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- $30k - $40k
BoxHeart Gallery presents Sonja Sweterlitsch: Discovery, new realist portraits and a series of images of the Blessed Virgin Mary, painted from devotional statues in the Pittsburgh area, on exhibit in our main gallery from May 29th through June 29th.
Sweterlitsch was born in 1977 in Silver Spring Maryland, where she lived until attending Carnegie Mellon University. She graduated with a BFA in Art and a BA in Creative Writing in 1999, and has made Pittsburgh her home. She paints with Windsor Newton Oil colors on prepared wood panels and on canvas. She starts with a light drawing followed by an under-painting in raw umber, sienna and white, laying down the major shapes, and the lights and darks. In this stage, Sweterlitsch makes a very loose sketch in paint, building a map for herself, thinking of the composition as a whole without specific details. Once this under-painting is dry, she begins adding thin glazes, layer by layer, to create details on top of the general shapes. She adds color, beginning with the focal points and building everything in relation to those.
Reception with the Artist
Sonja Sweterlitsch: Discovery will be on exhibit from May 29th through June 29th in BoxHeart’s main gallery. The exhibition coincides with our 2nd floor exhibit, Juliet Pusateri: Premonition. The reception with the artists will be held Saturday, June 9th from 5-8 pm. It is free and open to the public.
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Sonja Sweterlitsch was born in 1977 in Silver Spring Maryland, where she lived until attending Carnegie Mellon University. She graduated with a BFA in Art and a BA in Creative Writing in 1999, and has made Pittsburgh her home. She paints with Windsor Newton Oil colors on prepared wood panels and on canvas. She starts with a light drawing followed by an under-painting in raw umber, sienna and white, laying down the major shapes, and the lights and darks. In this stage, Sweterlitsch makes a very loose sketch in paint, building a map for herself, thinking of the composition as a whole without specific details. Once this under-painting is dry, she begins adding thin glazes, layer by layer, to create details on top of the general shapes. She adds color, beginning with the focal points and building everything in relation to those.
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