Brian Gross Fine Art: Artists: Ruth Pastine

Born: New York City, New York; Lives in Ojai, California
Education: M.F.A.; Hunter College of the City University of New York, New York, NY; 1990–1993; The Rietveld Akademie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 1987–1988; B.F.A.; The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY; 1984–1987; State University of New York College at Purchase, Purchase, NY; 1982–1984
Solo Exhibitions: 2020; Depths, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA (online exhibition); 2019; Sublime Terror, Edward Cella Art & Architecture, Los Angeles, CA; 2018; Ruth Pastine at Expo Chicago, Solo Booth Presentation, Edward Cella Art & Architecture, Chicago, IL; Ruth Pastine in Residence, Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation, Ojai, CA; Broad Bands, Porch Gallery, Ojai, CA; 2017; Mirroring, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX; Matter of Light, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; WITNESS, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA; 2016; Matter of Light, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; Ethereal Material, Ace Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA; 2015; The Inevitability of Truth, Edward Cella Art & Architecture, Los Angeles, CA; Present Tense, Paintings and Pastel Works on Paper, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA; 2014; MIND’S EYE / Sense Certainty Series, Paintings and Pastel Works on Paper, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA; Ruth Pastine Attraction 1993-2013, Paintings and Pastel Works on Paper, Lancaster Museum of Art and History – MOAH, Lancaster, CA; 2013; Interplay, Paintings and Pastel Works on Paper, Scott White Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA; 2012; Counterpoint, Pastel Works on Paper, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Los Angeles, CA; Imminence, Primary and Secondary Color Series, Quintenz & Company Fine Art, Aspen, CO; 2011; Immaterial Matters, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA; Conquer Surrender: Green Orange Violet, Secondary Color Series, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA; Transcendent Boundaries, Edward Cella Art & Architecture + Cabana Home, Santa Barbara, CA; 2010; Present Fugitive: Red Green & Blue Orange Series, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX; 2009; Limitless, Red Green Series, Edward Cella Art & Architecture, Los Angeles, CA; Phase and Shifting, Gray Series, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA; 2008; Convergence, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA; Ever Present, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX; 2007; Black Light, Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai, CA; Focus on the Masters, Tuesday Talk Series Interview, Ventura, CA; 2004; Luminesce-Red Green, Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai, CA; 2003; Expedition-Yellow Violet paintings, Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ; 2000; Numinous Duochrome, Yellow Magenta-Violet Paintings, Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ; Red-Green & Yellow-Magenta Paintings, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Yellow-Magenta Paintings, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY; 1999; New Paintings, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA; 1998; Ray Paintings: Blue-Orange-Violet, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA; Ray Paintings: Blue-Yellow-Violet, Deven Golden Fine Art, New York, NY; 1996; Mergings, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA; East Meets West, West Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA; 1993; Diffusion Paintings, Times Square Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY; 1987; Arc Paintings, Houghton Gallery, Cooper Union, New York, NY
Group Exhibitions: 2022; FRAMED: Works by Peter Alexander, Robert Arneson, Andrew Belschner, Roy De Forest, Adam Fowler, Dana Hart-Stone, Robert Hudson, Ed Moses, Ruth Pastine, Paul Sarkisian and Andrea Way, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA; 2020; 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA; exhibition catalog; The Light of Space, MOAH Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA; 2019; Accrochage 2019, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX; Made in California, Contemporary Art from the Frederick R Weisman Art Foundation, Pete and Susan Barrett Art Gallery, Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA; Fierce Generosity 2.0, Burnet Fine Art, Minneapolis, MN; Los Angeles Painting, MOAH Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA; Simply Red, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX; Paintings from the Interior, Culver Center for the Arts, Riverside, CA; 2018; Water and Light, Ochi Gallery & Emily Friedman Fine Art, Ketchum, ID; North / South: California Art, Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA; Art on Paper, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX; Sublime Abstraction, Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA; 2017; Between Two Worlds: Art of California, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; California Dreaming: Contemporary Art from the Weisman Art