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As one of the few dedicated arts publications in Pittsburgh, The Bunker Review provides context to our audiences, offers unique interpretations, and creates space for discussions around contemporary art. In addition to traditional arts writing, we also publish experimental works, mixed media pieces, and explore online publication as a platform for art making. We are honored to support the careers of working artists and arts writers through a combination of writing opportunities, live events and audio-visual programming.

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Things As They Are was an exhibition by resident artist Morgan Rose Free presented March 2018.

The exhibition invites you on a reimagined walk through the city, flipping and exaggerating perceptions of the ordinary. Here, the sky is at your feet while sidewalk blocks are brought onto the wall, encouraging deliberate observation and bodily awareness. The many moods of the sky are punctuated while reclaiming the visual plane in which one would usually engage in to look down at your phone. Meanwhile, compositions of things discarded gain elevated value through a playful reimagining of material and scale. Trash becomes seductive and evocative by turning single-use plastics into precious art objects, echoing a concern for the natural environment and urging viewers to consider common detritus with permanence and agency. With an obvious reverence for the forgotten and tossed aside, Things As They Are does not present things as they actually are, but as they ought be considered; grand and beautiful.