Directors and museum curators are hoping to bring awareness to Pittsburgh as a viable artistic center during the biennial this summer, reports Art Newspaper. “Between 50 and 60 artists are due to be included in the Pittsburgh Biennial, which will take place over the course of ten months. The last event ends in May 2015.
This year’s biennial kicks off with an exhibition of Polaroids by Corey Escoto, a Texas native who currently lives in Pittsburgh, which is due to open at the Carnegie Museum of Art on 18 July. “We want to show how rich an environment this is for artists,” says Laura Domencic, the director of the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, which is also participating.
The biennial is also expanding this summer. The show’s last edition in 2011 included four venues: the Carnegie Museum of Art; Pittsburgh Filmmakers and the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts; the Miller Gallery and the Andy Warhol Museum. This year, three new institutions join: the Pittsburgh Glass Center; the Mattress Factory and Space gallery. “We’re partnering with different organisations in different ways, but there was a strong effort to pull in some additional key partners,” Domencic says.”
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