More Delicate Things
9 Artist Show
APRIL 2017
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More Delicate Things: mixed media femme art
April 2017, 7th - 23rd Opening: Fri April 7, 7-10pm On View: 4/7-4/23 Gallery hours Sun. 12-4pm or by appointment |
More Delicate Things showcases works by female and non-binary artists that range from the heartbreakingly sincere to the absurd. The show includes traditionally female forms of artistic labor, such as weaving and sewing, as well as clay, photo, video, and PowerPoint. While the mediums differ, we as artists are united in that it's really fucking hard out here as femmes to get our labor - artistic or otherwise - recognized and valued.
The works shown in More Delicate Things are at once vulnerable and unapologetic. They reveal the soft underbelly of feminism in the 21st century, a return to intimacy, nudity, softness, pain, and tears as poetic tactics in a fight for recognition, respect, and survival.
More Delicate Things brings together artists from both Philadelphia and Pittsburgh in an attempt to generate collaboration and idea exchange between like-minded artist communities in the two PA cities.
The works shown in More Delicate Things are at once vulnerable and unapologetic. They reveal the soft underbelly of feminism in the 21st century, a return to intimacy, nudity, softness, pain, and tears as poetic tactics in a fight for recognition, respect, and survival.
More Delicate Things brings together artists from both Philadelphia and Pittsburgh in an attempt to generate collaboration and idea exchange between like-minded artist communities in the two PA cities.
Tabitha Arnold Philadelphia
@funbather
Tabitha Arnold is a Chattanooga, Tennessee-born artist who channels her memories and experiences into painting, sculpture, assemblage, and collage. She currently lives in Philadelphia, where she is pursuing a BFA in Painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. “Since childhood, I have found comfort in paper. Its presence is ubiquitous-always able to be stolen off a table or out of a printer at offices, homes, and churches. Tearing paper calms my anxious hands. Its smooth, blank face is always ready to accept a drawing.
Each day, I am moved to create in response to this love for materials. I find peaceful rest in the processes of silkscreen, paper-making, and preparing surfaces for collage. I pull sources from my memories, inspiration from found photographs and other emotionally charged items, and vibrant sister mediums to visual art, such as literature and film. I’ve been to many places and experienced moments that are impossible to return to, and their shifting and passing creates an ache. The images I make are a way to take others back to those moments.”
tabithaarnold.com
@funbather
Tabitha Arnold is a Chattanooga, Tennessee-born artist who channels her memories and experiences into painting, sculpture, assemblage, and collage. She currently lives in Philadelphia, where she is pursuing a BFA in Painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. “Since childhood, I have found comfort in paper. Its presence is ubiquitous-always able to be stolen off a table or out of a printer at offices, homes, and churches. Tearing paper calms my anxious hands. Its smooth, blank face is always ready to accept a drawing.
Each day, I am moved to create in response to this love for materials. I find peaceful rest in the processes of silkscreen, paper-making, and preparing surfaces for collage. I pull sources from my memories, inspiration from found photographs and other emotionally charged items, and vibrant sister mediums to visual art, such as literature and film. I’ve been to many places and experienced moments that are impossible to return to, and their shifting and passing creates an ache. The images I make are a way to take others back to those moments.”
tabithaarnold.com
Madison Carroll, Philadelphia/New York City
@3687436910
Madison Carroll is a photographer from Philadelphia currently working in New York.
@3687436910
Madison Carroll is a photographer from Philadelphia currently working in New York.
Brittany De Nigris Pittsburgh
@brittanydenigris
Brittany De Nigirs is currently employed constructing poetic anatomies in materials that reside, most often, outside of language. Her work engages the present moment as material, not simply as backdrop but as participant. Sculptures, actions and videos are defined as situations dealing with the interaction of force (flow, energy, waves) and matter, considering carefully the play between fragility and persistence, and further, the concurrent happening of a multitude of time(s) within a single glimpse, arrangement or landscape. We are part of a complex, simultaneous evolution: a vibrant sphere where there is no single natural state.
Brittany De Nigris lives and works in Pittsburgh, PA. She has traveled widely, participating in residencies with The Arctic Circle, Kyung Hee University in Suwon South Korea, Signal Fire and Art Farm Nebraska. Her work has been shown at The Washington Project for the Arts, Apex Arts, Gallery Affero and Vicki Projects. She is an MFA candidate at Carnegie- Mellon University.
brittanydenigris.com
@brittanydenigris
Brittany De Nigirs is currently employed constructing poetic anatomies in materials that reside, most often, outside of language. Her work engages the present moment as material, not simply as backdrop but as participant. Sculptures, actions and videos are defined as situations dealing with the interaction of force (flow, energy, waves) and matter, considering carefully the play between fragility and persistence, and further, the concurrent happening of a multitude of time(s) within a single glimpse, arrangement or landscape. We are part of a complex, simultaneous evolution: a vibrant sphere where there is no single natural state.
