Melissa Catanese's guest appearances

Melissa Catanese

Magic Hour

Light Work Podcast

John Edmonds

Vince Aletti

Teju Cole

Xaviera Simmons

Dayanita Singh

Alec Soth

Todd Gray

Jeff Burton

Meryl Meisler

Gregory Halpern

Susan Meiselas

Duane Michals

Paul Mpagi Sepuya

Mark McKnight

Rory Mulligan

OwlTail

Light Work presents "The Lottery" a solo exhibition of new works by Pittsburgh-based photographer Melissa Catanese. In "The Lottery," Catanese turns her attention to the tense and confusing state of contemporary politics and culture. Her images bring together large groups of people, barren caverns, natural forces, physical exertion, and eruptions both crude and colorful. The accumulated manic puzzle shifts the viewer from crowded street to darkened cavern. Along the way, we see a geyser of oil, streaks of lightning, veins of molten rock, and cooling craters. Punctuating these natural phenomena are people in states of glee, pain, confusion, and anguish.Catanese borrows the title from literature. In Shirley Jackson’s famous short story, a village casually embarks on a yearly ritual of selecting an individual and then stoning them to death. Catanese’s "The Lottery" teases out similar themes regarding ritual, culture, and the diffused accountability of a mob.Melissa Catanese’s work blends anonymous photographs, press clips, and images from NASA’s archive with her own. Single images resemble sentence fragments that Catanese completes with her sequences. Sometimes seamlessly blending in, Catanese’s own images also act as punctuation throughout the work. This creates a sensation of call and response between the archival material and Catanese’s own images that brings to mind the Chauvet Cave in southeastern France. There, brilliant cave paintings date back 37,000 years. Over this enormous stretch of time, additional visitors added their own marks to the cave murals, sometimes with gaps of more than 5,000 years. The idea that collaboration can reach across time, decoding or willfully rethinking, is present throughout "The Lottery."melissacatanese.comMusic: "Pacing" by Blue Dot Sessions  —Special thanks to Daylight Blue Mediadaylightblue.comLight Worklightwork.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Light Work presents "The Lottery" a solo exhibition of new works by Pittsburgh-based photographer Melissa Catanese. In "The Lottery," Catanese turns her attention to the tense and confusing state of contemporary politics and culture. Her images bring together large groups of people, barren caverns, natural forces, physical exertion, and eruptions both crude and colorful. The accumulated manic puzzle shifts the viewer from crowded street to darkened cavern. Along the way, we see a geyser of oil, streaks of lightning, veins of molten rock, and cooling craters. Punctuating these natural phenomena are people in states of glee, pain, confusion, and anguish.Catanese borrows the title from literature. In Shirley Jackson’s famous short story, a village casually embarks on a yearly ritual of selecting an individual and then stoning them to death. Catanese’s "The Lottery" teases out similar themes regarding ritual, culture, and the diffused accountability of a mob.Melissa Catanese’s work blends anonymous photographs, press clips, and images from NASA’s archive with her own. Single images resemble sentence fragments that Catanese completes with her sequences. Sometimes seamlessly blending in, Catanese’s own images also act as punctuation throughout the work. This creates a sensation of call and response between the archival material and Catanese’s own images that brings to mind the Chauvet Cave in southeastern France. There, brilliant cave paintings date back 37,000 years. Over this enormous stretch of time, additional visitors added their own marks to the cave murals, sometimes with gaps of more than 5,000 years. The idea that collaboration can reach across time, decoding or willfully rethinking, is present throughout "The Lottery."<a href="http://www.melissacatanese.com" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">melissacatanese.com</a>Music: "Pacing" by Blue Dot Sessions —Special thanks to Daylight Blue Media<a href="http://daylightblue.com" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">daylightblue.com</a>Light Work<a href="http://lightwork.org" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">lightwork.org</a> See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.

Melissa Catanese: The Lottery

Ed Panar

In this episode, Pittsburgh based photographers Melissa Catanese &amp; Ed Panar sit down with Jordan Weitzman at Spaces Corners, their bookstore and gallery storefront dedicated to the photo book. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Pittsburgh based photographers Melissa Catanese &amp; Ed Panar sit down with Jordan Weitzman at Spaces Corners, their bookstore and gallery storefront dedicated to the photo book. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Melissa Catanese & Ed Panar