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May 3 - August 24, 2008
Pittsburgh Filmmakers/Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
2008 Biennial
Artist and Curator Biographies
Matthew Barton
Matthew Barton grew up in southern Indiana, where in high school he worked as a performer at Chuck E. Cheese. He danced in a rat suit while a mechanical animal band performed hit songs, such as, “Walkin' on Sunshine.” He graduated from Montana State University with a BFA and a BA in Art Education. During his undergraduate studies he spent a year in Italy studying sculpture under two Italian artists. He also completed his student teaching in New Zealand. He received his MFA at Carnegie Mellon University in 2006 and is currently teaching sculpture at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.
Kim Beck
Kim Beck works in drawing and installation and has exhibited work at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, in New York at Printed Matter, Smack Mellon and Plane Space, Raid Projects in Los Angeles, Hallwalls in Buffalo, and the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing. Her solo show in 2006 at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts was reviewed in Art in America. She has received Pollock-Krasner and Thomas J. Watson Fellowships, grants from NYSCA and the Tennessee Arts Commission, held residencies at ISCP-NYC, Cité Internationale des Arts Paris Vermont Studio Center, VCCA, The College of Fine Arts Sidney and currently at Artists Image Resource with the support of the Heinz Creative Heights program. Her artist's book,A Field Guide to Weeds, was published through the Printed Matter Emerging Artist Publishing Program. She received her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and BA from Brandeis University and is currently Associate Professor of art at Carnegie Mellon University. Beck’s artwork can be seen at www.idealcities.com.
Josh Bonnett
Josh Bonnett is an artist, predominantly a painter, born and raised in Pittsburgh where he received his BFA in 2000 from Carnegie Mellon University. Currently he is in his first year as a MFA candidate at Virginia Commonwealth University. His paintings and other work are inspired from process to notions of the real and hyper-real, and the sublime both in art and everyday life.
Edgar Um Bucholtz
Edgar Um Bucholtz is a DJ (a.k.a. "DJ Edgar Um"), event producer, artist and improvising musician living in Pittsburgh. Since his college years at Carnegie Mellon University, he’s become known for producing cutting-edge concert and art events. He has programmed and produced music, literary, film/video, performance and art events at the Andy Warhol Museum. At the Carnegie Museum of Art, he produced events and installed the electronic artworks for the 2004/2005 and upcoming 2008 Carnegie International. Bucholtz has exhibited his conceptual and political visual art locally and internationally, including the Mattress Factory and SPACE in Pittsburgh, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, and D'Amelio Terras, John Connelly Presents and Andrew Krepps Gallery in New York.
Jenifer Cooney
Jenifer Cooney is an artist extraordinaire. While her early years remain undocumented it is believed that Cooney was raised by Sasquatches. She was frequently glimpsed during childhood deep in the forests of New York State drawing intricate images in the mud and leading infamously wild dance parties compulsively attended by her hairy brethren. She was eventually captured and placed in the custody of a well meaning, well mannered family in Syracuse who saw her talent. After acclimating to civilization as much as possible and acquiring such skills as brushing her teeth and tying her shoes, her beloved adoptive family sent her off to school in Pennsylvania to further her art career. Her work today shows her intense obsession with her past and it appears she is trying to recapture her youth and travel back to days more carefree.
Nicole Czapinski & Bryan Kyckelhahn
Nicole Czapinski and Bryan Kyckelhahn have been working collaboratively on an evolving adventure of urban splinters. Projects have explored environmental installations, performance, sculptural costumes, and musical projections. Czapinski received her BA, in visual arts in 2006, from Bennington College in Vermont. Her first solo show, last April, at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts included an interactive installation in which the audience was encouraged to sew in between panels of stretched fabric. Kyckelhahn recently graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a double major in film studies and communications. Their work can be seen spontaneously around the city of Pittsburgh.
