Centa Schumacher: October 2021
Centa Schumacher: October 2021
Centa Schumacher is a lens-based artist and educator based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is the former director of the now-closed gallery Phosphor Project Space. Centa has shown her work nationally, including Paradice Palase in Brooklyn, NY, Aggregate Space in Oakland, CA, and a recent solo exhibition at 707 Gallery in Pittsburgh. She received her MFA from San Francisco State University.
In her lens-based practice, Centa Schumacher uses abstraction and luminance to explore ideas of consciousness and the indefinite. Uninterested in what the camera can do as a factual recording device, she works with a homemade lens assembled from vintage camera elements, creating a tool that distorts light and perspective. If photography is the act of capturing light and time, then this lens acts as a tool to view these realities on another wavelength, much like deep space telescopes capture non-visible spectra to bring us otherwise hidden views of the universe. In this way, these images become a portal between natural phenomena and the unseen world.
Upcoming Projects:
All Unsaved Changes Will Be Lost
Wilkinsburg Cultural Development Center, Lohr Gallery
725 Wood Street 15221
November 6, 2021 - Janunary 22, 2022
Open gallery hours: Saturdays 12-5pm
