Deanna Mance

These select abstract pieces span the past seven years of Mance's artwork. They represent the sum total of many days spent working along side of apathy and perseverance - inspiration and melancholy (and the occasional bit of good luck). As Mance looked back over those seven years, she acknowledged the transformation her work made in things such as scale, material, design, color, and overall composition.

Although one can certainly acknowledge those differences, the works do share a common thread. They all strive to mimic the lay-outs of improbable objects or the mistranslation of an undiscovered language. Perhaps the location of a secret hiding place or intelligence gathered from deep within the mind. Though Mance is not a real engineer, she still perceives her art as blueprints of objects that could, quite possibly, never manifest within known physical reality. What can one hope to gain from seven years of creativity? In time, the art may tell...

Deanna Mance is a local artist who was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio and moved to Pittsburgh in 2004. She has been a practicing artist for eight years and has shown regionally, as well as internationally in London. Mance's work uses motifs of intricate, geometric elements that are organically arranged. She employs freehand drawing and printmaking techniques as well as a wide variety of media such as ink, acrylics, graphite, tea-stained paper, wood and other organic materials.