Pittsburgh Filmmakers interviews Pittsburgh artist Connie Cantor

Pittsburgh Filmmakers interviews Pittsburgh artist Connie Cantor



Being aware that I suffer under self-imposed limitations, I was drawn to Cantor at the Cluster discussion when she said that she gave herself permission to make the art that she makes. I ask her to describe this phenomenon to me. “It is the nut of the whole process. How do artists deny they are creative? How do people deny they are creative?” she asks. “They don’t give themselves permission to fail, to look like an idiot, to stumble around. What I am doing is stumbling. Stumbling is the only way to find something authentic.” To make art, you need to have a certain faith. It is a “faith in the core of yourself, a faith that something will emerge.”



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Exhibit Review: Artists Janese Hexon and Connie Cantor at the Christine Frechard Gallery in Squirrel Hill

Good to see the Pittsburgh Tribune Review and Kurt Shaw covering the talented work of Pittsburgh artists Janese Hexon and Connie Cantor. I also like the sentiment expressed by gallery owner Christine Frechard: "I'm tired of hearing that there's no collectors here, there's no money here. Great artists from here are exhibiting outside of the city and collectors are buying outside of the city."



Review link.



The exhibit runs until April 8, 2010.

Gallery Hours:

Tuesday - Saturday: 10:30 AM - 6:00 PM

Sunday: 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM

5871 Forbes Avenue

(between Murray and Shady)

Pittsburgh, Pa. 15217

(724) 766-0104

christinefrechardgallery@gmail.com

www.christinefrechardgallery.com

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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.

Artists Janese Hexon and Connie Cantor at the Christine Frechard Gallery in Squirrel Hill

You have until April 8, 2010, to see the work of talented artists Janese Hexon and Connie Cantor at the Christine Frechard Gallery in Squirrel Hill.

Cluster, a group exhibition of more than 20 Pittsburgh-area artists Pittsburgh Center for the Arts

Frozen and Trapped Forever (detail), Jacob Ciocci, 2010

Opening reception, Friday February 5, 2010

Pittsburgh Center for the Arts and Pittsburgh Filmmakers announce Cluster, a group exhibition of more than 20 Pittsburgh-area artists, curated by Adam Welch. It is on view February 5 – March 28, 2010. An opening reception will be held on Friday evening, February 5 from 5:30 to 8:00pm. It is open to the public; $5 requested donation; free to PF/PCA members. Beginning with this show, PCA will extend Thursday evening hours to 7:00 pm. The Dialogue Series continues on the second Thursday of each month, and the pavilion series will resume on Thursdays in the summer.

Cluster takes over all PCA's gallery spaces at the Shadyside campus and features invited artists who've investigated the spatial device of connections. These connections might be obvious, esoteric, direct, or juxtaposed, and elicit a fundamental element of artistic discourse. Welch says these artists are, "working within their interests to profess what they know or do not know, for a purpose that is both self and collectively informing."

The show offers a wide range of visual works in a variety of mediums from regional artists. Artworks with dissimilar processes and formations will be displayed around the building creating multiple levels of viewing experiences. Some of these are:

• A large-scale mixed-media installation by Jacob Ciocci titled, "Frozen and Trapped Forever." This piece employs HD video with painting, combining outtakes of TV/film, comics and self-drawn animations, rapidly cut and collaged together to create an overload of information.
• A site-specific installation by Jason Lee, which further extends his "Euthenic Set Series," made up of elements of safety-orange painted light boxes containing photographic imagery, wires, plastic ducks and picket fences arranged to present contemporary landscape as sanitized, congenially pristine and compartmentalized.
• Individual video works by Robert Lasdislas Derr and Julie Perini, both of which investigate the relationship of history and social constructs through filmed performance acts.
• Interactive installations by Sean Derry and Amanda Long. Derry's piece, "Rehearsing Spring," combines monochromatic panels and heating elements, which hold a temperature close to natural body heat. Long’s work involves color and pattern with multi-channel projectors. When the viewer interacts with it, it takes on different special arrangements of color fields.
• Sculptural works by Dee Briggs, Will Giannotti, Kyle Houser and Anita Sulimanovic, all of which navigate the object as a process of expression.
• Painted/printed/drawn/cut works by Connie Cantor, Brian Brown, Bovey Lee David Montano, and Nayda Collazo-Llorens.
• A series of black and white photographs by Jacob Koestler, and digital color photographs by Michael Sherwin.

Thursday, MARCH 11: The Dialogue Series with PF/PCA curator Adam Welch, and Cluster artists: Dee Briggs, Connie Cantor, David Pohl, and Jacob Ciocci. Free and open to the public. Cash bar opens at 5:00pm; discussion begins at 6:00pm.

More info here.

Connie Cantor at moxie DaDA "Scribbling for Dummies" Art Exhibit

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Hello Friends,

moxie DaDA gallery is proud to host artist Connie Cantor’s second solo exhibition with us, “SCRIBBLING FOR DUMMIES”, JUNE 6 – 20, 2009. You are invited to a special opening reception this Saturday June 6, 2009 from 6:00-9:00pm. As always, this reception is free and open to the public. Connie has been exploring with lines and unconscious marks to produce a dialogue of which cannot be heard. Her new series challenges us to use our own intuition by offering an interactive “scribbling” – making our own marks and creating our own dialogues. These marks come from an inner dialogue and expression… uncovering patterns and conversations within our selves.

Connie Cantor's current work explores the freedom and fluidity of "not knowing." Working in dialogue with the intuitive mark, Cantor gives language to an alphabet of effortless line and form. The work is random, playful, obsessive, informed by the inherent fertility of movement stripped of plan. "I am drawn to the strength and validity of accident." says Cantor. "There is an intelligence here that cannot be preconceived—a wiser voice I have chosen to trust and honor. The deeper the surrender of outcome, the more vital the conversation."

Mark your calenders and start assembling your team for the scribbling event of the year, "Scribblefest" on Saturday June 20 at 7:00pm. Stay tuned for details, as follow-up e-mail will be sent again before the event. See you soon!
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moxie DaDA gallery
1416 Arch St
Pittsburgh PA 15212
412.682.0348
Hours during this exhibit:Friday- 4:00-7:00pm Saturday 12:00-6:00pmSunday 12:00-5:00pm

http://www.moxiedada.com/

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