face was represented with reflective eyes, he has installed mirrored glass in the two windows on the upper floor of the façade of 1414 Monterey, transforming the building into a portrait. It meets the visitor with a mutual gaze. Museum Eyes Mirror Window Souls Look In / Look Out! I'll Tell You Something: Every Now And Then This Building Takes A Walk Around The Block.

John Smith is an archivist at the Andy Warhol Museum. In 1989 he made this video, which has not been shown before. It records the reading of a play in Chicago. Written by Smith's best friend, David Sedaris, who performs it with Smith, it has a strange, if perhaps unintentional, affinity with Warhol's movies.

Harry Schwalb is the Dean of Pittsburgh Art Critics and an accomplished draftsman. In this, his first 'installation', he creates a highly stylized version of the tiny space in his apartment where he executes his drawing. With zen-like concision, he outlines the fastidious process of his art and introduces hints of autobiography.

Michelle de la Reza and Peter Kope are the principal dancers of Attack Theater. Appropriating three discarded booths from a popular North Side bar and installing them at 1414 Monterey, they have set up memory games and small video sequences on the tables. In one, a telephone is available for visitors to the show to call the artists and have a brief conversation about the work.

Materials for this installation include Gary Petsch pottery, dinner booths from Rosa Villa, Warhol glass, Lowell Brown memory game and household items from Attack Theater and the artists' personal collection.

Karen Page is an educator and a fiber artist. A video shows her hands gradually teasing out the wool she uses in creating the felt artworks for which she is known. The room becomes an environment with felted material she has made.

Dutch Macdonald is a principal in the firm of Edge Architects. This installation, however, explores the practice of video and the possibilities of the three-dimensional. The movement of water, the filmed documentation of Macdonald's own travels, and a carefully modulated sound track create a compelling and beautiful environment.