Roaming: a column | somewhere between observation and critique | art and sound and movement by David Bernabo
Cover image: Work by Sidney Mullis, courtesy of Bunker Projects
Roaming 13 is an audio interview with sculptor Sidney Mullis. We discuss Mullis’s recent solo show, Caught Skies and Pillowed Pines, which ran in February 2025 at the McDonough Museum of Art at Youngstown State University. Click on the video link below to listen to the interview.
More about Sidney:
Sidney Mullis is a sculptor living and working in Pittsburgh, PA. She is building a make-believe forest to find where childhood selves retreat in adulthood and if it is possible to bring them back. Before that, she made work about puberty, the intimacy of forgetting, and performance of gender.
Her work has been exhibited in a number of locations including Berlin, Tokyo, England, Croatia, and the Netherlands. Solo shows include the Leslie Lohman Museum (NYC), Wick Gallery (NYC), Bunker Projects (PA), Neon Heater Gallery (OH), Bucknell University (PA), Rowan University (NJ), University of Mary Washington (VA), and more. She has been an artist-in-residence at The Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, The Wassaic Project, Women’s Studio Workshop, MASS MoCA, Ox-Bow School of Art, among others. Her work has been featured in publications such as Hyperallergic, Young Space, Maake Magazine, De:Formal, and Sculpture Magazine.
David Bernabo is an oral historian, musician, artist, and independent filmmaker. His film work has documented western Pennsylvania food systems, climate change, the studio practices of composers and artists, and the histories of iconic arts institutions like the Mattress Factory. He is most noted for Moundsville, a documentary co-directed with former Wall Street Journal writer John W. Miller, which screened on PBS for three years.
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