Through August 11
It was quite a coup when SPACES gallery’s former executive director Tizziana Baldenebro and moCa curator Lauren Leving were chosen to curate the U.S. Pavilion at 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale, which ran from May 20 through November 23. Their exhibition, Everlasting Plastics, focused on “the ways [plastics] both shape and erode contemporary ecologies, economies, and the built environment,” as interpreted by five diverse artists from Massachusetts, Illinois, Michigan and Cleveland, Ohio.
The artists included Xavi Laida Aguirre, assistant professor of architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Detroit-based designer Simon Anton; Ang Li, assistant professor in the School of Architecture at Northeastern University; Norman Teague, assistant professor of industrial design in the School of Design at the University of Illinois Chicago; and Cleveland sculptor/conceptual artist Lauren Yeager.
Obviously not many Clevelanders could make the trip to Venice to see the show. But Everlasting Plastics is now on view at a more accessible location: the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh where it runs through August 11. The exhibit has been configured by Theodossis Issaias, associate curator at Heinz Architectural Center, with Alyssa Velazquez, assistant curator. Go here for more information and tickets.
carnegieart.org/exhibition/everlasting-plastics/