From Gale Mckee
Greetings Friends and Patrons,
I appreciate the support and enthusiasm of all who have bought my paintings over the years, and would love to hear from you.! If you would like to contribute to a book project about my art.. published to coincide with my solo show, any expression will be gratefully received. What inspired you to purchase your painting? What has it added to your life? Please include anything that wish to say, including the name of your (favorite) painting.
I appreciate the support and enthusiasm of all who have bought my paintings over the years, and would love to hear from you.! If you would like to contribute to a book project about my art.. published to coincide with my solo show, any expression will be gratefully received. What inspired you to purchase your painting? What has it added to your life? Please include anything that wish to say, including the name of your (favorite) painting.
Hi Georgianne,
I first saw your work in the early 2000s at Starbuck's on Bryant
St. in SF. I was IMMEDIATELY pulled intothe paintings; I could FEEL the
texture, turmoil,
and solitude, loneliness of each piece. I was moved.So I HAD to meet you and watch you paint.
I followed your career for years (especially the "After the Flood"
series) and finally bought two paintings in2010, but wished I had done
so earlier! They are hanging in my living room and inspire me every
day
!I see/feel something new every time I look at them.
!I see/feel something new every time I look at them.
I believe it is because I am able to relate to the pieces, and yet
not have everything "spelled out". There is space and a place to "dream"
and add your own story. Abstraction and the figure merge in an
effortless melange of texture, imperfections, and simplicity at the same
time.
Gale S. McKee
detail
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new paintings
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| "Winter Raven" 12x12 oil 2011 SOLD |
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| "rain cows" 36x36 oil 2011. SOLD |
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| "puddlejumping" 30x30 oil 2011 SOLD |
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| me with you 30x40 oil 2011 SOLD |
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PRESS REVIEWS
Robert Genn: The World of Icons (featured response) The Painter's keys
"Personal icons as everyday saints
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Unraveling the poetry of the soul by Georgianne Fastaia, San Francisco, CA, USA  My joys are equal only to my capacity for sorrow. In this deep well are the waters in which I swim to meet a shining and vibrating light, my constant companion through long nights. The job of the artist is to translate with conviction and clarity the inchoate longings we all feel for that which i s authentic and true: to unravel the poetry of the soul. "Like a saint's vision of beatitude. Like the veil of things as they seem drawn back by an unseen hand. For a second you see—and seeing the secret, are the secret. For a second there is meaning! Then the hand lets the veil fall and you are alone, lost in the fog again, and you stumble on toward nowhere, for no good reason!" (Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey into Night ) |
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It’s called the Spring Studio Stroll, but I’m exhausted and frustrated. It was no stroll, but a marathon.... 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. |
Nieto Fine Art Solo Show
I am delighted to be in the Inspired Company of the Fine Artists at this beautiful Gallery. Owners Anaya and John Nieto share an energy for Art that is matched by the curatorial eye of Gallery Director John Haas. Please stop in to be shown my recent paintings.Nieto Fine Art 565 Sutter Street at Powell http://nietofineart.com/
CHINA BASIN SERIES with reference photos
These paintings are inspired by the cargo ships anchored off C hina Mariposa
view growing up
mission rock 30x30 oil 09 SOLD
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ballerina girl art
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| "Ballerinas Secret" 36 x 24 oil 2009 |
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| " Ballerina" 30 x 60 acrylic 2001 |
In July 2009 my painting "Ballerina” was featured in ELLE DECOR. Ballerina Girl Art was created to meet the requests from people all over the country wanting "more ballerinas!"
What is it about Ballerinas that captures the imagination of little girls?
Ballerina Girl Art celebrates the moment a little girl twirls around in her tutu: entranced. In your Ballerina Girl Art painting you will discover the sense of awkward beauty of young girls coming into their first awareness of the feminine mystique. Ballerina Girl Art goes “beyond Degas”; offering fresh interpretation of the ballerina girl theme. I am drawn to compositions which capture the innocence, mystery and grace of these tiny dancers.
These paintings are modern in their composition and paint handling. I have refined a unique distressing process which gives each painting an antiqued texture, serving as a bittersweet visual reminder of a moment in time passing.
