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Apr 16, 2004 - softWORKS at Future Tenant

OPENING TONIGHT!

What: softWORKS

Where: Future Tenant: 801 Liberty Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15222

When: Friday, April 16 – Saturday, May 1

Opening reception: Saturday, April 24, 5:00 – 8:00 pm

Special extended hours for this exhibition!
Tuesday 4:00 – 8:00 pm
Wednesday 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Thursday 4:00 – 8:00 pm
Friday 4:00 – 8:00 pm
Saturday 2:00 – 8:00 pm

You are invited to come in. See it. Touch it. Stick your face in it. softWORKS is an amalgam of performance, installation and object art. Psychological narratives are actively woven into elaborately constructed environments, intimate relics are put on display and the city itself is rendered subject. Eleven artists, eleven works to experience. You are invited. Get in.

softWORKS is an exhibition of installations and performances by students in an advanced studio course in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Art. This class, also titled softWORKS, is taught by Michelle Illuminato with the assistance of MFA student William Cravis. The class explores the use of soft media in contemporary installation, interactive art, and performance. Students have investigated modes and methods of artmaking using natural and synthetic fibers by placing an emphasis on experimentation. The following students have created an individual performance, interactive work, or installation for this exhibition: Josh A. Atlas, Ashley Brickman, Meg Graham, Marina Kliger, Emilee Kohan, Kristina Lazar, Erica May (Emay), Ryan Murray, Andrew Negrey, Elspeth Sherman, and Cay Yoon.

Future Tenant is a project of Carnegie Mellon University and The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, located in the heart of the Cultural District. This art space, which features alternative exhibitions and performances by emerging artists from the Carnegie Mellon community and beyond, is managed by a team of students from the Masters of Arts Management program, a joint program of Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz School of Public Policy and Management and the College of Fine Arts.