A Head of Flames: because I want you too

Skypomp presents to you A Head of Flames: because I want you too, an exhibition of five artists working across media to get under your skin and shake you awake.

Julia Sell conjures the gory and nightmare into an unease pulling you in.
With an eye on light, texture and movement, Sean Masuda captures the “collective human experience” in its intricate chaos on film and ink on paper.
Madison Bradfield mines history to explore antiquity, melancholia, and, for this collection of work, suffering in silence.
Madeline Swiger's layered figurative paintings scratch at the surface of reality until it bleeds.
Ironsmith and performance artist Gwen Sedlar sculpts an experience that examines hostility, attachment, and desire in the things we do “to each other together.”

The presentation of this group of artists mulls our shared reality and mingled contexts. “Hell is other people,” according to Sartre, but in Milton's words, “The mind is its own place to make a heaven of hell and a hell of heaven.”

The show runs from October 8 to the first of November, at 301 Smithfield, Downtown Pittsburgh. Come across the veil for this is the season.