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The Pittsburgh Galleries blog is a volunteer effort from Rick Byerly to promote Pittsburgh art events which feature artists from the area. The PghGalleries.com website effort is an up-to-date directory with Pittsburgh area art venues. Thanks go to Sirani Gallery of 5875 Forbes Ave in Squirrel Hill for being a sponsor and David L. Edwards Art and Anonymous for their donations to this effort. Donation and sponsor info can be found here. Rick Byerly, Uniquetake Photography
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Pittsburgh will host the world's major economic powers at a G20 Summit in September.
The White House made the announcement at a press briefing in Washington, D.C. this afternoon. The summit will be held on Sept. 24 and 25.
The summit will be held at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Downtown Pittsburgh...
During that time people can check out the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh's 99th Annual Art Exhibit at the Carnegie Museum of Art! It runs from August 29 to November 8, 2009.
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The Pittsburgh Galleries blog is a volunteer effort from Rick Byerly to promote Pittsburgh art events which feature artists from the area. The PghGalleries.com website effort is an up-to-date directory with Pittsburgh area art venues. Thanks go to Sirani Gallery of 5875 Forbes Ave in Squirrel Hill for being a sponsor and David L. Edwards Art and Anonymous for their donations to this effort. Donation and sponsor info can be found here. Rick Byerly, Uniquetake Photography
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For those artists who have not registered for free at the Pittsburgh Artist Registry check it out here. If you're not comfortable with computers in general check out the seminars they have, otherwise just go online and do it. It's easy. http://www.pittsburghartistregistry.org/
Last Days Cafe ~ Pittsburgh Artist Registry
Featuring Guest Speaker Lea Donatelli, Program Manager, Office of Public Art Presented in partnership with the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council and the New Hazlett Theater
May 27, 2009 5:30pm - 8:30pm
Artists, musicians, writers, dancers, poets, performers, and arts administrators are invited to stop in, enjoy complimentary refreshments and talk about projects, plans, ideas, and interests. Often the key to unique opportunities is discovering who is doing what and interacting regularly with a circle of colleagues who are working creatively.
This month Lea Donatelli, Program Manager, Office of Public Art, will present information on the Pittsburgh Artist Registry and demonstrate how to create your own artist profile. The Pittsburgh Artist Registry is a free on-line database of visual, literary, and performing artists in southwestern PA. It is free to join and free to browse!
Last Days Cafe also provides a forum through which Pittsburgh's creative community can become more familiar with the resources available to them as they create new work, consider forming a new organization, or think about how, when and where to show their work.
Please RSVP to DSciranka(AT)aol.com.
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The Pittsburgh Galleries blog is a volunteer effort from Rick Byerly to promote Pittsburgh art events which feature artists from the area. The PghGalleries.com website effort is an up-to-date directory with Pittsburgh area art venues. Thanks go to Sirani Gallery of 5875 Forbes Ave in Squirrel Hill for being a sponsor and David L. Edwards Art and Anonymous for their donations to this effort. Donation and sponsor info can be found here. Rick Byerly, Uniquetake Photography
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PENUMBRAE
May 23, 2009
Deconstruction Workers (Andres Ortiz Ferrari and Laurie Trok) are opening their first collaborative installation this Saturday night at Monk’s (3634 Penn Avenue) from 7-11 PM.
Penumbrae :: Construct 1.0 explores the relationships between shadows and form by creating an environment filled with paper cutouts and stencils that ebb and flow through the space. Inspired by cave drawings, petroglyphs, and street art, the Deconstruction Workers weave iconic glyphic imagery through an endless web of contrast, evoking a primordial yet modern sacred space that changes and moves as the viewer finds their way through this other world.
Head over to Monk’s on Saturday and experience a space of partial illumination, as shadow covers, surrounds and obscures a dreamlike cosmos.
