Chiharu Shiota Chiharu Shiota: Trace of Memory
Jul 12, 2013 - Jun 29, 2014 Reception: Fri Jul 12 7pm - 9pm
Chiharu Shiota: Trace of Memory is an installation of new pieces by the artist, whose work focuses on the body w/ relation to place + space.
Press contact: Mandy Young, 412-231-3169, mandy@mattress.org
CHIHARU SHIOTA: TRACE OF MEMORY
Opening Reception: July 12, 2013, 7-9pm
Exhibition: July 13, 2013 - Summer 2014
The first exhibition presented post-renovation at 516 Sampsonia Way will be of a site-specific installation by Chiharu Shiota. Shiota’s work focuses on the body with relation to place and space. Incorporating her experience working with performance artist Marina Abramovic in Germany, and the influence of traditional Japanese Butoh dance, Shiota creates environments that blur the distinction between object and space, as well as self and environment. Shiota will fill the eight rooms in the museum’s new building with webs of black yarn to evoke a sense of nostalgia, simultaneously attracting viewers while confronting them with painful memories and difficult emotions.
Shiota was born in Osaka in 1972 and studied art at the Kyoto Seika University in Japan. She is the winner of several awards, including the 2002 Philip Morris K.K Art Award and a Distinguished Service Medal from Kyoto Seika University. Her powerful installations have been exhibited in Europe and in Japan, including, “Memory of Books,” in the 2011 Venice Biennale. Shiota’s work is held by major collections, including The National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo and the Museum für Neue Kunst Freiburg. Shiota lives and works in Berlin.
Janine Antoni Janine Antoni
Sep 12, 2013 - Mar 30, 2014 Reception: Thu Sep 12 7pm - 9pm
New works by world-renowned performance artist Janine Antoni.
Contact: Mandy Young, 412-231-3169, mandy@mattress.org
JANINE ANTONI
September 12, 2013 – March 30, 2014
Opening Reception: September 12, 2013, 7-9pm
Janine Antoni‘s work often explores traditionally feminine roles and celebrates the physical act of creating art. Her work, which is always labor-intensive and often involves her body, combines whatever media best suit her creative goals—sculpture, installation, performance, photography and video—to explore and inspire reflection on enduring and contemporary subjects. For her project at the Mattress Factorycurated by Margery KingAntoni will install all of the special exhibition galleries at the museum’s annex at 1414 Monterey Street. A native of Freeport, Bahamas, Janine Antoni now lives and works in New York City.
Design 99, Frelinghuysen, Hocking, Kuperus, Miller, Orlando, Pahl DETROIT: Artists in Residence
Sep 12, 2013 - May 25, 2014 Reception: Thu Sep 12 7pm - 9pm
Work by 6 artists/collectives from Detroit whose edgy work recalls the spirit of play during the founding of the Mattress Factory in 1975.
Contact: Mandy Young, 412-231-3169, mandy@mattress.org
DETROIT: ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE
September 12, 2013 - May 25, 2014
Opening Reception: September 12, 2013
DESIGN 99
JESSICA FRELINGHUYSEN
SCOTT HOCKING
NICOLA KUPERUS & ADAM LEE MILLER
RUSS ORLANDO
FRANK PAHL
The Mattress Factory celebrates its 35th anniversary with an exhibition of work by Detroit-based artists Design 99, Jessica Frelinghuysen, Scott Hocking, Nicola Kuperus and Adam Lee Miller, Russ Orlando and Frank Pahl, who are all reacting to the swift socioeconomic changes in their city, creating work freely in an environment burgeoning with opportunity. The artists’ edgy creativity and entrepreneurship recall the same spirit at play during the founding of the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh’s North Side 35 years ago.