Jason Szalla: Pittsburgh Alumni

Jason Szalla

Education
2001 - 2003 Pratt Institute (B.F.A. Painting & Art History, Highest Honors, GPA 3.97) Brooklyn, NY
Fall 2002 Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
2001 New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting & Sculpture,
New York, NY
1991-1994 University of Pittsburgh, (Studio Arts & Art History)
Pittsburgh, PA

Solo Exhibitions
2006 Teach Your Children About Johnny Cash, New Works on Paper, The Beehive, Pittsburgh, PA
Shine
2004 Artist in Residence and Solo Exhibition of New Work, Artists Unlimited, Bielefeld, Germany
Cracker
2002 Solo Exhibition of New Paintings, Art House Hotel
Glasgow, Scotland

Group Exhibitions
2006 Landscapes, Gallery of the Academy of Art, Architecture and Design, Prague, Czech Republic
2005 The Square Foot Show, Art Gotham, New York, NY
2005 Greetings, New Works on Paper, No. 17 Tram
Prague, Czech Republic
2005 Pattern + Pulse, Cazenovia College Art Gallery
Cazenovia, NY
2004 This is 7: An International Exhibition of New Painting
Charles University Faculty of Law, Prague, Czech Republic
Catalogue available upon request
2003 Visual AIDS 6th Annual Postcards from the Edge, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY
2003 Compression, New Paintings by Jason Szalla & Stefan Dunlop, Ensign Gallery, London, UK
2003 Hysteria II - Revival, Group Exhibition, CBGB's 313 Gallery
New York, NY
2002 9/11: Brooklyn Artists Respond, Group Exhibition at Schafler Gallery, New York, NY
2002 Good & Evil, Group Exhibition (Video Piece, 3: 5: 7) presented by Brickolage, Pittsburgh, PA
2002 Reactions, Group Exhibition at Exit Art, New York, NY
2001 Group Exhibition at Mad River Post, New York, NY

Awards
Pratt Institute Certificate of Excellence, Outstanding Academic Achievement
Pratt Institute Fine Arts Award for Outstanding Merit in Painting
Pratt Institute Bennett Scholarship
Pratt Institute Carlow Memorial Scholarship
Pratt Institute Presidential Merit Award Scholarship & Dean's Office Award
New York Studio School Avery Award Scholarship

Permanent Collections
Jönköpings Läns Museum, Jönköping, Sweden
Pierogi Gallery, Flat Files, Brooklyn, NY
The Digging Pitt Gallery, Flat Files, Pittsburgh, PA

Publications
Artists Unlimited 20+
Selected Essays on Contemporary Art and Studio Practice
Kerber Publishing House, 2005, Germany
Book available at www.kerberverlag.com

The Tom Museum, A Scandal In The Making??

I am always eager to keep things positive around here, but I am afraid that the nice folks at the Mattress Factory may have trouble in thier future. It seems that this local genius/lunatic type, who is sort of a Mr. Rogers meets Hieronymous Bosch, made a proposal to have his own museum and they said yes??!!

"For years, local artist and puppeteer Tom Sarver has dreamed of opening his own museum of art and puppetry. This year his dream is becoming a reality through a Mattress Factory residency supported by a Creative Heights Grant from The Heinz Endowments. The Tom Museum is an ever-changing performance/installation piece that opens on September 9th, 2006 and remains on view through April 2007."

Well, I have had some experience working with Tom and while the experience was amazing, I am more than a little afraid of what has been unleashed here. Tom will be sort of extending this project into my Digging Pitt Too space in September in a show with David Gonzalez and Jean McClung.

Artist Diaspora

At least one other blog in Pittsburgh seems as obsessed about the value of the wider Steeler
Nation to Pittsburgh. The Blog is actually called Burgh Diaspora and they picked up on my alumni show. I have to admit that I have mixed and rather bitter feelings about this show. It came about partly out of anger at the lack of attention given to CMU's Centennial, which should have been a world scale reunion of creative energy and a mega media opportunity. Instead, there was a modest show at The Regina Miller Gallery which relied on loans from local museums and collectors for almost all the "big name art" and it looked like few of the out of town alum were there. Did anyone at the Carnegie or the Warhol, consider getting a bunch of venues together to do a blow out show for the occasion? I think the poster you see in dentist's offices makes the point. Pittsburgh ignored it's artist's and they went away.