( $20 gets you a stencil of the artists’ choice when the show comes down next month! )
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The Pittsburgh Galleries blog is a volunteer effort from Rick Byerly to promote Pittsburgh art events which feature artists from the area. The PghGalleries.com website effort is an up-to-date directory with Pittsburgh area art venues. Thanks go to Sirani Gallery of 5875 Forbes Ave in Squirrel Hill for being a sponsor and David L. Edwards Art and Anonymous for their donations to this effort. Donation and sponsor info can be found here. Rick Byerly, Uniquetake Photography
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(from Mark Panza)
You're Invited!
Panza Gallery 115 Sedgwick St. Millvale Pa 15209
presents:
Three Point Perspective.
Paintings by:
Gloria Dufresne
Patrick Lee &
Mark McLaughlin
Panza Gallery presents Three Point Perspective.Paintings by three artist with separate styles and perspective.Gloria Dufresne paints with reminiscent french impressionism while Mark McLaughlin paints with strong bold linesrepresenting powerful commentary and last Pat Lee continues to impress with mysterious classic style paintings.All are worth a trip to the gallery to view this unique refreshing exhibit.
Opens: May 30th 6-9pm
Runs: May 30 - June 20, 2009
Contact for more info:Mark Panza 412.821.0959 email: panzagallery(AT)mac.com
web: http://www.panzagallery.com/
Thanks for your time.
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The Truth is Made: Artwork of Benedict Oddi
June 5, 2009
The desire for freedom, escape, and exploration influence the narrative of my oil paintings. In my representations, I examine the possibilities of utopia and dystopia through the escapist tendency to create a parallel realism. The crafted pictorial environment is meant to emphasize a disconnection to a tactile reality, where by ideas and experiences are confused, allowing the viewer to assemble a personal narrative. By doing so, the work evokes a feeling of uneasiness through improbability; this imaginary voyage should feel familiar and sublime, filled with imminent danger.
My theater-like arrangements of figures in landscape are placed in situations of anxiety and peril, intervened by trace elements of otherworldliness. During the course of these works I have examined human natures, social and institutional conventions. While my reflection was approached through escapism related to utopian and dystopian philosophy, I have tried not to align with one thought or the other, but choose to respond to both concerning the nature of free will.
In analyzing my own efforts as a method to provide structure and autonomy to the inherent turmoil of vulnerable human life, the painting becomes a window, with the act of viewing involving a game. The attempt at detangling of the narrative has both the curiosity of discovery and the helplessness of a repeated history never begun. The painting then harkens the history of painting and to that of humankind, in all its injustices and failed endeavors. The act of painting from which I cannot separate myself, feels hopeless like that of Sisyphus, in my search for meaning through struggle. In Albert Camus’s influential essay The Myth of Sisyphus, the entry closes:
“I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain! One always finds ones burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night filled mountain, in itself forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.” (Camus 123)
This where my journey begins and ends through a quest for some taste of free will. While I choose iconography and situations of peril with great significance to myself, these specific choices need not strictly inform the viewer in their interpretation of the work of art. In addition to Albert Camus, I am also influenced by the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche and Giambattista Vico. Other major influences include Jorge Louis Borges, Erich Fromm, Yi-Fu Tuan, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Giorgio de Chirico, and Milan Kundera.
Opening reception June 5th, 7 to 10pm. Exhibit runs to July 24th.
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If you've never been to the Unblurred Gallery Crawl along Penn Ave in Garfield (Bloomfield and East Liberty as well) you're missing out on a major part of the Pittsburgh art scene. It happens the first Friday of every month (except January) and most venues open up at 7pm.
Don't know where to start? Pick any gallery or venue from the list below and pick up a program which has a map. But really all you have to do is just walk down Penn Ave in Garfield and see all the people coming in and out of venues. Each venue has refreshments and snacks and a lot of art to check out and buy. Remember that Unblurred continues to exist because those who are passionate about art buy what strikes them.
