Former Butler resident's work featured
GREENSBURG — The Westmoreland Museum of American Art at @rt 30. presents a pop-up exhibition featuring works by former Butler resident Gary Jurysta through March 29.
Jurysta is an abstract painter who creates both 2-D paintings as well as sculptured, optical-color fields on curved canvas.
His work explores how the process of artmaking and the visual elements in the work itself relate to patterns in nature, such as line, rhythm, movement and progression.
His work has been shown in galleries throughout the country including the Portland Museum of Art, Maine; the Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y.; and Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. Public collections include the Westmoreland Museum of American Art; Carnegie Museum of Art; and The Art Center in Erie.
Jurysta’s family moved to Butler when he was 4 years old, and he graduated from Butler High School.
He now lives in Highland Park.
He holds a master of fine arts in painting from Brooklyn College CUNY in New York.
The exhibition is on display at Westmoreland Museum of American Art’s temporary location at 4764 Route 30, during a major renovation and expansion project.
Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Sundays. For more information, visit wmuseumaa.org.
