Barbara Weissberger
Barbara Weissberger’s work has been supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship, numerous artist residencies in the US and abroad including Yaddo, MacDowell, Camargo, Bogliasco, Ucross, the Ragdale Foundation, the Hambidge Center, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her work has been exhibited at such venues as The Drawing Center, PS1/MoMA, White Columns, Project Artspace, NYC; Catskill Artspace, Livingston Manor; Hallwalls, Buffalo; Gridspace, Brooklyn; Silver Eye, The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh; ADA Gallery, Richmond; and The Missoula Art Museum, Missoula. Her work has been written about in journals including Femme Art Review and The Heavy Collective. She is part of the collaborative duo ALDRICH + WEISSBERGER. She received an M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute. She was born in New Jersey, lived in San Francisco and New York before moving to Pittsburgh. She divides her time between Pittsburgh, New York, and Montana.
"Each quilt is its own idiosyncratic shape and sits somewhere between image and sculptural object. Each quilt is a body of sorts, with an irregular contour suggesting movement and change. To make the quilts, my staged photographs are printed on poly poplin, or translated into woven tapestry, and are cut and sewn together with cut up jeans, which show the imprint of the bodies that wore them, cut up bras, and other materials. The potato as subject came to me as I was looking for something like a body that is not a body. Potatoes are pedestrian, humble, funny. A global staple, a survivalist food. They age and resprout. To grow potatoes, plant potatoes. A potato is strangely evocative of the body that consumes it. A vegetable that speaks of earthiness, whose parts are called skin, flesh, eyes. What is at least as interesting to me as the connotations of tubers, is the awkwardness of potatoes in the contexts in which I place them. A potato in pantyhose. Potatoes and blue jeans. Potatoes and bras. I am interested in how this weirdness, like humor, hinges on surprise and opens a gap in meaning."
See Barbara's latest exhibition
Twenty Two Candles
THIS IS NOT A SOCK
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