Aside Archives - Carol Skinger

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

Facebook “like” page is Carol Skinger Artworks

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

Original painting SOLD, however prints are available

Sharpsburg, PA Watercolor and Gouache

Original painting SOLD. Prints are available

Sharpsburg original painting SOLD. Prints are available

Update to this post, in 2020 Staghorn Garden Cafe much loved in the neighborhood, closed for good. You can order Schenley Park Map direct from me.

Everything else written below is now HISTORY.

Kate Morris of Staghorn Garden Café and I have at times been neighbors at Carrie Nardini’s I Made it Market events where artists and makers of all sorts come together for one or two days to sell directly to the public.

Kate has told me more than once she would like to carry my Schenley Park Pictorial Map in her Staghorn Garden Café in Greenfield which she and her husband Mark own and operate. Today I brought her a framed map and several of the maps in both sizes in tubes. So if you want to pick up a map you can go there and buy one. Usually you have to order it from me directly which is fine, or call me to meet somewhere to get it, or come to some event where I am selling it as I do not own a store.

In late 2014 Kate and Mark who both have graduate degrees in architecture opened Staghorn Garden Café in Greenfield. Bill Driscoll of City Paper wrote a piece about it and here is another article by Joanne Klimovich Harrop for the Trib.

Look for the fat red dot just below Schenley Park in the satellite photo on left to see where they are at 517 Greenfield Ave in Greenfield, a Pittsburgh neighborhood. My Pictorial Map below is drawn from a different orientation with west at bottom of map.

Staghorn Garden Cafe offers food and coffee and tea as well as locally made gifts including her own terrariums. Coffee is Zeke’s Coffee from East Liberty.

Kate and Mark reach out to lots of folks to be part of their business. In a crowded field of food trucks which opened in 2015, Driftwood Oven stood out. (NEXT Pittsburgh listed them as 15 notable food businesses opening in 2015- both restaurants and food trucks)

Every Friday 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM Driftwood Oven parks their truck next to Staghorn Garden Café and you can order an outstanding meal and eat it inside!

Greenfield is adjacent to Hazelwood to the south, Oakland and Schenley Park to the north, and Squirrel Hill to the east. Staghorn Home & Garden Café a stone’s throw from where Andy Warhol with his family attended church and less than a mile from it to walk or drive. Here is a picture of that church:

Carol Skinger Art Exhibition at Cooper Siegel Community Library

Staghorn Garden Cafe carrying Schenley Park Pictorial Map