Digital / lighting / projection art
2-D art, including murals, mosaic, photography, etc.
Pittsburgh Creative Corps Artist Directory
Centa Schumacher
Primary Discipline
Artistic Practice
Assemblage, including found objects, multimedia
Digital / photography
Textile / fabric / weaving
Installation documentation from the exhibition “Voids, etc” at 707 Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, 2020, photographic print on fabric
Documentation of “Umbra, Penumbra, Antumbra” from the exhibition “Into That Dark Sea” at Art Ark Gallery, San Jose, CA, 2021, double-sided piece, photographic print on fabric
Wheel of Fortune, temporary public art installation with the Bloomfield Garden Club, 2021, photographic print on velvet
“Wavering Boundaries” peep-show installation in the exhibition “Swan Song” at Phosphor Project Space, 2021, looping video projection in three parts
Installation view of “Eclipse Season” in the “Seeking Truth” exhibition at Brew House Arts, 2020, photographic print on fabric
About the Artist
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.
Photo by Centa Schumacher
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Accreditations, Certifications, and/or Awards
Former Director, Phosphor Project Space, 2018-2021
Provides Fabrication Services to Other Artists
No
Teaching Artist
Yes, all ages
Joined the Directory
March 2022
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PROJECT
Pittsburgh Creative Corps
Designed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Pittsburgh Creative Corps initiative engages artists and creative workers to activate the public realm while providing economic opportunity.
“Public art provides an opportunity for viewers to step outside of their own reality while going about their daily lives. I'm particularly interested in how people who repeatedly pass public art on their way to work, school, etc engage with the art--how it both integrates into their lives and takes them out of their normal experiences on a daily basis.”
Centa Schumacher
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PROJECT
Pittsburgh Creative Corps
Designed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Pittsburgh Creative Corps initiative engages artists and creative workers to activate the public realm while providing economic opportunity.