Rebecca Einhorn
Rebecca Einhorn is a painter and video-maker. Throughout her career her work has focused on the human form and the subtle visual codes that reveal character. Her videos explore human vulnerability and the sensuousness of the body, as well as the body's strange intersection with the spiritual through environment, movement and sound. Her paintings have exhibited in PAAS Gallery in New York, and in Pittsburgh at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, James Gallery, Harlan Gallery, CMU’s Forbes Gallery, CMU’s Ellis Gallery, One Oxford Center and PPG Place. They were used in the film Flight of the Spruce Goose, directed by Lech Majewski. Honors include: the Smith Kline Beecham Jurors Award and the Martin B. Lesser Award. Her paintings are in private collections across the nation. Her videos have shown at CMU’s Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, La Vie Gallery, Pittsburgh Filmmakers Galleries, and the Mattress Factory. She received a BFA (1985) from the College of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon University.
Vanessa German
Vanessa German is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Pittsburgh, born in Wisconsin, raised in Los Angeles and Loveland, Ohio. A poet, actress, sculptor, designer, educator and photographer, she believes in the seamlessness of creative process and purpose. Her performance training is from the Los Angeles Conservatory of the Performing Arts, Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies, South West College, University of Cincinnati, and the Los Angeles Theater Academy. In 2007 German collaborated with a group of artists to create Rise, which she directed, produced and starred in for the Pittsburgh International First Voice Festival. The award-winning actress has performed in many regional productions, including Fire, Relativity, Loud, Seven Guitars, The Piano Lesson and The Vagina Monologues. As a playwright her Pieces won Best Play in the Black and White Theater festival. She is also a nationally recognized performance poet, and an award winning mixed-media sculptor and photographer.
Will Giannotti
Will Giannotti was born in Englewood, New Jersey, and has attended the University of North Carolina, Penland School and Pittsburgh Filmmakers. He has exhibited at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts (Biennial 2005), NavtaSchulz Gallery (Chicago), and the Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts (Newcastle, PA).
Michael Johnsen & Margaret Cox
Michael Johnsen (b. 1968) lives and works in Pittsburgh. As a co-founder of Orgone Cinema he has long participated in Pittsburgh’s experimental art scene. For the past ten years he has built an integrated system of electronic devices designed specifically for live performance. What started as a curiosity with existing equipment led to the design and construction of his own devices. He has toured Europe and the US releasing several CDs. Johnsen teaches sound techniques and instrument building locally. His recent collaborators include Chris Cooper, Margaret Cox, Merce Lemon, Orla, and Jack Wright. Margaret Cox (b. 1974) also lives and works in Pittsburgh. While at Carnegie Mellon University her focus in electronic media, as well as exposure to Pittsburgh’s active experimental music scene, led to a growing interest in sound. She developed an enthusiasm for new instrumental techniques and the design of new instrument interfaces. In her performances, Cox manipulates voice, field recordings, and electro-acoustic devices. Besides Michael Johnsen, she has most recently collaborated with Josh Beyer, Sweetie, Hedwig and Steve Boyle.
Sun Young Kang
Sun Young Kang is a native of Korea, where she received a BFA in Korean Painting from Ewha Woman’s University. After working briefly as a children’s book illustrator and designer, she moved to the United States and entered the MFA Book Arts/Printmaking program at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA, where she received her degree in 2007. She has participated in numerous juried group exhibitions both nationally and internationally. Recently, her work is being shown at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts and the Hoyt Institute of fine Arts in Pittsburgh where she is residing and working as a book conservation technician at the Carnegie Public Library of Pittsburgh. In her work she uses delicate Asian paper in a meditative and sensual way and explores various book and installation structures to create spaces that reflect and embody her philosophy of Buddhism, her understanding of what life means, and her memories of family.
Greg Karkowsky
Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Karkowsky is a self-taught artist. His artwork has developed and changed throughout the years, and he has made a conscience effort to not follow or compete with other artists. The images used in his work are his interpretation of pop iconic imagery. His artwork evokes dynamic attitude through color, imagery and shape.
Bob LaBobgäh
In 2007 Bob Labobgäh was awarded a fellowship from the PA Council on the Arts for his work in theater/new performance. He recently exhibited The Oracle Trilogy, a one-man show with puppets and three videos (embedded in suitcases) that incorporated Eastern-influenced rituals. He has had several installations that involve puppetry, symbolic sculptures and boxes creating visual allegories with which to probe the human psyche. His art is held in many collections both in the US and Japan.
