Commence

Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, in partnership with the Tomayko Foundation, presents Commence, juried by Nina Friedman.

How do we process time? Progress? Histories? Futures? Commence asks us to consider this question through examining beginnings and, more broadly, what occurs between a beginning and an ending. Process, transitions and change mark our individual and collective journey from a starting point, creating the history that comes to define us as individuals.  Nostalgia and memory, familial and personal histories, and rethinking history through elemental forms reveal themselves as agents of history and transition. Each artist in Commence, works within these three themes to illuminate how a starting point can be disguised as a progression and continuum.

Nina Friedman
Director, Tomayko Foundation