2014 Pittsburgh Biennial

This fall, the Miller Gallery is pleased to participate for the second time in the Pittsburgh Biennial. This collaborative city-wide exhibition project is presented by Pittsburgh Center for the Arts in partnership with the Andy Warhol Museum, Carnegie Museum of Art, Mattress Factory, Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s SPACE Gallery, Pittsburgh Filmmakers and Pittsburgh Glass Center. The Biennial celebrates the region’s most compelling artists as well as our unique visual arts landscape. Through partnership with seven of the city’s leading visual arts organizations, the Pittsburgh Biennial showcases a cross section of the diverse, fresh-faced and multifaceted artists who have close connections to Pittsburgh.

The Miller Gallery’s exhibition features an eclectic group of artists and cultural producers living in or connected to Pittsburgh. Using processes in painting, sculpture,  video, and sound, these artists collect and reconfigure the data and debris of today’s world, producing works with a fresh perspective. Throughout the exhibition, a rotating roster of presentations will showcase innovative experiments in dance, social practice, performance, and more. The exhibition aims to present the wide range of approaches to art making present in Pittsburgh, provoking viewers beyond a “pedestrian” reality without fully giving way to fantasy, as each artist speaks in their own way to the dynamics between the quotidian and the cosmic, the social and the spectacular, the local and the global.

Casey Droege was raised by two artists and a mime. Their incessant side hustles, ranging from chimney sweep to insurance sales, created the time management monster/slightly organized tornado that is Casey.  She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. And while her mother made it clear to her that she should go into computers, she now lives and works as a creative hustler in Pittsburgh.