New Work / Current Exhibitions

Dream Yoga 2013 60" x 60" acrylic ink on polypropyleneInside Innovative Minds: An Interview with Entrepreneur Patter Hellstrom.

 GALLERY 

SAN FRANCISCO

ArtHaus Gallery Circle Back (left) 40" x 26" acrylic ink on polypropylene mounted on plexi back framed to float on the wall is featured in the Fall exhibition at ArtHaus

 

In The Project Gallery
ART ON PAPER

A Rotating Exhibition of paper-related works by ArtHaus Gallery and Guest Artists: Adam Kurtzman, Marc Lambrechts, Rex Ray, Serena Bocchino, Jan Blythe and Patter Hellstrom 


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Hellstrom + Design

Poliform San Francisco is the exclusive West Coast representative for Poliform, the Italian design collection. See Hellstrom's Twin Impulses (48" x 72" acrylic ink on polypropylene mounted on plexi) featured in that Applegate Tran showroom at the SF Design Center. Twin Impulses was also featured in the HGTV article in Front Door with collaborating partners CLIMB and ArtHaus.

 

Hellstrom's diptych Twin Impluses used in innovative CLIMB + ArtHaus collaboration depicted in HGTV's magazine Front Door

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Chicago 

RUSH Foundation national curator Andre Guichard included Hellstrom in several exhibitions throughout this year in Chicago. Guichard highlighted Hellstrom's work in a Montreal project this summer and is currently exhibting two of her works  in a group show in Chicago. 
  

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 Headquarters exhibits Patter Hellstrom Spring 2013


digital catalog of exhibition at SQUARE

________________________________________________________________________________ GRIEF PATH - FILM OF PROJECT 

In Grief Path, Bay Area-based artist Patter Hellstrom traced the last four years of her life, marked by significant personal losses of some of those closest to her. Informed by her own Judeo-Christian upbringing balanced against a deep interest in Buddhist principles, the artist maps the psychological, cognitive, and emotional dimensions of grief through time. What are the navigational tools on a grief path? The gestural paint applied over the rationalized pencil grid reflects the emotional immediacy of each moment, and letting go of cultural expectations around each loss resulted in moments of grace and acceptance.

 

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 CURATORIAL + WRITING

MITHILA PAINTING: The Evolution of an Art Form

Exhibition at the University of CA Fresno / FALL 2012

Co-curated and managed by Patter Hellstrom Visual Art the show is filled with fantastic connections between traditional and contemporary subject matter and styles. The Ethnic Art Foundation shares the amazing work throughout the United States for two years. California State University / Fresno opened the tour in the Fall of 2012. Returning from a brief stay through the Winter of 2013 in New Delhi India, the exhibition opened this Fall at the Chazen Museum in Madison Wisconsin. Listen to a WI Public Radio interview with the museum director on the show. January 2014 takes the tour to Syracuse University in New York after which a number of the pieces will go into the perment collection of the CHazen Museum. With the exhibition referfreshed in the Spring of 2014, exhibition manager Paul Aaronson (paul@patterhellstrom.com) will continue booking the show the next two years.

Exhibition at the Chazen Museum of Art / FALL 2013

“Over the past several decades, the artists of the Mithila communities have produced an astonishingly brilliant body of works on paper, drawing on their centuries old iconographic traditions and techniques as well as evolving new imagery and approaches that reflect global transformations. I have rarely encountered such a highly concentrated number of exceptionally gifted artists. They are a treasure!”  
Lawrence Rinder, Director Berkeley Art Museum + Pacific Film Archive. 
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  • Shaped Paintings

    Shaped Paintings (8)

    2011 Summer shaped collages and installations were begun, exploring the properties of polypropylene and acrylic ink. These works delve into the dark beauty of disruptions encountered in daily life.
     
  • 2012 Commissions

    2012 Commissions (4)

    2012 Commissions include a 10 foot x 3 foot acrylic ink painting on polypropylene for a private collector in San Francisco entitled, "Heaven, Earth and Passion". Grief Path at CIIS, an urban San Francisco university commissioned an installation by Hellstrom for their gallery over for the first semester of the 2012 academic year. French filmmaker, Cedric Pilard created a short documentary about the making the piece.
     
  • Large, Grand and Mural-sized Panel Paintings

    Large, Grand and Mural-sized Panel Paintings (31)

    Panel paintings back-mounted on acrylic sheets showcase large-scale work by Patter Hellstrom. Color and gesture appear to float with calligraphic style incorporating expressive qualities and fluid color. Works are available through galleries and art dealers in Chicago, San Francisco, LA and London.
     
  • Medium Panel Paintings

    Medium Panel Paintings  (13)

    Midsize works in acrylic ink on polypropylene - a technique discovered in 2007 and unveiled in "Navigating Expression" at Masterworks Institute for Works on Paper Gallery in San Francisco. These gestural contemporary pieces sized at 20" x 26" have been used by Lennar Urban to showcase penthouses in downtown San Francisco and exhibited in galleries in San Francisco and LA.
     
  • Intimate Panel Paintings

    Intimate Panel Paintings (24)

    Intimate pieces incorporate themes such as exploration of emotional landscapes, eclipses, and global turbulence. These compact pieces act as road maps for the large and mural sized work, as the artist explores new methods in her practice.
     
  • Installation Projects

    Installation Projects  (9)

    2010 October Patter created FLOWER MANDALA at the Unilever campus in Trumbull CT. The Mandala was created in concentric circles of 500 individually placed fresh flowers. This mindful work was dedicated to recognizing beauty and compassion. Installations created with natural materials such as flowers, tumbled glass and rock, connect interior thoughts on interdependence and impermanence to the larger natural world. See more in PROJECTS.