Austin Gabriel Pittman, Telling a Story through Portrait and Figure

April 10-May 30, 2015
Artist Reception Friday, May 1, 6 pm – 8 pm

His first love is drawing and painting the human form and capturing a person’s spirit. He also enjoys the different approaches to portraiture available to him as an artist – in terms of medium, application, and style. “There are so many ways of telling a story with portraiture”, says Pittman. 
Pittman received his Bachelor of Fine Art at the Herron School of Art and Design, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and his Masters of Fine Arts from Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in painting.

“My work strives for an eccentric beauty. I try to express myself visually the way I perceive the world around me. I find myself breaking things down or building them up as far as I can take them. I push and pull mediums and ideas until they arrive at a point where they feel satisfying to me. In some cases the subject of the piece dictates how I handle the medium, in other cases the medium itself dictates the subject. Much of the process is by feel. I think of it as visual jazz.”
-Austin Gabriel Pittman