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.

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.

BLAM!

COMIC ART SHOW OPENING

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Please Join me at the opening this Saturday October 26th at Cre8ery Gallery for a fun-filled evening of comic book mayhem. I will be exhibiting some of my recent comic strips from my Meanwhile... series which will also include some oversized art panels. There are many talented artists in this show who will stretch and twist your imagination into the PoP Comic Book Culture. You can find more info here at Cre8ery .  This is the third installment of BLAM curated by Justin Waterman.

Featuring Artists: Kari-Ann Anderson, Colin Bell, Mark Humphrey, Donovan Yaciuck,

Evan Quiring, Justin Waterman, Victoria Free, Nicholas Burns, Justin Shauf,

Nick Iskierski, Michael Joyal, Robert Pasternak, Chech Abstract

Make up: John R. Izzard

 Poster art by Evan Quiring

Meanwhile... No.7 - 2013 - R.Pasternak

Detail from Justin Waterman's BLAM painting from first Blam Exhibit

NEWS OLDS

 
PREVIOUSLY - while settling in to the new...

LOGOS

... new Split Studio Space, the SSS. I draw, assemble and digitize in one space and I paint in another. The light is fantastic in one and not so light-fantastique in the other. One of these spaces has a huge graphic on the wall, an artifact from the seventies I am sure. I have recreated it here and I am using it on my business cards. It seems to suit me and my space well.

ALSO

Many new paintings have emerged from the new SSS. See the Painternak link to the right.

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THE HAND SEES

The other day I was in my favorite antique & funk shop and came across a self portrait  I did 29 years ago. I had given it to my girlfriend at the time as a Christmas gift. It was so nice to see it again! I was surprised at how vibrant it was and that It was well taken care of. I wonder what happened? I hope that the other paintings that I gave her and her family are still alive and in good care.

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A PLACE FOR US

Noam Gonick: Wildflower Of Manitoba
Cinematheque Winnipeg
June 22, 2012

A Place For Us - a Super8 mash-up in collaboration with Aaron Zeghers, Noam Gonick and Robert Pasternak had it's world premier at a screening of Gonick's short films.


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ANTEBELLUM GALLERY

Hollywood California

June 2 - 23, 2012

WINNIPIG - a group show curated by Noam Gonick featured some of my sculptural 'woodies'.

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Shopping C.A.R.T.

Tomorrow is the opening of an enormous group show I am happy to be part of at Current Space Gallery in Baltimore Maryland. At least 70 artist's interpretations of products and packaging in this store set-up 'art of commerce' ( or is it the groceries of art ) show called C.A.R.T.. The show continues to September 4th.

I am very happy to be part of this show as I get to display more of my art novelty items and it also gives me the impetus to create more! Not that I don't create on my own but I just seem to do even more. I seem to be only one of two Canadians participating, the other being Emily Comeau from Montreal.

I have 13 items in the show, with varying quantities of each. Some of the other items include:

-Top Secret Message

-Picture Cigarettes

-Loose Leaf Doodle Pages

-Post Surreal boxes

-Oxygen Capsules

-Admit It tickets

-Sgt.Smokes

Most of my items are not so much food related at a lot of the other work I've seen so far. It's all AMAZING! Some clever and talented folks out there.