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Now Open: Tracing an Outline Around a Man’s Shadow
August 1 - September 13, 2024
Tracing an Outline Around a Man’s Shadow is a group exhibition of works that explore shadows, casted light, color, and negative space. Six artists working across entirely different mediums and thematic concepts come together, playfully casting shadows, capturing darkness, and employing materials that diffuse light in unique cascades and hues.
Installation view of Breakdown Reimagined, La Vispera, 2019/2024
Opening August 30: Fiat Lux
Christian Painting from the Estate of Frank Mason at the Verostko Center for the Arts at Saint Vincent College
Opening reception September 5 | 4-6 pm
Motivated deeply by his faith and mastery of classical painting, Frank Mason (1921–2009) created dozens of works imaging Biblical subjects and scenes from the lives of the saints over the course of his prolific career. An Instructor of Fine Arts at the Art Students League of New York for fifty-seven years, Mason educated generations of artists in the technical approaches to painting employed since the Renaissance. It was Mason’s use of light that links his work to the artists he most admired.
Loaned from the artist’s estate and Pittsburgh's Tomayko Foundation, Fiat Lux features over two dozen paintings and preliminary studies in the first exhibition centered on the artist’s treatment of Christian themes since his death in 2009.
The Verostko Center for the Arts is located at Saint Vincent College at 300 Fraser Purchase Road, Latrobe, Pennsylvania 15650
Introducing the Tomayko Foundation Summer Research Fellows at the University of Pittsburgh:
Over the course of the summer two University of Pittsburgh students will work within local art collections and archives to produce original scholarship about artist Aaronel deRoy Gruber (1918-2011) and Frank Mason (1921-2009).
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Congratulations to the winners of the Tomayko Foundation’s 2024 Performing Arts Sponsorship:
Artists Heidi Wiren Kebe, Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh, and Veronica Santiago Moniello!
Highlights from the Frank Mason Gallery
The Tomayko Foundation is home to the Frank Mason gallery, a dedicated gallery to the art of late artist Frank Mason. The Foundation works to preserve and present the artist’s oeuvre created over six decades. Mason lived and worked in New York City, as well as Vermont and Italy.
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