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Monday, February 22, 2016

RECAP // Breakfast In Bed: Valentine's Brunch @ the MF

This past Sunday, nearly 300 people joined us for our inaugural Valentine's Day Brunch. Love - and the aroma of fresh waffles - was in the air. Although usually closed on Sunday's, for Valentine's Day the Mattress Factory was open exclusively to Brunch attendees.

Visitors indulged in a scrumptious liège waffle spread courtesy of Pittsburgh favorite, Waffallonia, and spirits were high thanks to perfectly crafted mimosas and bloody mary's from local hot spots Salud Juicery and Wigle Whiskey. A huge thank you to everyone who came out and celebrated Valentine's Day with us, and our fantastic vendors for making this event one to remember!

Sunday, September 14, 2014

The MF ArtMarket Is Coming!

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

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 $).

Julia Betts

Julia Betts investigates the idea of transience and self through choices in material and process. Impermanent materials such as scotch tape, digital images, and string act as surrogate for the body. In her work, the materials go through stages of accretion, removal, and regeneration through both physical intervention and natural degradation.

Featured at the MF ArtMarket // 1” x 1” physical objects, cards, posters, and 13” x 19” framed prints ($—$$; most items $).

Terese Jungle

Reflecting skills across a full range of communication channels from print to digital to multimedia visual and experiential art, Terese Jungle’s work is built upon a foundation of consciousness of the many ways people receive and process messages, from written word, to form, color, sound, light, tone, and intent. She is currently focusing on pen and ink drawings, mostly line art, some with minimal color; most are conceptual and focused on some form of psychological or spiritual growth work. Further, she is presently developing some digital pieces using text and minimal color.

Featured at the MF ArtMarket // Prints, cards, and books ($—$$).

Kyla Kemmerer

Kyla Kemmerer is a recent graduate of Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, and is currently working as an illustrator in Pittsburgh. Her work usually consists of strange creatures, bright colors, and dark or silly subject matter.

Featured at the MF ArtMarket // Prints and posters ($—$$).

Brian Lang

Brian Lang has lived in Pittsburgh since 1986 and is currently curator of BNY Mellon’s art collection. He also serves on the boards of Silver Eye Center for Photography and Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future. Brian has been making abstract drawings on envelopes for over 20 years. All of his drawings are oil pastel/mixed media on business envelopes and roughly 4” x 9.5”.

Featured at the MF ArtMarket // Drawings ($$$).

Jennifer Rockage McGhee

Jennifer Rockage McGhee is an artist living and working in Pittsburgh. The fabric and prints she creates are inspired by her love for design, text, color, and texture. She received a BFA in printmaking and graphic design from Clarion University of Pennsylvania and a MFA from West Virginia University.

Featured at the MF ArtMarket // Prints, fabric, and pillows ($—$$).

Celeste Paulick

“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 ($$—$$$$).

Todd Sanders

Todd Sanders is a graphic designer, translator, furniture maker, and book artist living in Pittsburgh. He founded his studio, FMS & Sons Woodworking, to pursue an interest in building furniture, often with reclaimed or unwanted wood, as well as small utilitarian items.

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 ($$—$$$$).

Katie Schutte

Katie Schutte received a BFA from Kent State University in 2006 and a MFA from Miami University in 2011. While at Miami, she taught jewelry and metalsmithing courses to students from various majors and received several grants and awards. Her work has been exhibited in the United States and Spain.

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 ($—$$$$).

Kate Stevens

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:

Nathan Lorenzo

Nathan Lorenzo will be live-streaming video work throughout the day. Nathan was born and raised in Gettysburg, PA. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Graphic Design from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh in 2007. He currently lives and works in Pittsburgh.

Di-ay Battad

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.

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Pricing

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Contact

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.

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

RECAP // Factory 500: Night Out in Lawrenceville

On March 28th, 2014, the Factory 500 members visited Lawrenceville to check out some of the the people and places that are contributing to the neighborhood's growing arts and foodie culture.

The first stop was Revision Space, with Director Cindy Lisica, which opened in February 2014. Cindy discussed her move back to Pittsburgh and the history of this unique space on Butler Street. The gallery's inaugural show opened on February 21, 2014 and featured new, never before seen work by artist Cy Gavin.

Revision Space in Lawrenceville

Cy explained some of the inspiration and thought behind this collection of of works, which reflects on the untimely passing of a close friend. Many of the paintings had been folded and sat untouched in his New York apartment. When the canvas was stretched for Fugue States at Revision Space, it was the first time Cy had seen the pieces since painting them.

Cy Gavin talks to the group at Revision Space with Director Cindy Lisica

Revision Space's upcoming show, Art is Violent, opens to the public on April 4th, 2014.

The second stop was Radiant Hall Studios, an artist-run studio building in the heart of Lawrenceville that provides space and connections for emerging artists in the Pittsburgh region. Director Ryan Lammie oversees nearly 20 artists on three floors.

Ryan Lammie talks to the group about Radiant Hall's mission

Tom Patterson from Wild Purveyors, Steve Sloan from Roundabout Brewery, and Paul Roden from Tugboat Print Shop also joined in the evening.

Tom Patterson is co-owner of Wild Purveyors, a store on Butler Street that provides locally grown food to the public. Tom brought along some samples for the group to try.

Roundabout Brewery owner Steve Sloan opened the craft brewery in July 2013. Located at 48th and Butler, Roundabout features fresh-brewed beers with a New Zealand flair. Members sampled his fantastic beer and a lucky few got to keep Roundabout beer growlers.

The group samples food and beer.

Paul of Tugboat Printshop was also on hand at Radiant Hall. Tugboat hand crafts woodcut prints in their studio in Lawrenceville. Paul spoke to the group about their work and showed some of their intricate pieces.

Paul Roden from Tugboat Printshop at Radiant Hall

Thanks to everyone who attended! Factory 500 is the museum's premier membership group, chaired by Susan Lammie. Members get exclusive access to tours of artist studios, businesses, private collections and more.

See you at the MF soon.

-Abby
Patron Programs at the MF

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Best of 2013 Mattress Factory Instagrams!

HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM THE MATTRESS FACTORY!

In honor of the new year, the Mattress Factory has been perusing its Instagram tags (to bolster our ego, of course) and decided to showcase the best #mattressfactory Instagrams from 2013. So from the MF to you, avid Instagrammers, THANK YOU for posting such beautiful pictures of our museum and the amazing installations we have the privilege of exhibiting. Enjoy!

THE MUSEUM: