SQUARE SHOW 2023

ADDITIONAL ART INFO

Some of the artists from square show submitted additional info with their artwork. Organized by artwork title A to Z below:

Colonize -

The beauty of creation, in the face of death,

As bees build, with each passing breath.

Nature's power, so transformative and grand,

With life and death, forever hand in hand.

Dry -

A little slice of world you'll never know.

Equilibrium -

Finding balance in chaos and learning to play with opposing forces in order to establish peace.

Ferns -

3D paper collage within a hand cut multi piece paper frame

Haystack Rock -

Provia 100F

Hot Pink -

Lots of squares

It's ok to like Adam Sandler -

Fighting tooth and nail against powerful systems of control is extremely difficult. Arrests, burnout, and depression take their toll. It is important to take time to decompress, it's going to be a very long fight. Google "Stop cop city". this is a painting of Adam Sandler.

Ketchu in Hell -

Tormented potatoes and fries.

Monongahela Monster -

There it was, alive in the deep deep Monongahela, a throwback to a creature that had existed 100 million years ago. Immensely strong and destructive. A woman's beauty, the fate that brought it out of its lair.

Mr Rogers didn’t adequately prepare us for the people in our neighborhood -

Mr Rogers being tattooed by king Friday Full of Woe

Nested -

Juice and flow.

Nocturnal Realm -

This piece is intended to be a portal to an otherworldly dimension, a place in one’s imagination.

Perseverance -

All of us probably have goals. Little things and great big things that we want to accomplish in our lifetime. At the end of the day, we will be excited to accomplish those goals. However, it is important to enjoy the journey and the steps it takes to get there. Be present for the little moments that challenge us, and the moments that inspire us, make us laugh, cry, or just feel alive. Our lives are built on all the moments we take getting to where we want to go. We could take two steps forward and three steps backwards. It is important that we never stop doing the things we love, even if we can’t see the finish line. Someday we will turn around and see all the progress that we have made. And it only takes a little perseverance!

Piece of Sh*t Got Me Here -

Old Red Truck on The Northside

Sabr - Patience -

This artwork was painted in honour of the earthquake victims of Turkey and Syria. I wanted to represent the hardships and the patience. The writing is in Arabic and translates to: Indeed, the patient will be given their reward without account.

Space Marble Aesthetic -

An experimentation of different techniques and colors with practiced forms. More to be explored with these techniques.

STAY HYDRATED -

Sweaty Sunday, Munch-It Monday, Tasty Tuesday, Wet Wednesday, Thirsty Thursday, Finger-Licking Friday, Scrumptious Saturday. A hungry queer gaze... gimme gimme more more.

The Lioness -

The Leo Goddess of the sea swimming with her lionfish

The Patron Saint of Asphyxiation -

Depictions of Catholic martyrs in the throes of ecstatic holy pain and suffering have long been an inspiration for my work. This concept easily maps itself onto the experience of dominance and submission. The faith and trust that a submissive must have to their dominant to engage in an act as precarious as erotic asphyxiation mirrors the faith and trust of the martyr in god, and so too does the pleasure of suffering for that faith.

Unnecessary Tension -

Collected waste from publicly funded mixed income housing projects in Allegheny County, these materials are organized as a patchwork of vinyl wallpaper dressed with knots to symbolically gesture at the complicated, unorganized and often deadly layers of bureaucracy and unnecessary tension that exists among people making decisions about access, development, and sustainability of public housing in Allegheny County. Housing is healthcare. Residents of Allegheny County resort to expression through art out of frustration for the massive industrial and economic waste and damage that comes from decisions rendered by publicly elected officials, the governing bodies or committees they serve on, and their colleagues.

Wise Old Owl -

A combination of 3D printed materials arranged in a stained glass method forms a visual representation of the creative left and logical right, hemispheres of the brain.