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.

   
Twelve works from my current display, "Recent Ritti" can currently be seen on-line here at my
 web site, www.artalliancepa.org/AlyceRitti.htm 

    
    I can be reached by e-mail at alyceritti@artalliancepa.org or rrr@psu.edu 

     Click for a sampling of my work

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