This is new work I just took to Trinity Gallery in Lawrenceville (Pittsburgh). I now have 5 pieces there. They have just hired a new publicist, and are getting ready for an opening April 6 of new works by Matt Gatto. For this piece I pieced together altered fabrics for the buildings, and used fused […]
The show featuring the original works of art produced by members of the Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh to support the Fiberart International opens Saturday April 6 at Panza Gallery in Pittsburgh (6-9 PM). My contribution is the letter “R.” I am inspired by the beauty in aging city spaces. The letter is rusting and breaking
I recently finished this piece, There are Many Steps Between Then and Now. I have created several contemporary art quilts based on Hayley Lever’s 1923 painting entitled The Allegheny Valley. But this one is the loosest interpretation. I changed the size ratio, the buildings, bridges, and generally got more creative, including with the found objects.
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Interview with Martha Ressler An amazingly creative artist in New York, Stella Belikiewicz did an interview with me(!). Link is above.
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I was asked to paint a commission for a forge in the Pittsburgh area. I got to visit the site and view the forge in operation, talk to the workers, take photos, make sketches, and spend enough time to understand the operation. The painting was a compilation of several of those photos, with a good
You never know while logging 10,000 steps a day when you are going to see something truly breathtaking. This morning as I stepped outside my door for a walk to the grocery store was one of those mornings. It was 7:22 AM. The very air had taken on an orange-suffused glow. There were long strips
Congrats to our Friends in Yukon!.
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The Detritus of Working Class Lives.
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I was honored to have a piece accepted into the 47th Annual show of the Pittsburgh Society of Artists. The piece is called “The Detritus of Working Class Lives.” When I go through my collection of found objects picked up while walking (and walking and walking) the streets of my neighborhood, they scream “sociological statement”
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