About Edward Pittman

By incorporating views of massive structures and microscopic worlds, Edward Pittman asks us to examine the symbolic elements of the world around us — one small square at a time.

HISTORY
Pittman, a Santa Fe-based artist, was born in 1963 in Fort Worth, Texas. Pittman works predominantly in the medium of photomosaics on canvas, but includes some mixed media as finishing elements. His works are informed by science and technology, political philosophy and metaphysics.

STATEMENT
“I use cut paper on canvas because I like the idea of transforming sometimes-massive three-dimensional objects into flat, two-dimensional focuses of study,” says Pittman. “The size of the images is important, and is key to driving our understanding of the subject. For example, with ‘Infinity,’ the subject of infinity, or a limitless universe, is largely incomprehensible to the human mind. By subdividing a theoretically infinite subject into any number of very finite sections, we’re asked to do much less by way of analysis. And by comprehending a portion of the infinite, it might be possible to comprehend the whole.”

EXHIBITIONS
Opening gala. Hands On Therapeutic Arts, Dallas, Texas. 2014.
Solo exhibition. Sherry Lane Eye Gallery, Dallas, Texas. 1997.

THERE’S MORE
Pittman is a lifelong writer. Years ago, his poems and short stories were published in the literary journals Analecta, Wellspring, Tilted Planet Tales and Sidewinder — all which have likely long since gone the way of time. At the University of Texas at Austin, he was fortunate to study poetry with celebrated poet Albert Goldbarth and fiction with novelist, poet and essayist Zulfikar Ghose. Pittman also studied poetry with acclaimed poet and teacher Thomas Lux at the University of Iowa. To date, he’s written four feature film screenplays and a 60-minute grounded sci-fi pilot for television. In addition to screenwriting, Pittman worked with charted Americana recording artist Arthur Godfrey to co-write the full-length Americana musical “If I Only Knew Your Name.” He recently adapted his feature film horror script Dark Forest as a novel.

He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with his wife, Michelle, and their three dogs and four cats, and the occasional foster cat.