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Students to display art work in Pittsburgh

4/21/14

More than two dozen Penn State undergraduate and graduate students will contribute artwork to the visual art exhibition “Digital Hand” at 709 Penn Gallery in Pittsburgh. The student artists will fill the entire gallery with their work from April 25 to May 25.

A painting by Jan Crooker called "Coffee Cups."

Lehigh Valley's 'PSU MFA' exhibit celebrates work of four University alumni

1/21/14

The Gallery at Penn State Lehigh Valley will host a new exhibition to celebrate the work of four master of fine arts alumni from Penn State's School of Visual Arts. "PSU MFA," runs Jan. 20-Apr. 26 with a reception and alumni night at the gallery from 5-7 p.m. on Feb. 6. The exhibit and reception are free and open to the public.

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New Kensington art gallery features the return of Dan Bolick

1/9/13

Displaying a new creative style, Pittsburgh artist Dan Bolick returns to the art gallery at Penn State New Kensington for a two-month show, which began Jan. 7. The one-man exhibit, "In Your Face," comprises 35 portraits, or faces, hence the title, and features paintings and drawings that have a story. Text is incorporated into some of the pieces. The show is an integration of his traditional expressionistic style and his neo-three-dimensional style. An expressionist working in acrylic and latex or pen, pencil and marker, Bolick developed in the past year the new style that utilizes the assemblage/collage approach.

"As an artist I believe that it is important to try new things and to go to certain creative areas that I am not totally comfortable with," said Bolick, a retired art teacher from the Pittsburgh Public School System. "Also, I get easily bored and creatively stagnant constantly working in the same format. Especially when creating portraits. That is why I am attempting this new three-dimensional approach".
Nine of the "In Your Face" pieces, including three of his family, reflect his novel style. His wife, Iphiyenia, son, Eli, and daughter, Sabrina, are portrayed using wooden assemblage. Bolick's "Self-Portrait" is painted in his customary acrylic and latex. Included in the show are 10 pieces, five paintings and five drawings, from Bolick's "Resurrected" traveling exhibit that made a stop at the campus in 2010. That exhibit featured 10 men who were freed from prison after years of sitting on death row or facing life sentences.

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East Suburban Artist League exhibit kicks off with reception Friday

12/5/12

A reception for artists of the East Suburban Artist League (ESAL) is set to run from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday (Dec. 7), in the Art Gallery at Penn State New Kensington.
Artwork created by ESAL members is on display until Dec. 30 in the campus gallery. The reception and exhibit are free to the public. More than 80 paintings, drawings, photographs, sculptures, intarsia (wood inlays), quilts and paper crafts are part of the multi-media exhibit, and many are for sale at prices ranging from $50 to $1,200.

Ted Scanga, a longtime ESAL member, is coordinating the exhibit. Scanga previously exhibited at the campus Art Gallery in 2003 and 2008, sharing top billing with his brother-in-law, John Pastorek. The pieces by Scanga include woodwork, multi-colored turned vases and paintings. Painting is a hobby for this Lower Burrell resident, who retired from Alcoa as a technical marketing manager in 1992 after 32 years.

East Suburban Artist League exhibit to run in December at Art Gallery

11/28/12

Artwork by members of the East Suburban Artists League (ESAL) is on display from Dec. 1 to 30, in the Penn State New Kensington Art Gallery. More than 80 paintings, drawings, photographs, sculptures, intarsia (wood inlays), quilts and paper crafts are part of the multi-media exhibit, and many are for sale at prices ranging from $50 to $500. An artists' reception is slated for 7 to 9 p.m. Dec. 7, in the gallery.

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Bill Gravatt Memorial Exhibit continues in November

10/24/12

An exhibit of works by the late artist Bill Gravatt continues during November in the Penn State New Kensington Art Gallery. The memorial exhibit features more than 35 paintings from Michael Karkowsky's collection of Gravatt's works. A New Kensington native, Gravatt died in 2000 at the age of 81. Working mostly with oil on canvas, Gravatt's paintings reflect his neo-impressionist and divisionism techniques and philosophies. Neo-impressionists favor modern urban scenes, landscapes and seashores. Divisionism is characterized by the separation of colors into individual dots or patches which interact optically.

Art Gallery features Bill Gravatt Memorial Exhibit in October

9/25/12

The works of the late artist Bill Gravat are on display throughout October in the Penn State New Kensington Art Gallery. The memorial exhibit features more than 35 paintings from Michael Karkowsky's collection of the Gravat's works. A New Kensington native, Gravat died in 2000 at the age of 81.

Reception for artist Eileen Kopelman is Sept. 6

9/5/12

A reception for artist Eileen Kopelman is set for 6 to 8 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 6, in the Art Gallery at Penn State New Kensington. The Lower Burrell resident's exhibit, "The Gold Paintings," runs through Sept. 30. The show features Kopelman's new series of water-miscible oil on gold leaf pieces. This is Kopleman's second solo exhibit on campus. In 2009, she unveiled "The Wyoming Massacre," a series of oil paintings that depicted the events in the Wyoming Valley from 1777-80. The reception and exhibit are free to the public. The gallery is open 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. weekdays and noon to 5 p.m. weekends. For a list of upcoming exhibits, visit http://www.nk.psu.edu/Academics/43828.htm online.

Eileen Kopelman art exhibit in September

8/29/12

Paintings on gold leaf are the focus of the September exhibit in the campus Art Gallery. "The Gold Paintings" is a new series of oil paintings by local artist Eileen Potter Kopelman. A resident of Lower Burrell, Kopelman has been painting for more than 20 years in watercolor, and more recently in water-miscible oils. She is a past president of the Penn Art Association and member of East Suburban Artists League. Kopelman holds a bachelor's degree in French from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. After high school, she was a Rotary International exchange student to Sweden. A reception to meet the artist is set for 6 to 8 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 6, in the gallery. The reception and exhibit are free to the public. The gallery is open 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. weekdays and noon to 5 p.m. weekends. To RSVP for the reception, call 724-334-6056.

Art Gallery exhibits planned for 2012-13

8/15/12

The monthly exhibits at the Penn State New Kensington Art Gallery have been finalized for 2012-13.The fall series opens in September with Eileen Kopelman's "The Gold Paintings" followed in October with the "haunting" brush strokes of New Kensington resident Bill Gravatt. November features the art works by students from the Oakbridge Academy and the fall series concludes in December with the annual display by the East Suburban Artists' Association. The spring semester exhibits include the "Women of Visions" exhibit in January and February, Alle-Kiski Arts Consortium in March and Penn State students in April. The series concludes in May with "Paintings," the annual showing of selected works of Bud Gibbons, professor of visual arts at the New Kensington campus. All exhibits are free to the public. The gallery is open 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. weekdays and noon to 5 p.m. weekends. For information on the current monthly exhibit, call 724-334-6004 or visit http://www.nk.psu.edu/Academics/43828.htm online.

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