Discipline: Visual Art – painting

Barbara Weissberger

Discipline: Visual Art – painting
Region: Pittsburgh, PA
MacDowell Fellowships: 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.

Cheney Studio was given to MacDowell by Mrs. Benjamin P. Cheney and Mrs. Karl Kauffman. Like Barnard Studio, Cheney is a low, broadly massed bungalow. Sited on a steep westward slope, its porches are supported on wooden posts and fieldstone with lattices. Although it still retains its appealing character, the original design of the shingled building…

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