Pittsburgh Art For Sale, Part 2, Yes by Pgh Artists...

Pittsburgh Art For Sale, Part 2, celebrates artists who delve into subject matter unrelated to the physical region in which they live...

Pgh Art For Sale, Part 1 does as well for the most part.

For more information you can visit the website highlighted with the artist names below.

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Charles A Smith II

charles(AT)artistcharlessmith.com

Thai Folklore
Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 24" x 30"
Price: $1,800.00 Original/Print: Both

For Our Sins
Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 24" x 30"
Price: $600.00 Original/Print: Both

Romanesque #1
Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 24" x 30"
Price: $800.00 Original/Print: Both

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Michael Lotenero

412-417-6021

Figueres:
60” x 40”
oils, acrylic and
varnish on canvas
$5,500.00

Barceloneta I:
72” x 72”
oils, acrylic and
varnish on canvas
$10,500.00

Barceloneta II:
40” x 60”
oils, acrylic and
varnish on canvas
$5,500.00

La Merce:
72” x 72”
oils, acrylic and
varnish on canvas
$10,500.00

La Rambla:
38” x 50”
oils, acrylic and
varnish on canvas
$4,500.00

Cadaques:
72” x 72”
oils, acrylic and
varnish on canvas
$10,500.00

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David Edwards

Artist and CEO: Art Energy Design
Ph. 412-487-0621

Original Pastel Works:

1. North Sea at Night, 20" x 20" Pastel, Framed and matted under glass. $350

2. Dutch Sea Scape, 20" x 22" Pastel, Framed and matted under glass. $ 350

3. Goldfinch after Carel Fabritius Pastel, 16'' x 20'' Framed and matted under glass. $450

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Rick Byerly

rick(AT)uniquetake.com

412-400-3778

Archival Fine Art Photography Prints Matted in Black or White to 20 by 24"
One Time Series of 50

For larger preview images please email me.

Lit Up, 20 by 24", $600

Facial Etchings, 20 by 24", $600

Devil in the Floor, 20 by 24", $600




Headed, 20 by 24", $600

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The Pittsburgh Art Blog

The Pittsburgh Art 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 artist advocate rick byerly.

Artist Fumino Hora at PGC, Nov 5 to Jan 17, 2010/2011

Don't Miss This!

Hodge Gallery: Upcoming Exhibition

The Way of Saṃsāra

Fumino Hora's website.

November 5, 2010 - January 17, 2011

Opening Reception: Nov 5 Friday 6-9 pm

From the PGC Website:

Have you ever felt that you have lived another life before this one?

Saṃsāra is the Sanskrit word for the perpetual cycle of birth, death and rebirth in which human souls are inescapably caught. The ultimate Buddhist goal is to achieve Nirvana: the final release from this endless earthly cycle. Traditional Buddhism teaches that Nirvana can only be attained through the practice of strict bodily discipline. Japanese Zen, however, does not urge the complete abandonment of all sensory pleasures in one’s quest for awakening. Artist Fumino Hora’s The Way of Saṃsāra explores and advocates the Zen art of striking a delicate balance between appreciating the transient beauties of the physical world, and turning away from those same beauties in pursuit of the elusive state of Nirvana. Human beings are inherently both physically and spiritually imperfect. However, despite these flaws and errors, Zen Buddhism upholds human beings and life itself as being transiently beautiful, and worthy of being cherished and celebrated.

This semi-site-specific installation will envelop the viewer into a sense of greater serenity and state of self-reflection. The human body is used as a metaphor to invoke an appreciation of the beauty in all things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. Glass, paper, photography and video work together to create a meditative space. All of the materials used are symbolic in that they, by their nature, are also transient and ephemeral.

Fumino Hora is a native of Tokyo, Japan. She gained a BFA and MFA from RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Currently she is a candidate for the DFA with RMIT University. She came to Pittsburgh in 2006 after living in Hong Kong for 14 years. She has studied photography at Pittsburgh Filmmakers, and has been a resident artist at Pittsburgh Glass Center this year.