Lara Hoke: Pittsburgh Alumni

Lara Hoke

Selected Exhibitions

2007 Pepe Giallo, New York, NY UPCOMING
2006 BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchanage, Brooklyn, NY UPCOMING
Digging Pitt Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA UPCOMING
Pins and Needles, ASUC Gallery, Berkeley, CA
BWAC Park Slope Studio Tour, Brooklyn, NY
2005 Lara Hoke/Dave Mitri, Madarts Studios, Brooklyn, NY
BWAC Park Slope Studio Tour, Brooklyn, NY
Lara Hoke, Spoke the Hub, Brooklyn, NY
Madarts Studio's Group Show, Brooklyn, NY
2004 Madarts Studio's Group Show, Brooklyn, NY
Madarts Studio's Group Show, Brooklyn, NY
2003 Rockefeller University Faculty/Staff Show, New York, NY
Ross Christy/Lara Hoke, The Frame, Pittsburgh, PA
2002 Your Art Now (curator), The Frame, Pittsburgh, PA
Spring Show, Tyler School of Art, Rome, Italy
Painting on Paper (curator), Tyler School of Art, Rome, Italy
2001 From Art School with Love, The Frame, Pittsburgh, PA
Works on Paper, Ox-Bow Gallery, Saugatuck, MI

Commissions
CMU Society Book Portaits, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2005

Collections
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Titia de Lange, Leon Hess Professor, Rockefeller University
Teresa Heinz Kerry
Regina Gouger Miller
The Mellon Family
George Shea, Principal, Shea Communications
Tim Stanard, Senior Associate, The Corcoran Group
Amanda Kavanagh, Founder, Ark Design Studio
Doris Schwartz, Former Assistant Head, Carnegie Mellon School of Art

Awards and Honors
Samuel Rosenberg Senior Award, Carnegie Mellon (2003)
Fellowship, Ox-Bow Artist Colony (summer 2001)
Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, member

Education
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, BFA, 2003
Tyler School of Art, Rome, Italy, study abroad, 2002
The Art League at the Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, Virginia

Coming to Digging Pitt Too in September

Tom Sarver
David GonzalezJean McClung

Tom Sarver - Selections from the Tom Museum
David Gonzalez - New Works
Jean McClung - Found Art (Continued)
@Digging Pitt Too
Opening September 14, 2006
6-9pm

Edward On a Roll

I have so much talk about and cover in Pittsburgh so It seems wrong for me to give the floor to a gallerist in NY. But in the last week, Edward has come back from his no doubt refreshing, two day?? vacation with a number of great posts that show a master at work. Each one has opened up great discussion from an audience that seems pretty smart.

Here are two great ones

Tehran responds to the Danish cartoons

Does explanation destroy art?

NY Times Road Trip ideas

The summer is mostly over, but the NY Times printed some ideas for a road trip through Western PA.

Swoon vandalism in Garfield

Here's another Swoon piece in Garfield. Ongoing coverage is assured on this station. This shot is courtesy of Jean McClung.

More thoughts about the Last Call

I feel that i need to add/ correct that last post on the odd chance that it is being read. First of all. like almost everything I say this is a bit hyperbolic, but to put it politely, I have am speaking here to two groups that have proven themselves to be a bit slow to react-- artists, who when it comes to thier own lives are very passive and Pittsburgher's. I am also bringing a perspective from NY here which is pretty different. Still, even Pittsburgh has a solid history of recent gentrification that did a lot of harm to it's art community. I wasn't here to see it, but both Shadyside and the Southside went through this process. The few creative type business people who owned thier own buildings are about all that is left in the way of things outside the box at least on the main streets there.

Here are the basic facts for galleries, which i think are doubly true here.

1) relative to almost every other business, on a sales per square foot basis -- Gallery's suck.

2) Because of rule #1, it doesn't pay to pay a lot in rent at all. The best plan by far is to lock in ones costs by buying your own place.

So this brings me to Penn Ave. We all know that at at this moment it's not a great retail area. the question is the trend and whether one is ahead of it or behind it.

Last Call for Penn Ave.

Hopefully, my blog is not read by too many people other than artists, and some other marginal "art folks" here in Pittsburgh. If you are not one of them please ignore this post!!

So now, to the rest of you..... Please, Please, Please, if you are a sincere artist or gallerist-- buy your building on Penn in Garfield ASAP. And I mean f---n now.