Bovey Lee
Bovey Lee is a Hong Kong born, Pittsburgh-based artist. She works with – and combines – drawing, painting and digital media. Since 2005, her work has focused on paper cutout drawings, extending an ancient Chinese folk art. Lee’s impossibly intricate and highly complex paper cutouts express her views on subjects including power and domination, social hierarchy and politics, and gender and cultural expectations. Her works have been exhibited nationally and internationally, including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY; Asian American Arts Center, NY; Kennedy Museum of American Art, Athens, Ohio; University of California at Santa Barbara, CA; Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing, China; Fukuoka Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan; and others. Her works are held in the permanent collection of the Hong Kong Museum of Art and in private collections. In 2008, Lee received a fellowship from the PA Council on the Arts. She was also a nominee of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award and was honored as a Mid Career Artist of the Asian American Arts Center in New York. Lee’s educational background includes a BA in fine arts from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, a MFA in painting from the University of California at Berkeley, and a second MFA in digital arts from Pratt Institute in New York.
Brady Lewis
Brady Lewis is a filmmaker and Director of Education at Pittsburgh Filmmakers. He has presented his short films at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Figueira da Foz International Film Festival in Portugal and on the Southern Circuit, a visiting artist tour of southern cities organized by the South Carolina Arts Commission. His work has received more than 30 film festival awards, and his productions have been funded twice by the National Endowment for the Arts. He has received numerous Mid-Atlantic Fellowships as well as grants from the PA Council on the Arts. His short films have been purchased for the permanent collections of museums and libraries in the US, Denmark and Australia. Lewis also wrote and directed the feature-length film, Daddy Cool (2002). He is co-author of the widely-used filmmaking text Shot By Shot: A Practical Guide to Filmmaking. He received his BFA from New York University.
Golan Levin
Golan Levin is an artist, now based in Pittsburgh, who focuses on the design of systems for the creation, manipulation and performance of simultaneous image and sound, as part of a more general inquiry into formal languages of interactivity and of nonverbal communication in cybernetic systems. Through performances, digital artifacts, and virtual environments, often created with a variety of collaborators, Levin applies creative twists to digital technologies that highlight our relationship with machines. Identified by Technology Review as one of the world's “Top 100 Innovators Under 35,” and dubbed by El Pais as “one of the most brilliant figures in contemporary audiovisual art,” Levin has exhibited widely in Europe, America and Asia. He is known for the conception and creation of Dialtones: A Telesymphony (2001), a concert whose sounds are the choreographed dialing and ringing of the audience's own mobile phones, and for interactive information visualizations like The Secret Lives of Numbers (2002) and The Dumpster (2006), which offer novel perspectives onto millions of online communications. His performance and installation works use augmented-reality technologies to create multi-person, real-time visualizations of their participants' speech and gestures. His current projects use interactive robotics and machine vision to explore the theme of gaze as a primary new mode for human-machine communication. Levin's work has been presented in the Whitney Biennial, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Kitchen, and the Neuberger Museum, all in New York; The Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei, Taiwan; the NTT InterCommunication Center (ICC) in Tokyo, Japan; and the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, Germany, among other venues. He received undergraduate and graduate degrees from the MIT Media Laboratory. Presently Levin is associate professor of electronic and time-based art at Carnegie Mellon University, where he also holds courtesy appointments in the School of Computer Science and the School of Design.
Christopher Lisowski
Chris Lisowski is a Pittsburgh-based artist and arts educator. His multi-media installations have been featured at many popular art shows over the past two years including SPACE Gallery, 707 Gallery, the Three Rivers Arts Festival annual exhibition and the Black Sheep Puppet Festival.
Denise Mahone
Denise McMorrow Mahone (b.1978) received her BA in Existential-Phenomenological Psychology from Duquesne University in 2000 and her MFA in sculpture from Pratt Institute in 2002. She has exhibited locally, nationally, and internationally since 1998. She is currently a member of the Studio Arts faculty at Duquesne University and is currently developing a number of interdisciplinary public art projects in Pittsburgh.
