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.

C4 - I AM THERE

Central Canada Comic Convention - C4 in Winnipeg at the RBC Convention Centre

Rolls out again OCTOBER 26th-28th and I am right there Saturday and Sunday Only. I'll be...soaking in it. Come and Join me! I'll have EVERYTHING there; Comics, books, posters, novelties, original art and one of a kind novelty rarities from the NAKFACTORIUM.

Pasternak at C4 in 2016 

(Cardboard cut-out of me may not be exactly as Illustrated)

I Will Always Be HERE & THERE

I WILL BE HERE at TCAF setting up my wares. All sorts of new books, COMICS and novelty comix.

 

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UPPERCASE Magazine for it's 29th issue had an open call to artists that incorporated cutting and/or folding into their practice and I thought I might just fit in perfectly as I am always cutting and folding paper and card stock to make my books and novelty items. So I sent off a number of my recent projects and out of 555 submissions I was one of the 1/5th of acceptances into that issue. It's a fantastic issue! 

  

***********  30  YEARS  AGO  ***********

HOLY CROW, my first mini comic is 30 years old this year! It almost passed me by as I had not thought about it much lately. But I did remember and on the occasion printed some new copies that I will be taking to TCAF. It was originally published by Jeff Gaither in February 1986 out of Kentucky through his Dark Horse imprint. This comic actually, unbeknowst to me has the first appearance of Acid Man who would come into his own in the continuing Acid Man Society books and novelties.

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Also, anybody have any extra cash? Please donate to a worthwhile artist who does not get enough time to do what he was gifted to do. Thanx for being here.

WINNIPEG COMIC TIME

COMIC CON
FRI-Oct.31st, SAT-Nov.1st, SUN-Nov.2nd
2-9pm            9-9pm            10-6pm
RBC Convention Centre (Winnipeg Convention Centre)

Once again I will be setting up my wares at this huge comic convention. I've been going to these things for years, since it was a single room with 20 tables or so back in the 80's.  I will only be in attendance Saturday & Sunday. For friday I will be represented by my table with some freebee art samples for you. See you there!

ZINE FEST in WINNIPEG

I LOVE THESE THINGS

I will be setting up a table this year at at the ZINE FEST here in Winnipeg.
But only on
SUNDAY-JUNE 8th, 12-5pm

I will have both new and old zines and books, including more copies of SAYSOME, as well as prints and  N E W  Novelty items like the Comic Foldies fidgit funpac shown below....and there's more! (There is always more crazy sh!t.)

PLUS, don't forget all the other incredible things you will see and buy from all the other assorted zinesters.  COME ON DOWN.

New Places...lets go there!

I have recently placed my work for sale in a couple new venues.

Villekulla

962 Westminster at Lipton

Hours: Wednesday - Saturday, 12 - 6

Villekulla will be selling some of my Novelty Art Objects. Not all what you see here below (article from March 2010 from my Visual Chew show at Martha Street Gallery) but there are at least 22 different items, including Bacon Bookmarks, Booklets, Love/War Capsules, Oxygen Capsules, Empower Rings.......and so much more by so many other local crafty artsy folk with lots of cool stuff!

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Kustom Kulture

470 River Avenue. Winnipeg

NOW currently on display and for sale at Kustom Kulture for a few months are seven of my paintings. Some of my newest smaller work as well as a few older items that look really good in there. On one larger wall I will be switching it up every month with a new older large painting until the work comes down in June.

 

Here is the larger painting currently on display.

Saturn Conscious - 30 x 40 inches - acrylic on canvas

TRADE MARX

Art for the People

A Rare Collection of Authentic Archival Soviet Propaganda accompanied by the

Pop Surrealist work of Robert Pasternak

There will be a huge salvaged collection of Soviet WWII - Cold War era 

.....

prints

posters

photographs

16mm/35mm film

****FOR SALE*****

A museum/university quality collection direct from Moscow via the defunct Soviet-Canadian Friendship Society. 

Formally, 

the pairing between Pasternak and the collection emphasizes a consideration

of the era's design aesthetic, advertising sensibilities and printmaking techniques.

While the juxtaposition of the mixed media, presented in a contemporary Post Collapse

era provides a surreal celebration of a bygone Fantasy and Ideal "Reality" that maybe

never really "Existed".

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 27-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. Nak has exhibited at

La Luz De Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles as well as The Irvine Fine Arts Center in Irvine

California, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Stanley Milner Public Library, Martha Street

Studio and Ace Art. 

http://www.robertpasternak.net/pages/nakfactorium_home.html

COME BLOW YOUR MIND AT THE OPENING!

The show continues for two weeks.

But LIMITED DAYS ONLY

THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY 12 - 7

INTERMIXA-MANIA this weekend

I will be attending the inaugural  Intermixa-mania event this weekend that is being held at Plug-In ICA and I will be selling my art multiples and books and many of the novelty items I had my recent Visual Chew show and and and and....

.....here is one of my newest works that I will have there as note cards.

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.