Tenement Kitchen Metal Print
by Betty Pieper
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Tenement Kitchen metal print by Betty Pieper. Bring your artwork to life with the stylish lines and added depth of a metal print. Your image gets printed directly onto a sheet of 1/16" thick aluminum. The aluminum sheet is offset from the wall by a 3/4" thick wooden frame which is attached to the back. The high gloss of the aluminum sheet complements the rich colors of any image to produce stunning results.
Design Details
This work morphed into a composite of tenement kitchens from my youth in NYC especially on Forsythe Street on the Lower East Side (LES). The Tenement... more
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Artist's Description
This work morphed into a composite of tenement kitchens from my youth in NYC especially on Forsythe Street on the Lower East Side (LES). The Tenement Museum on Orchard Street is seeking to expand so that they can
continue to honor our sturdy immigrant roots.
About Betty Pieper
Betty Pieper received her first set of oils at the age of ten and has been painting ever since. Her work has been selected by prominent jurors for prestigious regional and national exhibitions and is owned by people throughout the country. Before the age of five, Betty had lived on Dean Street in Brooklyn, on Forsythe Street in Manhattan, on an estate in Westchester county, and with her grandparents in rural New York. She watched her father build their house nearby only to sell it and announce a move to California. In San Bernardino she lived in a trailer park and later in a rural farmhouse without running water, then in an historic mansion with an Indian cellar. How did this itinerant childhood influence her art? "I learned...
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Betty Pieper
Sally, What a pleasure to receive a comment on this. Chana Tolere featured it but there was no interest and I suspect the nature of the paint...sad, thin, barely covering...a skim really..combined with the severe angles, stick furniture, bare floor that I used to depict poverty may turn people away. I even left out the traditional geranium on the window sill to enforce the theme. I am so pleased that you and Chana have recognized the artistic worth of the work! Thank you.
Sally Porter
Very nice. -Sally Porter Meta Expressionist
Betty Pieper
Thank you, Chana, for featuring this in the Abstract Expressionist Group! Painting it felt like old times...except for the skimming... and similar to the early works that we both like so much.