Foundation, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine, Malibu, CA; California Connections: Selections from the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, California Center for the Arts, Escondido Museum, Escondido, CA; LA Painting: Formalism to Street Art, Bruno David Gallery, Clayton, MO; Spectral Hues: artists + color, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA; Summer Group Exhibition, Scott White Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; 2016; L.A. Today, Curated by Carl Schlosberg, Royale Projects, Los Angeles, CA; Light, Edward Cella Art & Architecture, Los Angels, CA; Color and Light, Art in Embassies (AIE), U.S. Embassy, Panama City, Panama; Replay: Gallery Selections, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; Made in California: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ; 2015; Holiday Group Show 2015, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; Made in California: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Mana Wynwood, Miami, FL; RE-OP: 'The Responsive Eye' Fifty Years After - Visual Perception Today, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; San Diego Collects, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD), La Jolla, CA; Minimalist Abstraction, Scott White Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; Is it...Monochrome? Colorfield? Or an Object? Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX; Unbound, Edward Cella Art & Architecture, Los Angeles, CA; BLACK + BLUE, KM Fine Arts, Chicago, IL; A Rotating Exhibition of Selected Artworks, Ace Gallery, Beverly Hills & Los Angeles, CA; Surface to Edge, Curated by Carl F. Berg, Cypress College Art Gallery, Cypress, CA; 2014; A Rotating Exhibition of Selected Artworks, Ace Gallery, Beverly Hills & Los Angeles, CA; 6018 Wilshire, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Los Angeles, CA; Black and White: Reductive and Conceptual Art, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX; Colorimetry, Lancaster Museum of Art and History - MOAH, Lancaster, CA; Convergence, Marietta Patricia Leis and Ruth Pastine, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX; 2013; Summer Group Exhibition, Scott White Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA; 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA; Spring Group Exhibition, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA; 2012; Collectors Show, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR; Transcending Abstraction III, Contemporary Perspectives in Reductive Art, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA; Cool Calm Collected, Danese, New York, NY; Summer Group Exhibition, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA; Selections, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Santa Barbara, CA; Summer Pop, Edward Cella Art + Architecture @ Ilan Dei Studio, Venice, CA; Transcending Abstraction II: Contemporary Perspectives in Reductive Art, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA; Accrochage 2012, Celebrating 21 Years, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX; Transcending Abstraction: Contemporary Perspectives in Reductive Art, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA; 2011; The Gleam in the Young Bastard's Eye, William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA; Summer Group Show, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA; Art in Public Spaces, Peter Blake Gallery, Riviera Art Space, Newport Beach, CA; Contemporary, Scott White Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; Latitude 34-40, Los Angeles incontra Napoli, Art 1307, Villa di Donato, Naples, Italy California; Winter Group Show, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA; 2010; In House, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA; Fresh Figures & Abstraction, Scott White Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; Sulle Tracce di Luca Giordano, Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Contemporanea, Naples, Italy; 2009; Accrochage 2009, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX; QUINT: Three Decades of Contemporary Art, California Center for the Arts, Escondido Museum, CA; Summer Group Show, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA; The Non-Objective Object, Four Abstract Painters, CSUCI Gallery, Camarillo, CA; White, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA; 2008; Supermarket, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA; 15 Years 15 Artists, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA; History is Now, Photographic Portraits by Donna Granata, Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, CA; 2007; X Invitational, California State University Channel Islands, SCIART, Camarillo, CA; Pulse London Contemporary Art Fair, London, England; Pulse Miami Contemporary Art Fair, Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Miami Beach, FL; Red Dot Art Fair, Miami Beach, FL; 2006; Transformative, Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai, CA; Art LA, Contemporary Art Fair, Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; 2005; Good Clean Fun, The Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA; Installations, Yellow Violet Paintings, Bentley Projects, Phoenix, AZ; Pool