Andrew Johnson presents Pluck, a solo exhibition of new video and digital collages at Pittsburgh Filmmakers, currently on view through March 2.

Elaine A. King's interview with James Turrell appears in the anthology "Conversations on Sculpture," published by isc Press that includes pieces on Linda Benglis, Maya Linn, Tim Hawkinson, Mario Merz, Tara Donovan, Do-Ho.Suh, Kiki Smith, Wolfgang Laib, and others. Also, her essay on Magdalena Jetelova was included in the first volume "A Sculpture Reader: Contemporary Sculpture Since 1980" (Perspectives on Contemporary Sculpture). Both anthologies are available at Amazon.com. King was also asked to evaluate the film from the American Masters Series, "John James Audubon Drawn From Nature," produced by Bullfrog Films. A summary of her review along with others appears on the web page http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/jja.html.

Golan Levin's solo exhibition of new interactive artworks was on view through January 12 at Bitforms gallery, NYC. Levin also gave public presentations about his work at Bitforms, on January 12; at Lotusphere 2008, IBM's annual user group conference, in Orlando on January 21; and in the Human Computer Interaction Lecture Series, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on January 24, http://www.bitforms.com/.

The 10th installment in the Gestures Exhibition Series, Illustrations of Catastrophe and Remote Times, curated by Heather Pesanti, is currently on view at The Mattress Factory through May 11. The exhibition features work by Matthew Barton (MFA '06), Black Moth Super Rainbow, John Carson (Head, School of Art), Rebecca Einhorn (BFA '85), Michael Ferucci, Fabrizio Gerbino, Jennifer Howison Renee Ickes, Ben Kinsley & Jon Rubin (MFA '08 and Assistant Professor of Art), Ladyboy, Christiane D. Leach, Jenny Lee (BFA '01), Lauri Mancuso (BFA '91), Danny Montano, David Montano, Jairan Sadeghi (BFA '05), David Wettergreen, and Brett Yasko (CMU Design). A conversation with the curator and artists, Tea and Absinthe, will be held on April 5 at 2:00 p.m., http://www.mattress.org.

Edwin Mieczkowski (MFA '59) was a leader of geometric and perceptual abstraction during the latter part of the 20th century. His works are in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Lodz, Poland; the Tel Aviv Museum of Modern Art in Israel; the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark; the Cleveland Museum of Art; the Akron Art Museum; and the New Jersey State Museum in Trenton. His most prominent public art commissions are in the Cleveland Public Library and the Health Sciences Library of Case Western Reserve University. LewAllen Contemporary in Santa Fe was appointed the sole exclusive representative of his life's work and they mounted a retrospective in 2006. He showed there last year in Optically Enduring
and at Tregoning Gallery in Cleveland, OH, http://www.artnet.com/artist/710010/edwin-mieczkowski.html; http://www.lewallencontemporary.com/press_item.html?id=41.

Susan Schwalb (BFA '65) exhibits her work from January 22 - February 23 in revolving group shows at Galerie Mourlot in NYC and Los Angeles, CA. Also, her article on Art Basel Miami was published by Artscope Magazine in their January/February 2008 issue. The online version will include a much larger diary/blog piece which will give a feeling for her day by day adventures in Miami Beach. Recently, she added a new section to her website that gives an overview of her work in silverpoint from 1974-1995, http://www.galeriemourlot.com; http://www.artscopemagazine.com/asdyn/index.wr?is=11&a=15; http://www.susanschwalb.com/index.html.

Elvira Peake (BFA '51) with a focus in art education, received the Carnegie Purchase Award for her for ceramic sculpture,"Bound", in the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Annual Exhibition on view earlier this month at Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA.

Charles Masson (Class of '74) is the proprietor of the Manhattan restaurant La Grenouille. An article on him appeared in The December 24 issue of The New Yorker.

Alyce Gottesman (BFA '79) exhibited recently at Ruth Morpeth Gallery, Gallery in Hopewell, NJ, and at Rupert Ravens Contemporary in Newark. She exhibits in Primary: An Exhibition of Drawings at Ben Shahn Galleries, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ, March 24 - April 22, http://www.alycegottesman.com.

Christopher Anselmo Priore (BFA '81) is pursuing an MFA in painting at the Savannah College of Art and Design, GA.

Robert Levine (BFA '84) has shown with Los Angeles galleries such as Roberts & Tilton and Tom Solomon's Garage. His work was recently featured by Angela Hanley Gallery at the MACO art fair in Mexico City and in Fleeing the Scene at The Happy Lion in Los Angeles, CA, http://www.artslant.com/la/artists/show/961

Janice Feinstein Hechter (BFA '85) has a solo exhibit of her paintings at the Stanley-Whitman House Museum in Farmington, CT,on view through January 30.