The Original Ballerina Girl, my daughter and inspiration, Sophie Lee
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Floodscapes
About these paintings:
A square with a triangle atop it is one of the first visual symbols a child draws. These naively rendered houses represent our memory of and longing for home. As the series evolved, these symbols of home became more elongated, abstract, and totemic while "the Flood" itself evolved into a metaphor for displacement. My challenge has been to translate this sense of loss and disembodiment into the language of paint-- texture, composition, and color.
I have given each painting a “history” through a long distressing process: scrubbing, scraping, and wiping away to reveal shadows, faded colors, and echoes or ghosts of underlying imagery. This creates surfaces in which most of the information is buried below layers of paint, visually communicating the concept of impermanence, time passing, erosion.
I use composition deliberately to reinforce a sense of our smallness against the "bigness of nature" by placing most of the information in the bottom of the canvas, dwarfed by the sky. Multiple horizon lines shift the imagery into the center of the picture plain, as if floating, with houses reflected in the sky; a composition designed to dislocate the viewer from his normal frame of reference.
The emotional use of Color plays an important part in creating mood. I use a palette of somber violets, green-grays and translucent layers of milky color to convey the quality of light after a storm, the thick saturated air that I recall growing up along the Connecticut shore.
I have given each painting a “history” through a long distressing process: scrubbing, scraping, and wiping away to reveal shadows, faded colors, and echoes or ghosts of underlying imagery. This creates surfaces in which most of the information is buried below layers of paint, visually communicating the concept of impermanence, time passing, erosion.
I use composition deliberately to reinforce a sense of our smallness against the "bigness of nature" by placing most of the information in the bottom of the canvas, dwarfed by the sky. Multiple horizon lines shift the imagery into the center of the picture plain, as if floating, with houses reflected in the sky; a composition designed to dislocate the viewer from his normal frame of reference.
The emotional use of Color plays an important part in creating mood. I use a palette of somber violets, green-grays and translucent layers of milky color to convey the quality of light after a storm, the thick saturated air that I recall growing up along the Connecticut shore.
Disembodied 30 x 30
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Nieto Fine Art
I am happy to share that you can find my work at NIETO FINE ART. Please stop in to this beautiful Gallery when downtown. It is located at 595 Sutter street,directly below the HANG Annex.
Nieto Fine Art
565 Sutter Street at Powell
http://nietofineart.com/
THE GALLERY PRESENTLY HAS EIGHT PAINTINGS AVAILABLE INCLUDING:
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Muslim Girls on bench 36x24 sold
Much thanks to ART SPAN and MISSION ARTISTS UNITED for their efforts at bringing Art directly to the public
A special thanks to Alan Bamberger of Artbusiness.com for covering so many art openings every year, to Stephen Wagner ofSF Artists Network, Mike Yokum for his work with ArtSpan and SF ART NEWS, and Owen Geronimo at SF ARTFORUM
the sf international art fair
NEW STUDIO
GEORGIANNE FASTAIA
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ballerina's secret
ballerina's secret 
30x24 oil 09 sold orisha of freshwater & pearl 36x36 soldI am doing a series of abstract ballerinas . If you are interested in seeing my ballerina paintings please email me at badfishstudios@yahoo. I will be sending out a slideshow of completed ballerinas for sale soon.
these photos of my own ballerina girl...inspired my painting, ballerina's secret
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| Evoking the mystery I believe that to make art with all the questions answered deprives the viewer of the joy of participating in the act of creation. I believe the self balances tenuously in the ambiguous, misunderstood spaces between people. Exploring the fragility of our connection to each other is the reason I make art. |
Featured Responses2009 work
5/3/09
salmon leaping in the beautiful world
1/7/09
It's In the Rain
The Floating City: New Orleans After the Flood
paintings about the world turned upside down and the longing for homeIn 2006, I responded to Hurricane Katrina with a series of abstract "flood scapes",' After the Flood. Three years later, I revisit the ninth ward with The Floating City. The impossibility of painting the physical reality of the flood allowed me to focus on the emotional reality of an inexorably altered landscape. My primary goal is to convey the sense of devastation and loss as well as to offer hope for the city of New Orleans.
through June 1st at the Mezzanine Gallery at Arterra
300 Berry at 5th
one block from the ballpark
Arterra is San Francisco's first LEED-certified green high-rise community. The building uses recycled materials and wood harvested from sustainable forests.
