Artist Salon: "For the Love of Art"

A Conversation "For the Love of Art"

at the Allegheny HYP Club

619 William Penn Place, Pittsburgh, PA 15219

Thursday, February 5th and Friday, Friday February 6th - 530-730pm

Join us as we have a warm, intimate conversation, on why we love, or don't always love art, how it shapes us and what it means to live a creative life. Artists, friends and art lovers are all welcome to attend.

About the artists:

Freddie Bainbridge: I strive to make the world a more beautiful place every day by creating and providing abstract wholesale art to architects and designers.

On my site are my creations. After 30 years in the Design and Specification business, my art is designed to be distinctive, abstract and individual. Occasionally surprising, sometimes calm, but always completely controlled, yet random at the same time. I love using shine, reflection and texture, as well as composition, scale and variety to create unique one-of-a-kind visuals.

I specialize in wholesale-to-the-trade large-scale, ready-to-hang, abstract art at affordable prices, and am recognized by the Architects, Interior Designers, Specifiers, and Retailers I work with for quick turn-around times and quantities. (Looking forward to collaborating with your Design Professional, Sales Representative or Purchasing agent!) My website is filled with wonderful inventory of many shapes and sizes that can quickly be delivered… more often than not, this week or the next day! Local or shipped to your door, nationally or internationally.

I do beautiful paintings by mixing and matching styles, colors, textures on professionally wrapped canvases, and boards, that are ready to hang and sized to create the perfect piece to bring more beauty into your world.

Materials include: Encaustics, Acrylics, Metallic Paints, Oils, Watercolors, Crystals, Semi-Precious Stones, Glitter, Silver and Gold Leaf; Metal Paints is a new product and is perfect for an architectural look of “rusted metals” at a fraction of the cost of full-surface products.

Pittsburgh’s North Side is where I have my studio/gallery/loft and I have called it home for 35 years. Being situated between The Mattress Factory Museum and RandyLand is just about as centrally located as one can get in the “artistic energies” of Pittsburgh!

Emily Glass: Emily Glass is a visual artist who combines different techniques to define her own style.

After a 20-year career in Information Technology, Artist Emily Glass realized as she stood in a summer thunderstorm that she needed to follow her lifelong dream of becoming an artist. That is when Feel the Rain Studio was born.

Emily has been an artist-at-heart her entire life. In her youth Emily was always drawing and creating storybooks, winning scholastic prizes regularly, including having an anti-drug drawing printed on a highway billboard. While earning a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh and a Masters Degree in Information Systems Management from Robert Morris University, she regularly took art classes to hone her craft and as a means of stress relief.

Through art classes at Pitt, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, and Sweetwater Center for the Arts, as well as online courses, Emily has experience in many mediums. Emily is skilled in acrylic and oil painting, indoor murals, and graphite and color pencil drawing. In homage to her religion and ethnic background, she also is experienced in Orthodox iconography and Ukrainian pysanky painting.

Emily has historically been a realistic artist, not allowing herself much freedom to explore abstract work or express deep emotions. However, after experiencing the emotional turmoil of the Covid pandemic, she realized she needed to use her art as a voice and has since flourished in abstract painting to achieve that. She follows her heart with her work, using a broad color palette with a lot of movement, most often as a vehicle to convey joy that she feels is so desperately needed in the world.

In addition to canvas painting and drawing, she makes jewelry, has painted several indoor murals and is a published illustrator of children’s literature.

Emily’s work has been exhibited at The Frick Fine Arts Library, Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Gallery, Martha Gault Art Gallery, The Manos Gallery, You Are Here Gallery, Thoughtrobbers Gallery, Castle Concortia, and Roadkill Gallery.
Her art has been a featured artist in events such as Lawrenceville Art Crawl, Pittsburgh Art Jam, Art All Night, and Pittsburgh Fringe Festival. She presented an artist talk as part of the AAP 2022 New Member Exhibition at Slippery Rock University.
In 2024, her art was featured in the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Project in the City-County Building of Pittsburgh.

Emily is a member of the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, and West Hills Art League. She was a 2022 recipient of the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council’s Creative Entrepreneur Accelerator Grant.
A Pittsburgh native, Emily’s studio is in her home in McKees Rocks, where she resides with her husband, Michael, and their very demanding cats. Outside the studio, she can be found gardening, going to concerts and local sporting events, or traveling.

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