Unframed 16x12 Original Watercolor Painting

"My large watercolors, generally wooded scenes with strange, fearful, wonderful things happening, are done from childhood memories. I just go on automatic and let come what may." Kathleen Zimbicki

Artist, teacher, curator, tireless champion of the arts and working artists, Kathleen Zimbicki has exhibited locally, nationally and in 11 countries internationally. From 1976 to 2003 she became well-known throughout the region as proprietress of Studio Z Gallery on Carson Street, South Side. She was awarded the first lifetime achievement award from Pittsburgh Center for the Arts (PCA) in 2006. A 2004 Master Visual Artists: Preserving the Legacy (MVA) honoree in 2004, and curator for subsequent exhibitions, Kathleen was the driving force to revive MVA for its sixth exhibition in 2013. In 1986 she designed costumes for the World Premier of Pittsburgh Ballet’s “Don Juan.”