BRADFORD, Pa. — The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford will host “Rite in Ash,” an art exhibition by Pittsburgh-born artist Jeremy Tarr, from Feb. 19 through April 3 in the KOA Art Gallery in Blaisdell Hall.

The exhibition opens with a free public reception at noon Feb. 19.

“Rite in Ash” examines destruction as a form of creation through an installation exploring Devil’s Night in Detroit and its cultural impact across the rust belt. The work features abstracted images of house fires set by residents on the night before Halloween, framing them as acts of observance marking the collapse of the region’s social and economic ecosystem.

Tarr, who was raised in Pittsburgh’s working-class neighborhoods, draws inspiration from the Appalachian rust belt landscape and its mythologies. His practice centers on the presence of absence, the physicality of the immaterial and the complexities of unknowing as liberation.

The artist works as an instructor at Syracuse University, teaching digital sculpture in the studio arts concentration, and as a technical fabricator in the School of Architecture. He earned his Master of Fine Arts from Syracuse University and has exhibited in Pittsburgh, Berlin, Italy, New York City and Los Angeles.

Tarr has completed artist residencies at the Axel Haubrok Fahrbereitschaft in Berlin and Governors Island in New York City.

For more information, visit upb.pitt.edu/theArts or call 814-362-5113.