'Thinkerers' Opens at windowSPACE

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust announces the second installation of SPACE gallery's window exhibition series, windowSPACE: Thinkerers. The street-facing installation is organized by local artist Randy Gilson, owner of Randyland in the Mexican War Streets district on the city's Northside. The exhibition-the artist's first gallery show-premieres Friday, May 15, during an opening reception from 6:30-8:30 p.m., and it is on view through June 28, 2015.

Thinkerers is a series of more than 200 original hand-painted reclaimed slate tiles. Using vibrant colors to create distinctive abstract faces, Gilson painted each stone tile with multiple faces, some containing as many as seven.

"The Thinkerers are time capsules, forgotten energies, story tellers that were for thousands of years stuck inside the stone," says Gilson. "Each has their own personality."

The Thinkerers opening reception is presented in conjunction with the opening of Repetition, Rhythm, and Pattern, an exhibition exploring artists' uses of repetition, rhythm, and pattern as elements to investigate the possibilities of abstractions, organized by Lindsey Landfried. Music is provided by DJ Gordy G.

Randy Gilson is a Pittsburgh-based artist, who in 1982 began saving empty neighborhood lots on the city's Northside and streetscaping 30 neighborhood blocks into public art gardens. Randyland-the artist's home-features a courtyard garden made from repurposed materials, found, bought, and donated, and it is open to the public daily. The bright yellow house, adorned with ladybugs, butterflies, dinosaurs, vintage signage, and more, has garnered national attention and is featured in such publications as Roadside America and Atlas Obscura.

SPACE

SPACE is located at 812 Liberty Avenue. Gallery Hours: Wed & Thurs: 11 a.m.-6 p.m.; Fri & Sat: 11 a.m.-8 p.m.; Sun. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. The gallery is free and open to the public. SPACE is a project of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. For more information please visit: http://www.spacepittsburgh.org. For more information about all gallery exhibitions featured in the Cultural District, please visit TrustArts.org.

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has overseen one of Pittsburgh's most historic transformations: turning a seedy red-light district into a magnet destination for arts lovers, residents, visitors, and business owners. Founded in 1984, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is a non-profit arts organization whose mission is the cultural and economic revitalization of a 14-block arts and entertainment/residential neighborhood called the Cultural District. The District is one of the country's largest land masses "curated" by a single nonprofit arts organization. A major catalytic force in the city, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is a unique model of how public-private partnerships can reinvent a city with authenticity, innovation and creativity. Using the arts as an economic catalyst, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has holistically created a world-renowned Cultural District that is revitalizing the city, improving the regional economy and enhancing Pittsburgh's quality of life. Thanks to the support of foundations, corporations, government agencies and thousands of private citizens, the Cultural Trust stands as a national model of urban redevelopment through the arts. For more information, visit TrustArts.org.