The Art Of Noticing - Winnipeg

Fantastic work of a miniature kind. A 1/12th scale gallery with 90 original works of art delicately framed. Larger works surround the space mirroring the kind and variety of work the artist has made over the decades.

The Art of Noticing

A new Exhibit of my work of all kinds In a monumental 1/12th scale, here in Winnipeg at Katie & Gunner Gallery. 

The Art of Noticing reveals how Robert Pasternak transforms the overlooked into the essential—across scale, material, and time.

Best In Show

My painting BREATHARIAN recently won Best in Show at NASFIC15 - the North American Science Fiction Convention which was held in Winnipeg, Canada this past July.

Pasternak iS UNFOLDING

Hope you can make it out. It'll be a doozy!

DEC 3rd - 28th

FIRST FRIDAY  DEC 6th   OPENING RECEPTION

5:30 - 9:00

Multifaceted Winnipeg artist Robert Pasternak is UNFOLDING in an exhibit of a diverse and fun packed exploration of new work and discoveries at Fleet Galleries, 65 Albert Street, December 3rd-28th, with an opening reception on First Friday December 6th, 5:30pm-9pm.

This curated "group show of one" celebrates Robert's unique diversity in both subject matter and styles under the theme of unfolding. Through a lyrical, metaphysical and literal sensibility, robert culls together a sampling of studio work of surreal paintings, abstract comics, geometric drawings, novelty packaging and sculptural effects.

Members Show

MEMBERS SHOW AND SALE
December 5-20, 2014
www.printmakers.mb.ca

I will be participating in this years annual event with a simple piece called Inside Outside. Though the exhibit was open to any medium of which I considered many, I did want to have something print-based and in an area that I have been working on, which has been in the area of comics and experimenting and playing with comic pages. So what you see below is NOT what I have in the show but very similar.

What IS in the show is a continuous horizontal strip of all the panels. It looks really cool. Each of the panels is a movable block which enables different formations on the page and the print aspect is really neat because each print is an individual graphite rubbing. So they are all a little different.

MONA LISA ART MEAL

I've just hung up some new work at Mona Lisa Ristorante Italiano here in Winnipeg. When I arrived, I was surprised to find out that my fellow painter friend Luther Pokrant was also hanging work there, so I thought even though it's not 'really' an art show, I wanted to make a poster to mark this occasion. I have shown work on and off at Mona Lisa since 1985!

 

In this show you will see my first 4 oil paintings ever(!) that I completed just recently for this venue. There are also some new acrylic paintings as well as a few older works. This restaurant has some really wonderful food and great pizza! You can't really go to just look at the art so you might as well make a meal out of it.      

ZINE SHOW

At Freud's Bathhouse & Diner opening Thursday, August 5th is a new Zine Show offering up all sorts of DIY publishing from a whack of crazy hooligan popes.....including myself with my BOOKLETS®  and flip books and other Printed Matter. The show continues untill August 29th.

42 Albert St., Winnipeg in the Exchange.

Visual Chomping

The show VISUAL CHEW at Martha St. Studio is a wonderful success. People are really enjoying it. Here is a preview article which appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press. The Opening was very very well attended and people seem to be coming out in numbers during the length of the show.

I hope to post some shots of the opening night soon. In the meantime here are a few shots of what you first see when you come through the doors. Then there is much more!

VISUAL CHEW

It's Time for a new Show of craziness and fun and multiple visual packs of Whollop. ZAP!

I've been super busy getting this show together. New products and Novelties will be unveiled as well as many new silk screen prints and one-of-a-kind prototypes. You've seen some items here like the Sgt. Smokes and Bacon Bookmarks. Well there will be plenty more as well as a 25 cent gumball machine dispensing Secrets of the Universe and a 2 dollar capsule machine with a variety of novelty fun. Read more below.

Opening reception Thursday March 11, 5:00 - 8:00 pm

WOW! BIFF BANG POW! ZOWEE! ZING! SOCK-A-MA-GEE! All of this totally RULES!

