“Refugee” exhibit confronts forced migration, identity, and shared humanity
PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh-based artist Michael Fratangelo will host an opening reception on Friday, April 10 at 6 p.m. at the Penn State School of Visual Arts, held in the…
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Michael Fratangelo is a Pittsburgh-based painter and Penn State alumnus whose socially engaged work has been featured by outlets ranging from PBS to international publications in Poland and Greece.
Arts and Architecture alum’s exhibit ‘Refugee’ opens at Woskob Gallery Jan. 30
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — “Refugee,” an exhibition of large-scale paintings created by Penn State School of Visual Arts alumnus Michael Fratangelo, will open on Jan. 30 and run…
Refugee
This exhibition presents Refugee, Michael Fratangelo’s series of large-scale paintings responding to the refugee experience. When painter Michael Fratangelo first encountered images of refugees crossing the Mediterranean Sea into…
IndigoBlue – Greece
Painter Michael Fratangelo chose to manage emotion by creating paintings that he calls “metaphorical portraits.” The artist creates commissioned works by depicting not the people who asked for…
Reflections from Alumnus Michael Fratangelo
Reflections from Alumnus Michael Fratangelo (’01 B.F.A) on His Time at SoVA and His Creative Process I started down the path to be a painter in the fall…
Penn State alumnus strives to transcend physical world through painting
Amy Milgrub Marshall April 28, 2015 At first glance, the bright colors, lines and geometric shapes seem, well, like an assortment of colors, lines and shapes. But each…
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COLORS FROM WITHIN Amy Whipple FIRST, A SNAPSHOT. A SQUIRREL HILL COUPLE, NOW IN THEIR EIGHTIES, IN THE BLACK-AND-WHITE DAYS OF THEIR YOUTH, HAND-IN HAND, EYES LOCKED IN…