badfishstudios art blog: 12/01/2008

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12/4/08

latest flood paintings

Bayou 1 30x30 oil 09
The Floating City series

Bayou 2 30x30 oil 09
The Floating city Series

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11/8/08

Santeras

Trinidad 20 x 20 oil 08 SOLD

trinity 36 x 36 oil 08 sold

detail, black madonna sold

Personal icons as everyday saints

There is a difference between making an icon, and having it become the object of worship, and making a representation that expresses a truth about God. We cannot depict the Father, the Holy Spirit, or the Trinity. .Herein lies the contradiction of faith, invisible and boundless, yet evidenced through our very real humanity. I became a santera: a saint maker; interpreting the holy moments of each day through a Child's eye.I'm fascinated by the Trinity as a metaphor for aspects of ourselves- If we reveal our spiritual nature when we release our sense of separateness from one another, then it is inevitable that in each new work, the figures grew increasing similar and androgynous.

11/4/08

return to Abstract Figurative Work

By the lake

36 x 24 oil 09

Dreaming of tightrope and trapeze

36 x 36 oil 09

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11/3/08

Harajuku Station

Harajuku Girls at Artist-Xchange Gallery

girl at harajuku station 42 x 42 oil 2008

new paintings from my series Harajuku Dixie Cup
inspired by the pop culture in tokyo's Harajuku district

11/1/08

latest orisha paintings march

mother of saint 36 x 36 oil 09

detail "Mother of Saint"

oxum admiring her reflection 30 x 30 oil 09

Paintings celebrating the Orishas

Afro Carribean Mothers of Saint

The Yoruba believe that each person has a Guardian Spirit called an "Orisha". Orisha are aspects of the Supreme Being that are manifested as forces of nature. When Yoruba slaves were brought to the New World they brought their beliefs with them. This belief system is known as "Santeria" in Cuba and as “Candomble” in Brazil. The Orishas are considered Santos “saints” responsible for different parts of life with different attributes and myths attached.

Three freed female slaves in Bahia Salvador, Brazil began worshipping the forbidden African religion by merging Orishas with Catholic Saints until they were allowed to worship freely. Slaves in America were criminalized for practicing their religion. It is said that is why Brazil got the Samba and America got the Blues…

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BIOGRAPHY

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Georgianne Fastaia was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1964. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from S.F.S.U. in 1988. . She is an advocate for the arts,a Visual Aid Grant recipient, contributing writer for The Painters Keys and a guest reviewer at Art business.

An accomplished Painter, she has had many successful exhibitions and her art is in private collections here and abroad. Her work has been featured in Artweek Magazine, The SF Chronicle, and the July 2009 issue of ELLE Décor magazine. She was invited to exhibit her work at the 2010 International Art Fair with Sandra Lee Gallery and in 2011 with Nieto Fine Art. She is represented by The Riverfront Gallery in downtown Petaluma, and Studio 333 in Sausalito.

STATEMENT

"To make art with all the questions answered deprives the viewer of the joy of participating in the act of creation. The choices I make between figuration and abstraction, between what is implied and what is revealed, serve to pull the viewer into the paintings surface and leave them with questions. My work is about transforming the mistake . In my process I re-use old paintings, actively damaging the surface to give each a history, with my goal to reflect more authentic concept of what is considered beautiful."