Hot House curated by Eva Conrad
on view Jan 6 - Feb 3
on view Jan 6 - Feb 3
Hot House, a group show curated by Bunker alum Eva Conrad:
As late capitalism has slowly drifted toward a handmade movement, alongside the many have begun to indulge back in hand-making. Hot House brings together a diverse group of artists whose work is part of the current resurgence of the pattern and decoration movement in response to the white washing minimalism of gentrification aesthetics. Instead, maximalism and vibrant color provide an aesthetic of optimism that gestures back to traditionally more democratic forms of folk art and craft. Hot House features both local and national artists, including:
Angela Finney
Anna Azizzy
Danielle Bernard
Elizabeth Schweizer
Eva Conrad
Kerie Johannes
Lucia Riffel
Matthew Zorn
Molly Bernstein
Rosabel Rosalind
Sarah Beth Post
Taylor Mezo
Zachary Van Dorn
“No new idea is made until two stimuli are brought into relation with one another. This is why trusting feelings and chance in a moment to moment basis catalyzes creativity.” -Eva Conrad
Curator Bio
Eva Conrad (She/They) was born in Lancaster Pennsylvania and received her BFA at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. She currently lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where she produces ceramics and paintings out of her home studio. She has done residencies at the Union Project, Bunker Projects, and the Nth degree gallery. She teaches ceramics and multimedia sculpture to children and adults through the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts and Media, Assemble and Contemporary Craft. Eva works with repetitive patterns to create deceptive dimensions between sculptures, functional pots, and paintings. Her intuitive play with clay and paint pairs with the rigidity of these binary structured patterns to embrace the dimension of spaces between the linear understandings that society presents.
As late capitalism has slowly drifted toward a handmade movement, alongside the many have begun to indulge back in hand-making. Hot House brings together a diverse group of artists whose work is part of the current resurgence of the pattern and decoration movement in response to the white washing minimalism of gentrification aesthetics. Instead, maximalism and vibrant color provide an aesthetic of optimism that gestures back to traditionally more democratic forms of folk art and craft. Hot House features both local and national artists, including:
Angela Finney
Anna Azizzy
Danielle Bernard
Elizabeth Schweizer
Eva Conrad
Kerie Johannes
Lucia Riffel
Matthew Zorn
Molly Bernstein
Rosabel Rosalind
Sarah Beth Post
Taylor Mezo
Zachary Van Dorn
“No new idea is made until two stimuli are brought into relation with one another. This is why trusting feelings and chance in a moment to moment basis catalyzes creativity.” -Eva Conrad
Curator Bio
Eva Conrad (She/They) was born in Lancaster Pennsylvania and received her BFA at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. She currently lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where she produces ceramics and paintings out of her home studio. She has done residencies at the Union Project, Bunker Projects, and the Nth degree gallery. She teaches ceramics and multimedia sculpture to children and adults through the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts and Media, Assemble and Contemporary Craft. Eva works with repetitive patterns to create deceptive dimensions between sculptures, functional pots, and paintings. Her intuitive play with clay and paint pairs with the rigidity of these binary structured patterns to embrace the dimension of spaces between the linear understandings that society presents.
