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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Thank you to the Friends and Patrons who have supported me through the years.
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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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