CMU’s Miller Gallery presents, “Faith Wilding: Fearful Symmetries,” the first retrospective exhibition of this influential feminist artist, who hosts a talk at 5 p.m Friday, Feb. 16, followed by a reception; free and open to the public.
Fearful Symmetries is a traveling exhibition curated by Shannon R. Stratton in collaboration with Faith Wilding. The exhibition will be on display Saturday, Jan. 20, through Sunday, Feb. 25. A widely exhibited international artist, Wilding also has strong connections to Pittsburgh. She was a visiting assistant professor in the Carnegie Mellon University School of Art from 1995-98, as well as a fellow of CMU’s Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry from 1998-present. She also co-founded and collaborates with subRosa, originating in Pittsburgh in 1998.
The exhibition features a selection of works from Wilding’s studio practice spanning the past 40 years, highlighting a range of works on paper – drawings, watercolors, collage and paintings. Taking up key allegorical imagery in Wilding’s work, the exhibition focuses on themes of becoming, both the transformative event itself, and the threshold to transfiguration. This state of in-between-ness is articulated through imagery of leaves, the chrysalis, hybrid beings, and liminal circumstances themselves, such as waiting, the subject of Wilding’s two prominent performances Waiting and Wait-With.
Admission to the "Fearful Symmetries" exhibition at Miller Gallery on the CMU campus in Oakland is free; donations are welcomed. The gallery is open to the public, and the public is invited to the Artist Talk at 5 p.m. Friday, Feb. 16, followed by a reception from 6-8 p.m.
Phone: 412-268-3618
Email: mc94@cmu.edu
2018/01/20 - 2018/02/25
Miller Gallery
5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213