Join Pittsburgh-based artists Natalie Moffitt and Zoë Welsh for a gallery talk in Kipp Gallery, where they will be discussing their work in the undercurrent exhibition.
Natalie Moffitt is an artist living and working out of her home studio in Pittsburgh. She is an abstract oil painter who uses color as a tool to create intuitive, emotional paintings. Her work draws from a specific, deeply personal, and ever-growing vocabulary of colors, lines, and methods of mark making that she has been compiling over the past ten years of her practice. She considers her paintings visual streams of consciousness that are heavily influenced by her surroundings, as well as by her day to day emotions, experiences, and memories.
Zoë Welsh creates mixed media paintings based on her interest of translating mental space into symbolic landscape. She works through an intuitive process that explores personal narrative as it represents journey, obstacle, time, and experience. Through inspiration and observation of the natural world, she transforms perceived space and complex emotion into felt landscape, allowing the formal elements to take on symbolic form. Through a process of pasting strips of paper underneath layers of transparent oils, the architecture of an intuitive image emerges, transforming the surface into a figurative and at times literal window, giving way to an environment that is felt beyond the edges of the canvas.