Light From the Bottom of Your Shoe
Light From the Bottom of Your Shoe is a collection of works on paper by David Bernabo, Andrew Allison, and Haylee Ebersole and features a playful, prismatic array of drawings, letterpress prints, screenprints, risographs, and monotypes.
Bernabo’s letterpress prints, produced in collaboration with Ebersole at Meshwork Press, are packed full of unruly color gradients and intriguing juxtapositions. His work merges familiar symbols with built environments tangled with unreal spaces, telling narratives that are both uncanny and everyday.
Allison and Ebersole’s prints and drawings offer a glimpse into the ethos of their ongoing collaborative process, highlighting moments like a witch manicure, building a ladder that leads nowhere, and weaving a jumbo friendship bracelet. Through sculpture, drawing, and printmaking, their work embraces curiosity, playfulness, and magic as forms of resistance.
Opening September 7, 2024 at Bottom Feeder Books.
Runs through September 28, 2024.
Bios:
Haylee Ebersole is an interdisciplinary artist whose work spans printmaking, drawing, and sculpture. She holds a BFA in Printmaking from Metropolitan State College of Denver and an MFA in Printmaking from Ohio University. Ebersole has exhibited her work nationally at renowned spaces such as the Westmoreland Museum of American Art, the Center for Visual Art, the Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum, SPACE Gallery, and the Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery.
In addition to her artistic practice, Ebersole has taught drawing, mixed media, and printmaking at Carnegie Mellon University, Seton Hill University, and Carlow University. She is also the founder of Meshwork Press, a community-minded print shop in Wilkinsburg, PA, dedicated to serving high school students from under-resourced neighborhoods through work training and free art, design, and entrepreneurship programming.
Andrew W. Allison is an American multidisciplinary artist, poet, and experimental musician currently working in Pittsburgh, PA. Allison began making things at the age of five in order to process his experiences with hypnagogic hallucinations, ghosts, homeschooling, and a strong desire to connect with other humans.
David Bernabo is a musician, artist, independent filmmaker, and dancer based in Pittsburgh, PA. His current art practice is focused on printmaking, but previous work dealt with installation, video, and painting. He has exhibited at galleries like SPACE Gallery, The Union Hall, and Miller ICA, screened films all over the world, and has danced at The Wild Project in New York, the Mahaney Center for the Performing Arts in Vermont, and the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater and New Hazlett Theater in Pittsburgh. Bernabo is also a co-founder of Bright Archives, an independent archival production house. He holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Carnegie Mellon University.