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Rita Blitt BioInternationally award winning painter/sculptor/film maker Rita Blitt has created art all of her life. Her paintings, sculpture, films, book and website (www.ritablitt.com) have won many awards: Sensuously, Stacked Steel, a five foot stainless steel sculpture, won a 5th prize in Italy’s 2005 Florence Biennale. Caught in Paint, 2003, a six minute collaboration with choreographer David Parsons and photographer Lois Greenfield showing Blitt painting has been invited to over sixty film festivals and among other awards, has won the award for Documentary Short in Golden Star’s 2006 Film Festival in Hollywood. Rita Blitt won scholarships as a child to the Kansas City Art Institute and returned there for further studies after attending the University of Illinois and graduating from the University of Missouri, Kansas City. Her first New York exhibit was in 1969. Blitt’s sculptures up to sixty feet in height have been permanently installed and exhibited along with her drawings and paintings in Australia, Germany, Israel, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan and the United States. Blitt’s work celebrates her love of nature, music, dance and the spontaneous flow of movement captured in the drawn gesture. Her drawings and paintings, which sometime become sculpture, are often created with two hands at once. She says, “When those lines come from my hands…I feel like I am dancing.” Because Blitt is so fulfilled by drawing spontaneously, in 1984 she commissioned a 25 minute film, dancing hands: Visual Arts of Rita Blitt, to encourage others to let their hands “dance on paper”. This film also chronicles 25 years of her art. In 2000, RAM Publications with Brandeis University published, Rita Blitt: The Passionate Gesture, which traces Blitt’s development as an artist. In 2006, the entire Jacquelyn Casey Hudgens Museum and Art Center in Duluth, Georgia, suburban Atlanta, will be devoted to a retrospective of Blitt’s work. Blitt has studios in California, Colorado and Kansas.
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