Create Offsite-Andrew Pellettieri

AMTRAK GALLERY

May 15-July 15

Hudson Amtrak Station
69 S Front St
Hudson, NY 12534

ARTIST  STATEMENT

“I worked for Amtrak for over 20 years. I would go in prior to work with my sketch pad and drawing tools to draw various railroad equipment and scenes from the railroad. The rail yard in the Albany/Rensselaer station was a primary source for material for my sketches and paintings. “

The work introduces the viewer to the railroad infrastructure. The focus is on objects, without any railroad workers present. “Hudson Crane,” is no longer in use; there are only the ghosts of workers past. “Roadrailer Couplets” and “Signal,” the objects are awaiting human involvement. Because the figures who currently, or once occupied these scenes are absent, our eye is drawn to the tools—and so, a human figure, which would have been a  worker is supplanted by the viewer.

BIO

Andrew Pellettieri is a painter based in the upper Hudson Valley. He received his BA in Art from SUNY Plattsburgh and a four year Certificate of Painting from the Arts Students League of New York. His work canters on the scenes and objects found in our environment. Pellettieri has exhibited throughout the Capital Region, including at the Art Center of The Capitol Region, the Albany Center Gallery, the former Columbia County Council on the Arts in Hudson, and in Mohawk-Hudson Regionals (2021).