Drawn Together
Drawn Together: A Coming of Middle Age Story in 61 Portraits is a project created by artists Kirsten Ervin and Suzanne Werder in the midst of the COVID Pandemic. During January of 2022, Ervin and Werder drew each other every day , resulting in 31 unique portraits of the other. The pair exhibited the work at UnSmoke Art Systems in Braddock, PA in April, 2022.
About half the portraits were created during live sessions in Ervin’s home, the other half created from selfies the two sent to each other. The result is an intimate investigation into the artists’ everyday lives, and the nuances and slight changes in each person over time.
Kirsten Ervin is a Pittsburgh-based artist exploring the intersection of illustration and fiber. Ervin has created collaborative fiber art and portrait projects during residencies with The Children’s Museum, The Kelly Strayhorn Theater and The Pittsburgh International Airport. Ervin’s work has been featured at SPACE Gallery, Three Rivers Arts Festival, UnSmoke Systems ArtSpace and others. Ervin teaches art throughout Pittsburgh and sells her work at Argyle Studio. She is a member of the Pittsburgh Creative Corps, the Fiber Arts Guild of Pittsburgh, Associated Artists of Pittsburgh and Group A. She and her husband Willard Simmons coordinate The Silver Apple Gallery, one of Pittsburgh’s smallest art venues. Kirstenervin.org
Suzanne Werder’s multidisciplinary work has been exhibited/performed in numerous galleries. Her award winning couture has also been shown extensively. She is the creator of the Busnegie Museum of Art, and is currently a teaching artist in residence with ProjectArt, an adjunct professor at Duquesne University, a facepainter, and The Dream Lab Maker Space Coordinator with The Pittsburgh Project. Her art seeks to elevate the profile of marginalized materials, places, and people in order to reveal the miraculous within the mundane, the extraordinary within the ordinary.
Drawn Together 