Artists in Solidarity Gallery: Defy the Design

Welcome! 41 artists in solidarity have contributed artwork to the show! Each have their own page which you can access by clicking on the individual images below the slide show. Not all pieces are for sale.

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Gallery guide
  • Detail of: A screenprint of food scraps and plants intended for compost, printed in yellow on brown paper. Pink text overlayed of a pledge of allegience to compost.
    I Trust In You/In You I Trust Medallions by Lizzie Hurst (Detail Image)
  • Detail of: Cross-stitch of a feminine face looking at an angle. Skin is pale, and lips are fuschia. Two toned purple hair cascades next to the face, with white bejeweled flowers set in it.
    I Remember You (Purple Hair, White Flowers) by Avis Lee (Detail Image 2)
  • This piece is a small metal 'booklet' necklace on a golden chain. As you turn the four pages, they read 'let's get free,' ending in three heart shapes, stamped onto pieces of copper and nickel, each with a brass background. The book opens into a frame that is shaped like a house which then connects to its chain.
    books + home + free by Lizzie Anderson
  • A screenprint of food scraps and plants intended for compost, printed in yellow on brown paper. Pink text overlayed of a pledge of allegience to compost.
    Pledge by Lizzie Hurst
  • Two layer linoleum cut print. First layer printed in black ink, depicting a feminine person working with plants in their lap, with a baby strapped on their back. In front of them a banner reads "Cosechando Vida." The second print layer is a blend of yellow to green, surrounding the central figure, and showing plants, birds, and other organic shapes in white lines.
    Cosechando Vida by Grabiel Grafica
  • A painting of a police officer arresting a uterus in handcuffs while protesters with picket signs reading, “My body my choice,” “No Means No,” and “I object” are depicted over the police officers’ shoulder. The background of the painting is covered in paper clippings from law journals/magazines. Words within the background are highlighted and notes in blue ink are written in certain areas citing to various case law and statutes.
    Pussy Police by Gina McKlveen
  • Postcard collage showing alphabet magnet letters. The letters at the top and bottom read: "You reside on these native lands; no one is illegal on stolen land; abolish ICE and land back." The text in the middle spell out the native lands of Pittsburgh through alphabet magnets melting in ice and resting on grass.
    “You Are On Native Lands…” by Jules Lee
  • A painting of two women standing side by side looking out towards a distant horizon. The landscape is dominated by two large interlocking square shapes like giant sculptures, through which the orange sky and purple ground is still visible. An orange sun causes the structures to cast long shadows on the ground.
    Vicky/Sabrina by Tricia Burmeister
  • Four circular handmade ceramic medallions, each about 1" across, in gray and pink, red and tan, yellow, and black and red. Both sides of the medallions are stamped with the words "In You I Trust/I Trust In You"
    I Trust In You/In You I Trust Medallions by Lizzie Hurst
  • Deep brown panes of glass have been soldered together to form a fist of power and solidarity. The sun shines through the glass, illuminating it.
    Untitled Fist by Ellie Durham-Britton
  • Collage of images and text, with half of the work inverted. One side show an illustration of Jimi Hendrix with text about his music, next to the words "Acid Blues Slight Return." The other side shows an illustration and text about Harriet Washington, next to the words "Renaissance Man."
    Acid Blues Slight Return (James McManus) & Renaissance Man (Harriet A. Washington) by Marsh Anderson
  • Screen print of many hands raised up holding a variety of tools and implements. The background is a textured hot pink, with the words "We must use all the tools" over it in blue hand letters.
    We Must Use All the Tools by Pete Railand
  • Detail of: A small ochre clay bowl sits upon to two cobalt ultramarine human feet
    Standing Offering Bowl by Allie Levin (Detail Image)
  • Detail of: Cross-stitch of the head and neck of a feminine person with brown skin, looking forward. The eyes are violet, and lips maroon, wearing a serious expression. The hair is twisted back and tight to the head, and they are wearing long earrings. A wooden dowel placemat is rolled decoratively at the sides of the piece.
    I Remember You (Violet Eyes) by Avis Lee (Detail Image)
  • Detail of: Four square canvases are affixed together into a larger square, and bordered in a braided rope. Each canvas has a different multicolor splatter/blown paint art on it. There is a smaller framed canvas with orange, yellow, and green swirled/blown paint affixed to the center of the piece. Affixed above this central painting is a printed image of four hands, each grasping the wrist next to it in a circle, with the words "There's Strength In Unity." Below the central canvas are several more printed images, including an American flag with rainbow colored stripes reading "We The People means everyone"; a photograph of a large splash of water, with a hand reaching through; and printed text reading "Our children are asking for our help. It is our responsiblity to repair the broken systems of today, so they can inherit a future defined by opportunity, compassion, equality, safety, belonging, love, freedom to be and to dream, truth and justice -- not by failures of the past.”
