poemART Exhibits at Trinity Gallery

Trinity Gallery will showcase the work of international artist, Janet Jai. The exhibition titled poemART & canvases by jai will run from October 16, 2010 through November 13, 2010. The opening reception will be on Saturday, October 16, 2008 from 7PM to 9:30PM with a poetry performance at 8:00PM and is free to the public.

janet jai graduated from Duquesne University with a Bachelors of Art in English Honors and Philosophy. Her love of poetry led to an impulse to draw the letters of the words of one of her original poems. The letters became abstract, and then she added other abstract elements, creating a series of drawing-painting-collages out of and around the words. As an artist, jai attempts to capture the complexity of human nature by allowing her art to tap into the unconscious or pre-verbal aspects of the ideas she is trying to express in a poem.

Ms. Jai has performed her poemART internationally at the Shakespeare and Company in Paris, and at the Edinburgh and St. Andrews Festivals in Scotland as well as nationally and locally. Her works contain multiple drawings using her poems to create a room-poem which is an installation that enables people to walk around inside of the poem.

Trinity Gallery is open Thursday and Friday from 4pm – 6pm, and Saturdays 11am – 2:30pm. For more information, contact Dan Gaser at 412-687-2458 or email at imdan@verizon.net.