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The Mattress Factory Art Museum: A Pioneer of Contemporary Installation Art The Mattress Factory Art Museum, located in Pittsburgh, is a renowned contemporary art museum that has made significant contributions to the world of site-specific installation art. With its unique and immersive exhibits, the museum has become a must-visit destination for art enthusiasts from around the world. Founded in…

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Nayda Collazo-Llorens, born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, is a visual artist engaged in an interdisciplinary practice incorporating multiple mediums and strategies. She earned an MFA degree from New York University and a BFA degree from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She has received grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and Beta-Local's El Serrucho, among others, and is a former Visiting Fellow at the Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership. Her work has been exhibited at El Museo del Barrio in New York City, The Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum in Miami, Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts in Grand Rapids, Richmond Center for Visual Arts in Kalamazoo, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in San Juan, Museo Universitario del Chopo in Mexico City, and The Dowse Art Museum in New Zealand, among other institutions. Her work is featured in the book Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, published by Duke University Press; A to Z of Caribbean Art, published by Robert & Christopher in Trinidad and Tobago; and The Dark Would: Language Art Anthology, published by Apple Pie in the UK. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Art News, Art Net, Art US, Art Nexus, Arte al Día International, BOMB, and Newcity.

Nayda Collazo-Llorens, nacida en San Juan, Puerto Rico, es una artista visual interdisciplinaria que incorpora diversos medios y estrategias. Obtuvo un MFA de New York University y un BFA del Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Ha recibido becas de la Fundación Pollock-Krasner, El Serrucho de Beta-Local, y el Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership, entre otras.  Su obra se ha exhibido en El Museo del Barrio en la ciudad de Nueva York, The Mattress Factory en Pittsburgh, Museum of Latin American Art en Long Beach, The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum en Miami, Bass Museum of Art en Miami Beach, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts en Grand Rapids, Richmond Center for Visual Arts en Kalamazoo, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico y el Museo de Arte Contemporáneo en San Juan, Museo Universitario del Chopo en la Ciudad de Mexico, y The Dowse Art Museum in New Zealand, entre otras galerías e instituciones. Su obra ha sido publicada en los siguientes libros: Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago por Duke University Press, A to Z of Caribbean Art, por Robert & Christopher en Trinidad y Tobago; y The Dark Would: Language Art Anthology, por Apple Pie en el Reino Unido. Su obra ha sido reseñada en The New York Times, Art Net, Art US, Art Nexus, Art News, Arte al Día International, BOMB, y Newcity.

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Artist Feature: Ben Kinsley

Myco-Ramblings, event and sound work, 2016. Credit: Ben Kinsley & Christopher Kennedy.

Ben Kinsley’s projects have ranged from choreographing a neighborhood intervention into Google Street View, directing surprise theatrical performances inside the homes of strangers, organizing a paranormal concert series, staging a royal protest, investigating feline utopia, collecting put-down jokes from around the world, and planting a buried treasure in the streets of Mexico City (yet to be found).

He has exhibited internationally at venues such as: Queens Museum, NYC; Cleveland Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Cleveland; Bureau for Open Culture; Mattress Factory Museum, Pittsburgh; Flux Space, Philadelphia; Katonah Museum of Art, NY; Green on Red Gallery, Dublin; Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, Florence; La Galería de Comercio, Mexico City; Catalyst Arts, Belfast; and ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe.

Ben has been an artist-in-residence at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture; Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts; Skaftfell Art Center, Iceland; Askeaton Contemporary Arts, Ireland; and Platform, Finland. His work has been featured on NPR, Associated Press, The Washington Post, Artforum.com, Wired.com, Rhizome.org, and Temporary Art Review, among others.

Kinsley is Assistant Professor of New Media/Time-Based Art in the Department of Visual & Performing Arts at UCCS.

Kinsley is also currently working on a project with his wife, Jessica Langley. The Yard is a project space and site for public art in their front yard in the Divine Redeemer neighborhood of Colorado Springs. In regards to the project, Kinsley states, 

We thought it would be interesting to use the context of The Yard to bring voices from all over the world into communication with the local. But we really don’t have a set way we are doing things yet, and I imagine ... the process will always be a bit spontaneous. We don’t have a real budget, nor a board of directors. It’s just Jessica and me making the decisions. And that’s what keeps it exciting for us. 

Interview with GOCA Fall 2018 Intern Hannah Shelton:

Have you participated in previous faculty exhibitions at UCCS, if so, how many? I joined the Visual Art faculty last Fall (2017), so this is my first faculty exhibition.

Why do you think it is important to hold a faculty exhibition? While we interact frequently with our fellow colleagues and students, we don’t often have the opportunity to share our own work and research with one another. I am very much looking forward to seeing what the other VA faculty have been working on in their studios, and I’m excited to be able to share new work with my UCCS community.