Laura Sharp Wilson (BFA '87) will have work included in This is My Nature, an exhibition at the Nicolaysenn Art Museum in Casper, WY, February 1 ­ May 4, 2008, http://www.thenic.org

David French (BFA '87) exhibits in Painting Process, a group show curated by Jacqueline Bekiaris and Maria Silvestri at Seton Hall's Walsh gallery in South Orange, NJ, January 14 - February 15. He also exhibits in the Monmouth County Arts Council 28th Annual, curated by Creighton Michael at the Monmouth Museum in Lincroft, NJ, January 26 - March 2, http://library.shu.edu/gallery.

Lize Mogul (BFA '92) received her MFA at CalArts in 1998 and participated in the Whitney Independent Study Architecture & Urban Studies Program in 2004-05. She is an interdisciplinary artist and independent curator who works with issues of public space and cultural geography. A past public public artwork, "Public Green" was seen at transit shelters all over Los Angeles, CA,
http://pipsworks.com/contact/projects/panama.html.

Julie Vinette (BFA '93) exhibits in The Artist's Choice at Atlantic Gallery, NYC, January 22 - February 8. The exhibit features 8 artists whose work was chosen by Atlantic Gallery members. An opening reception will be held on January 22 from 6:00-8:00 p.m. She is also a participating artist in the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park's Corporate Art Program. To see more of Julie's art and bio, visit http://www.JulieVinette.com.

Patrick Meagher (BFA '95) lives and works in New York. Architecture, technology and economics at the turn of the millennium are the central interests in his artwork. His three concurrent suites "Postscript to Modernism," "The Desktop Revolution," and "New Era Consciousness," collage and hybridize utopian commercial aesthetics in a range of media. Currently the new series reveals cultural traces in Styrofoam packaging, maps global vocabularies of ecommerce buttons, and distills local and municipal logos into 21st century symbols of psychological states. His work was recently included in The Shape of Things to Come, curated by Marco Antonini at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Redhead Gallery, http://www.artcal.net/event/view/8/5829; http://www.lmcc.net/art/residencies/tenyear/bios/index.html.

Jennifer Urso (BFA '96) presents Evidence of Intention at the Icehouse, Pittsburgh, PA, on Friday, January 4, beginning at 7:00 p.m. Using simple rock carving tools, Jen Urso will break apart a heavily illustrated, 350lb rock. Patrons are invited to pick up the chipped-apart, broken illustrated pieces from the ground. Urso will also screen her video "Conversation Scribble Tangle", a time-lapsed video of a drawing of scribbles synched with overlapping, recorded conversations, http://www.theicehouseaz.com; http://www.jenniferursoart.com.

Seldon Yuan (BFA '98) presents a site specific video projection at ISE Cultural Foundation in NYC, January 18 - March 1. In Untitled (555 Broadway / where every step in New York leads: a hallway, a lobby, a stairwell), Seldon Yuan’s site-specific video projection dissects and conflates time and reality through several vignettes of multiple perspectives of the lobby of 555 Broadway, the site of the exhibit. Through the redundancy of projecting a video of a space onto itself he creates illusions of actions and simultaneous events that appear to occur in the present because of near life size projections, but, in fact, are only documents of the past. Located within these ideas are conceptions of the self relative to the omnipresent, oppressive, and cold transient lobbies and hallways that lead us to work, appointments, meetings, and errands, http://www.seldonyuan.com/; http://iseny.org/usr_helio1/index.php.

Karen Liebowitz (BFA '99) presents Leviathan: from the Manifesting Prophecy Series, her first solo show at Rosamund Felsen Gallery in Los Angeles, CA, on view through February 9, http://www.rosamundfelsen.com.

Cat Mazza (BFA '99) is a 2008 Creative Capital artist. Her project, "Knit for Defense Glance" is one of 41 projects in film/video and the visual arts from across the country funded by the foundation. She will also be a panelist in "Crafting Protest," part of a series of talks on Agency at The New School, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center in NYC on January 26 from 3:00-5:00 p.m., http://specialprograms@newschool.edu/eventDetail.aspx?id=13844; http://www.creative-capital.org/; http://www.microrevolt.org/.

Hyla Willis (MFA '99 & STUDIO) and Faith Wilding (STUDIO) are presenting two subRosa projects: "Cell Track: Mapping the Appropriation of Life Materials" appears in Deliciously Disposable Earth, Three Rivers Arts Festival Gallery, Pittsburgh, currently on view through February 22, is curated by Carolina Loyola Garcia (MFA '00); "The Way That We Rhyme: Women, Art & Politics," will be on view at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, March 29 - June 29.

Tenaya Sims (BFA '00) worked several years as a graphic artist in the video games industry for Activision before beginning classical studies at the Jeff Watts Atelier in Encinitas, CA. He then moved to Seattle where he studied three years at the Juliette Aristides Classical Atelier. He has
shown at Seattle's Fountainhead Gallery and is the recipient of the Stanley R. Wright Foundation award (2004) and the Robert DeZordo Estate award (2005) and several prizes from the Seattle Academy of Fine Art annual show. Tenaya has taught classes for teens in drawing and computer graphics at Unicorn School in Philo, California and currently teaches in the Youth Programs at
Gage Academy of Art in Seattle. He recently exhibited at the Elka Rouskov Gallery in Kirkland, WA, http://elkaartgallery.com/Tenaya.htm.

