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Ruth Pastine

(American)

Ruth Pastine

Witness 8-S7272 (Red Green), Witness Series, 2016

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Ruth Pastine

Depths, Blue 1, 2020

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Ruth Pastine

Depths, Yellow 4, 2020

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Biography

Timeline

1964: Born in New York City
1982 - 1984: State University of New York College at Purchase, Purchase, NY
1982: Alexander Medal, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Honorary Awards
1984 - 1987: BFA, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science, New York, NY
1987 - 1988: Rietveld Akademie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (The Cooper Union Travel Abroad Award)
1987: Grumbacher Artist Award
1990 - 1993: MFA, Hunter College of the City Universtiy of NY, New York, NY. Received Harriet Ruth Eagleson Scholarship Award (1990), Esther Fish Perry Scholarship Award (1992) and Hunter College Graduate Study Award (1992-1993).
1999: Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Grant
2000: The Shifting Foundation Grant
2012: Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
: Lives and works in Ojai, CA
: Ruth Pastine was born and raised in New York City. In the early 2000’s she relocated to Southern California, where she currently works and resides. Today, Pastine continues to explore and evolve the concept of Minimalist theory. Through her work, color and light are reduced to their most elemental form; thousands of tiny brush strokes appear visually seamless, producing an image that is both objective and dematerialized. Challenging our preconceptions, Pastine explores the subtle character of color. Pastine’s manipulation of color, light and matter questions the visual experience and redefines the perceptual field.