Party, Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai, CA; Summer Sensation, White paintings, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY; 2004; Inaugural Exhibition: 23+ on 9th St., Celebrating 23 Years, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR; New Location Grand Opening Exhibition, Scott White Contemporary Art, Telluride, CO; 2002; Breathing Room, Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY; Signals, Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ; Terrain: Literal to Metaphysical, Scott White Contemporary Art, Telluride, CO; Crossover, Kurashiki City Art Museum, Kurashiki, Japan; Continuous Senses, Gallery Jurou, Kurashiki, Japan; 2001; Abstraction and Immanence, Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY; Monochrome/Monochrome?, Florence Lynch Gallery, New York, NY; Three Painters, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY; 2000; Abstraction: Form To Field, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR; (In)tangible, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY; Overcast, Allston Skirt Gallery, Allston, MA; Live from New York, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA; 1999; Core, Stark Gallery, New York, NY; Sudden Incandescence, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Nebraska; 1998; 4th Annual Group Show, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA; Gallery Artists, Deven Golden Fine Art, New York, NY; Jewel Box Project, GAGA Gallery, New York, NY; Self-Portrait, Gallery at Dieu Donne Papermill, New York, NY; 10 Year Anniversary Group Show, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico; What's On The Wall, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY; 1997; Abstraction Index, Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, NY; Art Without Curves, Invitational, Phoenix, AZ; Benefit Exhibition, Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, NY; Drawing from Life, Stark Gallery, New York, NY; On the Wall - Current Expressions in Contemporary Art, TIAA/CREF, New York, NY; Presentational Painting II, Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, NY; Pools of Light, Donahue/Sosinski Art, New York, NY; 1996; A Large Show of Small Works, Houghton Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York, NY; Formal Abstraction / New York, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA; Group Show, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA; Places of the Imagination, E.M. Donahue Gallery, New York, NY; Summer 1996, E.M. Donahue Gallery, New York, NY; 1995; Gramercy International Contemporary Art Fair L.A. at Chateau Marmont, Friedman-Guinness, L.A., CA; (James Turrell, Gary Lang, Ruth Pastine, Herbert Hamak); Vulnerability, The Dahn Gallery, New York, NY; 1994; Outreach Alumni 2, The Cooper Union, New York, NY; 1993; MFA Selection, Wexler Library, Hunter College, New York, NY; 1991; Voorhees Painting Exhibition, Times Square Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY; 1987; Annual Exhibition, Houghton Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York, NY; Grumbacher Emerging Artists Exhibition, New York, NY and National Travel Show; National Arts Club Annual Art Exhibition, National Arts Club, New York, NY; 1986; Annual Exhibition, Houghton Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York, NY; Group Show, Houghton Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York, NY; 1985; Annual Exhibition, Houghton Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York, NY; 1984; Annual Exhibition, S.U.N.Y. Purchase, Purchase, NY; Small Works Exhibition, S.U.N.Y. Purchase, Purchase, NY; 1983; Annual Exhibition, S.U.N.Y. Purchase, Purchase, NY; 1982; Honorary Group Exhibition, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Public and Corporate Collections: Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; AXA Art, Cologne, Germany; Brookfield Properties, Ernst & Young Plaza, Los Angeles, CA; CIM Group Headquarters, Los Angeles, CA; Citi Smith Barney Investments, New York, New York; Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, Monterey, CA; Goodwill Industries International, San Francisco, CA; Lakeshore Entertainment, Los Angeles, CA; Lancaster Museum of Art and History - MOAH, Lancaster, CA; Lehman Brothers/Townsend Analytics, New York, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA; PIMCO, Global Headquarters, Newport Beach, CA; Proskauer, Washington, DC; Qualcomm, San Diego, CA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Tarsadia Investments, Newport Beach, CA; UNICEF, New York, NY; United Airlines, Los Angeles, CA; Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Honors and Awards: 2018; Ruth Pastine in Residence, Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation, Ojai, CA; 2000; Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Grant; The Shifting Foundation Matching Grant; 1999; Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Grant; 1993; Hunter College Graduate Study Award; 1992; Hunter College Graduate Study Award; Esther Fish Perry Scholarship Award, Hunter College; 1990; Harriet Rutter Eagleson Scholarship Award, Hunter College; 1987; Independent Study Grant, The Rietveld Akademie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Cooper Union Independent Study Grant; The Rietveld Akademie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Grumbacher Artist Award and National Traveling Exhibition; 1984; Four Year Scholarship, The Cooper Union; 1982; Alexander Medal, Merit in Art, School Art League of New York City; Metropolitan Museum of Art Honorary Award and Exhibition
