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OPEN STUDIOS THIS WEEKEND & NIETO FINE ART

2010-10-08T11:27:00.001-07:00

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. Gallery Director,John Haas, or owner Anaya Nieto will be happy to
show you my paintings.

Inquiries about my work can be directed to Nieto Fine Art.

Nieto Fine Art
565 Sutter Street at Powell
http://nietofineart.com/

THE GALLERY PRESENTLY HAS EIGHT PAINTINGS AVAILABLE INCLUDING:

Muslim Girls on bench 36x24 sold

woman carrying bundle 36 x 36 sold

Backstage 36 x 36 sold

more about my art news at my blog http://badfishstudiosartblog.blogspot.com

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 of SF Artists Network, Mike Yokum for his work with ArtSpan and SF ART NEWS, and Owen Geronimo at SF ARTFORUM

the sf international art fair

Sandra Lee Gallery included a few of my paintings at the 2010 SF International Art Fair where "Late for the Party" sold the first night.

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Welcome to my Studio

2009-07-31T11:22:00.000-07:00

Here you will find my most recent paintings.

"Do not copy nature too closely. Art is an abstraction. Derive it from nature while dreaming in front of it." Paul Gaugin

UPCOMING EVENTS

2009-07-30T16:34:00.000-07:00

This season, find Georgiana’s Work at
Coda Jazz and Supper Club 1710 Mission St, at Duboce

The Cowel Theatre Lobby @The Herbst Pavilion, Fort Mason

The Barber Lounge 854 Folsom @ 4th

Artist Exchange Gallery 16th at guerrero

Check out upcoming events on my website to keep up to date.

What a thrill to be a part of the opening of Coda Enjoy the elegant vibe,...A sparkling place to eat drink and groove.Visit ... coda jazz and supper club paintings by georgianne fastaia through november .

waiting for godot 34x34 oil 09

mother of saint 36 x 36 SOLD

my painting featured in elle decor july 2009

2009-07-30T04:39:00.000-07:00

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preview The Floating City Show on You Tube

2009-07-29T00:45:00.000-07:00

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indian girls

2009-07-12T02:43:00.000-07:00

36x 60oil 09 sold

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Paintings at CODA Jazz Supper Club

2009-05-31T17:35:00.000-07:00

few of the paintings on display at coda jazz and supper club
located at mission and duboce (formerly levende)

mother of saint 36 x 3 6 available

late for the party 64x30 oil 09 available

sunday morning 64 x 32 oil 09 available

waiting for godot 34x34 available

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new completed paintings for sale july 25th 2009

2009-05-26T21:31:00.000-07:00

find these paintings and more at the artist exchange gallery

levee 30x30 oil available

waiting for godot 32 x32 oil available at coda

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barns midday

2009-05-20T23:56:00.000-07:00

42 x42 oil 09 1200. sold
i love this painting

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summer 2009

2009-05-03T23:07:00.000-07:00

salmon leaping in the beautiful world sold

geisha sold

standing figure 24x16 oil 09 sold

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It's In the Rain

2009-01-07T18:47:00.000-08:00

The Floating City: New Orleans After the Flood
paintings about the world turned upside down and the longing for home

In 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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Floodscapes

2009-01-06T13:30:00.000-08:00

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.

Disembodied 30 x 30

remains of new orleans 30 x 30 oil 08

ninth ward 24 x 20
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After the storm 20 x 20

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Flooded Main street

2009-01-05T12:09:00.000-08:00

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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ORISHAS of the CANDOMBLE

2009-01-02T12:49:00.000-08:00

priestess 36 x 36

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

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Floodscape Slideshow

2008-12-30T12:22:00.000-08:00

fading city 24 x 24 oil 08

Click to view a slideshow of The flood series as it has evolved from my first series of floodscapes, "After the Flood" in 2006, to my present series, "The floating City. " be sure to return to this website

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latest flood paintings

2008-12-04T21:16:00.000-08:00

Bayou 1 30x30 oil 09
The Floating City series

Bayou 2 30x30 oil 09
The Floating city Series

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Santeras

2008-11-08T02:11:00.000-08:00

Trinidad 20 x 20 oil 08 SOLD

trinity 36 x 36 oil 08 sold

detail, black madonna sold

Personal icons as everyday saints

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, invisible and boundless, yet evidenced through our very real humanity. I became a santera: a saint maker; interpreting the holy moments of each day through a Child's eye.I'm fascinated by the Trinity as a metaphor for aspects of ourselves- If we reveal our spiritual nature when we release our sense of separateness from one another, then it is inevitable that in each new work, the figures grew increasing similar and androgynous.

return to Abstract Figurative Work

2008-11-04T12:21:00.000-08:00

By the lake

36 x 24 oil 09

Dreaming of tightrope and trapeze

36 x 36 oil 09

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Harajuku Station

2008-11-03T19:42:00.000-08:00

Harajuku Girls at Artist-Xchange Gallery

girl at harajuku station 42 x 42 oil 2008

new paintings from my series Harajuku Dixie Cup
inspired by the pop culture in tokyo's Harajuku district

latest orisha paintings march

2008-11-01T02:54:00.000-07:00

mother of saint 36 x 36 oil 09

detail "Mother of Saint"

oxum admiring her reflection 30 x 30 oil 09

Paintings celebrating the Orishas

Afro Carribean Mothers of Saint

The Yoruba believe that each person has a Guardian Spirit called an "Orisha". Orisha are aspects of the Supreme Being that are manifested as forces of nature. When Yoruba slaves were brought to the New World they brought their beliefs with them. This belief system is 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 America got the Blues…

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