What type of impact to you believe it has on campus? The Visual Art Department is splintered between several buildings around campus, which means that we don’t have a big visual presence on campus. The the new Ent Center has made this happen quite well for Theatre & Dance, and Music, as well as for Theatreworks and GOCA, however the Visual Art Department still does not have a central hub where someone can go to see what’s going on in VA. Having a faculty show at GOCA for an entire semester will give our program and our faculty some much needed visibility on campus. It is especially great to have this happen within the context of the new Ent Center for the Arts.

The theme for this exhibition is time. How do you see this theme connecting to your work? With the work I am developing for this show, I’ve been thinking a lot about slow time. Slowing down the way we move through the world, the way consume and experience things, and placing more value on long-term thinking. I am an amateur mycologist and I spend a lot time foraging for mushrooms. This requires deep observation and attentiveness to the landscape, and it has changed the way I interact with nature. Hiking to the top of a mountain is nearly impossible for me now, as I get lost for hours at the trailhead finding all sorts of fascinating fungal life hidden in plain sight. Studying mushrooms is a great way to shift one’s focus, to slow down, pay attention, and be present. Many people aren’t aware that John Cage (the composer) was also a renowned mycologist. I see a direct relationship between Cage’s ideas of “silence” and his interest in mushrooms. Both offer a formal opportunity to observe the often ignored but deeply meaningful happenings of the world around us. With all this in mind, I am developing new work for the faculty show inspired by mushrooms, deep listening, and John Cage (the mycologist).

As an artist, what advice have you received that has proved to have a large impact on you or your work? To never give up. Working in the visual arts can be a challenging path, and it might (probably will) take years to gain a foothold. It is helpful to remember that there are many ways to be an artist in the world, not all of which involve being a commercially successful studio artist in New York or Los Angeles.

Experience the work of Ben Kinsley and his fellow UCCS VAPA Faculty at TIME at GOCA Ent Center for the Arts (5225 N Nevada Ave) starting January 31st and running through May 18th.

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So exciting to see our very own Jill Ricci @jillricciart in print. • Posted • @kolajmagazine • This Week at Kolaj Magazine: Homes, Hieroglyphics, & Innovations. From Kolaj 34, we present the artist portfolio of Jill Ricci @parlorgallery, who found collage "by happy accident". Luis Martin @artengineer is a self-described "art engineer" who looks for ways to “create community around collage and curiosity.” Collage on View includes "Carol Bove: Collage Sculpture" at the Nasher Sculpture Center @nashersculpturecenter in Dallas, Texas, USA and "making home here" at The Mattress Factory @mattressfactory in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA featuring five Pittsburgh-based artists who explore concepts of home as a site of both belonging and dislocation. "The Innovation of Cut and Paste" is a show of work by the Waverley Collage Makers in Australia, who practise a different style of collage each week, juxtaposing images and materials, subverting meaning and honing their distinctive styles. "No Word from Glue" is showing simultaneously at g3 artcontemporain @g3artcontemporain in Brussels, the Cork City Library in Ireland, in virtual exhibition, and as an eBook. Call to artists: @collagenottinghill is hosting their first Valentine’s Collage Card Swap. Deadline 15 January 2022. (image: Escape by Jill Ricci (40″x40″x3”; mixed media on canvas; 2021). Courtesy of the artist.) For details, visit This Week at Kolaj Magazine on our website, follow the link in profile. Kolaj Magazine is a quarterly, printed, art magazine reviewing and surveying contemporary collage with an international perspective. We are interested in collage as a medium, a genre, a community, and a 21st century art movement. Subscribe and get your copy today. • To learn more about Jill and her available work, get in touch. • Email: info@parlor-gallery.com Website: www.parlor-gallery.com Visit: 717 Cookman Ave. Asbury Park, NJ Call: 732.869.0606 Direct Message on Instagram (at Parlor Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CYHXcIKlYk_/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Here is the complete list of my content that has been flagged so far:

- A video of a completely clothed woman rapidly popping balloons by sitting on them on some kind of game show. This could be mildly NSFW, I guess.

- A picture of my legs in rainbow fishnets. I'm even wearing shorts in the picture, but risque, I guess.

- A photo I took of @benisjammin94 sitting on the ground at Tekko in his HIM cosplay from the Powerpuff Girls. I mean, sure, his skirt is short but he is wearing a body suit and has one lobster claw resting in his lap which prevents any sort of possible upskirt. Also he is entirely RED how did this trigger the flesh tone detection algorithm?

