Turning the Corner

Natalie Moffitt is an artist living and working out of her home studio in Pittsburgh. She is an abstract oil painter who uses color as a tool to create intuitive, emotional paintings. Her work draws from a specific, deeply personal, and ever-growing vocabulary of colors, lines, and methods of mark making that she has been compiling over the past ten years of her practice. She considers her paintings visual streams of consciousness that are heavily influenced by her surroundings, as well as by her day to day emotions, experiences, and memories.

Kara “Zuzu” Zupancic received her BA in Studio Art and Art Education from Saint Vincent College in 2007. She continued her education at Edinboro University and earned her MA in Art Education in 2012.
As a Pittsburgh-based ceramic sculpture artist, Zuzu makes both smaller, functional art (like mugs with hand-sculpted embellishment) as well as large sculptures. Her one-of-a-kind sculptures are inspired by animals, women, and narratives from her lived experiences. Especially an animal lover, the creatures Zuzu chooses to sculpt are often those that cross her path and leave her imprinted with a feeling evoked by that animal.  Intentionally chosen, Zuzu relies on the calming energy of animals to tell humanistic and personal stories. Her sculptures draw you in, asking you to look beyond an initial impression for interpretation. Animals are a non-threatening way to engage an audience in an experience of allowing for multiple perspectives and self-reflection.