This installation is in collaboration with Pittsburgh Filmmakers.

Regular Hours:

Fri., Sat. & Sun.
10 am – 4 pm

Tues., Wed. & Thurs.
10 am – 7 pm

(Closed Monday)

Pittsburgh Glass Center | 5472 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15206 | 412-365-2145

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The Pittsburgh Art Blog

The Pittsburgh Art 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 artist advocate rick byerly, www.RickByerly.com.

Pittsburgh Art Blog Turns 3, Promoting Pittsburgh Artists

Happy Birthday to a ... Blog?

I don't celebrate my own so why not? Who knows how much longer it will make it. Jumping candlesticks can get tiresome.

Pittsburgh doesn't exactly have an abundance of art info beyond the crude basics currently so hopefully more artists will take advantage of this resource and email me about what's happening on their end.

rick byerly
rick(AT)uniquetake.com

So here are some numbers....

1201 Total Posts

• 232,689
Pageviews

• 136,044
Unique Views

Top 5 overall visited links over the past 3 years:

Sprout Fund Hothouse Events (the 2009 event)

Pittsburgh Murals and Public Art Info

Pittsburgh artists deserve more press

In Memory of Pittsburgh Artist John Metzler

Pittsburgh Skyline Photography Prints for Sale


Also the Pittsburgh Galleries website directory, ie www.pghgalleries.com , has been around for 3 years as well.

• 39,885
Visits

• 64,284
Pageviews

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The Pittsburgh Art Blog

The Pittsburgh Art 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.

Ag Works Art Collective at Pgh Filmmakers

Interstitial, presented by Ag Works
@ Pgh Filmmakers

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Opening reception June 11, 2010 6-9pm
June 4 – August 1, 2010

Ag Works is an emerging artist collective in Pittsburgh whose focus is helping artists create and share work with each other. Formed by a small group of Pittsburgh Filmmakers alumni, the group was conceived to provide working artists a setting in which to share new work and gain feedback from their peers. Though Ag Works was started by a group of photographers, artists of all disciplines are welcome. The ten members of Ag Works whose work is represented have shown at local, national, and international venues.

Interstitial is Ag Works' debut show and includes work by Allen Benson, Sally Bozzuto, Julia Bodura, Bryan Conley, Magali Duzant, Ellen Bjerklie Hanna, Missy Jarzenske, Laura Jean Kahl, Mandy Kendall, and Matt Robison.

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The Pittsburgh Art Blog

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.

Maggie Taylor and Abelardo Morell at Silver Eye Center for Photography Pittsburgh PA

"CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER..."

Silver Eye Center for Photography brings Wonderland to Pittsburgh with two stunning exhibitions by Maggie Taylor and Abelardo Morell

PITTSBURGH, Pa. 4/22/10 - The Silver Eye Center for Photography is pleased to present exhibitions this summer by two of the most renowned and influential photographers working today - Maggie Taylor and Abelardo Morell - each highlighting a singular reinterpretation of the 150-year-old story of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

These Strange Adventures: The Art of Maggie Taylor on view at Silver Eye's South Side Venue beginning May 14, 2010.

Maggie Taylor first exhibited her work at Silver Eye in 1995, and today, she is internationally recognized as one of the most inventive and accomplished artists working with cutting-edge digital imaging processes. This exhibition features 40 of Taylor's photo montages created from 2003 to 2009. The centerpiece is a selection of 23 works from Almost Alice: New Illustrations of Wonderland, a three-year project published to great acclaim by Modernbook Editions in 2008.

Since 1996, Maggie Taylor has been using the most advanced digital image-making tools in place of the camera and darkroom to create her fantastical work. Starting with objects that she finds on eBay or in flea markets such as old Victorian photographic portraits, Taylor scans and assembles a single image from dozens upon dozens of Photoshop layers.

