badfishstudios art blog: 03/01/2009

Orisha Goddesses of Brazil

Brand new figurative series, CANDOMBLE: the Orisha Goddesses of Brazil

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 the America got the Blues…

inspiration for ORISHA Series: CANDOMBLE

Oba

Oya

Changó’s favorite wife, she left his brother, the blacksmith Ogun, after he tried to force her to work in his forge, but not before stealing his tools (customarily seen as adornments for her crown). She fights next to Changó in war, and she guards the gates to the cemetery as well as to the marketplace; she is the hurricane that destroys in order to create. Her relationship to the ancestors is indexed by the use of rainbow colors in the clothing of her initiates and in altar displays.

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Caboclo spirit, Cachoei

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."