Silver Eye

During the March Unblurred First Friday Art Walk, FIERCE: Pittsburgh will be on view at Silver Eye!

UNBLURRED

Each month, people from all over the region stroll Penn Avenue between the 4800 and 5500 blocks to meet with artists and local business owners. Visitors can expect to see everyone and everything. Families, singles, workers, students, long-time residents and first-time visitors alike can bask in Penn Avenue's creative energy – experiencing a mix of photography, dance, painting, sculpture, music and spoken word performances. The Garfield Night Market also takes place during Unblurred from May through September.

Image credit: Tara Geyer

Participating Artist

1. Ajamu X is a darkroom and fine art photographic artist. His philosophical provocations and aesthetics celebrate Black queer bodies, the erotic senses, pleasure, and the sensual–material attributes of image production. In 2022, he was canonised by The Trans Pennine Travelling Sisters as the Patron Saint of Darkrooms and received an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal Photographic Society.

   His photographs sit within many private and public collections including: The Rose Art Museum, Gallery of Modern Art, Autograph, Tate Britain, Arts Council of England, Victoria & Albert Museum, The Walker Gallery and Martin Parr Foundation. His work has been exhibited in many prestigious museums, galleries and alternative spaces worldwide.

   On the occasion of FIERCE: Pittsburgh, the artist reflects:

   “FIERCE is part of a lifelong, unfolding global archive in perpetual evolution, and Pittsburgh is its latest iteration. Like FIERCE: London, FIERCE: Toronto, and FIERCE: Bristol, each sitter is a familiar stranger of sorts. I celebrate the undeniable, vital energy of these Black queers who animate and transform the networks of identities they move through in all their beauty, in all their ways.”