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A common perception of many of today's galleries is that they are one-dimensional in their approach to collectors services.  Our expertise and over 37 years experience as a gallery affords us an opportunity to offer our loyal customers  and the public the following useful services: • Fine arts appraising • Collection development and curation • Expert and creative installation of art • Interior design consultation • Lighting ideas and solutions • Fine and decorative arts conservation collaboration • Framing, matting, and presentation advice, references • Programming sponsorship on  contemporary/outsider art issues • Guest curation of exhibitions • Exhibition loan Please consider these areas of service available to you. We look forward to the opportunity of broadening our relationship with you to enhance both your enjoyment of art and the way in which you live with it.

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Vanessa German - Artists - Carl Hammer Gallery

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2016 de.structive dis.tillation, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY i am armed. i am an army., Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY i come to do a violence to the lie, MATRIX 174, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT Introspective: Vanessa German, The August Wilson Center for African America Culture, Pittsburgh, PA 2015 The Ordinary Sacred, Concept Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA Bitter Root, Northcutt Stelle Gallery, Montana State University Billings, Billings, MT Bitter Root, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT 2014 Citizen Artist, Concept Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA Bitter Root, Montana Museum of Art & Culture, Missoula, MT 2013 Homewood, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, New York, NY 2012 Emerging Artist of the Year, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA 2011 Are You A Good Woman, Gallerie Chiz, Pittsburgh, PA HOME: HOMEWOOD Artist Residency, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA 2010 Tar Baby, Mendelson Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA Tar Baby Jane and Doo-Wop: Everything Useful For Your Modern Household, 709 Penn Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2017 FemaleFeminist/2017, Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, Old Lyme, CT New Installations: 40th Year, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA Supernature, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY Innovative Approaches, Honored Traditions, Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY 2016 AFRICA FORECAST: Fashioning Contemporary Life, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA Platform, Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, KS Storytelling: The Georgia Review’s 70th Anniversary Art Retrospective, Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA Tomorrow Never Happens, Samek Art Museum, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA Conjurers: Artists Imbue the Ordinary, Visual Arts Center of Richmond, VA State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now, Jepson Center for the Arts, Savannah, GA 2015 Black: Color, Material, Concept, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY Re:Purposed, Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL UNLOADED, Space, Pittsburgh, PA Vices Peculiar to these Eclectics: Contemporary Collage, Dr. M.T. Geoffrey Art Gallery, St John’s University, Queens, NY Performing Blackness :: Performing Whiteness, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA Some embly Required, Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI 2014 State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR Pittsburgh Biennial, Pittsburgh Gl Center, Pittsburgh PA SOFA: Sculpture Objects Functional Art + Design, Chicago, IL Cabinets of Wonder, Children’s Museum of Art, New York, NY Afrotechtopia, Samek Art Museum, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA 2013 Remix: Selections from the International Collage Center, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY 2012 To Be A Lady: Forty-five Women in the Arts, curated by Jason Andrew, 1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery, New York, NY Remix: Selections from the International Collage Center, The Duam Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO The Art of Storytelling: Lies, Enchantment, Humor & Truth, American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD Ill Perceived, Curated by Kristin Rogers, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, OH African American Art 1950-Present, Smithsonian Institution and David C. Driskell Center, College Park, MD 2011 Material Witness, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY 2010 Responding, Future Tenant Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA Art of the State: Pennsylvania 2010, Pennsylvania State Museum, Harrisburg, PA Art For Life, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA Beyond Swastika and Jim Crow, I.P. Stanback Museuem, Orangeburg, SC 2009 Visionary Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA ociate Artists of Pittsburgh 99th Annual Exhibition, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA 2008 Black Clay in PA: A Dialogue in Flux, August Wilson Center, Pittsburgh, PA 2007 Objectification, Callerie Chiz, Pittsburgh, PA 2005 Gestures: An Exhibition of Small Site-Specific Works, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA PERFORMANCES 2014 Creative Summit, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR B.U.S. 9, Bricolage Theater, Pittsburgh, PA 2013 Homewood, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY 2011 Pittsburgh Biennale Gertrude’s/Lot, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburg, PA