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» Silver Eye celebrates its 30th anniversary with the engaging Self-Portrait.
Often they are mini-memoirs, capturing a moment and an attitude, or documenting a point along a lifeline's arc.
By Savannah Guz |
September 3, 2009
(Art: Art Reviews & Features)
» We confess to liking SALIGIA: Seven Deadly Sins.
The exhibit comes not when the nation is riding high, but when it is beset by political and economic upheaval, a kind of earthly reckoning for overspeculation and excess.
By Savannah Guz |
July 16, 2009
(Art: Art Reviews & Features)
» A pair of exhibits highlight printmaker Naoko Matsubara's contributions to the form -- and her ties to Pittsburgh.
Matsubara treated Pennsylvania winters, Mount Washington precipices and Westinghouse assembly lines with the same gravitas she brought to iconic places of worship.
By Savannah Guz |
April 30, 2009
(Art: Art Reviews & Features)
» Sworn In takes an often-oblique swat at the White House art collection.
John Riegert's textile triptych "LBJ's Beagle Series" is a speak-for-itself condemnation of Johnson's lack of vigilance.
By Savannah Guz |
February 12, 2009
(Art: Art Reviews & Features)
» The Mattress Factory's Predrive: After Technology takes a slap at digital culture.
Mexican-born New Yorker Brody Condon expresses his interest in gaming's simulated trauma and our cultural tendency toward apocalyptic thinking.
By Savannah Guz |
January 29, 2009
(Art: Art Reviews & Features)
» A Sewickley gallery continues a tradition of showcasing work from the former Eastern bloc.
Such works are the equivalent of memento mori and a celebration of the inexplicable beauty of chaos as it emerges victorious over the order imposed by man.
By Savannah Guz |
November 6, 2008
(Art: Art Reviews & Features)
» Glass and Steel: Art Transcends Industry tells a story of change at Pittsburgh Glass Center.
What is most heartening about this exhibition is that it reveals art to be -- like the urban pioneer -- a genuine catalyst for revitalization.
By Savannah Guz |
August 21, 2008
(Art: Art Reviews & Features)
» A Warhol exhibit gives short shrift to a Modernist master's historical importance.
Visitor awareness of this historical background would bring valuable eloquence to Mondrian's rigidly silent geometry.
By Savannah Guz |
August 14, 2008
(Art: Art Reviews & Features)
» Art and politics mix powerfully in Fe Gallery's Pinky Swear.
Yet the construction lingers above viewers, presenting letter-for-letter the Bush administration's comfortless message: "Stay the Course."
By Savannah Guz |
July 17, 2008
(Art: Art Reviews & Features)
» When experimental film works -- and when it doesn't -- at the Pittsburgh Biennial.
Here, Tent points to (and we achieve) the complex mental activity the neurologist describes.
By Savannah Guz |
July 17, 2008
(Art: Art Reviews & Features)
» The Three Rivers Arts Festival gets the most out of its new shipping containers-cum-galleries.
Like sanctuaries, the boxes require visitors to step up, separating them from the actuality of the street.
By Savannah Guz |
June 19, 2008
(Art: Art Reviews & Features)
» Viewing China through Cao Fei's "Whose Utopia" at the Carnegie International.
Even without a question mark, Cao's title is inherently confrontational: It indicates that this is neither her idea of utopia, nor that of the workers who live under it.
By Savannah Guz |
June 5, 2008
(Art: Art Reviews & Features)
» Painters explore formal discord at ModernFormations.
Each canvas' inner conflicts of color and perspective are exquisite and command viewer attention.
By Savannah Guz |
May 22, 2008
(Art: Art Reviews & Features)
» In Wood Street's Text Memory, technology pulses with emotion.
As long as his heart beats and he breaths, they will be remembered; when he dies, their memories will be obscured.
By Savannah Guz |
May 8, 2008
(Art: Art Reviews & Features)
» At the Society for Contemporary Craft, clay get political in Voices.
Most of the works offer provocative, blatantly political and highly engaging narratives.
By Savannah Guz |
May 1, 2008
(Art: Art Reviews & Features)
» Finding real toads in the Miller Gallery's Make-Believe garden
Maxson exposes both our conditioned media expectations and deeper, unacknowledged desires.
By Savannah Guz |
April 17, 2008
(Art: Art Reviews & Features)
» Jim Schafer's photos capture the slowing beat of the Heartland.
Even while imbuing his towns with personality and dignity, Schafer captures a nagging sense of their waning vitality.
By Savannah Guz |
April 3, 2008
(Art: Art Reviews & Features)
» Urban Living, at Wood Street Galleries, pointedly de-emphasizes the human presence.
Horne's exhibition is a thought-provoking exploration of technology's still-incalculable potential, which is invariably edged with a sense of the apocalyptic.
By Savannah Guz |
March 20, 2008
(Art: Art Reviews & Features)
» Michael Rogers and Richard Hirsch summon a haunting Recollection at the Pittsburgh Glass Center.
Rogers' use of found objects and glass castings of pieces from his own toy collection imparts to his work a fascinating, if slightly sinister, Victorian flavor.
By Savannah Guz |
March 6, 2008
(Art: Art Reviews & Features)
» The Carnegie explores the aesthetics of three centuries of artificial light.
World War I had altered aesthetic sensibility, and designers sought to cleanse the calligraphic line of its profligate arabesques.
By Savannah Guz |
February 7, 2008
(Art: Art Reviews & Features)
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