Carolyn Wenning

Carolyn Wenning is a nationally and internationally exhibiting artist living and working in Pittsburgh, PA. Her paintings, drawings and mixed media assemblages have been featured in numerous solo and  group shows, most recently at ArtCake and M David & Co in Brooklyn, New York, and at Boxheart Gallery in Pittsburgh, PA. She has exhibited at  Obras Gallery in Estremoz, Portugal, Pagus Gallery in Philadelphia, and at The Andy Warhol Museum and The Matress Factory in Pittsburgh. Her work is in numerous private and corporate collections, including Children’s Hospital and PNC Bank.

 As well as producing her own work, Wenning is a dedicated arts educator. She has taught in the public school system and at various universities including Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Chatham University and the School of Education at Carlow University.

Wenning holds an MFA in painting and print media from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University.

I create work that explores and challenges the boundaries between drawing, painting, collage and assemblage. Themes of identity, relationships, personal history and transformation factor largely into my multimedia pieces. I use traditional materials such as ink and flashe as well as nontraditional resources including enamel housepaint, shellac, tar and bits of repurposed, fabric, needlework and paper detritus. I work intuitively, allowing the acts of layering and removing, connecting and recontextualizing drive my practice. The resulting work is a created situation - a place where the raw, the enigmatic and the true come together to speak. The language is new, but familiar. The viewer is able to make references and draw parallels. In that way, the work becomes believable and understood.

http://carolynwenning.com/

Instagram: @carolyn.wenning

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