People who have read my "talking to birds" ( more talking ) ( and more talking ) rants and my boiling frog flashbacks, might have some idea why I am here and my obsession with the idea that artist's need to take control of thier lives and own stakes in thier creative communities. Well one very important and wonderfully located place in Pittsburgh is having a last call or at least the signs of one are there.

This was an area of Pittsburgh that was and still is pretty raw, pretty poor and pretty rough. It was also, to anyone who looked at a map damn well located. One space there, Garfield Artworks has been shining a light here since the eighties as an exhibition and performance space. Then, sometime later; the idea of "saving" the area with art and artists seemed to gather steam.

I think that a lot of money was tossed around in grants with the idea of getting artists to move into the area. Honestly, a lot of the stuff that was written shows a gross attempt to use a few "creative" types to create a gentrification wave. But still as a whole , the idea was wise and logical in that the area already had a lot of artists, was well located in relation to Oakland and the colleges and was "artist" cheap. It was also severly depressed with many vacant buildings and a bad crime issue. Also, that artists were encouraged to buy into a nieghborhood was something very great.

The Pittsburgh Glass Center opened there a few years back making it home to some of the best Glass studio facilities in America. Even so, for many years, it seemed like very slow going attracting artists and almost all the other investors and businesses steered clear. The few positive things seemed very alone.

Well, on Sept 1, I will be going to the opening of Carolyn's Studio/exhibit space on Penn and from what I can see, the last call is coming soon. In the last few months a number of spaces have finally opened and the paint cans are out for several more. Most of these things are artist owned buildings and projects so they have nice shot at sustainablity. But, now one see,s the clear hand prints of the usual group of "developers" there. This is one of Pittsburghs most realistic shots at having a liveable and funtional art and gallery district and one that artists own and have a stake in. If after all the struggle and ground work artist's are pushed to the margin of this area it will be on them and I won't feel pitty when the fools start picking at thier wounds and scabs.

And as to you real estate types, you should realise that a lot of artists have serious drug problems and are crazy, just wait untill the first ear gets cut off and your investment will be down the tubes.

David Gim - New York trip looking back

Peter Caine @ Derek Eller
Chelsea Art Museum
D'Amelio Terras Gallery

D'Amelio Terras Gallery
Andy Diaz Hope & Laurel Roth @ Mixed Greens

Here are some promised images from David Grim's trip through Chelsea. He has the floor in terms of his opinions of these shows since I missed them.

But due to a change of ownership involving his blog,( or his brain) I am not too sure if they are his opinions.

Larryville Art & 'Tique Block Party Aug 19th

Here are some shots Susan took during the setup for the Hatfield Street party thing on August 19th.The interior shots are of The Hatfield House Artist in Residence Space. I will likely post some more images taken that day as well as shots from my show closing that night.

Rodney Godek, Pittsburgh Alumni

Rodney Godek

My art making can be derived from a number of sources, yet it has a few factors that ultimately determine its outcome. These factors are experimentation, process, and most importantly, material.

As time passes, new technologies and new ideas are constantly surfacing in my work. A willingness to accept the changes these variables will incur means a willingness to experiment with them. Through the efforts of experimentation, discoveries are made that are both minor and major and I learn from them to continue fostering the growth and evolution of my work.

It is the act of the making, the labor of it, the processes used, that also determine the outcome of my work. Through the intense focus of the processes I use in my work I hope to achieve a complete understanding of the possibilities they have in controlled applications as well as chance occurrences. I want to know what the process can produce, so that I may better prepare myself for the use and manipulation of it later on.

The decision of what to use, and when to use it has always been the key to the creation of my work. I have become so submersed in the materials I use that at times they become more important to me than the object I have created. When I come in contact with the materials, an interaction occurs that becomes something more than just my use and dominance over the material. I strive to allow the material to speak for itself, so that you see and feel the material's presence rather than an illusionistic representation that alludes to something greater than the material itself. To me, there is no greater power.

Jim Pustorino: Pittsburgh Alumni

Jim Pustorino

The Universechild Series is an extravagant comic-book narrative concerning a creation-entity in outer space- The ongoing series of drawings allows me to freely mix abstract, figurative and text images and play with narrative space. The full series to date can be found at the Universalchild site.

