past projects.
Solid as Breath
Paintings and Sculptures by
Robin McDonnell
date. January 21 thru February 25
opening. Saturday. January 21. 2023. 3 - 5pm
Tipping point
this world - beautiful and fragile
‘knowing’ ‘understanding’-
words of another time.
walk in the desert, look to the sky
go in the mountains, find water
Robin McDonnell, Tipping Point, acrylic paint on epoxy-covered recycled Styrofoam 14 x 8 x 8 inches
Sonoran Suite
Collages on Paper by
Eva Bovenzi
date. January 21 thru February 25
opening. Saturday. January 21. 2023. 3 - 5pm
Eva Bovenzi has long spent summers in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of southern Colorado, forty miles from the New Mexico border. She travels frequently to Santa Fe, Taos, Albuquerque, Gallup and the tribal lands of Northern New Mexico, to look at traditional indigenous art and attend Native American ceremonial dances and pow wows. She writes, “I’m captivated by the boldness and beauty of the indigenous art of that region: Hopi masks and kachina figures, Pueblo pottery, Navajo blankets, Zuni silver work. It’s all a perfect expression of the vastness of the Southwestern sky and desert, and the undeniable spiritual presence of the landscape.”
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Eva Bovenzi, Nopalito, 2016, acrylic collage on Yupo paper, 24 x36 inches framed
Minoan Stories
Paintings and Works on Paper by Jessica Snow
date. November 4 thru December 17
opening. Friday. November 4. 5 - 8 pm
includes oil pastels on paper created at the residency Château Orquevaux in France. The one-month residency followed a particularly seminal stay at Agia Pelagia, in Crete over the summer where Snow says she “dove deep into the mythical.” Inspired by preclassical art, the geography of Crete, and the ancient myths of the island, her new work unfolds like an an archeological excavation where, for Snow, “meaning is always at play, tugging here tugging there, never quite settling into one thing or another.”
Minoan Stories, 12, 2022 Oil pastel and acrylic on hot press paper 24.5 x 32 inches framed
Minoan Stories, 10, 2022 Oil pastel and acrylic on hot press paper 32 x 24.5 inches framed
Photo-based by Kathryn Dunlevie
date. November 4 thru December 17
opening. Friday. November 4. 5 - 8 pm
Kathryn Dunlevie creates works that meld the familiar with the extraordinary. Each work depicts a silhouette of a woman whose interior is an amalgam of scavenged images. Often these women step forward with a sense of urgency and purpose, disrupting or activating the space around them. The collaged elements within each body create narrative content suggesting a diverse array of possibilities.
Alighting, 2021 Archival pigment print (from a handmade collage) on wood panel 21 x 14.75 inches
A kindling; unfurled.
Paintings by Prajakti Jayavant
date. July 15 thru August 13
opening. Friday. July 15. 5 thru 8 pm
Prajakti Jayavant’s distinct and highly intuitive practice is an inquiry into the relationship of shape and color.
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Prajakti Jayavant, Untitled no. 76, 2010,
Oil on paper, 43 x 39 x 1.5 inches
Jigsaw, Paitnings by Leonard Rosenfeld, Livia Stein, and Lucy Traeger
date. July 15 thru August 13
opening. Friday. July 15. 5 - 8 pm
The works in Jigsaw prod the viewer to puzzle the pieces together, connect the dots, and ask themselves, “Who is doing what?”
Livia Stein, Half Figure 2021
Oil on panel, 12 x 12 inches
Lucy Traeger, The Hunt, 2015
Acrylic on panel 14 x 14 inches
Leonard Rosenfeld, Salute to a Stripe, 1997,
Black Crayon and Watercolor on Paper 41 x 29 inches
From Moment to Moment
Artworks by Theodora Varnay Jones, Robin Richardson, and Marta Sanchez Vasquez
date. July 15 thru August 11
opening. July 15. 5 - 8 pm
Civil twilight is the time of day before sunrise or after sunset when the sun is six degrees below the horizon. It is a time when light is increasing or fading and images and objects are difficult to discern. Similar to the shifting visibility at civil twilight, the artists in From Moment to Moment embrace ambiguity, disappearance, and reemergence in their work. Valuing the indeterminate in favor of absolutes, they explore the ephemeral quality of material, the nature of time, and the relationships between object and image. The open-ended nature of these artworks invite us to consider the play of presence and absence and the potentiality of our imagination. Acknowledging that there is no one truth, their work remains open to interpretation over time.
Theodora Varnay Jones
Implication-II 2021 Pigment prints, dry pigments, aluminum magnets 19.25 x 25.75 inches
Artifact
New York Times Collages and Other Works
by Francesca Pastine
date. May 13 thru June 11
opening. May 13. 5 - 8 pm
Francesca Pastine uses printed media, received images, and
everyday objects as a springboard to consider her inner life
in relation to the world. For her Time Travel Series, she
harvests images of watches, jewelry, and full-page fashion
ads from the New York Times. She disassembles then
reconstructs the 22 x 11 inch pages of the Times into its
original format in order to retain the newspaper’s identity
The finished works lean on a shelf, creating an interplay of
light, shadow, and movement. The flow of time is revealed
in the newspaper's publication dates and the shifting values of its
ink and paper stock.
Eva Bovenzi | Present Perfect
March 11 through April 23. 2022
Opening reception. 5pm - 8pm March 11. 2022
"I’ve never grown blasé about the fact that a painting can actually summon people to the present moment; it seems like a form of magic”, Eva Bovenzi writes. She titles this exhibition “Present Perfect” in a nod to the capacity of art to bring a viewer to the Now.
Winged Victory. 2021.
Acrylic on wood panel. 48 x 36 inches.
Peripheral Vision
Drawings by Sid Garrison | Paintings and Sculpture by Robin McDonnell
March 11 through April 23. 2022
Opening reception. 5pm - 8pm March 11. 2022
Pastine Projects is pleased to present an exhibition of color pencil drawings by the late Sid Garrison (1954 - 2021) and acrylic paintings and sculpture by Robin McDonnell that runs concurrently with Eva Bovenzi | Present Perfect.
The exhibit will include five of Sid Garrison signature color pencil drawings and Robin McDonnell will show her painted Styrofoam-and-epoxy sculpture and two paintings. Both artists’ work offer unique and surprising revelations in compositional form, color, and texture.
Robin McDonnell
Portal. 2021. Styrofoam encased in epoxy, spray paint
6.75 x 9 x 9 inches
Sid Garrison
September.4.2017, 2016. Colored pencil on paper.
8 x 8 inches
DUET: Artwork by Sheila Ghidini and Anne McGuire.
January 7 – February 19. 2022
Opening. January 7 from 5 to 8pm
Pastine Projects is pleased to present a two person exhibit, Duet: Artworks by Sheila Ghidini and Anne McGuire.
ECLIPSE
Saturday. February 12
Pastine Projects presents Eclipse. A collaboration featuring artwork by Sheila Ghidini
& dance performance by Jenna Marie
6pm at Pastine Projects. 360 Langton Street, Suite 201. San Francisco
Jenna Marie Installation by Sheila Ghidini
photo Jeramie Campbell photography.
affinities: carrie lederer | leonard rosenfeld
date. October 22 - December 11
Opening. October 22 from 5 - 8pm
Pastine Projects is pleased to present a two-person exhibition of work by New York-based artist Leonard Rosenfeld (1926 - 2009) and Oakland artist Carrie Lederer.
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