    Never Lose Your Hope, There Will Always Be a New Day by Janny S (Detail Image)
  • A comfortable contrasting fuzzy purple and knobby beige wides stripes, with appliquéd smashed tomatoes on top.
    Smashed Tomatoes Cardigan by Graeme Bowers
  • Offset print of a digital painting of a person, seen from below, flying a kite with the Palestinian flag on it. The string of the flag reads the words "free Palestine." The background is a cloud studded blue sky, with the words "kites will fly again under a rocket free sky" in purple typeset.
    Kites by Saiyare Refaei
  • a collage with ephemera (incl. chant sheets, stickers, flyers, zines, & more) from pgh-area protests, workshops, trainings, and other rad events towards liberation. collected from december 2025 - march 2026, assembled march 2026.
    pittsburgh for liberation, 12-25 to 3-26 by phoebe balascio
  • Detail of: Cross stitch of the face of a feminine person with light tan skin and bright orange red hair swooping down across their face and covering one eye. The other eye is closed, with green eyeshadow, and fuscia lips. Behind and surrounding the face are flowers with pale blue petals and yellow centers. The plastic canvas is bordered by a rolled wooden dowel mat.
    I Remember You (Forget-me-nots) by Avis Lee (Detail Image)
  • A painting of two police officers towering over a uterus while is being arrested, there are paper clip outs around the outline of the figures that describe a Pennsylvania jury trial.
    Uterus Under Arrest by Gina McKlveen
  • Black and white macro photograph of crystals, suggesting force bursting from surface of a planet
    KS-5862 from Kanawha Salines by Christine Lorenz
  • Two layer relief print. In black ink, a laundry line goes across the page, with clothes being strongly blown, near a basket on the ground. Behind, a hillside rises up with houses on it, and a hot air balloon floating in the sky. The second layer of the print fades from green to purple in the background of the image, with some swirling details in the sky.
    Wind by Bec Young
  • An image of an infant nestled in a pit of peach surrounded by a portion of the yellow fruit
    Baby Peach by Gina McKlveen
  • A colorful screenprint of a flock of flamingos, also called a flamboyance. There are lots of bright pinks, purples, and blues. The foreground has colorful reflections of the flamingos standing in a body of water.
    Fierce Flamboyance by Fio Avocado
  • A small rectangle of flames, flowing from magenta on top to purple on the bottom, subtley spells out the numbers 1, 3, 1, and 2
    purple flame message by Corey Lee
  • Detail of: Stylized cross-stitch of the face of a feminine person whose skin is brown and white in patches. Their hair is black, and lips are red, and they are wearing a white head wrap. They have a pink artificial flower and foliage tucked by their ear. Below the face, a fence made of popsicle sticks and green yarn is festooned in a variety of artificial flowers in white, pink, and yellow. The plastic canvas is mounted on a round jute placemat.
    I Remember You (Flower Fence) by Avis Lee (Detail Image)
  • Cross-stitch of the head and neck of a feminine person with brown skin, looking forward. The eyes are violet, and lips maroon, wearing a serious expression. The hair is twisted back and tight to the head, and they are wearing long earrings. A wooden dowel placemat is rolled decoratively at the sides of the piece.
    I Remember You (Violet Eyes) by Avis Lee
  • A collage of newspaper and add clippings that feature a myriad of ads and dismal news articles. The clippings are ripped in the center to feature a painting. The painting shows a wind & solar farm, garden, apple tree, and chickens. The scene is laid over rolling hills with meadows of flowers, with a cityscape in the distance. The sky is blue and full of clouds. Overtop of it all is a message that reads "A Kinder Future IS Possible".
    See Through by Lauren Niziol
  • a watercolor painting of a bunny rabbit wearing purple overalls, a yellow shirt, and a red bandanna. the bunny rabbit is smoking a cigarette. the painting is sewn onto a background piece of paper that is black with gold flowers on it. multi-colored lines of stitches are all around the bunny's head
    sad bunny smokes cigarettes sometimes by ocean capewell
  • Detail of: Cross-stitch of the head and torso of a feminine person looking forward. They have colorful eye makeup and red lips, and a patterned red top. Very long black braids made of hair hang down the sides of the face and off the canvas. The hair is adorned with red, white, and yellow flowers.
