Portraits by Jodie Traugott
Pittsford Fine Art
4 N Main St.
Mar 6, 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Jodie Traugott has been a member of Pittsford Fine Art for one year, but has been an exhibiting artist for 52 years. Jodie started college at 32 and was a Summa Cum Laude graduate with Honors from Elmira College. As the first adult, off campus student to go Junior Year Abroad, she refined her craft as she studied in Italy. She was also the first art major to do an Honors Project: a 100 piece solo art exhibit of her work, with a written component. Jodie immediately continued her education to earn a Master of Fine Arts degree from RIT’s College of Fine and Applied Arts in 1984, commuting from Elmira. At RIT, she was a special assistant to the Dean, in charge of organizing and arranging art exhibits.

Fine Art has been a core element throughout Jodie’s life and she’s extremely versatile. For this feature exhibit, she is focusing on portraits of women and children. Portraits are an enduring genre in art history, serving for 5000 years as the primary method to document identity, status, and human likeness. For centuries, portraits were exclusively for the wealthy, royals, and religious elites. Jodie enjoys doing portrait commissions and loves to work with her own family and friends or anyone who would care to sit still for a while! But she also works from photographs, including antique photos!

This exhibit includes portraits painted in representative realism, but in several different techniques/styles of painting, done in a limited palette. However, there will also be two compelling psychological portrait renditions, one in blazing color, in two distinctly different painting styles!

“You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.”
–George Bernard Shaw

“Portraits” will be on display at Pittsford Fine Art from March 2nd to the 29th.