Whatever the month is you can check this link for a schedule:
The main page is http://friendship-pgh.org/
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The Pittsburgh Galleries blog is a volunteer effort from Rick Byerly to promote Pittsburgh art events which feature artists from the area. The PghGalleries.com website effort is an up-to-date directory with Pittsburgh area art venues. Thanks go to Sirani Gallery of 5875 Forbes Ave in Squirrel Hill for being a sponsor and David L. Edwards Art and Anonymous for their donations to this effort. Donation and sponsor info can be found here. Rick Byerly, Uniquetake Photography
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RECTO-VERSO Art Exhibition
Reception: Friday, June 5, 2009 7:00-9:00pm
Exhibition of artists handmade books from the traditional to the unconventional. This exhibition is juried by Christopher Kardambikis & Jasdeep Khaira, the co-directors of Encyclopedia Destructica. Exhibition Dates: June 5-30
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The Pittsburgh Galleries blog is a volunteer effort from Rick Byerly to promote Pittsburgh art events which feature artists from the area. The PghGalleries.com website effort is an up-to-date directory with Pittsburgh area art venues. Thanks go to Sirani Gallery of 5875 Forbes Ave in Squirrel Hill for being a sponsor and David L. Edwards Art and Anonymous for their donations to this effort. Donation and sponsor info can be found here. Rick Byerly, Uniquetake Photography
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2009 Annual Art and Technology Exhibition
Thursday, June 18, 2009
5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Location: 15 Minutes Gallery, Pittsburgh Technology Council, 2000 Technology Drive, 15219
The Pittsburgh Technology Council's Art and Technology Initiative is proud to present the 2009 Annual Art and Technology Exhibition. To celebrate the synergy that exists between the art and tech communities in Pittsburgh, the Council is partnering with the James Gallery and CREATE Lab to create this one-of-a-kind exhibition. The exhibition will open at the 15 Minutes Gallery on June 18, 2009 and run through September 1, 2009. The opening event will feature artwork in all media, the BurghBot project, live music, drinks, hors d'oeuvres -- as well as speakers and presentations from some of Pittsburgh's foremost art organizations and creative technology companies.
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The Pittsburgh Galleries blog is a volunteer effort from Rick Byerly to promote Pittsburgh art events which feature artists from the area. The PghGalleries.com website effort is an up-to-date directory with Pittsburgh area art venues. Thanks go to Sirani Gallery of 5875 Forbes Ave in Squirrel Hill for being a sponsor and David L. Edwards Art and Anonymous for their donations to this effort. Donation and sponsor info can be found here. Rick Byerly, Uniquetake PhotographyBelow are the details for an upcoming art opening in Braddock. I enjoy your blog and was hoping, if it's not too late, you could post this event. Thanks!
Infinity
Saturday, May 23rd 7pm
UnSmoke Gallery
1137 Braddock Ave.
Braddock, PA 15104
Artists from Pittsburgh and beyond explore themes of Infinity and its limitless unboundedness; infinite loops, infinite beings and infinite space. This Saturday May 23rd, 2009 at UnSmoke Artspace in Braddock PA at 7pm. Artists in the exhibition include Brian Brown, N Sean Glover, Justin Hurty, Riikka Kuoppala, Amanda Long, Daniel Luchman, Elizabeth Mooney, James R. Southard, and Greg Witt.
Elizabeth Mooney elizabeth_mooney(AT)yahoo.com www.elizabethmooney.com
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Oh and this is Verena Cottier from the marketing team in Geneva. She's wearing a beautiful ruffled dress and killer high heels - all from the upcoming H&M collection of course.
At the end of the event we got real huge goodie bags! Our biggest goodie bag so far and it will be hard to top it ^^ They gave us the H&M lookbook, a diary and from the new H&M Trends collection we received a black top and a white shirt dress which was all packed up in carton pipes! <3
Last but not least we want to thank René for giving us the opportunity!
