Visit the Mattress Factory on Saturday, September 27, 2014, for one of our favorite events!
From 10am to 5pm, find art outside the box! The MF ArtMarket, a pop-up art market featuring uncommon items from independent artists and designers, will fill the Mattress Factory lobby and Winifred Lutz Garden spaces. Unique wares, crafts, and fine art will be available at a variety of price points — and Pittsburgh’s celebrated Mac & Gold food truck will be stationed at the museum throughout the day, providing delicious comfort food for purchase. Join us!
2014 MF ArtMarket Featured Artists:
Di-ay Battad is a multidisciplinary artist who gravitates toward things that move and mutate. Through appropriation, animation, and collage, Di-ay's work explores the tendencies of personal, cultural, and digital memory to construct experiences and meaning. Her latest 2D works incorporate images taken by her mother in the Philippines, New England, and Pennsylvania, and refer to to her previous homes, her connections with them, and their rapidly changing landscapes and ecologies. Her latest abstract video pieces contemplate a wide range of things that might be invisible. Featured at the MF ArtMarket // Giclée prints, animation stills on photo paper, screen prints, and original pen and ink drawings ($—$$$; most items $).
Featured at the MF ArtMarket // 1” x 1” physical objects, cards, posters, and 13” x 19” framed prints ($—$$; most items $).
Featured at the MF ArtMarket // Prints, cards, and books ($—$$).
Featured at the MF ArtMarket // Prints and posters ($—$$).
Brian Lang
Featured at the MF ArtMarket // Drawings ($$$).
Jennifer Rockage McGhee
Featured at the MF ArtMarket // Prints, fabric, and pillows ($—$$).
“There is a certain kind of pleasure that I get from making art that I cannot get anywhere else,” says Celeste Paulick. “When I create something it feels as though I am searching for something that I once knew, and there is a resonance when I am satisfied for what I have found.” At the MF ArtMarket, she is offering usable art pieces for coffee tables and countertops, which can be used as coasters or hot plates. Her hot plates can be hung on the wall or simply placed vertically on a countertop as decorative pieces when not in use. She is also offering some pieces that are simply wall hangings.
Celeste’s work features photo transfers of hands with metallic paint and leafing. They are all hands in various gestures of communication. Some are there to serve, some are praying, some are connecting, greeting, or touching. Each piece is unique, as the process she uses for transferring the photos is unpredictable, and she uses different surface textures — wood, cardboard, ceramic tile, slate, and cork.
Featured at the MF ArtMarket // Coasters (in sets of 4), hot plates, and wall art ($$—$$$$).
Ben Pyles
Ben Pyles was born and raised in Pittsburgh, and he is a teacher at the Manchester Craftsmen's Guild. He has always loved drawing cartoons and monsters. Heavily inspired by cartoons from his childhood, a lot of his work revolves around cartoon violence. He is attracted to gross and violent imagery and how, in cartoon form, it can be funny and entertaining. If he can get someone to laugh or smile at one of his works, then he considers it a success!Featured at the MF ArtMarket // Small to medium screen prints, works on wood, and some larger art prints ($$—$$$$).
His publishing house, Air and Nothingness Press, grew out of a desire to create quality, limited editions of poetry in translation and has grown to include both his own work in poetry as well as expressions in livre d’artiste, also known as artist books. He began seriously designing books in 1999 when he started translating the surrealist poetry of Robert Desnos out of a desire to share Desnos’ work with a wider public in the United States. Air and Nothingness Press then expanded after he was introduced to the concept of artist books through the work of Keith Smith, Julie Chen, Laurie Anderson, and Jost Hochuli. He now actively creates artist books with his own writing and illustrations as well as texts by other authors he admires, creating artifacts of the worlds within those stories.
Unlike some book artists, he feels it is of primary importance for an artist book to have a narrative structure. This can take different forms but a serial experience is a necessary one for his own artistic expression. His artist books have lately expanded their forms to include woodworking and furniture elements, as well as a curatorial narrative, which acts to provide a second or third layer of meaning to the pieces.
Featured at the MF ArtMarket // Artist books ($$—$$$$).
She is interested in utilizing crochet, which tends to be viewed as feminine craft, as a method for working with materials and in fine arts disciplines historically seen as masculine.
Featured at the MF ArtMarket // Jewelry, accessories, and ornaments ($—$$$$).
Recently Kate Stevens has enjoyed transforming bits and pieces of her preexisting artwork through collage. She uses her alternative process photographs, alongside letterpress prints, hand-drawn and painted elements, and found paper, to make new works.
Featured at the MF ArtMarket // One of a kind cards with envelopes, framed art, and mini canvases ($—$$).
2014 MF ArtMarket Screenings
During the MF ArtMarket, we will also be showing video work by two past participants in our screening series:
Di-ay Battad will be showing animation work while stills from her animations are on sale at the ArtMarket. Di-ay is a multidisciplinary artist who gravitates toward things that move and mutate. Through appropriation, animation, and collage, her work explores the tendencies of personal, cultural, and digital memory to construct experiences and meaning. Her latest abstract video pieces contemplate a wide range of things that might be invisible.____________________________________________
Pricing
($: $0—$20 // $$: $20—$80 // $$$: $80—$200 // $$$$: $200+)
Contact
If you have any questions about this event, please contact us at:
If you have any questions about this event, please contact us at:
412.231.3169 or shop [at] mattress [dot] org.
Are you interested in participating in events like this? Email our Shop Manager at:
sam [at] mattress [dot] org.
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