Untitled (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Building, Pittsburgh)

Description:

In his architectural photographs, Eberle often transforms well-known monuments of the built environment into compositions that evoke their sculptural qualities. For the exhibition Factory Direct: Pittsburgh, in which contemporary artists did residencies at Pittsburgh-based factories and created work about the experience, Eberle photographed the buildings themselves, applying the industrial architecture of the city to his signature treatment. The grid structure of the work, meanwhile, is an homage to Andy Warhol's 1970s series of "sewn portraits," in which the Pop artist echoed the seriality of his silkscreens by stitching together multiple copies of a photographic image. This print depicts a grid of photographs of the Pittsburgh Post building, creating an interplay of linear, geometric elements.