SHRINE

Opening June 17 in the Mattress Factory’s Monterey Annex is a new exhibition of six site-specific installations curated by Pittsburgh-based artist and administrator Jessica Gaynelle Moss. SHRINE uplifts and recognizes Black m/others, artists, creatives and/or activists and honors sacred and holy spaces— or shrines– as sites of resistance and liberation struggle.

SHRINE features six new immersive works by painter and assemblage artist Naomi Chambers, photographer and mixed media artist Renée Cox, artist and art educator Mary Martin, artisan and owner of a micro-enterprise LaKeisha Wolf, interdisciplinary artist and cultural producer Alisha B. Wormsley, and visual artist Sarah Huny Young. Written contributions will be provided by poet Camille Posey and writer Janera Solomon. The exhibition will be on view through December 30, 2022.

SHRINE is presented in partnership between Mattress Factory and Sibyls Shrine, an arts collective and residency program rooted in the radical care, rest and support for Black women, womxn, trans women, and femmes who are m/others and identify as artists, creatives, and/or activists.