- A picture of the white cotton fabric with tiny star print I made my Sophie apron out of. I used a warm tone filter so the print would show up more but it doesn't really look like skin at all?

- A picture I took of my bath tub filling as I was getting ready to use a LUSH bubble bar. I wasn't even IN the bath at the time.

- A selfie I took when I was wearing the Rudolph costume from Holiday Lights when I filled in for the actress who usually plays her. I was in like 5 layers of clothing at that point.

- A side view of a topless woman with her hand covering her female-presenting nipple that @ximajs edited to look like it had a tattoo that said "tattoo your own goddamn ribs" because of a dream I posted about. This may be the only one that meets the criteria but I can't have it reviewed because it was a submission.

- A selfie of me holding an open/closed sign that I found in the street in front of my house. I am fully clothed in said picture.

- Photos of the Chiharu Shiota art installation "Trace of Memory" at the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, which consists of rooms of a house filled with intricate webs of black yarn arranged around furniture and other things.

- A selfie of me in a mint green dress with black lace overlay.

- A meme stolen from a Facebook page for Christian moms depicting professional male wrestlers in their wresting shorts that refers to wrestling as rampant homo-eroticism.

- A picture of my feet soaking in a basin with some Epsom salt after a long shift.

- A selfie of me in a red cami.

- A series of pictures from Play-Doh's Cake Mountain playset featuring a clear plastic squeeze tool used to make the play-doh look like frosting that looks suspiciously like a sex toy and received a lot of complaints from parents.

Got a bunch of posts flagged as adult content and each one is funnier than the last, I swear.

Only one of them might actually meet the criteria for adult content but they won’t let me appeal it since it was a submission so I guess we will never know.

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Repetitive Vision by Yayoi Kusama

3/9/2014 Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

The first time I heard about the Mattress Factory, I was amused by the name and confused on their collection identity. At first I thought it was very DIY, new local art, but in fact they are intensely contemporary art collectors and have on point mixed level artists through their space. I also did not realize they're located so located to me is located so close to me, only in Pittsburgh a 4 hour drive away otherwise I would of made a trip out to the city. 

I prefer to travel alone to cities and explore their art collections, contemporary galleries, street installations and food. Sometimes my partner will tag along and make the trip sweeter. This was not one of the times and I plan to bring him to pittsburgh. He will love the bookstores.

The permanent collection at the Mattress Factory includes James Turrell, Sarah Oppenheimer, and of course Yayoi Kusama. There are actually two of her installation rooms which I like to misname, transportive rooms. Most of the most impressive installations/exhibitions I have experienced all involve a major immersive element and transportive experience. This museum became my favorite open space in pittsburgh. Please read over the other reviews about Turrell and Oppenheimer. 

“A passage to Another World.” - Yayoi Kusama

To enter the mirror rooms, you can remove your shoes and wear these anti-static blue booties to enter or cover your boots with the blue booties. Somewhat ridiculously I entered into the room with my classmates. Infinity Dots Mirrored Room was the first, dim blue light, and the black light reflected the dots around the rooms. My favorite though is Repetitive Vision with these 3 mannequins ladies, covered in the red polka dots, and the room was insanely filled with different sized red dots. It takes a minute to realize that the red dots are only on the floor and on the bodies. All the mirrors repeated them into infinity. The room isn’t as disorienting as her other infinity rooms, and you can quickly adjust to the room. 

Sometimes remembering an experience is what makes the experience exist at all. This was a time where I researched installations and studied all the images I could find online and prepared myself to be amazed. I’m remembering to be excited and anxious to visit this room, and realizing my expectations can never be met. After this Pittsburgh trip, I decided to only do preliminary research before any exhibit or museum and be open to every kind of emotions/thinking once I am there. 

mirror: 1 a reflective surface, now typically of glass coated with a metal amalgam, that reflects a clear image. 2 something regarded as accurately representing something else.

In my own practice, I love mirrors. In my life, I love mirrors as a tool used to open, repeat, and reflect light. It’s a representation for introspection and division while always including vanity. Each time light is cut, some of the energy is lost into particles in the air. But whatever that is, mirrors is this object before camera technology, and before our own human acknowledgment of our external individualism. 

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Mattress Factory art museum taps attorney, wife to Conor Lamb, as new interim director – Tribune-Review

Mattress Factory art museum taps attorney, wife to Conor Lamb, as new interim director – Tribune-Review

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The Mattress Factory contemporary art museum has tapped Jones Day attorney Hayley Haldeman for its new interim leader as the popular tourist destination in Pittsburgh’s North Side rebounds from allegations that supervisors retaliated against employees who reported sexual harassment.

