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Rustbelt Kayaking!

June 19, 2017

Kayaking Near Brilliant Railroad Bridge, watercolor and gouache by Carol Skinger

My watercolor & gouache painting titled Rustbelt Kayaking is part of my solo show of 40 works at Cooper Siegel Community Library 403 Fox Chapel Road in Pittsburgh (Fox Chapel) 15238. On the walls from May 14, 2017- March 15, 2018 , a public reception was held  Saturday June 24, 2017.   Each purchase benefited the library 25%.

This original painting SOLD  in mid summer but I have high quality prints of it still for sale, which can be purchased from me or through the library. Check Dovecote in Aspinwall for a framed print.  Contact me directly for framed or unframed prints.

Venture Outdoors and Kayak Pittsburgh rent kayaks at Aspinwall Riverfront Park in summer.

 

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Carol Skinger Art Exhibition at Cooper Siegel Community Library

May 16, 2017

Tom Otterness Sculpture & Slide Aspinwall Riverfront Park

Carol Skinger’s watercolor of the playground sculpture/ slide at Aspinwall Riverfront Park. Sculptor: Tom Otterness

Solo art exhibition of 40+ works by Carol Skinger at  Cooper Siegel Community Library in Fox Chapel,  PA

YEAH and THANK YOU! Cooper Siegel Community Library in Fox Chapel has asked me to keep my exhibit up a few more months into the first quarter of 2018. So it will NOT be coming down on November 8, as originally planned.

Publicity about Carol Skinger’s Art Exhibition at the library: August issue of Fox Chapel Living has a 3 page article  . The Herald (Trib)  July 31, 2017 issue had an article . Pittsburgh Post Gazette June 23, 2017 had an article . 

Website   www.carolskinger.com 

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Carol Skinger is best known for her landscape watercolor & gouache paintings bold in style, drawn from the imagination, of both abstract and recognizable places. Watercolor, gouache, ink and pastel, are her primary mediums.

For her  solo show at Cooper Siegel Community Library in Fox Chapel May 14, 2017- late winter 2018  look for some views from her imagination and for views of the area served by the library. Some works in the show are of Aspinwall including Aspinwall Riverfront Park, Greenwood Cemetery, Hitchhiker Brewing Co (former Fort Pitt Brewing Co) in Sharpsburg, and various scenes Carol admires from her frequent local bicycle rides.

Her work includes commissioned work often custom house portraits of which there will be examples. She has done paintings of homes locally in Fox Chapel, Aspinwall, O’hara, Indiana Township, Squirrel Hill, Oakmont, Sewickley, and other locales.

Carol resides in Fox Chapel and has lived in Pittsburgh for over 30 years. Originally from Vermont she grew up in the Lake Champlain Islands and in Stowe at the foot of Mt. Mansfield.  After graduating from college in the Bay Area with an Art degree, she moved to Burlington, VT and then to Boston and developed a career in architectural space planning and interior design. Carol met her husband, John Horn, in Boston and they relocated to Pittsburgh when he became a professor of Neurobiology at the University of Pittsburgh in the medical school.  In recent years, Carol has intensified her lifelong love of drawing and painting and has become active in the Pittsburgh arts community.

Education: California College of the Arts (BFA). Additional studies at Instituto Allende, Mexico, Boston Architectural Center, Carlow University and Truro Center for the Arts.

 

A few pieces in the exhibit:

Kayaking Near Brilliant Railroad Bridge, watercolor and gouache by Carol Skinger
Kayaking Near Brilliant Railroad Bridge, watercolor and gouache by Carol Skinger

Original painting SOLD, however  prints are available

Carol Skinger Sharpsburg, PA from Rt 28 green sky

Sharpsburg, PA Watercolor and Gouache

Original painting SOLD. Prints are available

Sharpsburg, PA watercolor and gouache by Carol Skinger

Sharpsburg original painting SOLD.  Prints are available

 

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Licencing my work for use: Schenley Park Map

January 7, 2016

Carol Skinger's Schenley Park Map - OptSchenly Pk map in Mary Schenley article Fall 2015 - OPT

I was excited when the quarterly magazine Western Pennsylvania History Magazine contacted me about using my Schenley Park Map (on the left) to illustrate a stunning and thorough 14 page article (125 citations!) about Mary Schenley titled “What’s in a Namesake” by Jake Oresick. It was published in Fall of 2015. Their publications are beautifully printed and designed and I could not be more thrilled to be part of it. This is the spread page where my map appears.

