For Immediate Release	Contact: Carol O'Sullivan
Jan 31, 2005	412-681-5449 x205
Pittsburgh Filmmakers Announces Robert Breer Exhibition (Pittsburgh, PA) — Filmmakers Galleries will exhibit Screens and Floats, by renowned artist Robert Breer. The show combines 3-D murals with kinetic sculpture. It is on view from February 18 through April 3, 2005. On Friday evening, February 18 a reception will be held from 7:00-9:00pm. The New York-based artist will lecture at 8:00pm. It is free and open to the public. Robert Breer, whose work is currently part of the Carnegie International, is both an artist and an animator, with a career spanning more than fifty years. He studied engineering at Stanford but eventually changed his focus to hand crafted art, including primitive "flip book" animation. Breer has been drawing his entire life and making films since 1952. He lived in Paris for 10 years and started painting there. Using an old Bolex camera for his earliest films, he did stop-motion studies based on his abstract paintings. He has also had a life-long fascination with gadgets, mechanical forms and moving shapes. He has created his own unique form of narrative expression by playfully mixing drawings, paintings, photographs, sculpture and ephemera from everyday life. Screens and Floats employs Breer’s whimsical nature as well as his interest in movement and optical illusion. His "screens" are mural-like flats with layered, cut-out shapes. As the viewer moves in the room, the abstract shapes change. His "floats" are motorized foam rubber forms that hover about and inter-act with the viewer. To coincide with the exhibit, a program of animated shorts from Breer’s long filmmaking career will be shown in the Melwood Screening Room on Friday, March 4. Breer also gives a lecture at the Carnegie Lecture Hall on Saturday, February 19 at 2:00pm, as part of the Carnegie International exhibit. Filmmakers Galleries are located at 477 Melwood Avenue, North Oakland. Open Monday through Friday, noon to 5:00, and weekend evenings. For more information call 412-681-5449 or go to www.pghfilmmakers.org.