Mattress Factory - Museum of Contemporary Art

Mattress Factory - Museum of Contemporary Art Mattress Factory is a leading contemporary art museum and international artist residency.
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In addition to revolving installations created by artists-in-residence, you can explore permanent installations by Greer Lankton, James Turrell, Winifred Lutz, Yayoi Kusama and more.

Happy Pride from Mattress Factory! 😍 🌈 🩷 💛 💚 🧡 💜 🌈 😘 📸 Maya Lovro
06/12/2025

Happy Pride from Mattress Factory! 😍 🌈 🩷 💛 💚 🧡 💜 🌈 😘

📸 Maya Lovro

This lineup is PINK. From 60’s garage bops to multifacted DJs — you’ll groove through Garden Party with a kalaidascope o...
05/23/2025

This lineup is PINK. From 60’s garage bops to multifacted DJs — you’ll groove through Garden Party with a kalaidascope of sounds and rhythms that’ll leave you feeling Pink.

🌸 Garden Party: Pink 🌸
🧠 All funds support the museum!
🦩 Friday, June 6, 2025
🪱 7 - 11 PM for General Admission | 5:30 - 11 PM for VIP
🎟️ Tickets via link in bio

THANK YOU TO OUR PINK ENTERTAINMENT
Formosa .exe w/ Kinella Eclipse + Tiny Wine
Century III .iii
DJ Femi
Laurie Trok Studios
Leila Rhodes
Gina Gory
Steel City Kitty Show
MC’d by the one and only, Kat De Lac

THANK YOU TO OUR PINK SPONSORS
Black Radish Kitchen
PA Libations
JusticeWorks Youth Care
UPMC and UPMC Health Plan
Dr. Lisa Cibik & Bernie Kobosky
Nium
Thommy Conroy
Supporting Strategies
Giant Eagle Foundation
Fleischner Family Charitable Foundation
Lo Bar Cocktail Services
Sunny Bunny Eco Luxe House
Echo Realty
Pittsburgh Steelers
Penn Brewery
Macaroni Kid
The Northside Chronicle
Craftworks USA
Marsh McLennan Agency
SmithGroup
City Cast Pittsburgh
Mary’s
Pittsburgh Quarterly
Reed Smith LLP
PNC Bank
Fragasso Financial Advisors
Q Development
Schell Games
Sunburst School of Music
Rectenwald Brothers
Babb, Inc
The Northside Chronicle
Trib LIVE
92.9 Pittsburgh
StufftodoinPittsburgh
Pin Up Posters Courier Collective
Made in PGH
TABLE Magazine

This lineup is PINK. From 60's garage bops to multifacted DJs — you'll groove through Garden Party with a kalaidascope o...
05/23/2025

This lineup is PINK. From 60's garage bops to multifacted DJs — you'll groove through Garden Party with a kalaidascope of sounds and rhythms that'll leave you feeling Pink.

🌸 Garden Party: Pink 🌸
🧠 All funds support the museum!
🦩 Friday, June 6, 2025
🪱 7 - 11 PM for General Admission | 5:30 - 11 PM for VIP
🎟️ Tickets via link in bio

THANK YOU TO OUR PINK ENTERTAINMENT
Formosa w/ Kinella Eclipse + Tiny Wine
Century III
DJ Femi
Laurie Trok Studios
Leila Rhodes
Gina Gory
Steel City Kitty Show
MC’d by the one and only, Kat De Lac

THANK YOU TO OUR PINK SPONSORS
Black Radish Kitchen
PA Libations
JusticeWorks Youth Care
UPMC and UPMC Health Plan
Dr. Lisa Cibik & Bernie Kobosky
Nium
Thommy Conroy
Supporting Strategies
Giant Eagle Foundation
Lo Bar Cocktail Services
Sunny Bunny Eco Luxe House
Echo Realty
Pittsburgh Steelers
Fleischner Family Charitable Foundation
Penn Brewery
Macaroni Kid
The Northside Chronicle
Craftworks USA
Marsh McLennan Agency
SmithGroup
City Cast Pittsburgh
Mary's
Pittsburgh Quarterly
Reed Smith LLP
PNC Bank
Fragasso Financial Advisors
Q Development
Schell Games
Sunburst School of Music
Rectenwald Brothers
Babb, Inc
The Northside Chronicle
Trib LIVE
92.9 Pittsburgh
StufftodoinPittsburgh
Pin Up Posters Courier Collective
Made in PGH
TABLE Magazine

"One day, I was looking at a tablecloth covered in red flowers, which was spread out on the table. Then I looked up towa...
05/20/2025

"One day, I was looking at a tablecloth covered in red flowers, which was spread out on the table. Then I looked up toward the ceiling. There, on the windows and even on the pillars, I saw the same red flowers. They were all over the room, my body, and the entire universe." – Yayoi Kusama

🟡 Kusama uses mirrors as a medium to obliterate boundaries—dissolving herself, others, and surroundings into a shimmering realm of infinity. Through this, she conjures a sense of nothingness and otherworldly immersion. 🔵

🟢 One of the world's most successful living artists, Kusama has explored painting, sculpture, performance, and installation in her career spanning back to the 1950's. Her lifelong struggle with mental illness and ideas of “normalcy” shape her work; work that is filled with obsessive patterns and anthropomorphic forms that reflect her inner world. 🔴

Yayoi Kusama
Infinity Dots Mirrored Room
Long Term Exhibition
On View since 1996

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As the 4th floor in 500 Sampsonia was recently transformed by Marc Vilanova and our exhibitions staff to open "Grounded ...
05/13/2025

As the 4th floor in 500 Sampsonia was recently transformed by Marc Vilanova and our exhibitions staff to open "Grounded Frictions," we're highlighting a work that previously occupied the space over 20 years ago: Ann Reichlin’s 2003 installation, "Schism."

Reichlin transformed the space on the 4th floor into narrow passageways and enclosed rooms out of rebar, steel lath, and wire fabric. The tilted and transparent walls along with filtered daylight—passing through perforated plastic covering the windows—fragment and stratify the space, in spite of the fact that viewers can look through the walls themselves.

Ann Reichlin’s artworks fill rooms; she describes her installations as abstracted self-portraits. Examining rooms and architecture as not only physical but psychological constructions, Reichlin invites observers to explore how each plane intersects, emerges, and disappears from view. These spaces, rather than inviting and accommodating human inhabitation, seemingly exist at their own will.

Ann Reichlin’s other installations challenge space—both indoor and outdoor, manufactured and natural—to set the terms by which their inhabitants must abide, rather than the other way around.

One of her most recent large-scale installations, "Transient Room" (2021), occupied an abandoned cell in Philadelphia’s Eastern State Penitentiary. Using wood and mirrorlite to reflect the cell’s ceiling back at itself, Reichlin creates a new, imaginary room out of a space she considers “restrictive, cruel, and hauntingly beautiful.” Reichlin’s portfolio, resume, and social media can be found on her website: annereichlin.com.

From the 2003 Archives
Ann Reichlin
"Schism"
10.26.03 - 6.27.04

Thank you to Visitor Experience Keyholder Bree Ank , who penned this insightful archival reflection.

05/08/2025

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Thursday 11am - 6pm
Friday 11am - 6pm
Saturday 11am - 6pm
Sunday 11am - 6pm

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