Visual Arts

Kenneth Batista discusses his Pixelated Series with LOCALpittsburgh

Across from the old crystallography laboratory in one of the University of Pittsburgh’s many buildings is Kenneth Batista’s art studio.…

4 years ago

atiya jones speaks with David Bernabo

(This is a piece that was intended for print but put on hold when COVID hit. We decided not to…

4 years ago

A Walk Through the Garden of Artificial Delights

By Emma Vescio As a freshman in college, my extravagant, cowboy hat-wearing professor would casually drop clues about his life…

4 years ago

Fall Gallery Roundup from LOCAL’s Visual Arts Editor L.E. McCullough

CITY OF MURALS! Pittsburgh has about as many public artworks, sculptures and street paintings as it does bridges ... and…

4 years ago

Rachel Mica Weiss: “Space speaks to me”

RACHEL MICA WEISS is one of seven Pittsburgh artists who recently received a $10,000 grant from the Investing in Professional…

4 years ago

Brenda Stumpf: Looking for things we can’t see

SAND, ROPE, plastic flowers, animal bones, wallpaper scrapings, steeped tea bags, discarded bits of metal and wood ... utterly common…

4 years ago

Inside a warehouse in Larimer, Michael Walsh is hard at work.            

Sparks fly when his blowtorch touches metal. Music is cranked to the max. Beads of sweat hit the dusty, concrete…

4 years ago

Nicholas Volpe’s “Be Careful,” Exhibition is Coming to the UnSmoke Systems ArtSpace

Local artist and IUP graduate, Nicholas Volpe, is pleased to announce his upcoming solo exhibition, Be Careful. The opening reception…

5 years ago

Jaime L. Bird releases “Neighborhood Snapshot: Bloomfield” at Eastmantribe Thursday 6-8pm

Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Jaime L. Bird releases the first of a new series of neighborhood pictorials Thursday at…

5 years ago

Eastmantribe, founded by John Eastman has made a home in Regent Square.

The artsy and bustling neighborhood in that of Regent Square has a new retail store presence….something small in the way…

5 years ago