    Frida Kahlo by Avis Lee (Detail Image)
  • Two color risograph print with pink and white background and light blue lettering. In an angular font are the words "Abolish the Body Cops" and "Hands off trans kids"
    Abolish Body Cops by Josh Macphee
  • Four square canvases are affixed together into a larger square, and bordered in a braided rope. Each canvas has a different multicolor splatter/blown paint art on it. There is a smaller framed canvas with orange, yellow, and green swirled/blown paint affixed to the center of the piece. Affixed above this central painting is a printed image of four hands, each grasping the wrist next to it in a circle, with the words "There's Strength In Unity." Below the central canvas are several more printed images, including an American flag with rainbow colored stripes reading "We The People means everyone"; a photograph of a large splash of water, with a hand reaching through; and printed text reading "Our children are asking for our help. It is our responsiblity to repair the broken systems of today, so they can inherit a future defined by opportunity, compassion, equality, safety, belonging, love, freedom to be and to dream, truth and justice -- not by failures of the past."
    Never Lose Your Hope, There Will Always Be a New Day by Janny S
  • Screenprint in black, white, and silver. Image is composed of numerous smaller images at differing angles and sizes within square or triangular folds of the paper. The images include: A growth of crystals surrounded by leaves, flowers, and roots; striped bands with the word "muscle"; floating eyes over a starry background with the word "eyes"; an opened mutlitool pocketknife surrounded by clouds or smoke; two bird-like figures with human buttocks and legs, flying next to each other with the words "communion" and "new flight"; six floating teeth with roots with the word "teeth"; white veining pattern with the word "veins"; a floating hand droppng seeds with the words "begin anew" and "gather strength"; a human figure leaping off a set up stairs with water below and starry sky behind, with the words "bliss" and "abandon"; a hand with the word "hand"; falling drops of water with the word "tears"; a human whose torso is disappearing into circular clouds, and smoke coming from their eyes and floating up overhead with the words "transfiguration" and "dissolution"; a gathering of flaming twigs; an anatomical heart with the word "heart"; an organic tangle with the word "nerve"; and a glass jar with water drops falling down.
    Another World is Possible by Vee Adams
  • Three color risograph print. In lowercase black gothic font are the words "tu lucha es mi lucha." Behind the words is a pattern of silhouetted flowers and leaves in red, over an aqua background.
    Tu Lucha Es Mi Lucha by William Estrada
  • Stylized cross-stitch of the face of a feminine person whose skin is brown and white in patches. Their hair is black, and lips are red, and they are wearing a white head wrap. They have a pink artificial flower and foliage tucked by their ear. Below the face, a fence made of popsicle sticks and green yarn is festooned in a variety of artificial flowers in white, pink, and yellow. The plastic canvas is mounted on a round jute placemat.
    I Remember You (Flower Fence) by Avis Lee
  • A naked man laying on the earth extends a hand towards the sky, reaching for the feminine version of himself as she ascends from the heavens surrounded by rainbow and supported by her trans and queer siblings. She offers him self creation in the form of a pink syringe (estrogen). the paining has a bright blue sky background and a blanket of rainbow around the group in the sky, where the man is surrounded by deep earth tones of brown and green. a trans flag (pink, blue, white) waves from the bottom of the hovering mass of bodies.
    The Creation of Adamina by Nick Cioth
  • Cross-stitch of a feminine face looking at an angle. Skin is pale, and lips are fuschia. Two toned purple hair cascades next to the face, with white bejeweled flowers set in it.
    I Remember You (Purple Hair, White Flowers) by Avis Lee
  • The word DEFY is across the canvas in 3D typography. Inside each letter is a jail cell with a key whole. Between the jail bars are flowers poking through.
    DEFY by Sara Coffey
  • Detail of: Cross-stitch of a feminine face looking at an angle. Skin is pale, and lips are fuschia. Two toned purple hair cascades next to the face, with white bejeweled flowers set in it.
    I Remember You (Purple Hair, White Flowers) by Avis Lee (Detail Image 1)
  • Cross stitch of the face of a feminine person with light tan skin and bright orange red hair swooping down across their face and covering one eye. The other eye is closed, with green eyeshadow, and fuscia lips. Behind and surrounding the face are flowers with pale blue petals and yellow centers. The plastic canvas is bordered by a rolled wooden dowel mat.
