artists Deanna Mance and Maria Mangano at 709 Penn Gallery Pittsburgh PA

THE FOREST THROUGH THE TREES

Deanna Mance and Maria Mangano

The two Best in Show winners of the 2010 Three Rivers Arts Festival collaborate to explore themes of chaos and order, systems and searching, nature and humanity.

opening at 709 Penn Gallery on Friday, November 5th, 6:00 - 8:00 pm

show continues through January 2, 2011

709 Penn Avenue, in the heart of the Cultural District in downtown Pittsburgh

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Pittsburgh Artist Maria Mangano's South Side Slope Shrines

kapliczka pl. kapliczek : wayside shrine

etymology: Polish, diminutive of kaplica (chapel)


kapliczek (shrines) is an exploration of forgotten past in forgotten spaces.

The shrines are memorials paying silent and decaying tribute to a history I never witnessed, pieced together from books, photos, and anecdotes. It is not only the story of my changed and changing neighborhood, with its new faces, abandoned churches, and crumbling walls, but also the story of my Polish ancestors, whose history and identity are becoming lost with the passage of time and memory.

Through this piece, I search for my neighborhood's past and the influence it has on my identity as a transplant to Pittsburgh and a descendant of Polish immigrants. My hope is that others will visit the kapliczek and respond to the space, influenced by their own histories remembered and forgotten.

Maria Mangano

map of locations

the above info is from maria's blog

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pittsburgh galleries is reborn anew as The Pittsburgh Art Blog. the blog features selected pittsburgh artists and upcoming exhibits with photos from the artists and galleries. since the major press outlets do not go beyond a directory listing of exhibits, blogs are needed to promote pittsburgh artists and their work. the blog also calls attention to the inferiority complex of pittsburgh art and how it's perpetuated by the major players in town. Started on August 20, 2007.pittsburgh area galleries and art venues are listed at the sister site www.PghGalleries.com.the blog and website are volunteer projects from fine art photographer and pittsburgh art advocate rick byerly, www.RickByerly.com.

Gallery On Baum January 22 2010 Paper Exhibit Pittsburgh Art

Exhibit at The Gallery on Baum, and the opening is Friday, Jan. 22nd, 2010 from 6 - 9 p.m. The show is called (pa' per) , with a schwa instead of an "e", like in the dictionary, and it's featuring work made out of paper. (Yes ... the same night as Gallery Crawl. We are hoping people will still come!)

Artwork above is from Maria Mangano (Wren) and Seth Clark (abandoned house). You may have seen Maria's work at Fe Gallery recently, it held a lot of peoples' interest, including mine!

You can check out the other images here:
http://sethsclark.com/work/index.php?/extras/paper/

Gallery on Baum
4643 Baum Blvd Pittsburgh PA 15213