ModernFormations: Art Gallery. Performance Space.

$5

An evening of experimental comedy featuring the collective talents of Pittsburgh comedy troupe, Hustlebot. The nights will feature comedy performances in several styles including long form improvisation, video and live sketches, short films, and special guests BYOB.  (http://www.myspace.com/hustlebot)

$4

The sixth installment of TNY Presents

Wednesday, September 17 @ ModernFormations

Door: 8pm

For the September installment of TNY Presents we’ve enlisted some serious star power. Join poets Dawn Lundy Martin and Ed Steck, short story writer Karl Hendricks, and musician Dave Bernabo for an unforgettable night of words and music.

Beverages provided by Penn Brewery.

Dawn Lundy Martin: Dawn Lundy Martin was awarded the 2006 Cave Canem Poetry Prize by Carl Phillips for her manuscript, A Gathering of Matter/A Matter of Gathering. She is the author of The Morning Hour, selected in 2003 by C.D. Wright for the Poetry Society of America¹s National Chapbook Fellowship. In 2002 and 2006, she was awarded a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artists Grant for Poetry. Her poems have appeared in several journals, including Callaloo, nocturnes and Encyclopedia. She is a founding member of the Black Took Collective, a group of experimental black poets; co-editor of a collection of essays, The Fire This Time: Young Activists And The New Feminism (Anchor Books, 2004); and a founder of the Third Wave Foundation in New York, a national young feminist organization. She teaches in the Language & Thinking Program at Bard College and is a doctoral candidate in English literature at the University of Massachusetts.

Karl Hendricks: Karl Hendricks lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, Megan, and their two daughters, Maeve and Nell. A chapbook of his stories entitled Stan Getz Isn’t Coming Back was published by Speed & Briscoe. He teaches writing at the University of Pittsburgh and works at Paul’s CDs. He also is a musician and songwriter, and with his band the Karl Hendricks Trio (sometimes Rock Band), has released eight albums and toured the country numerous times. Their most recent CD is The World Says.

Ed Steck: Ed Steck is awaiting World War III. “Hoojy boojy, wumbly tumbly, goody

goody, grass grass.”

$5

An evening of experimental comedy featuring the collective talents of Pittsburgh comedy troupe, Hustlebot. The nights will feature comedy performances in several styles including long form improvisation, video and live sketches, short films, and special guests BYOB.  (http://www.myspace.com/hustlebot)

$5

$5

An evening of experimental comedy featuring the collective talents of Pittsburgh comedy troupe, Hustlebot. The nights will feature comedy performances in several styles including long form improvisation, video and live sketches, short films, and special guests BYOB.  (http://www.myspace.com/hustlebot)

$8

with Onodrim - 8 pm doors

1 more band to be announced…

Aimee Manion and Sebastian van Gorder have been Creating together for over half of a decade. Their work is both playful and searingly resolute. A melding of the abstract and the tangible, their imagery explores the wonders and mysteries of Creation.

By constructing captivating vistas of movement and provocative color overlaid with suggestive forms and figures, they aim to incite viewers to inquire within themselves about their own existence, about the unknown and the ineffable.

Drawing inspiration from science texts, headline news and everything in between, Aimee and Sebastian commit layer after layer to the canvas (or, rather, wood, paper, glass and drafting film). Each additional layer obscures the previous layers, much the way that our origins and the origins of the universe are cloaked in unending potential for discovery and question. Nothing is obvious. Nothing is intended to be interpreted in a particular way. No object or artwork is assigned a meaning.

As each piece develops, its meaning undergoes a constant metamorphosis, absorbing energy and ideas from two Beings and combining them into a single artifact that can be can be pondered endlessly.

Sebastian holds a degree in Biochemistry; Aimee in Fine Art with a minor in Anthropology. As the universe draws on all available resources to create, so does this Pair. Creation has filled a void in space. Aimee and Sebastian aim to fill a void as well. The viewer needs to bring their own void.

http://aimeemanion.com/

Opening Reception November 7th

Opening Reception December 5th

2008 Grand Prize Winner of Modernformations Annual Spring Salon - Kathryn Cole

Kathryn says: “Bits and Pieces of a Place”, is the working title of my first solo show opening at ModernFormations in December. The body of work will be an investigation into the qualities of the city I have been calling home for the last year.

After living in Pittsburgh six months or so the city began to creep into my work. First it was just the color palette of dusty blues and grays, then the endless days of clouds, and now it’s the houses that stack up the side of her many hills. .

I spend hours roaming the streets looking for little metal cast-offs and bits to be reincarnated in my impressions of the city. As a metal smith, I feel a unique bond to this “Steel City”. Each little metal scrap I find seems to have so much more importance because of where I have found it. Weather is it a crushed can or a part fallen off a truck, all of these bits are part of what Pittsburgh is. Perhaps using parts of this city will help me define it…