Lectures and Teaching: 2020; Ruth Pastine: Depths, Artist Talk, Ochi Projects, CA; 2019; Ruth Pastine in conversation with MOAH curator Andi Campognone, Edward Cella Art & Architecture, Los Angeles, CA; 2018; Ruth Pastine: BroadBands, Kipaipai in Ojai, Porch Gallery, Ojai, CA; BroadBands, Porch Gallery, Ojai, CA; Ruth Pastine In Residence, Interview Podcast with Frederick Janka, Executive Director, The Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation, Ojai, CA; 2017; Mirroring, Artist Talk and Exhibition Tour, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX; Witness, Artist Talk and Exhibition Tour, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA; 2016; Creation, Conservation, and Time, Artist Panel Discussion about Modern Paints, Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, CA; Matter of Light, Artist Talk & Exhibition Tour, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; Ethereal Material, Artist Talk & Exhibition Tour, Ace Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA; 2015; The Inevitability of Truth, Artist Talk & Exhibition Tour, Edward Cella Art & Architecture, Los Angeles, CA; Present Tense, Artist Exhibition Lectures, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA; 2014; MIND’S EYE, Sense Certainty Series, Artist Talk, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA; Attraction 1993–2013, Artist Exhibition Lectures, MOAH Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA; 2013; Interplay, Artist Talk and Exhibition Tour, Scott White Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA; 2011; Limitless, Red Green Series and Blue Orange Series, Public Painting Installation at Ernst & Young Plaza, Artist Talk and Tour, Laguna Art Museum L.A. Extreme Tour: Public Art in Los Angeles; Transcendent Boundaries, Artist Talk, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Santa Barbara, CA; 2010; Limitless, Red Green Series and Blue Orange Series, Public Painting Installation, Artist Talk and Tour, Ernst & Young Plaza, Los Angeles, CA; 2009; Limitless, Red Green Series, Exhibition Talk, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Los Angeles, CA; 2007; Focus on the Masters, Tuesday Talk Series Interview with Donna Granata, Founder and Director of www.focusonthemasters.com, Ventura, CA; 2006; Guest Artist Lecture, Painting's Edge Workshop, Idyllwild Arts, Idyllwild, CA; 2004; Artist Lecture, Luminesce- Red Green Paintings, Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai, CA; Artist Talk, Group Exhibition: Pool Party, Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai, CA; 2003; Artist Lecture, Expedition- Yellow Violet paintings, Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ; 2002; Guest Artist Lecture, Painting's Edge Workshop, Idyllwild Arts, Idyllwild, CA; 1997; Visiting Artist, Arizona State University; Tempe, AZ; Panel Discussion, Presentational Painting II, Hunter College; NYC, NY; 1996; Guest Artist Lecture, U.C.L.A. Department of Art; Los Angeles, CA; Guest Artist, Atlantic Lecture Series, Claremont Graduate School; Claremont, CA; 1995; Guest Artist Lecture, Drew University Department of Art; Madison, NJ; 1993; Assistant Teacher for Beginning and Advanced Painting; Hunter College, NYC, NY; 1992; Assistant Teacher for Beginning and Advanced Painting; Hunter College, NYC, NY; 1985–86; Painting Teacher for Saturday Art Program; The Cooper Union, NYC, NY
Publications: 2018; Ruth Pastine: BroadBands, Exhibition catalog, Porch Gallery, Ojai, CA; 2017; Art in Embassies Exhibition Catalog, United States Embassy Panama; 2016; Ruth Pastine: Ethereal Material, Ace Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA; 2015; Ruth Pastine: The Inevitability of Truth, Edward Cella Art & Architecture, Los Angeles, CA; 2014; Ruth Pastine Attraction: Paintings and Works on Paper 1993–2013, exhibition catalog, Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA; 2013; Interplay, Paintings and Pastel Works on Paper, exhibition catalog, Scott White Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA; 2012; Counterpoint, Pastel Works on Paper, exhibition catalog, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Los Angeles, CA; 2010; Fresh Figures & Abstraction, exhibition brochure, Scott White Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; 2009; Limitless, exhibition brochure, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Los Angeles, CA; 2008; History is Now, Portraits by Donna Granata, exhibition catalog, Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, CA; 2007; SCIART Tenth, exhibition brochure, CSU Studio Channel Islands Art Center, Camarillo, CA; 2006; New American Paintings, Open Studio Press, Boston, MA; 2005; Bentley Gallery Publications, April-May 2005, Scottsdale, AZ; 2001; Abstraction and Immanence, Hunter College of the City University of New York, NY; 1997; Presentational Painting II, Hunter College of the City University of New York, NY; 1993; XII Spring, M.F.A. Candidates, Hunter College of the City University of New York, NY