    I Remember You (Forget-me-nots) by Avis Lee
  • collage of articles about generative ai. certain phrases from the articles are highlighted in blue. in front of the articles, bold letters spell out "FUCK GEN AI, MARRY ART, KILL COMPLACENCY" going down the center, each phrase taking up two lines. "FUCK" and "KILL" are larger and in color (abstract black, red, white). "GEN AI" and "COMPLACENCY" are smaller and in black. "MARRY" and "ART" are both large with "MARRY" in streaky pink/white and "ART" in black.
    marry art (part one) by malakai koehler
  • a deep indigo background, with light coming from the center, is overlaid with a shiny black meditative line drawing, reminiscent of an intestinal rounded maze or a flowing sea. In the very center is a two pointed arrow, facing up and down.
    Whalefall by Anonymous Anon
  • A paper collage of a dog chewing a stick with a boxy red background and a hint of clouds
    Ned Forever by Papes
  • This is a black and white contact print made from a carbon image transfer pull. the work is an abstract design.
    Carbon Pull by Sue Abramson
  • Mixed media acrylic painting on framed canvas. In sketchy expressionistic style with thick black outlines, two dark skinned people stand, holding fists and looking forward. Behind them is a building, and they are surrounded in greenery. The clothing is made from various cut papers affixed to the canvas, as is the building. One of the figures has a shirt made from red hearts on white, as from playing cards, while on the other person's shoulder are two red 5's with red hearts below, also appearing to be from playing cards.
    55 of Hearts by Moshe Sherman
  • A discheveled grey orb centered on a colorful canvas while a grey deer creature with wings raises it's front hooves off of said orb, and a grey owl flies out from beneath the centered decaying orb. In the background of this there’s a colorful collage of pinks, purples, oranges, yellows, and several fluffy white clouds. Colors flowing horizontally and vertically across this static background and onto some of the fluffy white clouds gives the illusion of movement .
    untitled 05-17-2026 by Kaitlyn Denham
  • Print of a highly detailed pen and colored pencil drawing. Overlapped images of many kinds of plants weave into and through an image of a human with long hair, and hands covered in patches of moss, with small creatures with large wings poised on each fingertip. The words "Change your relationship to nature" are drawn with plants occasionally weaving through the letters.
    Change Your Relationship to Nature by Peter Glantz, Kevin Hooyman, & Becky Stark
  • Screenprint on brown kraft paper. In dark brown ink, an image designed like a playing card with two lateral mirrow images of a skeleton wearing a tactical vest labeled "ICE" and a helmet, with a handgun near one of the skeleton hands. In the two adjacent corners are spade symbols. Overlapping the brown layer, words in red ink read "End the Ice Age."
    End The Ice Age by Roger Peet
  • Cross-stitch of the word LOVE on tulle encased in clear plexiglass magnetic frame.
    Love by T. Foley
  • broken shards of glass in the shape of a rectangle form wispy tendrils which travel up the sides of the frame and meet again in the shape of an eight pointed star
    Shatter (healing) by Corey Lee
  • A small ochre clay bowl sits upon to two cobalt ultramarine human feet
    Standing Offering Bowl by Allie Levin
  • Geometric rainbow colored starburst, offcentered
    The Promise by Jane Hein
  • Several layer screenprint with black background. A light yellow, yellow orange, and green magnolia flower is in the center, surrounded by a ring of yellow orange honeysuckle flowers, with light yellow dots in the background. A pine sprig with a pine cone is in each of the four corners.
    A long way home album cover by Vee Adams
  • Detail of: Deep brown panes of glass have been soldered together to form a fist of power and solidarity. The sun shines through the glass, illuminating it.
    Untitled Fist by Ellie Durham-Britton (Detail Image)
  • Print of a relief print showing a large detailed heart, with ventricles leading upward to flying birds.
    Untitled (Heart Flight) by Jesa Rae
  • Photograph of a variety of mostly green plants and leaves arranged so that the lightest greens are in the bottom left corner and the leaves gradually get darker through to the top right corner. The leaves are arranged in a tight vertical rectangle and leaves placed on the outer edges are cut to ensure visually straight lines between the black background and the green gradient rectangle.
    From Slavery to Freedom Garden by Virginia Christman
  • Cross-stitch of the head and torso of a feminine person looking forward. They have colorful eye makeup and red lips, and a patterned red top. Very long black braids made of hair hang down the sides of the face and off the canvas. The hair is adorned with red, white, and yellow flowers.
    Frida Kahlo by Avis Lee
  • Graphite pencil drawing of a human standing, leaning forward with an arm hanging down, and barefooted. The person's head is composed of a large botanical mass painted in greens and browns, with moss-like protrusions.
    Plant Person by Sara Banach
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