Disciplines: Visual Arts – painting

Barbara Weissberger

Disciplines: Visual Arts – painting
Region: Pittsburgh, PA
Residencies: 1997, 1999

Barbara Weissberger works across media in photography, sculpture, collage and sewn fabrics. Her work is improvisational, rooted in process, and concerned with bodies, perception and sensation. Her work is shown at such venues as The Drawing Center, White Columns, PS1/MoMA, Gridspace (Brooklyn), Photoville (Brooklyn), and Hallwalls (Buffalo) in New York; Silver Eye Center for Photography, The Mattress Factroy, SPACE Gallery and the PCA, Pittsburgh; ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA; Artspace New Haven, CT; Coop Gallery, Nashville; The Missoula Art Museum, MT; and Big Medium, Austin. She was a participant in The Drawing Center’s inaugural Open Sessions, and a Guggenheim Fellow. Residencies include The Bogliasco Foundation (Italy), Yaddo, MacDowell, Camargo Foundation (France), Ucross, Ragdale, Hambidge Center, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Montana Artists Refuge.

Studios

Cheney

Barbara Weissberger worked in the Cheney studio.

Support the 31 studios on MacDowell's campus by making a gift right now, during our Spring Appeal! CheneyStudio was given to MacDowell by Mrs. Benjamin P. Cheney and Mrs.Karl Kauffman. Like Barnard Studio, Cheney is a low, broadly massedbungalow. Sited on a steep westward slope, its porches are supportedon wooden posts…

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