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Biography
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International, award winning painter/sculptor/film maker Rita Blitt has created art all of her life. She 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 Kansas City, now a part of the University of Missouri. Her first New York exhibition 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 museums, galleries and public places in Australia, Germany, Italy, Israel, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, Uganda and the United States. Her sculpture was a prize winner in the Florence Biennale.
Caught in Paint, a six minute documentary collaboration with David Parsons and the Parsons Dance Company. It has won many awards and has been invited to over 130 film festivals including Cannes, 2008.
Blitt’s worked celebrates her love of nature, music, dance and the spontaneous flow of movement captured in the drawn gesture. Her drawings and paintings, which sometimes 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.” Blitt conducts workshops where participants from all walks of life let their hands dance on paper.
Blitt has studios in Emeryville, California, Aspen, Colorado and Leawood, Kansas.
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