ALYCE RITTI
Mixed Media Collages
Alyce Ritti
170 Cherrywood Way
Port Matilda, PA 16870
(814) 692- 5356 rrr@psu.edu
Recent Ritti
Time traveling throughout art history to borrow concepts and
elements helps me create my
small collages. and assemblages. They express my response to Robin
Goodfellow's statement
in Shakespeare's "Midsummer's Night Dream "." He declares "What fools
these mortals be."
In their own theatrical way my surreal pieces continue the traditions of
American and European
collage art. They make social critique by using commonp1ace non-art
materials.
I do put the "mixed" into the term mixed-media. I use paper
cut-outs from print publications,
fabric from scrap-bags ,bits of lace, straw, yarn, netting and ribbons.
found- objects such as
used tickets, old costume jewelry, beads, feathers , corks and old bottles
too. I especially enjoy
using medieval imagery because it is simple and has deadpan earnestness.
Currently I am
intrigued by the potential in using grocery produce netting and have a
weakness for glitter.
There are infinite challenges in mixed-media collage/assemblage work.
Always good-looking, the pieces can often make the viewer
chuckle. The images are
sometimes satirical, sometimes sympathetic, and usually playful.
My collages have been seen in many Pennsylvania venues,
including The Southern
Alleghenies Museum of Art, who purchased one for their permanent
collection. A solo show in
South Side, Pittsburgh gained good revues. As did a solo show in Millheim
. They have been
seen across America from the Bay Area to Manhattan. Abroad they have
appeared in Central
Europe, Montreal, Oslo, Paris, Rome, Stockholm, and Venice. Significant
places in the U.S.
include WomanMade Gallery in Chicago who purchased one and put one into
the date-book.
There was a Solo Award Show at The Stage Gallery on Long Island.
I also teach and often write about the arts.
web site,
www.artalliancepa.org/AlyceRitti.htm
I can be reached by e-mail at
alyceritti@artalliancepa.org
or rrr@psu.edu