Author: Transformer Station

In Concert: Photography and the Violin, at Transformer Station

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  Transformer Station plays a new tune with a lively show of photography focused on the violin, assembled by Pittsburgh collector Evan Mirapaul and organized by Carnegie Museum of Art curator Dan Leers. With over 250 images, this fascinating exhibition explores intertwined histories of the camera and the violin, spanning the life of photography from its invention to the present. […]

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Tabitha Soren: Surface Tension

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“I want to expose the human experience in all its anarchic complexity,” says artist Tabitha Soren. “At this moment in the United States, our differences are being used as a way to divide us. I aim to create solidarity by making photographs that express similarities in the human experience. My work is about bringing the morbidity, dread, and anxiety of […]

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I Sing the Body at Transformer Station

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I Sing the Body is a group photography show that is a response to the glorious variety of skin and body types that surround us. Works were chosen from the Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell Collection as well as a number of key loans from museums, galleries, and exhibiting artists. Images include significant works by Richard Learoyd, Zanele Muholi, Carla […]

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Q&A with Transformer Station artist Esther Teichmann

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TS: How do you define your practice as an artist? ET: My work comes from the bodily, from autobiography and how we fictionalize our memories and experiences. I’m interested in playing with the slippage between the real and imagined. Photography is an ideal medium, having been born from that tension. The still and moving image, photography and painting, writing visually […]

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Alternate worlds emerge at Transformer Station this winter: works by Esther Teichmann

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She dives into blackness. Hurtling into and through darkness, everything inside her breathes with strength and relief. She swims downwards and away from land, eyes open, seeing nothing, saltwater entering every pore.   Something is shifting, changing. Waters churn faster, a low rumbling building steadily from a far off place. Black clouds plunge this otherworldly stage into momentary darkness, their […]

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