Pittsburgh Public Record Project
Friday, July 16, 2010
5:30pm - 9:30pm
937 Liberty during Gallery Crawl
A stolen overcoat, a murdered thief. The people of 19th-century Pittsburgh made some mistakes. Sometimes those bad decisions are all we know of 'em.
***July 16, 2010 as part of the Gallery Crawl***
Public Record is a multi-media art project using documentary poems, written from 19th-century Pittsburgh crime reports, that you can experience as audio performances via your mobile phone - in the Downtown locations where these events actually occurred.
Public Record debuts with a show at 937 Liberty featuring contributions from a barrage of local artists (see below), and including a version of the piece to be experienced in the gallery, via any mobile phone!
(PS - Besides the obligatory beer and wine, we'll be serving up yummy Pimm's Cups for your summer lovin')
Live like you're at Rice's Castle or Snyder's Saloon with Shattock and Hughey Friel, just one more time.
Brought to you by Justin Hopper as artist-in-residence with Deeplocal and Encyclopedia Destructica, and supported by a generous Seed Award from THE SPROUT FUND.
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Contributors include:
Sounds & Voices by Herman "Soy Sos" Pearl, Christiane Leach, Alexi Morrissey, David Bernabo, and more.
Visual artwork by Jennifer Howison, Christopher Kardambikis, David Pohl, Jeff Schreckengost, Jonathan Kline, Christine Brill, Erin Brubaker, WAYNO, and more.
Additional contributions from Don Wentworth and Lilliput Review, Teresa Foley, Encyclopedia Destructica, University of Pittsburgh Library archives, and more.
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The Pittsburgh Art Blog
pittsburgh galleries is reborn anew as The Pittsburgh Art Blog. the blog features selected pittsburgh artists and upcoming exhibits with photos from the artists and galleries. since the major press outlets do not go beyond a directory listing of exhibits, blogs are needed to promote pittsburgh artists and their work. the blog also calls attention to the inferiority complex of pittsburgh art and how it's perpetuated by the major players in town. Started on August 20, 2007.pittsburgh area galleries and art venues are listed at the sister site www.PghGalleries.com.the blog and website are volunteer projects from fine art photographer and pittsburgh art advocate rick byerly, www.RickByerly.com.
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Pittsburgh Public Record Art Project, Justin Hopper
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Seeing Jazz: A Tribute to the Masters and Pittsburgh Jazz Legends
The Pittsburgh Galleries blog is a volunteer effort from Rick Byerly to promote Pittsburgh art events which feature artists from the area. The PghGalleries.com website effort is an up-to-date directory with Pittsburgh area art venues. Thanks go to Sirani Gallery of 5875 Forbes Ave in Squirrel Hill for being a sponsor and David L. Edwards Art and Anonymous for their donations to this effort. Donation and sponsor info can be found here. Rick Byerly, Uniquetake Photography
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January 26* –April 3, 2009
Seeing Jazz: A Tribute to the Masters and Pittsburgh Jazz Legends
Reception: Thursday, February 5 from 6–9 p.m. including a special performance by the MCG Jazz Class of 2008 Legends and a book signing by "Pittsburgh Jazz" author John Brewer
Manchester Craftsmen's Guild (MCG) is collaborating with artist and curator Gwendolyn Black to present Seeing Jazz: a Tribute to the Masters and Pittsburgh Jazz Legends. The exhibition will showcase works by well-known masters along with some of today's noted contemporary artists, all of whom have inspired many through their artworks dedicated to jazz. Master artists include Romare Bearden, Faith Ringgold, Allen Stringfellow, Benny Andrews, Fred Brown, Richard Mayhew, Chuck Stewart and Edmund Yaghjian.Nearly ten years ago Gwendolyn Black created and introduced Visual Expressions on Jazz, which has been a recognized event for the past several years at the Annual JVC Jazz Festival in New York. To highlight Pittsburgh’s historic contributions to jazz, the exhibition will fittingly kick off a planned national tour starting at MCG in Pittsburgh’s North Side. Black’s motivation for organizing the exhibition is to “give more visibility to visual artists who not only listen to jazz music while working but who have also been at the forefront of documenting and supporting jazz music through their art.” When Seeing Jazz: a Tribute to the Masters arrives at Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild in January, the exhibition will coincide with the conclusion of the City’s 250th anniversary and will include a special focus on legends from the steel city including a slide show of Teenie Harris photographs from the Pittsburgh Courier archive.
