Gareth Pitt-Hart

Gareth Pitt-Hart is an abstract painter based in St. Louis, Missouri.

He works across canvas, newsprint, and salvaged cardboard, creating paintings that explore trace, entropy, signal, and emotional residue. Built through layering, erasure, and repetition, the work balances structure with breakdown.

Using acrylic, oil, pastel, graphite, and ink, Pitt-Hart embraces material instability as part of the process. Surfaces may wrinkle, fade, buckle, or soften over time. These are not polished objects chasing permanence, but living works shaped by gesture, pressure, and change.

His paintings draw from abstraction, ritual mark-making, and a raw visual language that feels unearthed rather than designed. Some read as fragments, signals, or artifacts; others hold a more direct physical presence.

View larger works and the full studio archive at garethpitthart dot com.

The American University in Washington, DC

Saint Louis 2026