Brittany De Nigris lives and works in Pittsburgh, PA. She has traveled widely, participating in residencies with The Arctic Circle, Kyung Hee University in Suwon South Korea, Signal Fire and Art Farm Nebraska. Her work has been shown at The Washington Project for the Arts, Apex Arts, Gallery Affero and Vicki Projects. She is an MFA candidate at Carnegie- Mellon University.
brittanydenigris.com
Claire Gustavson Philadelphia / New York
@clarity_now
Claire is an artist who lives in New York & Pittsburgh. She works in an office, and sometimes makes work in the office.
clarity.systems
@clarity_now
Claire is an artist who lives in New York & Pittsburgh. She works in an office, and sometimes makes work in the office.
clarity.systems
Lora Mathis Philadelphia
@l_mathis
Lora Mathis is an artist & poet living in Philly, by way of San Diego. As said in Paper Mag, their visual work combines “rich colors, floral motifs and luxe textures with salient statements...” and “encourages everyone to embrace their feelings and healing process sans trepidation or self-judgment.”
loramathis.com
@l_mathis
Lora Mathis is an artist & poet living in Philly, by way of San Diego. As said in Paper Mag, their visual work combines “rich colors, floral motifs and luxe textures with salient statements...” and “encourages everyone to embrace their feelings and healing process sans trepidation or self-judgment.”
loramathis.com
Anna Nelson Pittsburgh
@shorthaired_domestic
Anna Nelson makes funny art. She wants her art to be played with and laughed about, even when it is in dialogue with serious or even academic subject matter. In her writing, visual art, and performance art, she embraces the implausible and delights in combining incongruous stories and predictions.
Her practice is active and social, including: performing unexpectedly-empowered female characters in DIY ten-minute plays; organizing “Erotica Night,” an evening of erotic performances that takes place every year around Valentine’s Day; leading groups of “mall walkers”; and running a brunch speaker series called Talking With Your Mouth Full in which more serious topics (it’s heavy on identity politics) are discussed over pancakes. She currently resides in Pittsburgh, PA.
annanelson.net
@shorthaired_domestic
Anna Nelson makes funny art. She wants her art to be played with and laughed about, even when it is in dialogue with serious or even academic subject matter. In her writing, visual art, and performance art, she embraces the implausible and delights in combining incongruous stories and predictions.
Her practice is active and social, including: performing unexpectedly-empowered female characters in DIY ten-minute plays; organizing “Erotica Night,” an evening of erotic performances that takes place every year around Valentine’s Day; leading groups of “mall walkers”; and running a brunch speaker series called Talking With Your Mouth Full in which more serious topics (it’s heavy on identity politics) are discussed over pancakes. She currently resides in Pittsburgh, PA.
annanelson.net
Anna Shepperson Pittsburgh / New York
@anna.shepperson
Anna is a cry baby, painter, writer of short sentences, and digital artist. She is interested in rocks, interesting facts, and movies. She is 50-60% water. Anna is from Westchester, NY and currently lives in Brooklyn and Pittsburgh.
annashepperson.com
@anna.shepperson
Anna is a cry baby, painter, writer of short sentences, and digital artist. She is interested in rocks, interesting facts, and movies. She is 50-60% water. Anna is from Westchester, NY and currently lives in Brooklyn and Pittsburgh.
annashepperson.com
Lauren Valley Pittsburgh
@laurvalll
Lauren Valley is a sculptor and new media artist based in Pittsburgh, PA. Her work combines sculpture and robotics to create reactive systems that force the user to create symbiotic relationships with technology. Her work has been included in Tate Modern’s “Future Late,” The Carnegie Museum of Art’s “2 Minute Film Festival,” and the internationally touring exhibition of feminist video work, FEM TOUR TRUCK. Recently, Lauren recently completed a residency at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA).
LaurenValley.com
Meg Wolensky Philadelphia
@aantics
Originally from West Chester, Pennsylvania, Wolensky currently lives and works in Philadelphia. She obtained a BFA in Painting from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2014 and a Master of Science in Arts Administration from Drexel University in 2016. She currently works for the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program in Restorative Justice and Art Education.
“My practice serves to reveal subconscious personal truths and is often filled with comfortable and inquisitive unknowing. I translate a variety of source material, including daily visual diary entries, photographs, and patches of observational painting. I pull narrative content across photography and painting to highlight patterns in my behavior, experiences, and dreams. This series accompanied a rapid transitional period between falling out of deep love, discovering sexual autonomy, and bonding with other queer women in my life as their relationships blossom. My work is often a direct and tunneling response to high-stress situations and moments of existential questioning.”
MegWolensky.com
@aantics
Originally from West Chester, Pennsylvania, Wolensky currently lives and works in Philadelphia. She obtained a BFA in Painting from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2014 and a Master of Science in Arts Administration from Drexel University in 2016. She currently works for the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program in Restorative Justice and Art Education.
“My practice serves to reveal subconscious personal truths and is often filled with comfortable and inquisitive unknowing. I translate a variety of source material, including daily visual diary entries, photographs, and patches of observational painting. I pull narrative content across photography and painting to highlight patterns in my behavior, experiences, and dreams. This series accompanied a rapid transitional period between falling out of deep love, discovering sexual autonomy, and bonding with other queer women in my life as their relationships blossom. My work is often a direct and tunneling response to high-stress situations and moments of existential questioning.”
MegWolensky.com
