Small Mall and PGH Photo Fair are joining forces to collaborate
for our Tiny Talk series! Photo Fair will not occur at the CMOA
this year due to COVID-19 restrictions, but we're happy to be
bringing you artist talks highlighting photographers in the region!
The event is free and guests must sign up in order to receive
the Zoom link. The link will be sent out one hour ahead of the
talk.The talk begins at 8pm EST.
Next up is Centa Schumacher!
More on Centa:
Centa Schumacher is an artist, educator, and director of the art gallery Phosphor Project Space, an exhibition space focused on emerging artists. Schumacher recently exhibited her work in the solo exhibition Voids, etc at 707 Gallery in Pittsburgh, PA, and is a current resident in the Distillery program through the Brew House Association. She has been an artist in residence at the Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT), Kala Art Institute (Berkeley, CA), and has an upcoming residency at Can Serrat (Barcelona, Spain, summer 2021). She received her MFA from San Francisco State University and is currently based out of Wilkinsburg, PA.
In her lens-based practice, Schumacher uses abstraction and luminance to explore ideas of consciousness and the indefinite. Uninterested in what the camera can do as a factual recording device, she works with a lens assembled from vintage camera elements, creating a tool that distorts light and perspective. If photography is the act of capturing light and time, then this lens acts as a tool to view these realities on another wavelength, much like the Hubble Space Telescope captures non-visible spectra to bring us otherwise hidden views of the universe. In this way, Schumacher's images become a portal between natural phenomena and the unseen world.