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Place Into Being

 A New Book collecting 80 pages of my comic art is COMING OUT in April 2019 published by At Bay Press ! Here below is the cover - kinda cool that there is no title on it, just the art.

Place Into Being cover art

Two selected pages from Place Into Being. 

Secrets & Lies - Book Launch

McNally Robinson Booksellers &

At Bay Press

are pleased to present the launch of

Secrets and Lies

The 2017 At Bay Press Fiction Annual

Thursday October 12, 7:00 pm
Grant Park in the Atrium

Cover Artwork by PAS.TER.NAK, Cover Design by Matt Joudrey

Hosted by Canadian writer, artist, and designer M.C. Joudrey and featuring contributors Karen Clavelle, Lisa Mendis, Van Kunder, Michael Joyal, Robert Pasternak, and Meghan Zahari.

The short stories and artwork included in this collection focus on the distorted and rearranged truths that we tell ourselves and others. What emerges from these pages is that loneliness is often the catalyst for how we reject or construct reality. In these stories, different considerations of loneliness are explored, and we get a sense of the solitude each one of us knows. The insightful writing that comprises this Fiction Annual captures the power that secrets and lies have in both the creation and destruction of the lives we build. By virtue of the mechanisms we rely on to elude, deflect and deny, we can find ourselves very alone in a world of our own design.

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Here's The Thing

HERE'S THE THING

(working title and cover art)

At Bay Press has agreed to publish a very large and exceptional collection of my new graphic/abstract comic work! 80 full color pages of art. 8.5 x 12 in. Scheduled release date is tentatively Fall 2018.

ZOiKs KaBlaMo ABstract-O-RaMo !  I can't wait.
In 2013 after moving out of my studio of 22 years and contemplating on being a City of Winnipeg Transit driver, my comics, if they were not already abstract enough, took an inevitable wider left turn,  then up and sideways. It'll be quite a diverse collection. I've really been having a lot of fun exploring and experimenting. This book will be mostly single page pieces along with some 2 and 3-page comics as well.

PAINTING In VIRTUAL REALITY with the WSO

Get Your Crazy Goggles on

because I'll have mine

Project Whitecard
     presents 
Robert Pasternak in 3D in front of the WSO !

Performing / Creating / Live Imagery in VIRTUAL REALITY to a New Music Composition - Migration Patterns by Christos Hatzis

Saturday - January 28th - 7:30pm  (second half approx. 8:30pm)  Tickets $25

Centennial Concert Hall

CHRISTOS HATZIS,  Composer

www.hatzis.com

ROBERT PASTERNAK, Visual Artist

www.robertpasternak.net

Robert Pasternak (NAK) Visual Artist, father, illustrator, graphic designer, novelty product inventor / manufacturer and filmmaker, spanning the themes of the cosmic, surreal, technological, metaphysical and what it means to be human. He has been creating and exhibiting his art in Winnipeg for almost 40 years. His science fiction illustrations have appeared on Amazing Stories and On Spec magazine, on book covers for Guy Vanderhague and Timothy Findley. In 1994 he won the Aurora award in Canadian Sci-Fi art. His short films have played all over the world, with his first experimental short The Affirmation Of Jimmy Brown being selected for the Venice Film Festival in 2004. In 2012 The Wonderful Worlds of Nak , a documentary by Patric Lowe was produced by MTS. In 2015 he performed on stage alongside his daughter Zorya Arrow in her choreographed  theatrical alt-dance Genetics Project. Also in 2015 The Pasternak Award was formed in his honor by the Central Canada Comics Convention (C4) to be given annually to a local Winnipeg Artist who has given back to the community.

Khal Shariff, Creative Director, CEO of Project Whitecard Inc.

www.projectwhitecard.com

Project Whitecard Inc., is an award-winning creative & technical talent. A much-sought-after speaker at industry and forward-looking events, such as the NASA Virtual Worlds Workshop, Khal Shariff is a MacArthur Foundation recipient for his work in Digital Education as a Primary Investigator through the University of California Irvine. Khal Shariff is an alumni of the Banff Center and includes the Canadian Space Agency and NASA as recent collaborators, for whom Project Whitecard has built several 3D immersive learning environments

Pasternak 12:12:12 Winnipeg Spirit

1912-2012
PASTERNAK SPIRIT
LIVES ON IN WINNIPEG BEYOND HIS YEARS

I was at the library when a woman walked up to me and told me that I was in a photograph in a book upstairs. The title of the book is Winnipeg 1912, and below is the photograph she was referring to. I could not believe it. This was one of the strangest things in my life. This photograph was 100 years old!
When I was younger people would tell me upon meeting me, that they thought I would be older somehow.

I had to commemorate the event this year by doing something. So I decided to make a simple poster and put it up around the city. People that know me totally freak out because they automatically assume that it is a picture of me. In fact I have a hard time seeing anyone else beside myself as this person in the photo. It is me I conclude. But my grounded self proclaims that it cannot possibly be so. I have yet to find out who the picture is really of. But come to think of it, I have yet to find out who I really am.

Forresters Lodge members in Winnipeg 1912

INNER VIEW

Sunday, December 11th from 8am - 10am 

UMFM 101.5

Robert Pasternak interview on Sacred Space with George Rideout

 

     On the 28th of November my friend George and I conducted an informal interview in my studio space. George has conducted hundreds of interviews through the years on his Sacred Space show and they have all been done live at the UMFM studio. This interview is the first of his interviews where the interviewee is in their 'sacred space'. We talked about the nature of an artist's insight, happenstance and the colors used to bring the bridge of thought to life. I can't wait to hear it myself.

     This interview will be made available as a podcast at a later date.