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Hotel Review: Fairmont Pittsburgh, USA

Hotel Lobby (c) Fairmont Pittsburgh

Fairmont Pittsburgh is located in the city’s Golden Triangle, the urban downtown centre of Pittsburgh which forms the central business district. The hotel opened in 2010 and forms part of Three PNC Plaza, one of the largest high-rise constructions built in Pittsburgh this century. It is an impressive structure of glass and steel.

Like many things in the USA, the hotel has gone for the “bigger is better” vibe – 185 guest rooms, 12,000 square feet of meeting space and a 6,000-square-foot Health Club & Spa. Yet despite its size, Fairmont Pittsburgh has a warm and friendly atmosphere and staff who are eager to please.

Pittsburgh prides itself of being a “green” city, ranking among the 15 most sustainable cities in the USA. This hotel honours this tradition with its environmental design and commitment to reduce energy wastage.

Who For

During the week, the business district is a hive of activity, and Fairmont Pittsburgh is ideally located for city slickers to rest for the night.

The hotel’s proximity to many of Pittsburgh’s most famous attractions, including the Andy Warhol Museum, means that it is also a great base for travellers enjoying a short break. Unlike many of America’s mega cities, Pittsburgh is small enough that you can reach most of the museums on foot.

Accommodation

Rooms are spacious (the largest is 466 square feet) with floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the city. There are the usual amenities including 45-inch flat screen TV, coffee machine, iPod station and mini fridge.

Room with King Bed (c) Fairmont Pittsburgh

The décor is tasteful and modern, in hues of grey, brown and orange. Even with all the lights turned on, the room felt a little dark.

Bathrooms are generously proportioned and ours contained both a bath and shower. There’s a decent selection of spa toiletries and you even get a mini bottle of mouthwash.

Tip: Choose a room on the 19th floor for a great view of the PNC Baseball Park, home of the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Facilities

Fairmont Pittsburgh has an extensive Health Club & Spa, which offers a wide range of treatments including facials, massages and manicures. There is also a large fitness centre containing running machines, cross trainers, weight machines and advanced Precor fitness equipment. The luxury changing area has a relaxing sauna and steam rooms and  a wide selection of spa toiletries and large, private showers.

Fitness Centre (c) Fairmont Pittsburgh

As well as the spa, the hotel has a boardroom, three additional meeting rooms, and a 5,500 square foot ballroom where you can book social events and even a wedding.

Food and drink

The newly opened fl.2 restaurant serves modern American cuisine and a vast selection of drinks and cocktails. We tucked into a tender lamb shank and classic striploin with celery root and creamy mash. One of the highlights of the evening was sipping on a “Smoked Pimientos” cocktail: a snappy mix of Patron tequila, Mezcal, pineapple and a spicy jalapeño. During the day the restaurant serves breakfast and lunch, as well as brunch at the weekend (all at an additional cost to the room).

fl.2 Restaurant (c) Fairmont Pittsburgh

Fairmont Pittsburgh also has a sophisticated bar, Andys, named after the city’s most beloved modern artist. Located in the vast, open lobby of the hotel, the bar has a cocktail menu that changes with the seasons and live jazz music every Thursday-Saturday.

Is WiFi available

Yes, at a price. Unfortunately in the US it is standard practice for hotels to charge extra for WiFi.

Room rates

Rooms start from $219 per night. If you’re flush with cash, you can book the ever-so-swanky Presidential Suite, which costs up to $4000 per night.

What’s nearby

Pittsburgh is chock full of interesting museums and art galleries, many of which are walking distance from Fairmont Pittsburgh. Cross over the Roberto Clemente Bridge and walk another 10 minutes to reach the National Aviary. From here, you can also walk to The Mattress Factory, a collection of buildings containing a vast array of modern art. The Andy Warhol Museum and Heinz History Centre are also less than a 15-minute stroll from the hotel.

Make sure you also read: Travel Guide: 48 Hours in Pittsburgh, USA

If you’re feeling peckish, head to Primanti’s, a sandwich shop and Pittsburgh institution that is just minutes from hotel. Their signature sandwich is stuffed with grilled meat, an Italian dressing-based coleslaw, tomato slices, and French fries, and was even featured on Man v Food.

Getting there

If you’re travelling from the airport, the easiest way to reach the hotel is by Uber (it takes about 25 minutes). The nearest metro stop is Steel Plaza Station.

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Dennis Maher

Colette Copeland reviews Dennis Maher's evolving installation "A Second Home" at The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh

Photo: Tom Little, courtesy of The Mattress Factory Dennis Maher A Second Home [2016] architectural salvage, construction materials, antique furnishings, toys, architectural models, video projections, audio The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh [link] Maher’s immersive installation transports the viewer into a miniature, magical world of curious inventions and constructions. Utilizing current trends…