by Emma Riva
Cover image by Laurie Trok
Lot to get to this week.
First off, big news announced at the Warhol–Patrick Moore is leaving the museum as Executive Director. In his own words via the Warhol’s press release: “My 13 years at The Warhol have been the most formative of my life, and I’m so grateful for having been given this opportunity […] After having had a sabbatical in 2023 where my husband and I were able to spend three months at our home in Spain, I have decided our future is there, in his home country. I’m happy to be leaving on the high note of the museum’s 30th anniversary and the opening of my KAWS + Warhol exhibition the weekend of May 17. And I look forward to continuing to collaborate with and support my many friends at The Warhol and Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh.” The museum states: “Rachel Baron-Horn, deputy director of The Warhol, will serve as the museum’s interim director as Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh conducts an international search for a new director.“
Bunker Projects is currently raising funds to buy 5106 Penn Ave, the building they share with DIY music venue Roboto Project—at the time of publishing this, Bunker has raised $30,022.12 out of the $50,000 ask (The fundraiser has been open to the public for less than a week, so this speaks to the incredible outpouring of support for both Roboto and Bunker). Bunker Projects’ solo exhibition of Laurie Trok’s Grief Cake opens to the public at the 4/5 First Friday. You can donate to their campaign at this link.
Last chance this coming weekend (3/22-3/24) to see Kenyan artist Adam Masava at Ketchup City Creative up in Sharpsburg. Masava has been doing educational workshops across the city at Radiant Hall and in Pittsburgh public schools.
Philip Andrew Lewis and Lenka Clayton announced the 2024 programming for Gallery Closed, a site-specific multimedia gallery project in Troy Hill. Via Instagram: “Announcing a new fourteen-month series of solo exhibitions in six uncommon locations. Curated by @lenkaclaytonstudio @jonrubinstudio and @phillipandrewlewis at @gallery_closed […] The new Gallery Closed season – Exhibition Copy! Featuring solo shows by LOUISE BOURGEOIS, ROMAN ONDAK, ROULA PARTHENIOU , IMIN YEH, LYNDON BARROIS JR., RYAN GANDER and MARTIN CREED. Curated by Jon Rubin, Phillip Andrew Lewis and Lenka Clayton. Each artist will exhibit in six locations simultaneously along a half mile stretch of Lowrie Street in Pittsburgh, PA. Locations include: Provident Charter School, Ron’s Pizza Palace, A Public Notary, A Former Beauty Salon, Gallery Closed and A Private Home. Sign up to to the @galleryclosed newsletter.”
I found a new gallery to put on my radar—Curio (113 N Main St, Zelienople PA 16063). They have a show of oil painter Annie Heisey and photographer Katie Brumberg’s collaborative work up through 4/7.
Some congratulations in order:
Leah Patgorski (Exhibited at Union Hall in 2023 for exhibition Catches) has a solo exhibition coming up at the Daphne Art Foundation in Laredo, TX, Cards in the Air. Opens 4/5 if you happen to be in Texas that weekend! Image above of some of the paper works Leah made for this show.
Ester Petukhova (Exhibited at here in 2023 for exhibition If And When You Find Me – image from that show) received a Micro-Grant from the Scholastic Art and Writing Foundation for” “”Little Odessa” Brighton Beach: A Shifting Post-Soviet Landscape”. Ester writes in her Substack (which you should subscrbe to): “I remember the first time I visited Brighton Beach, how blistering that summer day was, compelling a swarm of floppy sun hats to float in lily-pad-like streams. I stood mouth wide-open scanning dozens of signs decorated with words in my native tongue. I had fled from Vologda as a very young child, never having had the opportunity to return and witness the stretch of my “mother country” with all of its accents and trims. I had only ever read about this world.”
And for emerging curators out there: (__), a wonderful project space I’ve personally curated at, is open for 2024 proposals. Link here.
Finally, my friend Di posted this on his Instagram and I thought it was funny enough to share in this briefing.
Will he dig it up 4/12? Find out next month!
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