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 LikePosted on 27 April 2009By VIOLAIt’s called the Spring Studio Stroll, but I’m exhausted and frustrated. It was no stroll, but a marathon....
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 
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.
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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