'Repetition, Rhythm, and Pattern' Opens at SPACE in Pittsburgh

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust announces the opening of Repetition, Rhythm, and Pattern, on view May 15 to June 28, 2015, at SPACE in the Cultural District. Lindsey Landfried organizes the exhibition exploring artists' uses of repetition, rhythm, and pattern as elements to investigate the possibilities of abstractions.

In its fourth iteration (shown in 2014 at Space 4 Art, San Diego, CA; TSA, Brooklyn, NY; and Lewis Art Gallery, Millsaps College, Jackson, MS), the show's Pittsburgh presentation is its largest to date, including new site-specific works by artists Kim Beck, Alex Paik, and Lilly Zuckerman. It also includes larger installations by artists Corey Escoto, Brian Giniewski, Kate McGraw, and Anna Mikolay; as well as works by Megan Cotts, Crystal Gregory, Lindsey Landfried, Helen O'Leary, and David Prince.

"Each of the artists works with characteristic elements of abstraction such as geometry, monochromatic or limited color, plainspoken materials, seriality, and precise craftsmanship," says Landfried.

Landfried explains that the shape of the honeycomb is one of these repeated abstractions. For example, Cotts's work takes inspiration from her great-great grandfather's patents for the original honeycomb paper technology-providing stable structures used in industries from aviation to packaging-recreating those designs in her sculptures; while Gregory's large-scale glass works' use of the honeycomb take inspiration from the 1905 Frank Lloyd Wright and Daniel Burnham Chicago building, the Rookery.

There is an interplay in the exhibition's installations between geometric and organic shapes, regular and uncontrolled patterns, with works tending to the unpredictable and ultimately quirky identity of forms, materials, and sites.

The exhibition features installation and sculpture, highlighting works that use paper as structural material, not only as a picture surface. Pieces in glass, aluminum, and porcelain and also included.