Four For The Day

This week for 7 days I will be posting STUFF for Arden Hill's project Four For The Day which he has posted on Wordpress. This project gets people to post a collection of four things every day for one week. It started January 1st and will end December 31st. I have Day#179 - Day#185. I had so many options of things around my studio that it was a tough ride in deciding. The model rocket ships I have here was one of the hopefulls that did not make it. Maybe if I had a better photo?

At any rate for anyone interested in this project, please check it out, and if anyone is interested in participating then e-mail Arden. if you know of anyone else that likes stuff feel free to pass the call for submissions onto them and have them email their interest to ardenhill@gmail.com

SHIFT into PLASTIC PAPER

ANIMATION FESTIVAL TIME at the Part Theatre. Fabulous films and related events including my little FLIP BOOK Exhibit SHIFT. yee haw!   PLASTIC PAPER

PRAIRIE SCENE WINNIPEG

If you happen to be in Ottawa in the next couple weeks be sure to check out the multitude of artistic activities that will make up Prairie Scene in 2011. My film 412222 will be projected during the opening kick-off festivities along with other Winnipeg films brought together by Monica Lowe from the Winnipeg Film Group.  But that is not all!

I am also part of a huge Winnipeg artistical tour-de-force exhibit curated by Noam Gonick and Plug In ICA  called Winter Kept Us Warm .This show will then travel to Paris France for an opening in June at la Maison Rouge, Foundation Antoine de Galbert, then down to the International Museum of Modern Art in Sete, France for a run there from November to May 2012. I will be showing two older phallus drawings and 5 old and new wooden phallus carvings.  

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

Envious portrait of the Ages

     Since my last post I had become nostalgic for the paintings of my youth in the time period of 83 - 85  and found myself viewing my these paintings in my binders and remembering all the ideas that I had that I would still like to produce on canvas. Often times I will have an idea for a whole series of work then paint only one of them and go onto something else. Then in time I might come back to that series. Others will never come back to and they remain as single entities. My goodness I liked color!...... and what is with all the green skin? I do know what's up with the hands. They are all mine and to this day are still prominent in my work.

 

AGES . 1984 . acrylic on canvas . 48 x 86 inches . (self portrait)

 

Hi . 1983 . acrylic on canvas . 34 x 40 inches . (self portrait)

Painting For Sale

TREE OF ENVY  .  $3,000  .  acrylic on canvas  .  24 x 26 inches  .  1985  .   framed

I am looking to sell this painting of mine for the current owner who had originally purchased it in 1985 which is also the year in which it was painted when I had a studio at Forum Art Institute in the old CPR Station building.

When I saw the painting again I was struck by it's size and vibrancy of color. The photo I had been viewing all these years certainly was not as bright and I had become accustomed to the darker image. So it was nice to be shaken out of my mist. Pure bright color was a staple of a lot of my work in the 80's, pretty much all of the rainbow colors in  one painting, but I seemed to have had a kNak to combine and blend them in a way as not to be garish I was told once. 

When I took a photo in B & W I was surprised at the melding of the foreground tree with the background sky and this combined with the shapes in the sky was like a memory of seeing nature on magic mushrooms. So no need to take it when you've got the painting.

Ring or e-mail me if your interested. (shipping included)   nak@mts.net   or   204.956.7675  

  

Twists & Surreal Turns

Here are a couple newest 'works' I guess you can say. I don't know what I am going to do with the HeyPal one which I thought of only yesterday on the way to the studio. Maybe do a screen print for it or make a magazine-like ad with some copy that I've already come up with or just send it out there.

As with a lot of my ideas, something just clicks in my head. I wouldn't really say that it's like a Light Bulb over my head but rather more like a Thousand Russian Ghosts spinning the world in order to screw in a light bulb inside my head. There is often a surreal twist that goes astray after just seeing something. The ADMIT IT ticket idea was no different. Just working at my desk which just happened to have an Admit One ticket on it (which was probably there for weeks) when suddenly....Bang! I heard the noise of that light bulb crashing on the floor. Maybe I was guilty of something at the time or perhaps it's just a state of mind. Solid state? I think I'm still operating on the old tubes.

These tickets I'm just manufacturing myself in various sizes (the 12 inch ones are pretty cool) with slight design variations. From printing, cutting and perforating, I'm doing it all at the Nakfactorium. I have a 40 inch long strip of three tickets which is pretty enjoyable to see. Each ticket of course has a different number.