*Please Excuse Us. Factors beyond our control have delayed the full installation of this exhibition a week from the originally scheduled opening date. We hope you’ll come back to see the show in its entirety after January 25, 2009 and join us for the reception that is free and open to the public.
How to get to Manchester Craftsmen's Guild
Directions originating north of the city: From I-279 South follow signs towards Fort Pitt Bridge/Downtown and then to Ohio River Blvd Exit. Get in the lane for the West End Bridge and Chateau Street. Exit onto Chateau Street. Stay in the left hand lane and exit onto Beaver Avenue. Cross Beaver Avenue making immediate right onto North Franklin Street. Go one block to stop sign and turn right onto Metropolitan Street. Proceed through first stop sign. Enter MCG parking lot on your left.
Directions originating south and east of the city: Take the Parkway to North Shore, Fort Duquesne Bridge Exit. Cross the Fort Duquesne Bridge. Follow signs to Ohio River Blvd. Get in lane for West End Bridge. Exit onto Chateau Street. Turn left at Beaver Avenue Exit. Cross Beaver and make an immediate right onto North Franklin Street. Go one block. Turn right onto Metropolitan Street. Proceed straight through stop sign. Enter MCG parking lot on your left.
Directions originating west of the city: Cross West End Bridge then take Chateau Street Exit and follow Chateau. Turn left at the Beaver Ave Exit. Cross Beaver Avenue and take an immediate right onto North Franklin Street. Go one block. Turn right onto Metropolitan. Proceed straight through stop sign. Enter MCG parking lot on your left
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Sunday, August 10, 2008
Walking Pittsburgh
The Trib has a lot of good info as far as walking Pittsburgh here. Walking Pittsburgh can be an experience full of art when you consider the architecture, statues, murals and the like. The article doesn't cover that but it points to unique places like Specter Studios in Sharpsburg which flies under the radar for most.
I've been randomly walking Pittsburgh for the last year and have enjoyed many of the lesser seen, smaller elements of Pgh. The past few days it's been the North Side. Ever seen Randyland? A must see for sure. A building which you can see from Mt Washington it's so bright. The address is 208 Jacksonia where Arch Street intersects, where Moxie Dada is located. Zip Code 15212.
Rick Byerly
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Friday, July 4, 2008
Augustus Saint Gaudens,Christopher Magee, Pittsburgh Art Article
Check out a well written, fascinating article by Mark Roth of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette on Augustus Saint Gaudens' commissioned sculpture related to political machine boss Christopher Magee.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08186/894624-42.stm
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Sunday, June 29, 2008
Pittsburgh Artist John Lienert
On May 24, 2008, the art of Pittsburgh artist John Lienert was on display at the Bellevue Art Crawl. If you were lucky enough to see his work I would appreciate any posts here about what you were able to see and if you have photographs. I was hiking through Yellowstone's backcountry at the time and wish I had at least been able to blog the event. These are the types of rare exhibits which reward those who keep an eye out for what's going on in Pittsburgh. There was a May 22 Tribune article and I came across a flickr page with some images and a write up... Also you can see his work again Saturday July 12, 2008, more info here.
Excerpts:
John Lienert: 1924 - 1974
John Lienert was a fireman, ironworker, husband, father and artist. Lienert’s work has been viewed by very few people outside of his immediate family since his death in 1974. Lienert began sketching in pencil and charcoal in the 1950s, progressing to water colors and oils. In the 1960s he began sculpting. He started with plaster, then wood, stone and finally metal.
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In 1966, John Lienert was a Pittsburgh firefighter, stationed on the fireboat, the “Scully.” The “Scully was docked at the bottom of Fourth Street on Pittsburgh’s Southside. To pass the time between fire calls and maintenance duties, he set up a workbench on the dock to do his sculpting. A June 2, 1966 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article and photo shows him sculpting plaster busts on the shore of the Monongahela River.
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Unfortunately John Lienert passed away at the young age of forty-nine in April of 1974. Since that time no one outside of his immediate family and friends has viewed any of his work. For the first time in thirty-four years Lienert’s paintings and sculptures will be displayed at the Bellevue Art Crawl on May 24. The third floor of the old G C Murphy building will be transformed into an art gallery.
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