Jim Pustorino and Jill Scipione met at CMU in Pittsburgh in the early 80's and he stuck with her until she married him. They returned to Pittsburgh in 1989 and helped promote and curate a number of big group shows as part of Group A- at the Aviary and Phipps Conservatory among other places and ran some art programs for kids with the city. Now in Jersey City, they are doing much more of the same, running Victory Hall, an arts center that has several large group shows per year and children's programming. They have found that a disproportionate number of the arts leaders in Jersey City are Pittsburgh alumni.

Jill Scipione: Pittsburgh Alumni

Jill Scipione
Statement

The meat series comprises several years of paintings, drawings, collages, and prints. All the works take as their source reproductions of cuts of meat from butcher charts. The art that results falls into at least two general treatments.
In some works, individual cuts of meat meticulously rebuilt by the painting and drawing process are represented in their situation as natural, yet man-made objects. In others, the cuts are reproduced, reordered, reformed and then represented as fabulous new objects. These new objects- cart, wheel, column, are familiar yet ancient; building blocks of civilization.
The theme of a body as structure of regeneration and the central idea of the flesh as the vehicle for the soul have their foundations in various cultures and faiths since antiquity and make use of universal symbol and archetype.

August 19 in Larryville

Resonance: Works by Carolyn Wenning
Closing Reception: Mark the Date!
August 19, 6-9PM
Mark the closing of the exhibit with an improvisational photographic event orchestrated by the artist, to be posted on www.digginpitt.com
And please take a moment to visit Pittsburgh City Paper and read Gregory Knepp's review.



Twelve-Minute Portraits
Closing Reception: Mark the Date!
August 19, 6-9PM
Digging Pitt Gallery is hosting an exhibit of intimate works on paper in July. A small group of artists, founded by Ron Donoughe, Patrick Ruane, Victor Capone and Stuart Smith, have been meeting for twenty years, drawing each others' portraits.

Digging Pitt Too
Because some stuff just doesn’t fit in the flat files…

Digging Pitt Gallery has opened a new space, right around the corner from the Butler Street Gallery. Located on the corner of 45th and Plummer streets in Larryville, the storefront houses work from area artists that we had to have out where people can see them. Christine Bethea’s masks, ceramic pieces from Laura Jean McLaughlin and works by Marci Gerhing, Jessica Sommer and Kate Bazis are displayed along with many of the artists from the Butler Street location.

Digging Pitt Too
Hours: Saturdays from 12pm-5pm,
by appointment and at other random times
Location: 45th and Plummer Streets, LawrencevilleThe Digging Pitt Store

Art & ‘Tique Block Party!
Hatfield Street, between 44th and 45th
August 19, 12-5pm
Everyone is welcome to join in on the fun during the Art & ‘Tique Block party. Digging Pitt will be there, celebrating with our Larryville neighbors. Keep your eyes peeled for Carolyn Wenning and her camera; she’ll be at the Block party taking pictures for her web project. While you’re in the neighborhood, stop by Digging Pitt Too, located on the corner of 45th and Plummer Streets. Digging Pitt Gallery and Digging Pitt too will be open from 12pm-9pm on August 19th.

Downtown Pittsburgh Space and Wood Street

Pinch Hitters At Space



Edgar Um Bucholtz
Wendy Osher
David Stanger
Michael Oliveri At Wood Street

These are some shots I took of two downtown shows at Space Gallery, and then Wood Street. The Sci- Fi wonderland is Michael Oliveri's show at Wood Street. Which is still up. The Pinch Hitters show at Space is over. This was the best i could do with my camera and limited knowledge of how to use it.

From the Wood Street website.

ULTRAVIOLET ACQUIESCENCE AND DEEP SPACE DRIP CULTURE

Work by Michael Oliveri June 30 - September 2, 2006
Blinded by Science Michael Oliveri constructs bizarre pseudo scientific installations. Looking like they are destined for a movie set or Disney’s Epcot Center, Oliveri’s ‘fake’ installations playfully evoke notions of a ‘mad basement’ scientific enquiry. Hydroponic towers grow tomato plants from seeds that once traveled in outer space, cascading neon-green waterfalls and streams flow under black light, and videos of surfers riding an eternal cosmic wave play with hyper reality. Oliveri, who often begins his research online, loves the ‘myriad of competing and contradictory narratives that exit simultaneously on the Internet and form a separate discourse.” Oliveri recognizes that the Internet is the ultimate equalizer, at once making it impossible to distinguish between credible and dubious information, both grounded in and outside current scientific practice and theory. Humorously, from specific scientific observations about Fullerenes, Hydroponics, and Sonic Growth, Oliveri makes the point that innovation often occurs not as a result of structured research, but of accidental discoveries.
Opening Reception Friday, June 30, 5-10pm Gallery Talk with Michael Oliveri Saturday, July 1, 1pm Cultural District Gallery Crawl Friday, July 7, 5-9pm

The show is visually stunning and one feels very emersed in this world. I want to go back.