Eileen Maxson
Eileen Maxson is a video, performance, and installation artist based in Pittsburgh. Dubbed “the transmedia Cindy Sherman for the MySpace generation,” by The Village Voice, Maxson has screened her work in a variety of national and international venues, including Museo Tamayo de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City; Aurora Picture Show, Houston; Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago; The Dallas Museum of Art; DiverseWorks, Houston; LACMA, Los Angeles; New York Underground Film Festival; Ocularis, Brooklyn; and the Portland Documentary and Experimental Film Festival. Maxson is also the first recipient of the Arthouse Texas Prize and grants from the Artadia Award, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Cultural Arts Council of Houston/Harris County, and the Austin Film Society.
Buzz Miller
Buzz Miller is a freelance video designer and adjunct faculty member at Pittsburgh Filmmakers. His short films and videos have screened at festivals throughout the US and abroad. His video installations were presented in storefront window exhibitions at the Three Rivers Arts Festivals (2003, 2004). His recent focus has been integrating video into live performance. In 2006, he was awarded a Heinz Endowments' Creative Heights grant to explore emerging technologies in video design for both theatrical performance and video installations, as Squonk Opera's artist-in-residence. He's been traveling with Squonk Opera, creating and performing the video elements in their touring series, which was staged as Pittsburgh: The Opera in 2006 and 2008. Other recent collaborations include Attack Theatre's Someplace, not here, Quantum Theatre's The Human Chair, and Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre’s Julius Caesar.
Carin Mincemoyer
Carin Mincemoyer is a sculptor and installation artist who currently lives and works in Pittsburgh. Her work has been exhibited in a variety of venues, including the Rochester Contemporary, Rochester, NY; DUMBO Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY; and Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ. Recently, she was an artist-in-residence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha, NE, and the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture in Dawson City, Yukon, Canada. She is the recipient of several awards, including a 2007 grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, fellowships from the PA Council on the Arts in 2002 and 2007, and an Individual Artist Award from the Pittsburgh Foundation in 2003.
Juliana Morris
Juliana Morris received her BA from Penn State University, where in 1985, she was introduced to a Macintosh computer called the "Lisa." She became enamored with it and has since produced much digital artwork. Following college, Morris worked in New York as a designer and art director in the magazine and advertising fields, and eventually moved to Pittsburgh marketing art at Burton Morris Studios. In 2005, Morris was drawn to create art informed by an interest in spirituality. Utilizing her experience as a computer designer, and moving to canvas and video, she is now exploiting the inherent characteristics of these mediums as a means to expose the multi-dimensionality of our physical and metaphysical environment. In the past two years, Morris has exhibited in several venues including the Mattress Factory, Theatre Square, Future Tenant Gallery, the Kelly Strayhorn Theater, and the Carnegie Museum of Art.
Jim Mueller
Jim Mueller is a video artist/filmmaker and crafty veteran of live-event psychedelic projection squadrons Mule-Kicked Visions, and Dreamboatz. He is co-founder of the monthly experimental movie screening series, Jefferson Presents.
Gordon Nelson
Gordon Nelson, a co-founder of Jefferson Presents, is an arts educator and independent filmmaker. His work has been screened locally and internationally. Currently he is Senior Instructor of Filmmakers at the Center (PCA) and is an adjunct assistant professor at Pittsburgh Filmmakers.
The Orgone Archive
Greg Pierce co-founded The Orgone Cinema and Archive in 1993, which presented unique monthly shows of home movies, industrial, educational, experimental, and documentary films, light and sound performances, until it ceased activity in 2000. Orgone was also a traveling cinema band that screened and performed films at the Red Room (Baltimore, MD); Hallwalls and Cornershop (Buffalo, NY); 8th Floor Gallery (NYC); Berks Filmmakers (Reading, PA); Total Mobile Home Micro Cinema; Other Cinema; and the San Francisco Cinematheque (San Francisco, CA). Since 2001, The Orgone Archive has shown films in Pittsburgh; Northeast Historic Films (Bucksport, Maine); Orphans III, IV and V (Columbia, SC); the AMIA Conference 2003 (Vancouver, B.C.); and the Robert Beck Memorial Cinema and Anthology Film Archives (NYC).
