Glasgow artist signs with prestigious New York gallery

Special to the Daily Times

September 29, 2006 01:43 pm

— Glasgow native Angelia Pickett has recently signed with the prestigious New York City Gallery, Amsterdam Whitney International Fine Art, Inc.
To visit their website go to www.amsterdamwhitneygallery.com.
Pickett will exhibit at the gallery Jan. 5 through Jan. 30, 2007, with the Gala Champagne Opening Rec-eption to be Thursday, January 11, from 6 until 8 p.m.
If anyone from the area plans on being in the New York City area on Jan. 11 they may contact Pickett at (310) 872-6054 to obtain an invitation to the gala opening.
“I will be showing pieces from my ‘rocket scientist’ collection at the January showing,” said Pickett. Capt. Pickett is an aerospace engineer and just recently completed a four year assignment with United States Air Force Missile Defense Agency, in Los Angeles, as the executive officer for the Space Tracking and Surveillance System.
To view some of her new pieces from her ‘rocket scientist’ collection, as well as some of her other original pieces, visit her website www.angeliapickett.com and click on the virtual portfolio.
She recently donated one of her paintings, “Oh the Tragedy” to the Kentucky Repertory Theatre in Horse Cave.
The painting was unveiled at a benefit for the theater, which also commemorated its 30th anniversary and will remain on permanent display at the theater.
Pickett’s work has been exhibited at Los Angeles’ Gallery 990 and at Infusion Gallery also in Los Angeles.
“In my art I try to deconstruct objects, then use simple shapes and colors to reform them into a more interesting theme. In other words, I redesign them,” she said. “This is basically what I do as an engineer. If we need a satellite to perform a specific function, we generally look at previous satellites for guidance and redesign them to fit our specific needs. I like to think that my style of painting is really another genre of engineering. It is just expressed in a very different form.”
Pickett’s art consist mainly of abstract paintings depicting Cubist and Fauvist styles.
“The two artists that have influenced me the most are Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. Many similarities between the two artists can be found, especially when comparing Matisse’s earlier works to Picasso’s later works,” she said. “The way they depicted women comparing Matisse’s earlier works to Picasso’s later works. The way they depicted women, in particular, were very moving to me. The more I studied them, the more influenced I became, and my work started to reflect complementary themes.”
She is the daughter of Darrell and Connie Pickett of Glasgow.