Artist Members
Colleen Black
Artist - Sculptor
Colleen Black is an artist truly driven by the emotion of the soul. Her works are intense with realism, and transfer the miraculous power of spiritual enlightenment and inner strength . Self taught in sculpture, she is motivated by the fascinating complexity of the human form and the strength of the human spirit. Her collectors are breath-taken by the aesthetic accuracy of her sculpture and painting, but Colleen believes that the physical beauty is the byproduct of the sculptures true significance.
Colleen is a resident and an active member of a unique artist Co-op known as The Brew House in Pittsburgh, PA. In her studio that was once filled with storage tanks for the old Duquesne Brewery, clay figures and paintings stack the walls and shelves.
Colleen's work can be found in numerous private collections and selected galleries throughout the World. She studied painting in Italy at The Florence School of Art, and gives great credit to her mentor Jack Richard, a very well known artist of soul and spirit in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. She has previously traveled to Belgium, Germany and Japan to demonstrate and exhibit her sculpture. Her commissions include completing a limited edition sculpture and oil painting for General Colin Powell as well as seven Congressional Medal of Honor recipients.
Miss Black is currently working on a series of angel portraits. They came to her through dreams, and that is about all she can say until they are unveiled.
There are always many new works about to be unveiled, including one she calls "Puppet", a dancer with ribbons that reach up and twirl around above her head to form the fingers of a hand. Please keep an eye out for pictures of works in progress on the website.
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Curt Sell
Sculptor
These pictures are a sampling of some of the sculpture that I create. Over time I have used stone, wood, metal, and glass to make sculpture. Lately I have been focused on creating unique glass relief utilizing the power of the Sun to fuse pieces of bottle and stained glass.
Drawing on Scripture and Faith, I endeavor to create Art from a Christian perspective. My work attempts to impart the joy and wonder of being in God's Creation and points like a signpost to the coming of His Kingdom of Peace.
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David L. Smith
Photographer
Dave is a native of Morgantown, WV, and has a degree in Art from West Virginia University. He has worked as a commercial photography in Pittsburgh since the early 70's having done photography for clients such as Black Box Corporation (catalogs), HBD Industries, Horne's (fashion), II-VI, Inc. and others. In addition to commercial work, he does weddings, portraits, groups, modeling headshots, portfolio sessions, slides of artist artwork both 2:D and 3:D.
He has a studio & darkroom in the Brew House and also does work on location. His personal work includes landscapes of West Virginia. Some of these images are used by environmental groups. Please check out his web site for many more images and information.
http://www.davesmithphoto.com
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David Stanger
Painter
David Stanger is an artist and curator born and raised in the Pittsburgh area. He exhibits his paintings and site-specific work regionally and nationally including shows at Seraphin Gallery in Philadelphia, at the Mattress Factory and the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, and the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, OH. His work can be found in many private collections and is in the public collection of the Carnegie Museum of Art.
He received a BFA in painting from Syracuse University, has studied painting and Renaissance art history in Florence, Italy and earned an MFA from the Hoffberger School of Painting at Maryland Institute College of Art.
From 2005 to 2008, Stanger was the director of the American Jewish Museum where he administered all museum activities and produced several original curatorial projects. Stanger has taught studio arts at Philadelphia University and Maryland Institute College of Art and is currently teaching drawing and painting at Carnegie Mellon University and Seton Hill University.
www.davidstanger.com
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Karen Hartman
Painter
By creating art, I can express my ideas through my own vision.
Instructing studio art classes enables me to have a very pleasurable career. By designing my own syllabus for each course, I can be creative, informative, and bring excitement to the lesson plans. I believe that my goal as a teacher is to keep the students, whether they are children or adults, excited about art and, yet, inform them of the various movements in art history.
Through "Carefree Art by K. Hart," I can express my style through collaborative ideas with clients. My art covers a variety of features from paintings and drawings to banners and utilitarian decorative pieces.
I am a graduate of Duquesne University with special concentration in Studio Art, Art History, and the French Language.
Having a studio at the Brew House enables me the pleasure of working with other artists as well as the bliss of my own space to create, organize, and accomplish my goals.
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Keny Marshall
Sculptor and designer
I build interactive Kinetic and Robotic art that plays with our notions of technology and how people relate to it. Hand-built devices are combined in seemingly ridiculous ways as a means of critiquing the increasingly invisible world that technology inhabits. Electric motors, surplus lab equipment, and scrap hardware used to build systems with transparent inner workings, devices that counteract the "blackbox" nature of technology, which as it becomes modernized, gets increasingly smaller, encased, and harder to understand. In removing the protective shells of these mechanisms, I bare not just the physical constructions within, but the ideological ones as well. My work provides a level of immediacy between people and the world around them.
In addition to my studio work, I most recently designed and built interactive exhibits for the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, where I was Lead Designer on a National Science Foundation project and a resident artist.
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Matt Eskuche
Glass Artist
Matthew Eskuche began his endeavors into craft with metalsmithing in high school, and acquired an associate degree in this medium at the Worcester Center for Crafts in 1993. After practicing as a bench jeweler for several years he began flameworking in 1998. A year later he studied with Emilio Santini for two months at Penland and has continued his studies over the years with Cesare Toffolo, the De La Torre brothers, Boyd Sugiki, Paul Stankard, Gianni Toso, Andre Gutgesell, and Judith Schaechter.
He has exhibited at SOFA New York and Chicago numerous times since 2004 and at the Toronto International Art Fair in 2007. He received the "Best in Medium" award from the American Craft Council in 2004 & 2007. Images of his work have been published in Craft magazine, Glassline, Glass Art, The Flow, and in New Glass Review #25 & #29.
In 2005 he demonstrated at the International Flameworking Conference, held at Salem Community College in New Jersey, and then traveled on to Adelaide, Australia to demonstrate at the Glass Art Society conference. In 2006 he demonstrated at the Glass Art Society conference in St. Louis, Missouri and in 2009 he will demonstrate at the GAS conference in Corning New York and participate in Laura Donefer's glass fashion show. In 2007 he went to Japan where he was a featured demonstrator at the International Lampwork Festa.
The Lampwork glass Museum in Kobe, Japan, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York acquired pieces of his work for their permanent collections in 2007. In 2008 the Racine Art Museum purchased a piece for their permanent collection. In the past few years he has had the opportunity to assist and teach courses in flameworking at many facilities including Corning, Penland, and the Pittsburgh Glass Center.
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Nicholas Hohman
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Patricia Barefoot
Painter
In my artwork, I make use of my technical skill to explore women’s societal roles and stereotypes throughout history. I take on an age-old subject, speculating about what it means to live out one’s life in a female body. Although my work has taken various forms, from small iconic squares--evocative of reliquaries, made with enamel, paint, and charcoal--to large-scale drawings on wallpapered surfaces, the female figure has been the primary character. Onto some pieces I have burnt patterns and designs with a wood-burning tool, tracing in some ways, the paths of human beings, and/or Celtic designs evocative of interlocking structures. The little gouache paintings in the series Body Renderings describe how women occupy space and time. They deal with the over-extension of women in domestic and exterior spaces, nature as false comfort, and the investigation of self—the distortion of the notion of femaleness and the subsequent objectification and manipulation of this image. Many of my figure drawings of less-than-idealized women’s bodies show a transparency so that we can see through to the structures beneath, the skeletal permanence, and our dependence and reliance upon this physical structure. So much of our existence depends upon our physical form.
www.airgallery.org
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Rick Bach
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Shervin Iranshahr
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Tim Meehan
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