erosion 24 x 24 oil 08
reflected 24 x 24 oil 08
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paintings about the world turned upside down and the longing for homeIn 2006, I responded to Hurricane Katrina with a series of abstract "flood scapes",' After the Flood. Three years later, I revisit the ninth ward with The Floating City. The impossibility of painting the physical reality of the flood allowed me to focus on the emotional reality of an inexorably altered landscape. My primary goal is to convey the sense of devastation and loss as well as to offer hope for the city of New Orleans.
through June 1st at the Mezzanine Gallery at Arterra
300 Berry at 5th
one block from the ballpark
Arterra is San Francisco's first LEED-certified green high-rise community. The building uses recycled materials and wood harvested from sustainable forests.
erosion 24 x 24 oil 08
reflected 24 x 24 oil 08
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1/6/09
Floodscapes
Reflected City 24 x24 oil 08
About these paintings:
A square with a triangle atop it is one of the first visual symbols a child draws. These naively rendered houses represent our memory of and longing for home. As the series evolved, these symbols of home became more elongated, abstract, and totemic while "the Flood" itself evolved into a metaphor for displacement. My challenge has been to translate this sense of loss and disembodiment into the language of paint-- texture, composition, and color.
I have given each painting a “history” through a long distressing process: scrubbing, scraping, and wiping away to reveal shadows, faded colors, and echoes or ghosts of underlying imagery. This creates surfaces in which most of the information is buried below layers of paint, visually communicating the concept of impermanence, time passing, erosion.
I use composition deliberately to reinforce a sense of our smallness against the "bigness of nature" by placing most of the information in the bottom of the canvas, dwarfed by the sky. Multiple horizon lines shift the imagery into the center of the picture plain, as if floating, with houses reflected in the sky; a composition designed to dislocate the viewer from his normal frame of reference.
The emotional use of Color plays an important part in creating mood. I use a palette of somber violets, green-grays and translucent layers of milky color to convey the quality of light after a storm, the thick saturated air that I recall growing up along the Connecticut shore.
I have given each painting a “history” through a long distressing process: scrubbing, scraping, and wiping away to reveal shadows, faded colors, and echoes or ghosts of underlying imagery. This creates surfaces in which most of the information is buried below layers of paint, visually communicating the concept of impermanence, time passing, erosion.
I use composition deliberately to reinforce a sense of our smallness against the "bigness of nature" by placing most of the information in the bottom of the canvas, dwarfed by the sky. Multiple horizon lines shift the imagery into the center of the picture plain, as if floating, with houses reflected in the sky; a composition designed to dislocate the viewer from his normal frame of reference.
The emotional use of Color plays an important part in creating mood. I use a palette of somber violets, green-grays and translucent layers of milky color to convey the quality of light after a storm, the thick saturated air that I recall growing up along the Connecticut shore.
Disembodied 30 x 30remains of new orleans 30 x 30 oil 081/5/09
Flooded Main street
Flooded Main street 30 x30 oil 2008 (sold)
Flooded Main Street is the transitional painting between the two series. This is a realistic painting in a predominantly abstract body of work, however, it was this haunting image which inspired me to revisit "the Flood" theme. My primary consideration is to convey the feeling of desolation captured in videos such as these. I strive for emotional honesty in my work and rely on an intuitive sense of color and an immediacy of gesture to achieve it.
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1/2/09
ORISHAS of the CANDOMBLE
priestess
Oxum orisha of beauty 36 x 36 oil 09
Oxum's dance recalls her bathing in a waterfall, and summoning the forces that control pregnancy and childbirth. The young woman possessed by Oxum dances alongside her mother.
Oxum likes beauty, and devotes her life to it. She is also the goddess of love and fertility, and looks after newborns up to the age of about 4. The city of Salvadore in Brazil is believed to be run by Oxum; it is said its people love the good things in life.
bahia salvador procession fesitival of oxum 36 x 36
Oxum's dance recalls her bathing in a waterfall, and summoning the forces that control pregnancy and childbirth. The young woman possessed by Oxum dances alongside her mother.
Oxum likes beauty, and devotes her life to it. She is also the goddess of love and fertility, and looks after newborns up to the age of about 4. The city of Salvadore in Brazil is believed to be run by Oxum; it is said its people love the good things in life.
bahia salvador procession fesitival of oxum 36 x 36
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