The Space show was I believe thrown in near the last minute and does seem to lack a cohesive thread that ties it together, but the general quality of the show was pretty high. These are just some shots and I feel that the show should not be judged by them. Kurt Shaw ripped this show apart in a way that I do not feel was justified. One major theme in his review was to point out how predictable the list of artist's shown at Space usually is.

Pinch Hitters

Works by owen smith, wes kline, corey antis, mario marzan, jeremy boyle TZR, keny marshall, jai sadeghi, sarika goulatia, bob beckman, heather white, mary tremonte, mariam stephan, david pohl, josh macphee, drew pavelchak, tom weinrich, tessa windt, philip von zweck, ryder henry, eric fleischauer, molly schafer, edgar bucholtz, thad kellstadt, elizabeth deasy, kate joranson, steve stelling, carin mincemoyer, gavin benjamin, alexis covato, James Osher, Wendy Osher, and david stanger.

Richard Purdy - Pittsburgh Alumni

Richard Purdy
Statement 2005

For my most recent work I've written a javaScript routine that produces a set of cellular automata. Those unfamiliar with the term "cellular automata" will find a wealth of information about them on the web, but typically they are grid-based formations where the identity of each successive element is dependent on the identity of its immediate neighbors.

In exploring the patterns that result from running this routine, I join other artist/programmers who find themselves fascinated by their inability to pre-imagine the outcome of a very simple process. Ordinarily the results tend to be symmetrical, but occasionally the outcome is irregular, and as unexpected as throwing dice and getting something other than a combination of what was shown on the die faces. That this is possible provides a small, but solid piece of evidence that a path entirely constrained by a dryly rational, seemingly inflexible boundary, can produce real complexity.

I've placed the computer component on the web as an interactive project where you can literally have access to my "tool box" and use it in the same way I do. Once on that page, those of you willing to take the time to read through the supporting code (by clicking view > source) will be able to understand the simple mechanics behind these formations, which I hope will help you more fully enjoy the variety and integration of the patterns.

A graphic explanation of the process is available here

Variations can be produced on your own here
(because of my deficiencies as a programmer this page will not run in Netscape/mozilla/FireFox)

Translating any single formation into an encaustic painting amounts to an act of devotion. Each individual work is offered for whatever qualities it can provide on its own, even to those with little knowledge of the core ideas that make it possible. At minimum, I hope viewers will get a sense of curiosity from the intricate order, and be led to consider the strange ease of its origin from a very simple set of initial conditions.

Bio

Born 6/22/56 in Chicago Illinois.

Education:
Indiana University of Pennsylvania BA in Fine Arts 1978
2000-2001 Computer Arts MFA program at the School of Visual Arts

Selected Exhibitions:
2006
"CrossMediale 1" Gosia Koscielak Studio & Gallery, Chicago IL
2005
"Scope NY" Featured artist - Nancy Hoffman Gallery , New York
"Recent Work" Project Room - Nancy Hoffman Gallery , New York
2003
"10 Jahre" Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim , Neuenhaus Germany
"The Future in Wax" Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts, Harrisburg PA
2002
"Form of the Formless" Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim , Neuenhaus Germany
"MathArt/ArtMath" Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art and Design , Sarasota Fla. Curated by John Sims, and Kevin Dean
2001
"Hypervisualizations" School of Visual Arts , New York
2000
Solo Show Nancy Hoffman Gallery New York
1999
"26 Americans" Campo & Campo Antwerp, Belgium
"Size Matters" Gale Gates Brooklyn, NY
"New American Talent 14" Jones Center for Contempory Art Austin Texas
Curated By Amanda Cruz
"The Armory Show" Represented by Nancy Hoffman Gallery
Chicago Art Fair Represented by Nancy Hoffman Gallery
Art Resources Transfer Conversation Show, with Mike Miller
1998
Downtown Art Exchange Represented by Robert Curcio
Chicago Art Fair Represented by Nancy Hoffman Gallery
"Chicago Beyond" Vedanta Gallery Chicago IL.
Art Resources Transfer Bookstore Project Space : Selection of Work from 1997
"Small Works" 80 Washington Square Galleries
Juried by Elan Wingate
1997
Group Show Curcio Specter Gallery New York, NY
Gramercy Art Fair Represented by ART. Inc.
1996
Soundlab 120 Walker St. New York, NY Installation for one event in January
1995
Soundlab 120 Walker St. New York, NY Installation for one event in October
"Cross Section" 8th Floor Gallery 473 Broadway NY
Curated by Mark Hungerbueler
Phase 1 Exhibits
1985
"Ten Downtown" held that year at 241 Eldrige Street New York, NY
1983
"Selections 22" The Drawing Center New York, NY