You can order a map from me  and it is here on my site in two sizes 18″ square $50 or 30″ square $100. It is a wonderful help in keeping my art supplies stocked and dealing with various dollar and cents issues we all have!

Listen to an NPR story about Mary Schenley written and produced by Margaret J. Krauss where she and  author Jake Oresick talk about Mary Schenley.

I am always happy to discuss licence agreements to use my work, and in the case of Schenley Park, the park has been  a passion of mine since moving here from Boston years ago. Obviously this is a Depression Era drawing and I am not old enough to have drawn it myself. As an artist, when I found the black and white drawing in a file it broke my heart to think Pittsburghers had no way to enjoy this map.

So I added color, information, history and a red border to make it more compatible with the Frick Park Map which people love to frame together as a set. I never set out to be a map seller but no one else I approached would take it over so I decided to do it myself. It brings such pleasure to so many people who love that park and it is a beautiful piece to get lost in while studying it.

The BIG audience for my print are children and men! Yes Pittsburgh women, or men  who do not know what to get for your husbands, or folks who have to come up with a great memorable baby present but don’t want to contribute to instant landfill, or alumni of Pitt, CMU and Carlow who are not fond of pennants or logos, this is your go to gift!

If you would like to discuss licencing any of my work shoot me a message through my site.

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A Best of Show Award from Freyda Spira for my paintings of Mobile Homes

April 24, 2015

Series of six 9" x 9" paintings titled 'Unscenic?' by Carol Skinger
Series of six 9″ x 9″ paintings titled ‘Unscenic?’ by Carol Skinger

So thrilled to be the recipient  a ‘Best of Show’ Award from Freyda Spira, Associate Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

My series of six 9″ x 9″ watercolor & gouache  paintings of mobile homes, trailers and manufactured homes were accepted for exhibit at a Pittsburgh Society of Artists juried art show titled “Intr(au)spective” at the 56th Annual Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival (TRAF) in Pittsburgh June 5- June 14, 2015 at  937 Gallery 937 Liberty Avenue Pittsburgh PA 15222.

I titled my series of six paintings which were awarded Best of Show  ‘Unscenic?’. The overall theme of Three Rivers Arts Festival that summer was Unseen Unheard, therefore I used one of the words in making my title. No I do not think mobile homes are unscenic. These homes remain an affordable  and needed housing solution. However I’d like to see progress in design. The interest in the Tiny House Movement  has never yet produced an affordable solution that can compete,  and cost of living is very much an issue.  I  hope someone can soon achieve scale in manufacturing a new series of modern designs.

Locust Grove near Pittsburgh 9 x 9 by Carol Skinger
Locust Grove near Pittsburgh 9 x 9 by Carol Skinger
Trailers in Bozeman 9 x 9 by Carol Skinger
Trailers in Bozeman 9 x 9 by Carol Skinger
Trailer in Winter Locust Grove near Pittsburgh, 9 x 9 by Carol Skinger
Trailer in Winter Locust Grove near Pittsburgh, 9 x 9 by Carol Skinger
Trailer in winter with Bridger Range beyond Bozeman, MT 9 x 9 Carol Skinger
Trailer in winter with Bridger Range beyond Bozeman, MT 9 x 9 Carol Skinger
Locust Grove near Pittsburgh in winter 9 x 9 by Carol Skinger
Locust Grove near Pittsburgh in winter 9 x 9 by Carol Skinger
Sisters in a pony cart ,trailers beyond in Stowe, VT by Carol Skinger
Sisters in a pony cart ,trailers beyond in Stowe, VT by Carol Skinger

Juror Freyda Spira, Associate Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art awarded 3 Best of Show Awards and my series received one of them.

For this exhibit 92 artists submitted 160 pieces of artwork. Spira selected 34 pieces by 30 artists to be shown. My second submission was also accepted titled “Trailer Toile”.

