We are honored to work with these artists and are looking forward to introducing their work to the community on Saturday, January 9th, 2027.

Main Space:

Eleanor Aldrich & Barbara Weissberger
Eleanor Aldrich (Albuquerque, NM) and Barbara Weissberger (Pittsburgh, PA) met as participants in The Drawing Center’s inaugural Open Sessions program in 2014 where their work was paired based on mutual affinities. They are a feminist, inter-generational collaboration that considers the theme of cleaning in terms of gender, labor, notions of cleanliness and contamination, and as an activity akin to art making. Their collaborative installations have been shown at the Drawing Center, New York; Grin, Providence; Virginia Tech, Blacksburg; C for Courtside, Knoxville; University of Pittsburgh and Bunker Projects, Pittsburgh. 

In her Bunker Review article, Anna Mirzayan writes that their installation “challenges the idea that things or people have a contained and limited set of potentialities” and “foreground[s] the materiality that was always there, obscured.” Aldrich and Weissberger’s collaboration draws on and extends their individual practices. As they work in separate regions of the country, the meeting and melding of their work is phenomenological – a third thing resulting from shared formal sensibilities and overlapping philosophical concerns.

Eleanor Aldrich is a graduate of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and has had work reviewed in Art in America and on Artforum.com. Barbara Weissberger’s work has been supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship, MacDowell and Yaddo, and she has an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.  

The Skirt:

Leah Modigliani is Associate Professor of Visual Studies at Tyler School of Art and Architecture. She is an artist and scholar with transdisciplinary engagements informed by fine arts, art history, critical geography, urban studies, and politics. Modigliani’s work addresses the political potential and inequitable hardships of urban experience. She has made artwork about eviction, cities destroyed by war and natural disasters, and urban protests against injustice. Her work has been shown widely in the United States and Canada and is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.