Jeannie McGuire
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As an artist, Jeannie McGuire desires to bring situations close to the viewer for a personal connection — to portray the sound in a crowded bar, the suspense of an investigation, energy, movement, and a sense of time and place. Using watercolor pigments and graphite on paper, Jeannie’s paintings depict people in the context of southwestern Pennsylvania industry.
When Jeannie went to art school in the 1970s, Pittsburgh’s steel industry still had a presence. One morning, a scene of a triangle-shaped bar with doors open on both ends allowed for a full view of the occupants standing shoulder to shoulder — smoke, alcohol, and voices wafting. That was the start of Jeannie’s journey into creating stories of people through her artwork, and why she selected a bar scene as one of the featured works in this exhibition.
Comprised of images of the steel industry, the paintings in this show used archival photos courtesy of Rivers of Steel as reference.
