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Artists Spend Two Months at The Mattress Factory to Create Works

Brian Griffiths - "The Body and Ground" (or Your Lovely Smile), 2010 - Canvas, paint, fiberglass poles, rope, netting, thread, tape, plastic sheeting. Courtesy of The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA

PITTSBURGH, PA.- The Mattress Factory opened “Nothing is
Impossible”, an exhibition with new and context specific work by artists
Karl
Burke, Rhona Byrne, Brian Griffiths, Bea McMahon and Dennis McNulty.
Based in
Dublin and London, each of the artists has been invited to spend a
period of two
months in Pittsburgh to develop work for this project.
“Nothing
is
Impossible” is the first in a series of exhibitions and performances
Mark Garry
and Georgina Jackson will produce during their two-year curatorial
residency
with the museum. The exhibition will run through August 8, 2010.