Paper Rad
Paper Rad is an influential component in the East coast DIY sub-culture of noise musicians, performance artists, zine-makers, and cartoonists, The three primary members (Jacob Ciocci, Jessica Ciocci, Ben Jones) began as an entity in 2001 in Boston. They now reside in Pittsburgh and Providence. Their videos, comic books, drawings, paintings, music and mixed-media installations take their inspiration from both contemporary and previous eras of popular culture, synthesizing material from television, video games, comics and the internet. Paper Rad disseminates their work through a variety of outlets including, their website; self-published and mass-produced DVDs and comics; touring; and through word-of-mouth. Their work has been shown at MOMA (Automatic Update, 2007); the New Museum (ArtBase 101, Paper Rad & Matt Barton, 2005); The ArtReview 25 at Phillips de Pury, New York (2005); The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu (2003), Tate Britain, London (2003); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2003); and the Institute of Contemporary Art, London (2003).
Ed Parrish Jr. & Carley Jean Parrish
These Pittsburgh-based metal artists are founders of the popular "Hot Metal Happenings" performance events where artists cast iron art from raw materials. Recently, they have exhibited their work at SPACE Gallery.
Drew Pavelchak
Drew Pavelchak is an artist primarily interested in using stop-motion animation and kinetic sculpture to personify found objects. He received a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 2003, with a concentration in electronic and time-based work. He has exhibited in Pittsburgh's SPACE and Future Tenant galleries, as well as the Best of Pittsburgh show in the 2007 Three Rivers Arts Festival. His animations have also been part of two traveling shows that toured across the country, Slow-Dance Recyttal (2004) and CARTUNE XPREZ (2006). In 2007 Pavelchak received a fellowship from the PA Council on the Arts.
Robert Raczka
Robert Raczka is professor of art and gallery director at Allegheny College, Meadville, and resides in Meadville and Pittsburgh. Recent projects include: Road Trips, a series of collaged SUV advertisements exhibited at St. Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Indiana, and at Oklahoma State University; Land and Sea, an artist-in-residence project at Artists Image Resource in Pittsburgh, which consisted of large digital prints of natural history displays; and American Brain, a series of color photographs of symbols and icons found in public spaces, exhibited at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. He also curates exhibits including: Taste Matters, an exhibit of art that was purchased in thrift stores and will be given to the audience through a free raffle, at Future Tenant Gallery in Pittsburgh, 2008; and You Are Here, an exhibit of art about place scheduled for SPACE Gallery, Pittsburgh, in Spring 2008.
Tom Sarver
Tom Sarver is a Pittsburgh artist driven by the philosophy of the artist as “inventor” or “pioneer.” His work has spanned a wide variety of mediums including painting, installation art, sculpture, video and performance art. Sarver’s work is characterized by low-tech gadgetry and the strong influence of outsider art. A self-taught puppeteer, Sarver has been performing at and organizing Pittsburgh’s Black Sheep Puppet Festival since 1999. Many of his paintings, installations and performances are centered on environmental or social issues. His Tom Museum exhibition at the Mattress Factory features the artist living inside of an ever-changing world of art experiments. Sarver was born in New Castle, PA in 1975. He earned a BFA from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University. He has exhibited at numerous venues including the Warhol Museum, Allegheny College, the Philadelphia Puppet Uprising, the Three Rivers Arts Festival, SPACE Gallery and the Mattress Factory. He has been awarded The Heinz Endowments Creative Heights Initiative grant as well as the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council Mayor’s Award for Public Art.
Suzie Silver + Hilary Harp
Joining the ranks of great romantic collaborators such as Gilbert and George, George and Gracie Burns, Helen and Newton Harrison, and Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd, Harp and Silver began working together in 2003. Finding inspiration in their shared interests they have created a series of projects including objects, installations, single channel videos and performances. Their works have been exhibited throughout the US including group shows at Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, the University of Wisconsin, Penn State University, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, the Regina Gouger Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University and the Arizona State University Museum. They have had solo exhibitions at Pittsburgh Filmmakers Galleries and the Pittsburgh Glass Center. Their single channel video, The Happiest Day has screened all over the world, including the 2004 Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany; Biennale Internazionale di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy; ENTERmultimediale 2, Prague, Czech Republic; Angle: The First International Short Film and Video Festival, Xiamen, China; and Arcipelago, 13th International Festival of Short Films and New Images, Rome, Italy. Silver is Associate Professor of electronic and time based art at Carnegie Mellon University; Harp is Assistant Professor of sculpture at Arizona State University.