Shawn Lawson (BFA '00) presents Surface Traversal in the Web Biennial 2007 at the Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum, Istanbul, Turkey, http://www.webbiennial.org/.

Peter Coffin (MFA '00) presents a solo exhibit at Michael Benevento in Los Angeles, CA, January 23 - February 28, http://michaelbenevento.net/.

Jina Valentine (BFA '01) exhibits in Age of Everything on view through February 24, 2008 at the Thomas Welton Stanford Art Gallery, CA. The Age of Everything is an exhibition of artwork created by Stanford University's First Year MFA students, http://art.stanford.edu/fullStory.php?story=45.

Carrie Schneider (BHA '01) is currently on a Fulbright Fellowship to Kuvataideakatemia, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki until June 2008. She participated in the Third Azerbaijan Biennial, Baku, December 2007, and has upcoming exhibitions in Toronto, Helsinki and Chicago, IL, http://www.carrieschneider.net.

Abraham Orden (BFA '02) co-curates, with Gerald Matt of Kunsthalle Wien, Under the Pain of Death, a group exhibit (including work by Andy Warhol) for the Austrian Cultural Forum in NYC, on view January 22 ­ May 10, http://www.acfny.org/fs.aspx?SID=&EID=&FEID=/; http://www.acfny.org/fs.aspx?SID=&EID=&FEID=/>.

Bernadine Saint-Auguste (BFA '02) exhibited in New Works by: Glass Mosaic Artist Rachel Sager and Mixed-Media Artist Bernadine Saint-Auguste, November 30 -December 20, at 144 6th St. Pittsburgh, PA.

Shana Moulton (MFA '04) presents a new video and performs in "Sand Saga" at Broadway 1602 in NYC, through February 16, http://www.broadway1602.com/.

Mario Marzan (MFA '05) exhibits in Safety Architecture, a forthcoming group show at Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA. He has a solo exhibit coming up at Flanders Art Gallery in Raleigh, NC, http://www.flandersartgallery.com/.

Jacob Ciocci (MFA '05) and Paper Rad premiered two videos: the twenty-minute "Problem Solvers" (2008), and a three-minute short, "crank dat spongebob batman dropdead robocop" (2008) in "Continuing Education for Dead Adults," on January 11 at The New Museum, NYC, as part of New Silent, a series presenting contemporary art engaged with new technology, organized by Lauren Cornell. "Problem Solvers" was also presented at Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit, MI, on January 4, http://www.newmuseum.org/events/113.

Sarah Koljonen (BFA '06) was invited to exhibit in Hong Kong's Artist in the Neighbourhood Scheme IV Launching Exhibition. The exhibition takes place in the Hong Kong City Hall and will run January 24-30 from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. daily, http://www.sarahkoljonen.com/neighbourposter.html;
http://www.artistneighbourhood.info.

Kohta Asakura (BFA '06) has joined Zooma Zooma, a bi-coastal commercial, music video and film production company. His recent video, "Cold Hearted Town" for the band, New Atlantic was AOL.com's Music Video of the Day and was a featured rotation on MTVU. MySpace cast the music video in their Indie Spotlight feature, http://www.zoomazooma.com/sites/pressreleases/pr1.html#kohta;
http://www.zoomazooma.com/sites/pressreleases/pr1.html; http://kohtaskitchen.com/.

Ally Reeves (MFA '08) curated a Local Collectors exhibition at the Pittsburgh Children's Museum on view through April 30, housed in the Attic section of the Museum. The Local Collectors installation is intended to pull local, atypical, private collections into an "open to the public" museum where they can be seen and appreciated by people who would otherwise not have access to such objects or information. The Collectors include, an Avant-garde filmmaker, children ages 10 and 5, a long dead one-armed grandfather's leaf collection passed onto a grandchild, and the accidental accumulation of the Children Museum's own lost and found, and more. "Following several years of working in a museums I began to realize the narrow scope of what sort of items are collected and preserved, and that a vast majority of individuals fail to document their life and work in a way that can be easily shared with those beyond the immediate family." The installation is on display during regular museum hours, http://www.pittsburghkids.org.

Ally Reeves (MFA '08) teamed up with Jennifer Gooch (MFA '09) to display One Cold Hand along with The Mobile Museum at various venues across Pittsburgh in early January, including the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Library, http://www.themobilemuseum.com; http://www.onecoldhand.com.

Ben Kinsley (MFA '08) exhibits in For You. For Me. From Me., a group show at Flux Space in Philadelphia, PA, through February 1, http://www.thefluxspace.org; http://www.bkinsley.com/.

Joey Hays (MFA '09) participates in HOT METAL at SPACE, Pittsburgh, PA, as part of the downtown gallery crawl on January 25, from 5:00-9:00 p.m., http://www.spacepittsburgh.org; http://www.joeyhays.com.

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