Syracuse artist’s mixedmedia on display

The Griffing Gallery of the Kallet Civic Center is displaying the work of Arlene Pritzker through September.

The Griffing Gallery of the Kallet Civic Center, 159 Main St., Oneida, N.Y., will exhibit the work of Syracuse artist Arlene Pritzker during the month of September 2018.

The display, opening on Sept. 3, features her recent drawn and mixed media pieces that create illusions of altered realities through a draughtsman’s technical rendering.

Pritzker has always been interested in the construction and aesthetics of buildings, furniture and the tools that make them. She feels that hand-built objects not only show the artisan’s handiwork and skill but also their problem solving and thought processes. Those interests led her to work for more than 30 years as a drafter/designer in the engineering and architectural industries.

Since 2014, as a full-time studio artist living and working in upstate New York, Pritzker has gone on to develop her signature semi-abstracted architecture and vignette style using traditional hand- drafting supplies and techniques in untraditional ways. Using dramatic lighting, multiple angles of view, unexpected combinations and a recurring motif of windows, doors and stairs, she shares with viewers her memories and perception of walks within and around unfamiliar cities and places. Only the interesting fragments remain creating an intimate essence of place.

“My artwork investigates the memories and perceptions of my experiences within, and around, unfamiliar places,” said Pritzker. “Using architectural fragments, dramatic lighting, multiple angles of view, unexpected combinations and the recurring motifs of windows,

“My artwork investigates the memories and perceptions of my experiences within, and around, unfamiliar places.”

— Arlene Pritzke, Syracuse artist

PHOTO COURTESY THE KALLET CIVIC CENTER The Kallet Civic Center will display the mixed-media work of Arlene Pritzker during the month of September 2018.