Patricia Bellan-Gillen mixes personal narratives and fairytales to create works shrouded in a veil of nostalgia that blurs fact and fiction.
Her mixed-media collages combine iconic characters from children's stories, recent news picked from the internet, sagas from the era of black-and-white television, and characters that appear with no explanation to suggest a narrative and engage the viewer's associative response.
Bellan-Gillen lives and works in the Washington County, Pa., near the West Virginia border. She has been active in the Pittsburgh art scene as an exhibitor, educator, and mentor sine 1977. She retired from Carnegie Mellon University as the Dorothy L. Stubnitz Endowed Chair of the School of the Arts after teaching at the university for 29 years.
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