“MEMORIES”
featuring:
David Aschkenas
Masha Tatarintsev
Victor Grauer
Opening Reception:
June, Sat 29th . from 5 to 8 pm.
On display from June 26th to July 30.
Christine Frechard Gallery, 5126 Butler st. Pittsburgh PA 15201 tel: 412 407 9319 www.christienfrechardgallery.com
MASHA TATARINTSEVA
Bio:
MASHA
TATARINTSEVA is excited to show her work at the Christine Frechard Gallery. Masha is a multi disciplinary artist with a background in, fine art, theater and production design. Her creative practice blends theater, film/animation, and immersion. Masha’
most recent work explores issues of immigrant self identity. Masha was born in Leningrad, USSR and spent her formative years in Pittsburgh PA before moving to Los Angeles to complete her MFA at California Institute of the Arts.
ABOUT
the FAMILY TREE Installation:
Masha
Tatarintseva’s immersive installation, titled FAMILY TREE, connects soundscape by composer Julian Valdi-vieso, lighting scape programing by Jesse Baldridge and twenty backlit LED photo boxes.
Masha
Tatarintseva tries to sort out her immigrant JEWISH and RUSSIAN roots. She decided to re-mount this installation following its 2016 original viewing at Automata art space ( LA) because following election scandals and horrific murders at the Tree of Life Synagogue
in Sq Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, PA a community in which Masha grew up and lived for more than 20 years she realized that being Russian and Jewish is just as unpredictable as it has been for her parents and great grandparents generations.
In
her own words: “When I came home to Pittsburgh, PA, for a visit in the summer of 2015 a big stack of old photos was all that was left after my parents returned from my grandmother’s funeral in St Petersburg, Russia. I looked through the old photos where I
only knew about 20% of the people, mainly, my grandparents. I realized that the family of people who came before me are total strangers to me, yet I look like them and possibly have their mannerisms and personality. This installation is my attempt to reconnect
with these people whom I never met and never will meet, yet who’s culture and ethnicity has shaped how the world views me.
VICTOR GRAUER
Dr. Victor Grauer, based in
Pittsburgh, PA, is a composer, musicologist, film maker, media artist, installation artist, poet and dramatist. His creative work in various media has been presented at The New York Film Festival, the Albright Knox Museum, the Carnegie Museum of Pittsburgh,
The Kitchen (New York), The Mattress Factory (Pittsburgh), The Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, the Cincinnati Center for Contemporary Art, the Barbicon Center, and the Whitney Museum, among many others. Films of his are in the permanent collections of Carnegie
Institute, the University of Pittsburgh and the Anthology Archives, New York. Four of his short films were screened as part of the American Century retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2000. His writings on musicology and the arts have been
published in journals such as Ethnomusicology, Semiotica, Art Criticism, Music Theory Online, Other Voices, Millennium Film Journal and The World of Music. In 1998 he received the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s Creative Achievement Award. Grauerhas taught at
the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Filmmakers, the Pittsburgh High School of the Creative and Performing Arts and Chatham College.
Artist’s statement:
Ever since the mid-1960’s I’ve
been deeply involved with film and video as means of poetic expression and visual exploration. My contribution to the Frechard Gallery exhibition combines a display of two such works with a series of inkjet prints based on still images drawn from both. The
earlier is a 16mm, hand-painted, film titled “Webs and Stems” (recently digitized). The other, titled “Screen,” is a computer-generated video display featuring slow full-screen color modulations. Since both works contain individual images and color fields
that appealed to me, I recently decided to extract some of the most interesting and attractive frames to display as visual art-works in their own right. Visitors to the Frechard Gallery will be able to view both works in their original, time-based, format,
accompanied by a set of color prints drawn from them. Both films and prints will be available for sale in signed, limited edition format.*
DAVID ASCHKENAS
RESUME
Studied
1968-1972, B.A. Pennsylvania State University, University Park PA
SELECTED
EXHIBITIONS
2018 Saint Vincent College, Catholic Arts
Exhibition
2017 Lantern Gallery, PGH Cultural Trust
2016, August Wilson Center, PGH. PA
2014 Cohen & Grigsby Gallery, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania
2014 Jewish Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2014 Jubilee Synagogue, Prague, Czech
Republic
2014 Gallery 707 Penn Ave. PGH Cultural
Trust
2012 Jewish Town Hall, Prague, Czech Republic
2012 Mendelson Gallery, PGH. PA
2009 Mendelson Gallery, PGH. PA
2008 Mendelson Gallery, PGH. PA
2006
Gallery 707 Penn Ave. PGH Cultural Trust
2006
Mendelson Gallery, PGH. PA
2005
Kim Foster Gallery, New York, NY
2003-2004
The Philadelphia Photo Review 25 years
1994
Gallery 52, Cincinnati, Ohio
1987
1986 Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute,
PGH. PA
1988
Allentown Museum of Art, Allentown, PA
1984
Hewlett Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University,
PGH. PA
1983
Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA
1983
Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
1980
Clarence Kennedy Gallery, Polaroid Corporation,
Cambridge, MA
1980
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA
1978
Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, DC
PUBLIC
COLLECTIONS
The
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Minneapolis
Institute of the Arts
University
of Alaska Museum, Fairbanks
The
Polaroid Corporation
Howard
Heinz Endowment
A.W.
Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust Foundation, Pittsburgh, PA
PNC
Bank, PGH. PA
LECTURES
2018
John Heinz History Center “Lost Worlds Found”
GRANTS
AND AWARDS
2014 FINE FOUNDATION GRANT, for preparation
of show at the JEWISH Museum,
PGH.PA
1994
Best of Show prize, Gallery 52, Cincinnati,
Ohio
1981
Polaroid Corporation Grant
1980 National Endowment for the Arts Survey Grant
1979
Museum Prize, Southern Alleghenies Museum
of Art, Loretto, PA
1974
Second Prize, Nikon International Photo Contest
BOOKS
(Photos included in
ARENA: Remembering the Igloo, 2013
POLAROID The Polaroid Book Selections from the Polaroid
Collection Taschen 2005
POLAROID IMAGE and EMULSION TRANSFERS by Kathleen Carr.
Amphoto Spring 1997, Gallery Section
2015 BLACK & WHITE MAGAZINE, Special Portfolio
Issue
2007 BLACK & WHITE MAGAZINE, Special Portfolio
Issue
1995
TEST MAGAZINE, Polaroid Corporation
1987
PITTSBURGH PHOTOGRAPHY A NEW GENERATION,
John Caldwell & Annegreth Nill, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
1979
THE PHILADELPHIA PHOTO REVIEW, Portfolio
published
1978
REFLECTIONS FROM THE THIRD DAY, Photographic
Revelations of Plant Design, James Brindle & James White, Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