Keith Tassick
Keith Tassick is a Pittsburgh-based artist who’s worked in film and video for more than 15 years. Largely self-taught, Tassick’s focus is on documentary and experimental non-narrative video. He has shown his work at Film Kitchen, Jefferson Presents, and the Three Rivers Film Festival. He has also been featured in Encyclopedia Destructica and on hdfest.com.
tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE was born in the present tense & has stayed there ever since. His life has been dedicated to being a COGNITIVE DISSIDENT - by which is meant that he's tried to subvert the stereotyping blinders that inhibit the free-flowing of higher cognitive thinking w/in society/ies. This has led to his being active in the US, Canada, England, Scotland, Germany, Hungary, Malaysia, Australia, & Spain - amongst many other less easy to geographically locate states of mind. A jack-off-of-all-trades & master & slave to none & no-one.
Dylan Vitone
Dylan Vitone is a photographer based in Pittsburgh. He holds a BA from St. Edward's University and an MFA from Massachusetts College of Art. He is Assistant Professor in the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University. His photographs have been exhibited widely and collected by many major museums including; The Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP), The Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History, George Eastman House, Portland Art Museum, and the Harry Ransom Center.
Barbara Weissberger
Barbara Weissberger’s works on paper and wall drawings are exhibited widely including recent solo exhibitions at Hallwalls in Buffalo, NY, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, and Capsule Gallery, New York. Group exhibitions include Figures of Thinking which traveled throughout the US; the Mattress Factory Museum, Pittsburgh; and in New York, White Columns, PSI, DUMBO Art Center and Schroeder Romero. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2007. She has received multiple Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council Artist Opportunity grants. Residency fellowships include the MacDowell Colony; Yaddo (Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Fellow); VCCA (Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Fellow and Vera I. Heinz Fellow); and Montana Artists Refuge.
Adam Welch
Adam Welch is a Pittsburgh-based sculptor/artist from Long Island, NY. He has been exhibiting in juried group and solo shows as well as in alternative and experimental spaces since 1998. His works have been shown regionally and internationally, including the Carnegie Museum of Art (PA), Pittsburgh Center for the Arts (PA), Gallery Majestic (OH), Fe Gallery (PA), Fire House Gallery (NY), Gallery 4222 (NY) and Krizic Roban Gallery, Zagreb (Croatia). Welch holds an MFA from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and a BA from SUNY Stony Brook University.
CURATORS’ BIOGRAPHIES
Laura Domencic is the Director of Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. She received her BFA in Art from Carnegie Mellon University and studied abroad at the University of Tasmania in Australia. She exhibits her paintings, sculptures and installations locally and nationally. As an art educator and administrator for the past ten years, she’s organized artist residencies, developed art education programs, and curated solo and group exhibitions at several non-profit arts organizations in the Pittsburgh community. When Pittsburgh Center for the Arts closed its doors in 2004, she volunteered to organize and present animator Jim Duesing's Artist of the Year exhibit, so that this important 50-year trademark exhibition would continue. Domencic was integral to the stabilizing and rebuilding of PCA, as well as managing its eventual merger with Pittsburgh Filmmakers.
George Davis studied photography and multimedia at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, film history at the University of Pittsburgh and film production at Pittsburgh Filmmakers. He is an artist who works in photography, filmmaking and installation art. He has exhibited his work regionally and nationally including the Andy Warhol Museum and the Mattress Factory. He is a founding member of the Industrial Arts Coop, as well as a co-founder of the Black Sheep Puppet Festival. He has served on the board of the Brew House Association and has been an Artist Member at Pittsburgh Filmmakers since 1988. He has been curator for the gallery at Pittsburgh Filmmakers since 1997, and is currently curator at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.
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