"Adrian Piper"
2001-03-04 until 2001-05-13
Andy Warhol Museum
Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Adrian Piper, the 52-year-old American multi-media artist, known for her confrontational work dealing with subjects as discomforting as personal bigotry and xenophobia, will create a new site-specific project for The Andy Warhol Museum. Along with her special project,

The Warhol will have the opportunity to present a traveling retrospective of Piper's work organized by Maurice Berger, Adjunct Curator of the Fine Arts Gallery, University of Maryland, as well as an essential video, sound, and performance component organized by Independent Curator Dara Meyers-Kingsley. Funding has been provided by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency. Additional support has been provided by Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, and the Multi-Cultural Arts Initiative, which is jointly funded by The Pittsburgh Foundation and Howard Heinz Endowment.

IMAGE:
Adrian Piper,
Self-Portrait as a Nice White Lady,
1995

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