Silver Eye

Uninterested in what the camera can do as a factual recording device, Centa Schumacher works with a homemade lens assembled from vintage camera elements, creating a tool that distorts light and perspective. She views this tool as an intermediary between the material world and the spiritual. ‘Observational Astronomy’ presents works that use abstraction and luminance to create spaces that feel out of the ordinary and invoke a sense of transcendence. Schumacher sees her practice as a way to transform the mundane lived experience into something elevated and unrecognizable.

The exhibition is part of Silver Eye's Pittsburgh Presents series, a year round project to highlight the work of extraordinary artists and image makers working in our community.

Participating Artist

1. Centa Schumacher (b. 1986, Fresno, California) is a lens-based artist based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Schumacher has had solo exhibitions at the 707 Gallery and Bunker Projects in Pittsburgh, PA. Her work has also been featured nationally in group exhibitions at Paradice Palase in Brooklyn, NY, Aggregate Space in Oakland, CA, and the Tomayko Foundation in Pittsburgh, PA. Schumacher was the director and co-founder of the art gallery Phosphor Project Space from 2018-2021. She received her MFA from San Francisco State University.