Serving as juror for PSA’s Intr[au]spective is Freyda Spira, Associate Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, and specializes in Early Modern German art and works on paper. Spira has curated exhibitions including, Dürer and Beyond: Central European Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2012); and Imperial Augsburg: Renaissance Prints and Drawings (2012). Presently, she is curating an exhibition entitled Prints & People: The Building of a Metropolitan Collection, 1916-1966, which will be accompanied by a catalogue (2016). She has also curated numerous smaller exhibitions on nineteenth and twentieth century visual culture, including Legends of the Dead Ball Era, Century Posters, Life Magazine and Pop Art, and A Sport for Every Girl.

Freyda Spira Juror’s Statement:

“50 years ago a hardy band of eight artists formed the Pittsburgh Society of Artists with the mission to facilitate and promote the exhibition of original art by its members. Today more than 380 artists living within a 150-mile radius of Pittsburgh comprise PSA. The title of the show is a playful twist on PSA’s 50th anniversary nodding to the periodic table and the 79th element of gold, but it also reflects the interior life of the artist and the introspective nature of traversing the mindscape where the image and inspiration for the artwork first appear.

The provocative work submitted for the Intr(Au)spective exhibition ranged from beautifully detailed craftwork, to abstract paintings, sculpture, and prints. As varied as the artists who submitted the works, the questions posed, lives exposed, and continuing battles fought spoke to the underlying idea of the exhibition and demonstrated not only the artists own musings, but also set into motion open-ended reactions. As a juror, I was constantly engaged by new ideas, new ways of seeing, and this was a complete pleasure. The three works that I selected as “Best in Show” prompted in me the greatest introspection. Unscenic? (2015) posed the question of pride in our home, and captures the movement of the eye as it crosses a familiar but perhaps not faultless landscape, creating snap shots with the fugitive media of watercolor and gouache. Untitled (Salt 0806) (2015) fascinated as the perfect rendering of details of the mind as it distills and crystallizes into actionable thought. Unsee (2015) rather than bringing into focus the movement of the mind hides it beneath layers of wax and collage, leaving the viewer to search and grapple for clarity.
As the juror who had the privilege to select the works for the Intr(Au)spective exhibition, I thank the Pittsburgh Society of Artists for this honor and congratulate the guild on reaching this special milestone and a future that shines brightly towards its next 50 years.”

-Freyda Spira
Associate Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York

Writer Brandon Getz engaged by Pittsburgh Cultural Trust write this about the exhibition:

“For its golden anniversary, the Pittsburgh Society of Artists has put together a fantastic exhibition of work from 30 local artists. From abstract paintings to sculpture to magnified photography, the 34 pieces in the PSA’s 50th anniversary Intr[Au]spective at 937 Liberty Gallery were handpicked by nationally recognized juror and curator Freyda Spira, each a variation on the Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival’s 2015 theme UNSEEN/UNHEARD.

Spira, an Associate Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, is a specialist in paper-based and print works, especially Renaissance-era and—at the other end of the spectrum—“American visual culture from the 19th and 20th centuries,” including advertising prints. “I have a broad appreciation,” she says. “Because I’m not often working with contemporary art, it’s something I can bring fresh eyes to.”

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Art Created from Salvaged Wood

October 31, 2012

Art Created from Salvaged Wood

See my YouTube on the whole process: finding the LL Bean Sleigh at the dump to finished piece.

I found a beautiful wood LL Bean sleigh at the Fox Chapel dump, held aside by the fellow who manages the dump for anyone who might want it.

I have so many happy memories of childhood in Vermont in both the Lake Champlain Islands and in Stowe, places where my parents moved from NJ & MA after WWII to live out their married life bring up a family. I have early memories of seeing the northern lights from the most northern part of the Lake Champlain Islands where we lived in my early childhood, just a stone’s throw from the Canadian border. That memory of a night sky alive with color and movement combined with my love for Van Gogh’s painting Starry Night became the motivation for my painting for the found LL Bean Sleigh. I thought if I were a toddler what would I love to look at on my sleigh?

The paint is acrylic on canvas, which has layers of thinned gesso layed down first.

 

 

 

 

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