Too Shallow for Diving: the 21st Century is Treading Water, American Jewish Museum, Pittsburgh, PA Material Witness, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY 2010 TEDx MIT, Cambridge, MA Reading on Mars: American Shorts Reading Series, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA 2009 Black Clay, National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (Feature performance), Erie, CO Testify, Multiple venues (Feature performance) Women in Politics, Chatham College (Feature Guest Performer), Pittsburgh, PA 2008 SNAP!, Science, Nature, Art and People Conference (Feature performance), Boulder, CO Testify, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts & PFM Biennale, Pittsburg, PA Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship International Conference (Keynote Poem and performance), Boston, MA 2007 Pittsburgh International First Voice Festival, August Wilson Center, Pittsburgh, PA PopTech!, Camden, Maine 2005 She Said: Words by Women, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Pittsburgh, PA COLLECTIONS Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, AR David C. Driskell Center, Collage Park, MD Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI Franciscan University, Steubenville, OH Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA s Club Collection, Fort Lauderdale, FL IP Stanback Museum, South Carolina State University, Orangeburg, SC The Progressive Art Collection, Cleveland, OH The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame, IN Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA Wadsworth Antheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant Pittsburgh Foundation and The Heinz Endowments, Creative Development Grant Heinz Endowments Sprout Fund Ronald H Brown Leadership Award for Community Leadership, Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh National Organization for Blacks in Law Enforcement Community Leadership Award Women and s Foundation Award Inaugural August Wilson Center Fellow Inaugural Green For All Fellow Center for Victims of Violence and Crime Fellow Founding member August Wilson Center Theater Ensemble Community Leadership Initiative Fellow Creative Capital Flight School Fellow APPEARANCES AND TALKS Creative Mornings, ociation of American Museums, Washington, DC Creative Summit Crystal Bridges, State of the Art Spotlight, Bentonville, AR TED Women National ociation of Children’s Museums, Arlington, VA ART TABLE, New York, NY Montana State University, Bozeman, MT University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA La Roche College, Pittsburgh, PA Marshall University Birke Fine Arts Festival, Huntington, WV Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA Rochester University, Chicago, IL Ball State University, Muncie, IN Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN SUNY Cortland, New York, NY University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, PA Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH Clarion University, Clarion, PA La Roche College, Pittsburgh, PA Women and s Foundation Annual Meeting Jones Summer Dance Intensive Shuman Juvenile Detention Center Guest Artist Green For All Academy, Oakland, California Fed Ex Headquarters Women’s Month Western PA Writing Project Writers Renaissance Billy Strayhorn Birthday Celebration Pittsburgh Pride Magee Women’s Hospital Diversity Day Let Freedom Sing Urban & Suburban Choir TED x MIT, Cambridge, M ROOT, August Wilson Center ROOT, Vineyard Playhouse Martha’s Vineyard ROOT, AIR Kelly Strayhorn Theatre SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 2016 Jessica Stafford Davis, 10 Female Artists of Color on the Rise, The Root, March 22, 2016 2015 Zoe Donaldson, “A Sculptor Creates a Bright Spot in a Struggling Community,” O, The Oprah Magazine, September Issue Marcia Davis, Six years after the fire, Peggy Cooper Cafritz has a new home and collection, The Washington Post, September 24, 2015 2014 This Sculptor Is Using Trash To Inspire One Of Pittsburgh's Toughest Neighborhoods To Make Art,” Huffington Post, October 7, 2014 Julia Halperin and Pac Pobric, “New York Fairs Let the Outsiders In,” The Art Newspaper, March 2014 “In Blue-Chip Precincts, a Shout-Out for the Undersung,” The New York Times, March 6, 2014 Mary Thomas, “Art Notes; An art-filled Saturday – Pick Between Two Major Exhibitions,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 8, 2014 2013 “30 Black Artist Under 40 You Should Know,” Huffington Post, February 26, 2013 Diana Nelson Jones, “Fighting the world view that ‘nobody cares’”, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, October 31, 2013 Rachel Wolff, “The New Collage,” ARTnews, December 2013 2012 Thomas Micchelli, “City of Women,” Hyperallergic, October 12, 2012 Nadine W erman, Art Review, Pittsburgh City Paper, October 10, 2012 Geoffrey Himes, “Agony and ,” City Paper, Baltimore, October 10, 2012 Michael Amy, “Vanessa German,” Sculpture Magazine, June 2012 “Artist Vanessa German’s Blessings,” Locally Toned, March 19, 2012 2011 Anna Venishnick, “My Generation / Female Power: Vanessa German,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 6, 2011 2010 Bill O’Driscoll, “Words and Worth,” Pittsburgh City Paper, May 2010 “In the Frame: Artists in Their Own Words,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 26, 2010 Mary Thomas, Art Review, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 18, 2010 EXHIBITIONS PIECEWORK: VANESSA GERMAN, JOE LEWIS, DIANE SAMUELS, DONNA SHARRETT AND STEPHEN SOLLINS MARCH 1 - APRIL 21, 2018   SUPERNATURE JULY 13 - AUGUST 18, 2017   VANESSA GERMAN: I AM ARMED. I AM AN ARMY. OCTOBER 20 - NOVEMBER 30, 2016   VANESSA GERMAN: HOMEWOOD OCTOBER 10 - NOVEMBER 9, 2013   MATERIAL WITNESS: HANNELORE BARRON, DONNA SHARRETT, VANESSA GERMAN NOVEMBER 17 - DECEMBER 17, 2011      

Vanessa German