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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 Missouri, Kansas City. 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, Israel, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan and the United States.
Caught in Paint, a six minute documentary collaboration with David Parsons and the Parsons Dance Company is Blitt’s most successful film. It has won many awards and has been invited to over 100 film festivals including Cannes, 2008.
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 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 takes great pleasure in sharing her work through exhibitions, workshops and films. The Rita Blitt Foundation has been formed to further these projects.
Blitt has studios in Emeryville, California, Aspen, Colorado and Leawood, Kansas.
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