"A single work may take months of experimentation and careful thought to complete and Taylor's artistry is, in short, nothing less than virtuosic," comments Ellen Fleurov, curator of the exhibition and Silver Eye's executive director. "Yet, what makes Taylor truly great is not just her technical mastery but the rich interplay between photographic veracity and illusion, the psychological tension between dreams and reality, which seems to stand at the heart of her deeply affecting and beautiful work."

These Strange Adventures: The Art of Maggie Taylor will be on view from May 14 through August 21, 2010 at the Silver Eye Center for Photography at 1015 East Carson Street in Pittsburgh's South Side. Admission is free and open to the public.

The exhibition is made possible, in part, through support from the BNY Mellon Audience Development Fund. Media sponsors are WYEP 91.3FM and Pittsburgh City Paper.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Photographs by Abelardo Morell opens May 7 in the Cultural District as part of Three Rivers Arts Festival

Abelardo Morell's rethinking of the Lewis Carroll classic precedes Maggie Taylor's series by a decade and the fifteen images in the suite will be on view from May 7 through June 25, 2010 at the 709 Penn Gallery in downtown Pittsburgh's Cultural District. The exhibition is organized by the Silver Eye Center for Photography and presented by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Education and Community Engagement Department in association with the Three Rivers Arts Festival. Admission is free and open to the public.

Abelardo Morell's interest in the Alice story is not surprising for he has long been intrigued by the magical qualities of books and their enduring presence in our memory and history. To make his images, Morell created paper cut-outs from the original Sir John Tenniel illustrations to Alice in Wonderland and then arranged the figures into carefully constructed scenarios. These mis-en-scenes were then photographed from a variety of often disorienting perspectives with a large format view camera. The resulting images brim with a wit, delight and punning imagination that Lewis Carroll himself, a pioneering photographer, would have relished.

Gallery hours are Wednesday - Thursday (11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.); Friday - Saturday (11:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.); and Sunday (11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.). Special extended hours during the Three Rivers Arts Festival, June 4 through 13; visit www.pgharts.org for further details.

The exhibition will be open during the First Friday Gallery Crawl on June 4, 2010 from 4:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. This evening of events showcases an array of activities throughout the Cultural District and they are free and open to the public. For more information and a map of the Gallery Crawl events, visit www.pgharts.org or call 412.456.6666.


ABOUT MAGGIE TAYLOR

Maggie Taylor was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1961. She received her BA degree in philosophy from Yale University and her MFA degree in photography from the University of Florida. After more than ten years as a still-life photographer, she began to use the computer to create her images in 1996. Her work is featured in Adobe Photoshop Master Class: Maggie Taylor's Landscape of Dreams, Peachpit Press, Berkeley, 2005; Solutions Beginning with A, Modernbook Editions, Palo Alto, 2007; and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, Modernbook Editions, Palo Alto, 2008. Taylor's images have been exhibited in one-person exhibitions throughout the U.S. and abroad and are in numerous public and private collections, including The Art Museum, Princeton University; The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and The Museum of Photography, Seoul. She lives in Gainesville, Florida, with her husband Jerry Uelsmann.

ABOUT ABELARDO MORELL

Abelardo Morell was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1948 and moved with his family from Cuba to New York City at age 14. He was introduced to photography at Bowdoin College in Maine and received an MFA from Yale in 1981. In 1983, he began teaching at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston where he is now a Professor of Photography. He has received a number of awards and grants, which include a Cintas grant in 1992, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1994 and a Rappaport Prize in 2006.

His work has been collected and shown in many galleries, institutions and museums, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Art Institute of Chicago; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and The Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Major books on the artist include: Abelardo Morell, Phaidon Press, 2005; Camera Obscura, Bulfinch Press, 2004; A Book of Books, Bulfinch Press, 2002; Abelardo Morell and The Camera Eye, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, 1999; and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, photo-illustrations by Abelardo Morell and introduction by Leonard S. Marcus, Dutton Children's Books, 1998.