Exhibitions

2017: Ruth Pastine Selected Exhibitions in 2017:
Witness, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA(solo exhibtion)
Spectral Hues: artists + color, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
2016: Ruth Pastine Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
Matter of Light, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM(solo exhibtion)
Ethereal Material, Ace Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA(solo exhibtion)
L.A. Today, Curated by Carl Schlosberg, Royale Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Light, Edward Cella Art & Architecture, Los Angels, CA
Color and Light, Art in Embassies (AIE), U.S. Embassy, Panama City, Panama
Replay: Gallery Selections, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Made in California: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
2015: Ruth Pastine Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
Present Tense, Paintings and Pastel Works on Paper, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA(solo exhibtion)
The Inevitability of Truth, Edward Cella Art & Architecture, Los Angeles, CA(solo exhibtion)
Holiday Group Show 2015, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Made in California: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Mana Wynwood, Miami, FL
RE-OP: 'The Responsive Eye' Fifty Years After - Visual Perception Today, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
San Diego Collects, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD), La Jolla, CA
Minimalist Abstraction, Scott White Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Is it...Monochrome? Colorfield? Or an Object? Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX
Unbound, Edward Cella Art & Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
BLACK + BLUE, KM Fine Arts, Chicago, IL
A Rotating Exhibition of Selected Artworks, Ace Gallery, Beverly Hills & Los Angeles, CA
Surface to Edge, Curated by Carl F. Berg, Cypress College Art Gallery, Cypress, CA
2014: Ruth Pastine Selected Exhibitions in 2014:
MIND’S EYE / Sense Certainty Series, Paintings and Pastel Works on Paper, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA(solo exhibtion)
Ruth Pastine Attraction 1993-2013, Paintings and Pastel Works on Paper, Lancaster Museum of Art and History – MOAH, Lancaster, CA(solo exhibtion)
Black and White: Reductive and Conceptual Art, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX
Colorimetry, Lancaster Museum of Art and History - MOAH, Lancaster, CA
Convergence, Marietta Patricia Leis and Ruth Pastine, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX
A Rotating Exhibition of Selected Artworks, Ace Gallery, Beverly Hills & Los Angeles, CA
6018 Wilshire, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
2013: Ruth Pastine Selected Exhibitions in 2013:
Interplay, Paintings and Pastel Works on Paper, Scott White Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA(solo exhibtion)
Summer Group Exhibition, Scott White Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
20th Anniversary Exhibition, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
Spring Group Exhibition, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2012: Ruth Pastine Selected Exhibitions in 2012:
Counterpoint, Pastel Works on Paper, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Los Angeles, CA(solo exhibtion)
Imminence, Primary and Secondary Color Series, Quintenz & Company Fine Art, Aspen, CO(solo exhibtion)
Collectors Show, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
Transcending Abstraction III, Contemporary Perspectives in Reductive Art, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
Cool Calm Collected, Danese, New York, NY
Summer Group Exhibition, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
Selections, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Santa Barbara, CA
Summer Pop, Edward Cella Art + Architecture @ Ilan Dei Studio, Venice, CA
Transcending Abstraction II: Contemporary Perspectives in Reductive Art, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
Accrochage 2012, Celebrating 21 Years, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX
Transcending Abstraction: Contemporary Perspectives in Reductive Art, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2011: Ruth Pastine Selected Exhibitions in 2011:
Immaterial Matters, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA(solo exhibtion)
Conquer Surrender: Green Orange Violet, Secondary Color Series, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA(solo exhibtion)
Transcendent Boundaries, Edward Cella Art & Architecture + Cabana Home, Santa Barbara, CA(solo exhibtion)
The Gleam in the Young Bastard's Eye, William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Summer Group Show, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
Art in Public Spaces, Peter Blake Gallery, Riviera Art Space, Newport Beach, CA
Contemporary, Scott White Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Latitude 34-40, Los Angeles incontra Napoli, Art 1307, Villa di Donato, Naples, Italy California
Winter Group Show, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2010: Ruth Pastine Selected Exhibitions in 2010:
Present Fugitive: Red Green & Blue Orange Series, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX(solo exhibtion)
In House, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
Fresh Figures & Abstraction, Scott White Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Sulle Tracce di Luca Giordano, Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Contemporanea, Naples, Italy
2009: Ruth Pastine Selected Exhibitions in 2009:
Limitless, Red Green Series, Edward Cella Art & Architecture, Los Angeles, CA(solo exhibtion)
Phase and Shifting, Gray Series, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA(solo exhibtion)
Accrochage 2009, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX
QUINT: Three Decades of Contemporary Art, California Center for the Arts, Escondido Museum, CA
Summer Group Show, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
The Non-Objective Object, Four Abstract Painters, CSUCI Gallery, Camarillo, CA
White, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2008: Ruth Pastine Selected Exhibitions in 2008:
Convergence, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA(solo exhibtion)
Ever Present, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX(solo exhibtion)
Supermarket, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
15 Years 15 Artists, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
History is Now, Photographic Portraits by Donna Granata, Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, CA
2007: Ruth Pastine Selected Exhibitions in 2007:
Black Light, Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai, CA(solo exhibtion)
Focus on the Masters, Tuesday Talk Series Interview, Ventura, CA(solo exhibtion)
X Invitational, California State University Channel Islands, SCIART, Camarillo, CA
Pulse London Contemporary Art Fair, London, England
Pulse Miami Contemporary Art Fair, Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
Red Dot Art Fair, Miami Beach, FL
2006: Ruth Pastine Selected Exhibitions in 2006:
Transformative, Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai, CA
Art LA, Contemporary Art Fair, Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005: Good Clean Fun, The Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA
: Installations, Yellow Violet Paintings, Bentley Projects, Phoenix, AZ
: Pool Party, Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai, CA
: Summer Sensation, White paintings, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
2004: Inaugural Exhibition: 23+ on 9th St., Celebrating 23 Years, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
: New Location Grand Opening Exhibition, Scott White Contemporary Art, Telluride, CO
: Luminesce-Red Green, Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai, CA (solo)
2003: Expedition-Yellow Violet paintings, Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ (solo)
: Continuous Senses, Gallery Jurou, Kurashiki, Japan
: Crossover, Kurashiki City Art Museum, Kurashiki, Japan
2002: Breathing Room, Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
: Signals, Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
: Terrain: Literal to Metaphysical, Scott White Contemporary Art, Telluride, CO
2001: Abstraction and Immanence, Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY
: Monochrome/Monochrome? Florence Lynch Gallery, New York, NY
: Three Painters, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
: Yellow-Magenta Paintings, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY (solo)
: Red-Green & Yellow-Magenta Paintings, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
: Live from New York, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
: Numinous Duochrome, Yellow Magenta-Violet Paintings, Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ (solo)
: (In)tangible, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
2000: Abstraction: Form To Field, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
: Overcast, Allston Skirt Gallery, Allston, MA
1999: New Paintings, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA (solo)
: Core, Stark Gallery, New York, NY
: Sudden Incandescence, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Nebraska
: 10 Year Anniversary Group Show, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
: Ray Paintings: Blue Yellow Violet Series, Deven Golden Fine Art New York, NY
: Ray Paintings: Blue Orange Violet Series, Brian Gross Fine Art San Francisco, CA
: Self-Portrait, Gallery at Dieu Donne Papermill, New York, NY
: Gallery Artists, Deven Golden Fine Art, New York, NY
: 4th Annual Group Show, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1998: What’s On The Wall, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
: Jewel Box Project, GAGA Gallery, New York, NY
1997: Presentational Painting II, Leubsdorf Art Gallery Hunter College, New York, NY
: Pools of Light, Donahue/Sosinski Art New York, NY
: Gramercy International Contemporary Art Fair, Friedman-Guinness Gramercy Park Hotel, New York, NY
: Drawing from Life, Stark Gallery New York, NY
: Abstraction Index, Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, NY
: Art Without Curves, Invitational, Phoenix, AZ
: Benefit Exhibition, Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, NY
: On the Wall- Current Expressions in Contemporary Art, TIAA/CREF, New York, NY Ruth Pastine
: Mergings, Brian Gross Fine Art San Francisco, CA
: Claremont Graduate School Gallery Claremont Graduate School
: Summer 1996, Donahue Gallery New York, NY
: East Meets West, West Gallery Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA
: Places of the Imagination, E.M. Donahue Gallery New York, NY
: Gramercy International Contemporary Art Fair L.A., Friedman-Guinness Los Angeles, CA
1996: A Large Show of Small Works, Houghton Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
: Formal Abstraction/New York, Ruth Bachofner Gallery Santa Monica, CA
1995: Vulnerability, The Dahn Gallery New York, NY
1994: Outreach Alumni 2, The Cooper Union New York, NY
1993: MFA Selection, Wexler Library, Hunter College New York, NY
: Diffusion Paintings, Times Square Gallery, Hunter College Gallery New York, NY
1991: Vorhees Open Studio Exhibition, Hunter College New York, NY
: Group Painting Exhibition, Hunter College Gallery New York, NY
: Thesis Exhibition, Houghton Gallery The Cooper Union, New York, NY
: Annual Exhibition, Houghton Gallery, The Cooper Union New York, NY
1987: Grumbacher's Emerging Artists Exhibition, New York, NY
: Grumbacher's Emerging Artists Exhibition, New York, NY
: National Arts Club Annual Art Exhibition, New York, NY
1986: Group show, Houghton Gallery, The Cooper Union New York, NY
: Annual Exhibition, Houghton Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
1985: Annual Exhibition, Houghton Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
1983 - 1984: Small Works, S.U.N.Y. Purchase Purchase, NY
1983: Annual Exhibition, State University of New York College at Purchase, NY
1982 - 1984: Annual Exhibition, S.U.N.Y. Purchase Purchase, NY
1982: Honorary Award Exhibition, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
: Honorary Group Exhibition, The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY

