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Oil on canvas

The Irma Freeman Center for the Imagination has an amazing textile-based exhibit up. The work, created by Joan Brindle, is richly ornamented and gorgeously presented. The works are based in narrative quilts, using a combination of techniques. A lot of depth, in the technique as well as the content of the work.

Irma Freeman Center for the Imagination
February 5 – March 13th
Gallery Hours are Saturdays 2 – 5 PM or by appointment
5006 Penn Ave
412-924-0634

New Works, by Carolyn Wenning, are on exhibit at Modern Formations. Ms. Wenning, always consistent in the quality of her work, has mounted an exceptional exhibit. There is a series of small, luscious works in the first room of the gallery that are a delight.

Modern Formations
Thursdays 7pm – 9pm
Saturdays 1pm – 4pm or by appointment
4919 Penn Avenue
412.362.0274

Also, check out “Picture Burgh” at Most Wanted fine Art – a collection of photos of the Pittsburgh scene scape by Jamie Sauer & Dan Thompson. The exhibit will be up throughout the month of March.

Opening Fri. March 5th 6-10pm.
Most Wanted Fine Art
5015 Penn Ave.

A couple asides: Bob Ziller has begun his second month with Awesome Books (5111 Penn, formerly the Clay Penn). The bookstore is open regular hours and is definitely worth checking out. Everything from art books to women’s studies is available. The C Space Collective is going strong at 4823 Penn Ave.

A couple of things have come through my inbox over the last week or so that I wanted to share. TRAF is reviving its juried exhibit and CMoA has a free admission program this month. So, two do not miss opportunities for artists. All you painters out there, let’s bombard the festival with some smashing good work!

New Juried Visual Art Exhibition – Three Rivers Arts Festival
Back by popular demand, this juried exhibition will showcase the Pittsburgh region’s vibrant creative community. The exhibition will take place at an indoor Cultural District gallery during the 2010 Three Rivers Arts Festival, June 4-13, in downtown Pittsburgh.

Submissions are welcome from across the spectrum of visual arts. Works will be juried by a panel of Pittsburgh-based artists and curators.

Artists who meet residence requirements may enter up to three qualifying individual pieces for jury. The goal of the New Juried Arts Exhibition is to showcase the best art produced in the Pittsburgh region. Decisions will be based solely on aesthetic quality as determined by the jury panel in an anonymous jury process.

More information about the exhibit. Download a prospectus and application.

Carnegie Museums
During the month of March, admission to the Carnegie Museums will be free on Thursday evenings form 3:30 – 8PM. Visitors on Thursday nights may enjoy an exceptional array of special exhibitions –

* Forum 64: Cecil Balmond
* The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs
* Caricature, Satire, and Comedy of Manners: Works on Paper from the 18th through 20th Centuries
* Gods, Love, and War: Tapestries and Prints from the Collection
* Imagining Home: Selections from the Heinz Architectural Center

– as well as the permanent exhibits. If you’ve been meaning to go, now would be a good time.

Carnegie Museum of Art and Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Located at 4400 Forbes Avenue in Oakland

We had a great session last week at the brillobox. Chuck was a great model, gave us a lot of good poses. Lots to draw, too, with all of those tools.

And some truly great drawings came out of the session –

Next up is Crystala
March 23
See you there!

What have we been up to? find out on the drink and draw blog

drink & draw meets on the last Tuesday of each month. Sessions will start at 6:30pm.
Drink and Draw
is
an open studio live model drawing session that meets every other
Tuesday on the second floor of brillobox, located at 4104 penn ave,
pittsburgh, pa.
This session is relaxed, surprising, and inspiring. amazing models
dressed in various themes, old timey music, great company, and decor.
All mediums, except oils, welcome.

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4104 penn ave

412.621.4900

Vyora was an amazing experience for drink & draw in January. That pose? She didn’t drop the sword. Really, it was a great evening. She performs with other bellydancing troupes throughout the city, so keep an eye open for her performances. Keep your eye open at drink & draw, too; we’ll definitely have her back.

Our next session will be –

February 23, 2010
Chuck, construction worker

Drink and Draw…
is an open studio live model drawing session that meets last Tuesdays on the second floor of brillobox, located at 4104 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, Pa. This session is relaxed, surprising, and inspiring. amazing models dressed in various themes, old timey music, great company, and decor. All mediums, except oils, welcome.

Drink & Draw
… is sponsored by Artists& Craftsman Supply
Upstairs | 6:30 – 9:30PM | $10
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A couple weeks ago, I did a brief tour downtown of some of the visual arts venues. Well, as a follow-up, I swung through downtown for the January Gallery Crawl on Friday to catch some of the things that I missed and see the new exhibits. My first stop was Resolutions, curated by Urban Tree Forge and moxie DaDA.

Unfortunately, the gallery crawl was the closing reception for the exhibit. But I did want to point out that Gabe Felice had several small works in the show. Not the ones pictured above. The venue was entirely too packed to really get a shot. These were indicative of what was at the venue though. What I’ve seen of his work seems to be in this really small scale. Gabe Felice shows pretty regularly, so I’m sure you’ll have an opportunity to see it out there in Pittsburgh.

Urban Tree Forge & moxie DaDA
820 Liberty Avenue
Resolutions
Resolutions promotes moral courage and strength of mind. Artists have been chosen for their choice in materials and context of self-discovery, as well as their resolve to create and produce from within the urban landscape.

As always, Shaw Galleries had its wonderful collection of prints and maps on display. This month, Shaw is showing a series of pochoir prints created by Rouault. The exhibit is over on January 30, so try to stop by and see them. There is a short explanation of pochoir prints in a previous post.

Shaw Galleries
Rouault: Visages
805 Liberty Avenue
Features all 10 original pochoir prints from the late French Expressionist Georges Rouault’s very rare Visages Portfolio (Album of Faces).

The Gallery Crawl was too packed to get images from 707 Gallery of Anjali Srinivasan’s solo exhibit. The above image is from the artist’s website. Several people have already reviewed this exhibit, so I am just adding my voice to the many in urging you to go and see it. The work is lovely and I look forward to visiting the gallery again before the exhibit closes in February.

707 Penn Gallery
707 Penn Avenue
Particulate Behaviors: New Works by Anjali Srinivasan
The exhibit explores the threshold of olfactory sensation, optical phenomena and participatory environments, through installations and objects of spice, glass and emergent technologies.

Oh man. I always have multiple works in progress, usually three. Right now, I have five in progress. The works are taking an inordinate amount of time to set up between sessions. So, works in progress are going to be posted erratically until it warms up a little bit.

I like to actually go to a store when shopping for art supplies. There is something that really satisfies me about sifting through bins and wandering around shelves and shelves of materials. I guess I would be okay ordering materials that I was thoroughly familiar with. But taking a chance on a tube of paint when you can’t see the color? Nope, can’t do that. Also, there is the aha! moment, when you spot something that you hadn’t thought of using before.

Artist & Craftsman Supply is a very favorite supply center here in da ‘burgh. It is packed, not just with supplies, but with toys and novelty merchandise. Check out the masks lining the shelves –

So, it was a productive trip. I picked up some paint, stretcher bars and a couple small packets of printed origami paper. What else? Oh yeah, some cheap brushes. Looking forward to my next trip and thank you to the wonderful staff, especially Crys.

Artist & Craftsman Supply
5603 Hobart Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15217
Phone: 412.421.3002
Fax: 412.421.2770
Hours
M-F 9 AM – 7:30 PM
Sa 9 AM – 7:30 PM
Su 12 PM – 5 PM