Gareth Pitt-Hart

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

I'm a contemporary abstract painter working with cardboard, canvas, and layered materials exploring trace, entropy, and signal.

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I make impermanent paintings — raw documents of emotion, gesture, and decay. Working primarily on newsprint and salvaged cardboard, the works are not meant to last. They are alive now, and slowly disappearing.

My materials are simple: acrylic, oil, pastel, graphite, ink. I paint like I’m remembering something, not inventing it. Surfaces buckle, wrinkle, and breathe. I embrace fading, yellowing, and breakdown — the work finishes itself over time.

Drawing from outsider art, ritual mark-making, and neo-expressionism, the paintings feel unearthed more than designed. Each piece is a fragment — a page from a larger invisible book. Language appears, then disappears. Some works speak; others only hum.

I am not interested in perfection or permanence. I am interested in evidence — of motion, of thought, of rupture. These are quiet artifacts of a loud feeling.

The American University in Washington, DC