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OPENING RECEPTION
LIKENESS + It's all about ME, Not You
October 9, 2009
Friday, October 9, 2009
7.00PM – 9.00PM
$10 (MF members, PITT + CMU FREE w/ I.D.)
  
LIKENESS
Portraits are everywhere. They are in our wallets; on our computers, cell phones and desktops; on the walls of corporate offices, banks and schools. But what precisely is a portrait or image of likeness? How do artists’ methods and materials evolve as technology progresses with break-neck speed? And in this age of user-generated content, who exactly is the artist?
LIKENESS is a group exhibition that aims to examine human depiction during a post-Warholian era in which new technology has played an influential role. It includes the work of artists Jim Campbell, Paul DeMarinis, Jonn Herschend, Nikki Lee, Joseph Manino, Greta Pratt and Tony Oursler. Elaine A. King, who is a freelance critic and curator as well as a professor at Carnegie Mellon University teaching Art History/Theory/Museum Studies, will curate the exhibition.
LIKENESS is supported by generous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
It's all about ME, Not You
The Mattress Factory has announced the addition of Greer Lankton’s It’s all about ME, Not You (1996) to its permanent collection. First shown as part of a group exhibition at the museum in 1996, the large-scale installation was recently given to the Mattress Factory by the late artist’s family.
Greer Lankton devoted most of her artistic life to creating highly expressive mannequin-like figures with full make-up, wigs, jewelry, and clothing. Her figures populated her tiny studio/apartment in Chicago surrounded by a decorated tableau of stenciled walls, autobiographical drawings, shrines to the likes of Candy darling and Patty Smith, children’s toys, hundreds of fashion magazines, and books on Egon Schiele and other favorite artists.
The permanent installation of Greer Lankton’s It’s all about ME, Not You, is made possible by an Anonymous Donor, Judith Rothschild Foundation, Lambda Foundation and the artist’s family.
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The Mattress Factory’s exhibition program is supported by the Allegheny Regional Asset
District, Foster Charitable Trust, Roy A. Hunt Foundation, Heinz Endowments, Richard King
Mellon Foundation, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Pittsburgh Foundation, Juliet Lea
Hillman Simonds Foundation and Mattress Factory members.
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