ABOUT SILVER EYE

For the past 30 years, the Silver Eye Center for Photography has played a unique and valued role in the region's cultural landscape and earned a national reputation as one of the country's pre-eminent photography centers. Our mission is to advance understanding, appreciation and active engagement with photography as a vital form of creative expression and as an educative force in communicating the diverse values, histories and issues that shape and influence our lives.

Silver Eye Center for Photography is generously supported by the Allegheny Regional Asset District, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, The Fine Foundation, The Grable Foundation, The Heinz Endowments, The Pittsburgh Foundation, The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation, The Henry John Simonds Foundation and Anonymous.

ABOUT THREE RIVERS ARTS FESTIVAL

June 4 -13, 2010, Downtown Pittsburgh
Point State Park, Hertz Gateway Center & locations throughout the Cultural District

A division of The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Three Rivers Arts Festival is a 10-day free celebration of the arts held annually in Downtown Pittsburgh. Each year, the Festival features nightly live music concerts at Point State Park; an Artists Market featuring original art and fine crafts; gallery exhibitions throughout the Cultural District featuring top Pittsburgh-based artists and exhibitions from around the country; and hands-on activities for kids and adults alike. Demonstrating the convergence of art, the environment and technology, Three Rivers Arts Festival is a national leader in environmentally-conscious event production and at 10 days long, is among the largest and longest-running free arts events in the country, welcoming hundreds of thousands of visitors annually.

IMAGES

Maggie Taylor
The great puzzle. 2006
Archival pigment ink print
Courtesy of the artist and Verve Gallery of Photography, Santa Fe, NM

(left)

Abelardo Morell
The loveliest garden you ever saw. 1998
Archival inkjet print from the original gelatin silver print negative
Courtesy of the artist and Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York

(right)

Silver Eye Center for Photography | 1015 East Carson Street | Pittsburgh, PA 15203 | 412-431-1810

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The Pittsburgh Art Blog

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.

George Kollar 40 years of photography @ Panza Gallery

Panza Gallery

115 Sedgwick Street

Millvale Pa 15209

Panza Gallery Presents:

George Kollar

"then and now"

40 years of photography

George Kollar shows his photography spanning the last 40 years.

His work includes black and white shots of industry, statuary, and

life, as well as more recent experimental techniques.

Opening reception: April 10th 6-9pm

Show runs: April 3rd to May 1st, 2010

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The Pittsburgh Art Blog



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.

Volcanic Fine Art Photography from Hawaii: Rick Byerly

rick byerly, the unusual in nature photography



on top:

starting over:

the source:

on a roll:

lavascape:

burning earth:

hey lavaman:

trailz:

mainstage:

'shroom'n:

Above are some reduced size images from my trek photographing the Kilauea lava flow on the Big Island, Hawaii. For more information regarding exhibits or sales contact Rick Byerly via either rick@uniquetake.com or 412-400-3778. No post camera editing has been done aside from reducing the image size and watermarking. Images were shot with a digital slr camera in raw.

Rick Byerly

www.uniquetake.com

www.PlanetYellowstone.com

Pittsburgh Skyline Photography Print Holiday Sale

Sale: Print Matted to 8 by 10" is $40 ! Free S/H

in stock and ready to deliver

order at www.buypittsburghart.com

or call 412-400-3778

my other work based on the unusual in nature

is on sale here.

rick byerly

Sneak Preview of Kilauea, Rick Byerly's Photography , The Unusual In Nature Hawaii

A sneak preview of a magma image from my trek to the big island.

Stay tuned for exhibit announcements 'an at.

Update: more here:

http://pittsburghgalleries.blogspot.com/2009/12/volcanic-fine-art-photography-from.html

Rick Byerly

www.RickByerly.com

www.Uniquetake.com

www.PlanetYellowstone.com

www.BuyPittsburghArt.com

(image reduced in size and watermarked but not as far as anything else- no post camera editing)