in the press


Please go to Art Business.com (scroll down the page until you get to the Drugstore Gallery review)  to read the complete  review of my show After the Flood: Review by Alan Bamberger  
Comment: The paintings are inspired by Hurricane Katrina, Good show, thoughtfully presented and persuasive.




Review: Art, More to Like

By VIOLA
It’s called the Spring Studio Stroll, but I’m exhausted and frustrated. It was no stroll, but a marathon....

"Procession  in Bahia celebrating Oshun" 36x36 oil  2009

Revived, we went to the final venue—Art Explosion at 2425 17th St. near Potrero Avenure. Immediately I noticed Georgianne Fastaia’s large, evocative oils, part of a series celebrating the Orishas. Ah, an immigrant’s point of view, I thought. Yes, from Brooklyn, she said. What an eye. 

Go to Art Business.com for the complete review and all the gorgeous photos. review by Alan Bamberger for artbusiness.com    Group exhibition @ I SPY Gallery March 16, 2007




Art.

Robert Genn: The World of Icons (featured response) The Painter's keys
"Personal icons as everyday saints"
by Georgianne Fastaia, San Francisco, CA, USA

Trinidad<br>original painting<br>20 x 20 inches by Georgianne Fastaia  

Trinidad
original painting
20 x 20 inches

Santeras means "Saint maker" or one who paints saints, as in the Russian tradition of self-taught artists painting naive religious icons after devout prayer. 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, both invisible and boundless, yet evidenced through our very real humanity. I set out to describe my faith through a Child's eye. In creating this series I became a santera: a saint maker interpreting the holy moments of each day. Inspired by the joy of my infant daughter Sophie, I relied on the spirit to move through me to create raw childlike images infused with feeling. Many figures float in a timeless space in which their bodies are painted as shimmering vessels for their hearts. If we reveal our spiritual nature when we release our fear of difference and our sense of separateness from one another, then it is inevitable that in the figures grew increasing similar and androgynous in each new work. I'm particularly fascinated by images of triplets - as a metaphor for aspects of us - the trinity depicted as three male figures dancing or floating together as one body. Or as three women, often with one or more painted over but still faintly visible. These are everyday saints, personal icons depicting mysteries of joy.


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GEORGIANNE FASTAIA

BIOGRAPHY

Georgianne Fastaia was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1964. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from San Francisco State University in 1988 with a degree in Creative Writing. Her mother; an art teacher, encouraged Georgianne to follow her passion and to take art seriously. Self-taught, she began painting in 2001 and has sold her work  since 2002.

An accomplished Painter, she has had many successful Solo Exhibitions  and her Art is in private collections across the country. Her work has been featured in Artweek Magazine, The SF Chronicle, and prominently featured in the July 2009 issue of ELLE Décor magazine. 
 
A writer and public speaker, she is an eloquent advocate for the arts. She is a member of Art Span, a Visual Aid Grant recipient, and a contributing writer for Mission Arts Monthly, The Painters Keys and a guest reviewer at Art business.
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