Public Collections

: Public and Corporate Collections
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
AXA Art, Cologne, Germany
Brookfield Properties, Ernst & Young Plaza, Los Angeles, CA
CIM Group Headquarters, Los Angeles, CA
Citi Smith Barney Investments, New York, New York
Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, Monterey, CA
Goodwill Industries International, San Francisco, CA
Lakeshore Entertainment, Los Angeles, CA
Lancaster Museum of Art &History MOAH, CA
Lehman Brothers/Townsend Analytics, New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego MCASD, CA
PIMCO, Global Headquarters, Newport Beach, CA
Proskauer, Washington, DC
Qualcomm, San Diego, CA
UNICEF, New York, NY
Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA

Literature

2016: Ruth Pastine: Ethereal Material, Ace Gallery, Beverly Hills, C
2015: Ruth Pastine: The Inevitability of Truth, Edward Cella Art & Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
2014: Ruth Pastine Attraction: Paintings and Works on Paper 1993-2013, exhibition catalog, Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA
2013: Interplay, Paintings and Pastel Works on Paper, exhibition catalog, Scott White Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
2012: Counterpoint, Pastel Works on Paper, exhibition catalog, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
2010: Fresh Figures & Abstraction, exhibition brochure, Scott White Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
2009: Limitless, exhibition brochure, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
2008: History is Now, Portraits by Donna Granata, exhibition catalog, Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, CA
2007: SCIART Tenth, exhibition brochure, CSU Studio Channel Islands Art Center, Camarillo, CA
2006: New American Paintings, Open Studio Press, Boston, MA
2005: Bentley Gallery Publications, April – May 2005, Scottsdale, AZ
2001: Abstraction and Immanence, Hunter College of the City University of New York, NY
1997: Presentational Painting II, Hunter College of the City University of New York, NY
1993: XII Spring, M.F.A. Candidates, Hunter College of the City University of New York, NY

Ruth Pastine

(American)

Ruth Pastine

Ruth Pastine

Ruth Pastine

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

Literature

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