Katy Heinlein Abstract Interior Figures

Katy Heinlein explores a kind of absurd,un-sacred geometry—concerned with symmetry and balance, but peppered with maladroitness and humor. Her sculpture utilizes color, gravity and tension, with taut suspended straps,carefully draped parabolas of silk, and slouchy curving planes of jersey. It is sensual and elegant, but with an abject droopiness, introducing a slightly awkward disruption of order. Her playful, casual constructions, use the limitations of interior space—attached to or propped against the wall and floor. They are passively kinetic, swaying slightly from the movement of the air around them.

Katy Heinlein was born in Baytown, TX in 1973. She received a BFA from University of Mary Hardin-Baylor in 1995, and an MFA in Sculpture from Texas Tech University in 1999. Heinlein was an intern at Chinati Foundation in Marfa, TX in 1999. In the Fall of 1999, she moved to Houston, TX, where she lived and worked for 22 years. Heinlein has exhibited her work in Shigaraki, Japan, Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, New York, Chicago, New Haven, Austin, and Houston.  She has completed artist residencies in Montauk, NY, Shigaraki, Japan, and Houston, TX. Heinlein has received grants and awards from International Sculpture Center, Houston Arts Alliance, Artadia, the Fund for Art and Dialogue, Wendy Wagner Foundation, and Miami University. In the Summer of 2023, she relocated to Pittsburgh, PA, where she currently lives and works.

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Lori Hepner Photography, Performance, Light Art

Lori Hepner is fine artist working primarily in conceptually based photography, LED device artworks, as well as curating exploratory journeys for other artists. In her work, she performs digitized, luminous traces of personal landscapes to capture the future memories of places. She uses customized LED devices to gesturally re-draw muscle memories from her strolls, paddles, and treks across the Arctic.

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Frank Walsh Photography

With 20 + years of experience of primarily partnering with advertising and design firms, Frank has photographed everything from ants to automobiles to fulfill the clients’ needs. This includes clients such as Campbell’s, Philips, ESPN, and Highmark.

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Rachel Ryan Painter

Rachael Ryan is an oil painter who enjoys exploring both representational and abstract styles in her work. She is a member of the Art Students League of New York, where she has had the opportunity to further develop her skills. Rachael currently maintains a studio practice in her hometown of Pittsburgh, PA, dedicating her time to producing paintings that invite viewers to immerse themselves in the rich sensory experiences of the present moment

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Sidney Mullis Sculptor

Sidney Mullis is a sculptor living and working in Pittsburgh, PA. She is building a make-believe forest to find where childhood selves go in adulthood and if it is possible to bring them back. Each installation shows a new, unexplored patch of the forest, and is a psychological space to acknowledge the loss of childhood and act as a site of its regeneration. 

Her work has been exhibited in a number of locations including Berlin, Tokyo, England, Croatia, and the Netherlands. Solo shows include the Leslie Lohman Museum (NYC), Wick Gallery (NYC), Bunker Projects (PA), Neon Heater Gallery (OH), Bucknell University (PA), Rowan University (NJ), University of Mary Washington (VA), and more. She has been an artist-in-residence at The Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, The Wassaic Project, Women’s Studio Workshop, MASS MoCA, Ox-Bow School of Art, among others. Her work has been featured in publications such as Hyperallergic, Young Space, Maake Magazine, De:Formal, and Sculpture Magazine.