Don Bailey - Writer, Music Historian, Collector

Pasternak’s VISUAL CHEW:

Original Novelties, Art Multiples and Packaged Thoughts

March 11- April 23, 2010

Martha Street Studio

11 Martha Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Robert Pasternak's debut print-based show now at Martha Street Studio

POPS with inventive new visual twists and turns: featuring novelty art

multiples, imaginative packaging and eye-popping graphic design. The

show titled VISUAL CHEW - brings together for the first time ever - a

diverse selection of Pasternak’s imagined products from the past ten

years. Martha Street Studio will be selling these Pasternak products

including prototypes, silk-screen prints, colorfully-crafted boxes and

sculptured-novelties - from Bacon Bookmarks, and Micro Dot

Monsters to Pollick Lollipops produced by the Jackson Candy Co.

THRILL in amazed puzzlement behind the questionable urge to create

tangible toy titillations that actually work wonders like Oh you think

it's funny? But it’s Snot! - Which are pre-packaged novelty boogers

“ready to roll and flick.”

Gaze at comic-book inspired curiosities filtered via hard doses of

modern wartime reality in nicotine time! ZAP! How about a pack of

Sgt.Smokes? Fully poseable, used cigarette butts that look like a

cheap packaged toy found at a dollar store - but WHAM - the novelty

idea of kids actually using these to mimic the army sergeant as he

blasts a few rounds of ammo is totally absurd!

Maybe you have restless fingers? Well what you need is Robert

Pasternak's FUM GUM - Fun for Your Fingers - a Bubbled Double-sized

novelty chunk of modeling clay that comes with Ummm… a Bazooka

Joe-ish, proto-Pud-type insert! Fun activity for your fingers! So real

- or rather surreal - that if you did not look twice you would just

POP it in your mouth and start chewing.

 “All of this started with making mini comics,” says Pasternak as he

tinkers over the next possible addition to VISUAL CHEW. “This was a

very economical way of publishing your art, and making it accessible

to give away or sell inexpensively. I then started to think of other

ways to package my art, and this led to creating brand new ideas for

Pasternak products. Being a surrealist, I love the absurdness of

taking a ridiculous notion and finding a way to package it. To make it

look slick, as if it exists in the thousands and it would only carry a

39-cent price tag. I also love candy, and candy packaging, so you will

see many references to both existing, and nostalgic candy-inspired

packages at VISUAL CHEW. My NAKFACTORIUM turn-style toy capsule

gumball machine will even be dispensing some of these art items for

only 2 dollars a POP!”

ROBERT PASTERNAK

Is a Winnipeg-based, multi-disciplinary pop surrealist who moves

seamlessly from metaphysical paintings and science-fiction

illustration to hand-processed film, collage with found materials, to

imaginative product-design. From High-Sci-Fi to Low-Scrounge comix,

Pasternak has exhibited his work extensively in his 26-year art

practice, and Nak’s illustrations have graced album covers, science

fiction magazines, and literary book jackets. His exhibits are always

different in that they usually highlight one of the multitude of areas

of visionary visual work that he is continually juggling and adding

to.

In addition to his art practice, Nak has worked as a production artist

for silk screening and cresting shops, as an art director for Zygote

magazine, as a digital colorist for a multimedia firm, as a creator of

hundreds of posters and product fliers, and as a freelance graphic

designer. Guided by a mix of new age philosophy, comic book ambition,

and a fundamental belief in the interconnectedness of events,

Pasternak creates an exciting makeshift universe filtered by a type of

comfortable visual osmosis where his work and audience can meet. His

personality and his art studio both reflect this practice; filled with

salvaged material, vintage memorabilia, and a zillion projects waiting

their turn on the Pasternak production schedule.   

Two Shows

Oh Boy!

I keep forgetting that I have two art shows opening on the same day this Friday April 3rd. One is a 2-man show with Martha Rich at La Luz de Jesus in Los Angeles and the other is at APW Gallery in New York. This second one is a group showing with 200 artists. I have 5 small drawings in this show- a couple Breath Drawings, a couple Conte Drawings and one Pencil Drawing. 

I have a ton of work I'll be showing in L.A. I'll be there for the opening. 

Oh Boy!