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Current Exhibition
Aaronel deRoy Gruber: Art(ist) in Motion
Saturday March 09, 2013 - Sunday June 02, 2013
Free w/admission


Aaronel deRoy Gruber (1918-2011), Revolving Eye, 1969-70, Plexiglas, motorized and illuminated, 34 x 14 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches. Collection: Aaronel & Irv Gruber
Aaronel deRoy Gruber, a prominent Pittsburgh artist, turned to making sculpture in the early 1960s at the urging of fellow artist, David Smith. This exhibition highlights the artist's sculpture exploration, from welded steel and formed aluminum to shaping Plexiglas into colorful vacuum-formed pieces that are both illuminated and motorized. Gruber embarked on her more than six-decade career working in two-dimensions on canvas that quickly evolved into three-dimensional shaped canvases. It was a natural evolution for the artist whose inquisitive nature led her to continually adapt her medium and working method from painting to sculpture, from photography to video over the course of her career. While this exhibition focuses on Aaronel's foray into the sculpture medium, examples of her painting, photography and video will also be included to show her evolution as an artist. Although Aaronel passed away in 2011, she is remembered for her tenacity as an artist and as a vital member of the art community who never failed to surprise us with her ongoing search for new ways to express herself.

Aaronel deRoy Gruber: Art(ist) in Motion is supported in part by funding from the Hillman Exhibition Fund of the Westmoreland Museum of American Art and The Fine Foundation.

Visit Aaronel's website at aaronel.com.
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Past Exhibitions
Spirit of a Community: The Photographs of Charles "Teenie" Harris
Melting and Blooming: Glass Art by Joelle Levitt
Alfred Maurer: The First American Modern
MAN-MADE QUILTS
Shawn Quinlan: Quilted Art
Walker Evans and James Agee: LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN
Charlee Brodsky: A Town Without Steel, Envisioning Homestead
Patty Gallagher: The Dreams of Trees
AMERICAN SCENERY: Different Views in Hudson River School Painting
Artists of the Commonwealth: Realism and Its Response in Pennsylvania Painting, 1900 - 1950
Carole Werder: Extra-Ordinary
BORN OF FIRE: The Valley of Work
The Westmoreland Juried Biennial
PICTURING WHAT MATTERS: AN OFFERING OF PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE GEORGE EASTMAN HOUSE COLLECTION
Picturing What Matters to YOU!
MADE IN PENNSYLVANIA: A FOLK ART TRADITION
AKIKO KOTANI: Drawing with Silk and Graphite
Seeing the City: Sloan's New York
Dylan Vitone: Pittsburgh Project
The 2008 Westmoreland Juried Biennial
William D. Wade: Waterfall Spirits
Intimate Landscapes: The Gouache Paintings of Thomas Paquette
Painting in the United States: 1943-1949
VISIONS - Artistic Expeditions into Reality: John Winberg, Jr.
From the Ruhr Valley to the Steel City: Industrial Scenes from the Rhineland Industrial Museum
Imagine Toys: Holiday Toy Exhibition Sponsored by Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield
Kathleen Mendus Dlugos: The Shape of Days
SCENIC VIEWS: Painters of the Scalp Level School Revisited
Violet Oakley: The Founding of the State of Liberty Spiritual
David Michael Bowers: Humanity Unveiled
The Gift of Art
Daniel Bolick: RESURRECTED
Modern Masters from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
James Osher: Three Seconds with the Masters
Four Perspectives on Fifty Years
Ben Schachter: Kosher/Treif and Eruvim
Concerning the 1930s in Art: Paintings from the Schoen Collection
Paul Binai: Pulp Nation
The Westmoreland Juried Biennial
Cutting Our Own Paths: Contemporary Works by Paper Artists
Rooted in Tradition: Art Quilts from the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum
Transatlantic Journal Project Student Art Exhibition
Remnants: Paintings by Joyce Werwie Perry
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh: Celebrating a Century of Art
American Landscapes: Treasures from the Parrish Art Museum
At the River's Edge: Paintings by Patrick Ruane
They Practice What They Teach: Artist Faculty of Carnegie Institute of Technology
Moments in Time: Paintings by Hubert J. FitzGerald (1923-2011)
Tattoo Witness
The Tides of Provincetown: Pivotal Years in America's Oldest Continuous Art Colony (1899-2011)
Carol Brode: One Time/One Place
The Art of Seating: 200 Years of American Design
Brian Ferrell: Transitions of Form
2012 Westmoreland Juried Biennial
Merrell & Morrill
Modern Dialect: American Paintings from the John and Susan Horseman Collection
Your Art Needs You!
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