Daybreak by Zoë Welsh
at the Lohr Gallery
725 Wood Street, Wilkinsburg, PA 15221
On display August 15th through November 7th, 2020
Enjoy the digital gallery below
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Travelouge by Thomas Norulak, 11/21/2020 – 1/23/21
Past
Creations by John Burt Sanders. On display June 30th – August 8th, 2020. Read Sanders’ full feature on the WCDC’s blog HERE.
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Daybreak is a collection of paintings created almost entirely out of the artist’s home in Wilkinsburg during the Coronavirus Pandemic. Drawing inspiration from what has been growing around the house during quarantine, Daybreak keeps a record of what is in bloom and emphasizes drawing as a practice of being in the present. These works capture both the soft ambiance and cacophony of growth during the summer months, inviting the viewer to gaze through screens of transparent color revealing heavy linework and ink sketches, torn from newsprint, underneath. The tonal shifts from electric blues to warm pinks echo saturated morning light, and Daybreak embodies the slow act of watching, observing, and living in a present that is simultaneously quiet and vibrant.
Zoë Welsh is a painter from Wilkinsburg, PA. She holds a BFA in painting from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, and currently works out of her studio at Radiant Hall Studios in Homewood, Pittsburgh.
Zoë creates large scale works using a mixed media approach based on her interest in the reconfiguration of memory and the present into symbolic and immersive spaces. Zoë 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, working in tandem with images from memory, she translates perceived space into felt landscape, allowing the formal elements to take on symbolic form.
Daybreak by Zoë Welsh
Yucca
28”x 28”, newsprint, ink and oil on canvas, $620
6AM Through the Locusts
9½”x 23½”, newsprint, ink and oil on canvas, $460
Day Lilies
23¼” x 23”, newsprint, ink and oil on canvas , $560
The Mountain Beyond
22”x 22”, newsprint, ink and oil on canvas, $475
Violet Veil
24”x 24”, newsprint, ink and oil on canvas, $580
Peach Tree
30”x 40”, newsprint, ink and oil on canvas, $960
Weathering
12”x 12”, newsprint, ink, acrylic and oil on canvas, $300
Twin Window
48”x 60”, newsprint, ink and oil on canvas, $2,800
South Avenue Window
48”x 48”, newsprint, ink and oil on canvas, $1,840
Rhododendron
12”x 12”, newsprint, ink, acrylic and oil on canvas, $280
Panel 1 from Window at the Peak
36”x 48”, newsprint, acrylic and oil on canvas, Not for Sale
Panel 2 from Window at the Peak
36”x 48”, newsprint, acrylic and oil on canvas, Not for Sale
Mauve Showers
10”x 12”, collage, acrylic and oil on canvas, $260
Making an Old Space New
12”x 12”, collage and oil on canvas, $300
Daybreak
48”x 48”, newsprint, ink and oil on canvas, $1,840
Architecture of a Garden
48”x 48”, newsprint, ink and oil on canvas, $1,840
Photos Courtesy of the Artist