Linn Meyers, Pittsburgh Alumni

Linn Meyers

EDUCATION
BFA 1990, Painting; The Cooper Union, New York, NY
MFA 1993, Painting; California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005 Margaret Thatcher Projects, NYC, NY (catalogue)
Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
G Fine Art, Washington, DC
2004 Margaret Thatcher Projects, NYC, NY (Project Room)
Ernden Fine Arts, Provincetown, MA
2003 Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
Ernden Fine Arts, Provincetown, MA
Troyer Gallery, Washington, DC
2002 The Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
George Billis Gallery, NYC, NY, (catalogue)
Gallery Materia, Scottsdale, AZ
2001 Troyer Gallery, Washington, DC
2000 George Billis Gallery, NYC, NY
1998 Troyer Gallery, Washington, DC
St. Peter's Church, NYC, NY
1997 Longwood Arts Gallery, Bronx, NY
Zoon, New Haven, CT
Nese Alpan Gallery, Roslyn, NY


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2005 Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA Full Circle
2004 Second Street Gallery, Charlottsville, VA DC Now
2003 Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY Drawn
George Billis Gallery, New York, NY Round
2002 Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA 4 drawing artists
Troyer Gallery, Washington, DC Abstraction and Illusion
2001 The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA Gestures
The Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA Aether
Forland Street Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA Photographs By Artists Made for a Variety of Purposes
Untitled(Space), New Haven, CT Aether
Art Santa Fe, George Billis Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2000 Gallery Bershad, Somerville, MA Modern/Modular
Three Rivers Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA Lumenroom
Bowman & Penelec Gallery, Meadville, PA 8 hour drawings, Part III
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA 2000 Pittsburgh Biennial, (catalogue)
University Art Gallery, University of Ohio, Akron 15xxx
Carla Massoni Gallery, Chestertown, MD Art Making 2000
1999 Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA Not a Theme Show, (catalogue)
Signal 66, Washingtn, D.C. Shimmer
Freddie Fong Contemporary Art, SF, CA Beyond the Facade
1998 ArtSpace, New Haven, CT Postmark International
The Pump House Gallery, Hartford, CT Linn Meyers, Betty Garrich
1997 Gallery 2621, New York, NY Inaugural Exhibition
1996 Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT 144 Inches Square
The Houghton Gallery, New York, NY Paintings and Works on Paper
1995 Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY 13th Annual Juried Exhibition
Schoharie County Arts Council, Cobbleskill, NY National Small Works Show
1994 Frank Bustemante Gallery, New York, NY Art-in-March
1993 401 Van Ness, San Francisco, CA The Bus Shelter Gallery
1992 California Museum of Art, Santa Rosa, CA Annual Small Works Exhibition


AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
DC Commission for the Arts, "Small Projects Grant," 2005
Fifth Floor Foundation Grant, 2004
The Trawick Award, third place September, 2003
Visiting Artist, The Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, 2002
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, 2001
Artist in Residence, The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, Nebraska Nov 99 - Jan 2000
Artist in Residence, The Millay Colony, Austerlitz, NY August, 1999
Fellow, The Bronx Council on the Arts, Bronx, NY September1996 - March 1997
Barclay Simpson Award, 1993
Excellence in Drawing Award, The Cooper Union,1990
Alex Katz Scholarship to Skowhegan, 1990


CURATORIAL WORK AND PUBLISHED WRITING
Curator of Aether, a traveling exhibition: New haven CT, Apr 2001; Pittsburgh, PA, 2001
Exhibition Designer, Hannah Wilke, Wood Street Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, 2000
Curator & Exhibition Designer for second & third annual City-Wide Open Studios, New Haven, CT
Co-founder, City Wide Open Studios, New Haven, Ct, 1998
Curator and coordinator of The Cooper Union Alumni Painting Exhibition, New York, NY, 1996
Essay for the catalogue of The Cooper Union Faculty Painting Exhibition, (catalogue), 1995


SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Werner Kramarsky, NYC
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
The American Legacy Foundation, Washington, DC
Sloan-Kettering, NYC
Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA
The Cooper Union, NYC
The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE
The Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA
The Pitsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
Swiss Re, NYC
Pfizer, NYC
Sprint, KS
Health Strategies, Washington, DC


SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Cape Cod Times, "The Freedom of Staying Inside the Lines," Aug 12, 2004
New American Paintings, Mid Atlantic Region, 2004
Washington City Paper, "Linn Meyers", Louis Jacobson, May 16, 2003,
Washington Post, "Compulsively Quirky, Jessica Dawson, May 15, 2003,
Art Net.com, "Dotty", N.F.Karlins, June 2003
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, "Lining Up The Message," Kurt Shaw, March 28, 2003
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, "Meditative markings," Mary Thomas, Mar 15, 2003
Provincetown Magazine, "Portrait of An Artist: Linn Meyers," Brenner Thomas, July 24 -31, 2003
Art in America, "Linn Meyers at George Billis," Matthew Guy Nichols, Feb 2003
Pittsburgh Business Times, "Sublime Statements," Larry Slater, Dec 6-12, 2002
The Philadelphia Weekly, "Clay Time," Roberta Fallon, Nov 2002
The Philadelphia Inquirer, "Linn Meyers at Gallery Joe," Edward J. Sozanski, Nov 29, 2002
New York Arts, "Linn Meyers at George Billis Gallery" Deborah Frizzell, June, 2002
Pittsburgh City Paper, "Religious Instruction," Sharmila Venkatashban, Nov 7, 2001
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, "Mattress Factory Opens Doors to Pittsburgh Artists," Kurt Shaw, Nov 4, 2001
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, "Private Gestures for Public Contemplation", Mary Thomas, Oct 27, 2001
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, "Photos Give Insight into Artistic Process," Ellen Wilson, Oct 1, 2001
Washington City Paper, "87,561 Strokes and Other Works," Louis Jacobson, Sept 21, 2001
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, "Transcendent Works Reach for the 'Aether'", Mary Thomas, September 1, 2001
Pittsburgh Tribune Review, "Three Art Stories", Kurt Shaw, August 31, 2001
Pittsburgh Tribune Review, "The Transformative Magic of Shadows", Graham Shearing, November 10, 2000
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, "Shadow Garden provides Escape", Eve Modzelewski, Nov. 22, 2000
Akron Beacon Journal, "An intriguing Mix from Pittsburgh Artists", Dorothy Shinn, Oct 1, 2000
Pittsburgh Tribune Review, "No Theme, But Plenty of Content", Graham Shearing, March 17, 2000
Pittsburgh City Paper, "Not a Theme Park", Alice Winn, March 10, 2000
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, "Eclectic PCA Show an Engaging Mix", March 4, 2000
The Washington Post, "Playing with Light", March 2, 2000
Washington City Paper, "Objects in Mirror are Closer than They Appear", Jessica Dawson, February 25, 2000
New Haven Register, "Inside the Artist's Studio", Judy Birke, May 23, 1999
New York Newsday, "Landscapes of Mind and Nature", Julia Szabo, February 14, 1997
The New York Times, "Landscapes of Mind and Nature", Helen A Harrison, Feb 2, 1997
San Francisco Cronicle, "A New Take on Old Masters", Diane Dorrans Saeks, May 3, 1994

Other Pittsburgh Alumni Shows

By total luck, the stars have aligned to have several other shows involving Pittsburgh Alumni in town at the same time as my gallery blitz.

Joyce Kozloff at the CMU Gallery Joyce is a legendary artist and activist, with a BFA from CMU

George Nama at Space 303 gallery in Homestead. George an Artist from Homestead who studied at CMU, taught at The Center For The Arts, and later taught for many years at Pratt Institute and has exhibited globally. Here's the story of how he reconnected with Homestead.

Pinch Hitters, which just closed at Space Gallery also included several people who have Pittsburgh links -- Elizabeth Deasy, Mario Marzan and Molly Schafer, as well a large group of l
local artists- some with work in my flat files.

In November, Jonathan Borofsky will doing a solo project at the Carnegie.