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BoxHeart Gallery presents Sonja Sweterlitsch: Discovery, new realist portraits and a series of images of the Blessed Virgin Mary, painted from devotional statues in the Pittsburgh area, on exhibit in our main gallery from May 29th through June 29th.

Sweterlitsch was born in 1977 in Silver Spring Maryland, where she lived until attending Carnegie Mellon University. She graduated with a BFA in Art and a BA in Creative Writing in 1999, and has made Pittsburgh her home. She paints with Windsor Newton Oil colors on prepared wood panels and on canvas. She starts with a light drawing followed by an …