Installations and Paintings on Polypropylene


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EXHIBITIONS  

 

Abstract Visions Gallery Guichard Chicago May 11th - July 17th opened with four acrylic ink paintings on polypropylene by Hellstrom speak to gesture and expressive color. Work was very well received!

 

“Equilibrium is reached in my work as structural lines hold despite insistent disruptions, speaking to stability within chaos. In 2012 the work deleves into the dark beauty of those disruptions that disorient balance like an internal weather system moving though one's consciousness." Patter Hellstrom

 

Patter Hellstrom’s Sublime Choreographies of the Centered Self  by Jason Lahman, Guest Blogger Art21, historian, poet and essayist based in San Francisco 

 

 

LOOK for new intimate landscapes by Patter Hellstrom exhibited this July in ArtHaus Gallery San Francisco. These new works are ripe with movement and dense color flowing in bands across the compact landscape. The Asian concept of Heaven / vision, Earth / practicality and Humanity / resourcefulness; resonates in these works.

Commission in San Francisco Read about ArtHaus Gallery project with Patter's work 

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ART + TECHNOLOGY

LOOK for Patter's work on Artify It . Click to read PC magazine article about the art+ tech start-up.
  



Patter's work on innovative web site connecting collectors and artists. This art focussed tech start-up went live in mid March 2012 and already many commissions and sales have transpired. Bagstyle reports…” Patter Hellstrom’s resplendent abstract swirls are the ideal antidote to any boring
 office. 

Patter's work on Houzz click below.

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Art to Auction:

Art & Healing and Aids research are causes that make a difference! See the links to attend and bid on Hellstrom's paintings.

 

 


Visual Aid Auction May 10th Chronicle Books SF                                             
Art for AIDS Auction Sept 14 City View Metreon SF 

 


 

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 CURATORIAL + WRITING

 

Hellstrom's coverage of Armory Week in NYC on SF Art Enthusiast  and report from San Francisco on the Spring Art Fairs on Left Bank.



MITHILA PAINTING: The Evolution of an Art Form

Co-curated and managed by Patter Hellstrom Visual Art / Curatorial the show is filled with fantastic connections between traditional and contemporary subject matter and styles. The Ethnic Art Foundation will share this amazing work throughout the United States for two years. University galleries and museums are booking this exhibition plus plans are being made for a showing in New Delhi, India. The excitement grows as the opening of the exhibition draws near! Contact Paul Aaronson for more information.

“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 of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
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  • Sutra Large, Grand and Mural-sized Panel Paintings

    Sutra Large, Grand and Mural-sized Panel Paintings (37)

    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.
     
  • Sutra Medium Panel Paintings

    Sutra Medium Panel Paintings  (14)

    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.
     
  • Sutra Intimate Panel Paintings

    Sutra Intimate Panel Paintings (26)

    These intimate pieces incorporate themes such as exploration of emotional landscapes, the lunar eclipse winter solstice event in 2010, and global turbulence felt since 2008.
     
  • intimate landscapes

    intimate landscapes (9)

    This gallery is filled with NEW 35" x 12" acrylic ink on polypropylene paintings in the landscape format. The work addresses the idea of heaven as vision, earth as the practical and humanity as the needed element of resourcefulness.
     
  • Ongoing Mandala and Nature-based installation projects

    Ongoing Mandala and Nature-based installation projects  (7)

    In October 2010 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.