Lydia Rosenberg: Spaghetti Restaurant

Spaghetti Restaurant Opens Saturday November 30thfrom 6—10 PM and Sunday December 1 from 5—7PM. Spaghetti with tomato sauce is available only during these times. Seating is first come first serve, no reservations, patrons will be seated individually as a seat becomes available.
Spaghetti Restaurant is the next chapter of an ongoing project by artist Lydia Rosenberg that experiments with writing an ongoing novel-as-sculpture. Rosenberg transforms the storefront space of Basketshop into a setting that depicts a theme of the novel in which the characters eat a plate of spaghetti. While their individual experiences with this familiar nourishment are distinct, a noodled vision of each character’s inner state finds a connective link within this inconsistent metaphorical device. In Spaghetti Restaurant, Rosenberg, with the help of husband and chef Jared Miller, proposes a scenario in which all of the characters (written and yet to be written) can sit down alone to have a spaghetti experience simultaneously.

Lydia Rosenberg is a visual artist, educator, curator, and co-founder of Anytime Dept., an artist run collaborative exhibition space formerly in Cincinnati, OH.  Rosenberg has an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from the University of Pennsylvania and a BFA in Intermedia from Pacific Northwest College of Art. She has exhibited in group and solo exhibitions throughout the US and Europe and has published written and visual work. Recent solo exhibitions include; Half a mile backwards in 7 minutes, Cherry and Lucic, Portland, Lydia Rosenberg at Phelan Sculpture Park, Pittsburgh, So Vividly Rendered (part of Betrothal Social), Postscript Gallery, Philadelphia, and The Complete Subject, Napoleon, Philadelphia. Rosenberg is currently based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.