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Ruth Pastine’s Mirroring Offers a Kaleidoscopic, Enveloping Experience with Color, Houstonia magazine, Arts & Culture, September 15, 2017, link; Roth, David M. Ruth Pastine: WITNESS @ Brian Gross Fine Art, SquareCylinder.com, February 3, 2017, link; 2016; Villarreal, Jose. Exhibition of new oil paintings by southern California artist Ruth Pastine opens at Brian Gross Fine Art, artdaily.org, Janauary 8, 2017. link; Learner, Tom. Levin, Jeffrey. Creation, Conservation, and Time: A Discussion about Modern Paints, Conserving Modern Paints, Conservation Perspectives, The Getty Conservation Institute Newsletter, Fall 2016, 19-24.; Fay, Laurel. This Week’s Major Events: Ruth Pastine: Matter of Light, InCollect, November 22 – November 28, 2016, link; Mason, Isabella. 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Ruth Pastine at Peter Blake Gallery, SparkOC.com, January 11, 2009.; 2008; Hurt, Maxine. “Focus on the Women”, Ventana Magazine, November 2008, p.41-44.; Britt, Douglas. “Ruth Pastine at Sonja Roesch,” Houston Chronicle, July 2, 2008.; Klaasmeyer, Kelly. “Ruth Pastine: Ever Present,” Houston Press, Capsule Art Reviews, June 19 - 26, 2008, p. 35.; Granata, Donna. “History is Now, Focus on the Masters Portrait Series”, catalog and exhibition, Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, CA, Sept. 21, 2008 – Jan. 12, 2009.; 2007; Sherwin, Brian. “Ruth Pastine Interview”, Brian Sherwin is Senior Contributing Editor for www.myartspace.com/interviews, October 5, 2007; D’Amore, Nicole. “Artist Wants People Who Look at Her Paintings to Think,” Ventura County Star, Friday, April 27, 2007, p. B4.; Granata, Donna. “Focus on the Masters”, Live taped interview and formal documentation, Ventura, CA; Kinnear, Stephanie. “Ruth Pastine & Gary Lang – Paint by Heart, A Passionate Affair With Paint, Life, art and love collide for Ojai’s Gary Lang and Ruth Pastine,” Ventana Monthly Magazine, February 2007, p. 10 – 11.; Row, Ron. “Black Light” paintings by Ruth Pastine at the Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai & Ventura Voice, Friday, May 4, 2007, Volume 20, number 1, p 12.; Kinnear, Stephanie. "Ruth Pastine & Gary Lang - Paint by Heart, A Passionate Affair With Paint, Life, art and love collide for Ojai's Gary Lang and Ruth Pastine", Ventana Monthly magazine, February 2007, pp. 10 - 11.; 2006; Herbert, Simon. "A New Buzz in Paradise", Lifescapes, May 2006, p. 28 - 29.; Richmond, Holly. Painterly Space, Interview with Ruth Pastine and Gary Lang, Santa Barbara Magazine, August/September 2006, p. 110.; 2005; Frank, Peter. Neovernacular, Good Clean Fun, LA Weekly, December 2-8, 2005.; 2004; Campbell, Rob. A Year In Review, newsletter, Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai, CA, Sept. 2004.; Freedenberg, Molly. Red Light, Green Light: Ruth Pastine explains the intent behind her solo show Luminescent Red Green to 20 art-savvy locals (and one bewildered, Minimalism-challenged writer), Nathan Barramundi Gallery, Ojai, CA, Ventura County Reporter, Thursday, September 30, 2004, p.24.; Lindell, Karen. Minding the Store- Gallery owner Nathan Larramendy wants to sell customers on the brain-broadening power of art, "Luminesce: Red Green," Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai, CA, Ventura County Star, Time Out weekly entertainment guide, Thursday, September 2, 2004, p.10-11.; Phelps, Jesse. Larramendy Hosting Solo Pastine Show: "Luminesce: Red Green," Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai, CA, Ojai Valley News, Friday, Aug. 27, 2004, p. A-8.; 2002; Matsuyama, Sadamichi. Continuous Senses, Gallery Jurou, Kurashiki, Japan, Sunyo News, Nov. 6, 2002; Viebrock, Susan. 'Terrain: Literal to Metaphysical,' at Scott White Contemporary Art, Scott White Contemporary Art, Telluride, CO, Telluride Weekly Planet, Pulse, May 31, 2002, p. 10-11.; 2001; Johnson, Ken. "Abstraction and Immanence," Hunter College / Times Square Gallery, The New York Times, Friday, March 23, 2001; Longo, Vincent. "Abstraction and Immanence," Hunter College / Times Square Gallery, Exhibition catalog essay, February 22 - April 7, 2001.; MacAdam, Barbara A. "Monochrome/Monochrome?," Florence Lynch, ArtNews, May 2001, .190; Phillips, Laura Sue. "Abstraction and Immanence," Hunter College / Times Square Gallery, Exhibition catalog essay, February 22 - April 7, 2001.; Pincus, Robert L. Concentric fields, Artist paints with flowers on an unpredictable garden canvas, Gary Lang's Circles and Cycles, a Chance Garden, The San Diego Union Tribune, Sunday, April 22, 2001, p. I-32.; 2000; Baker, Kenneth. Paintings Colored By Illusion: Ruth Pastine: Red Green and Yellow Magenta Paintings at Haines, San Francisco Chronicle, Datebook, Saturday, Aug.12, 2000, p. D-1.; Baker, Kenneth. Paintings Colored By Illusion: Ruth Pastine: Red Green and Yellow Magenta Paintings at Haines, San Jose Mercury News, Saturday, August 19-26, 2000, p. D-1.; Johnson, Ken. Ruth Pastine, The New York Times, Weekend, Friday, October 6, 2000, p. E40.; Morgan, Robert C. Duchamp & The Postmodern Contemporary Artist, May 2000, University of Buenos Aires, p. 117-118.; Row, D.K. The pleasures of abstraction, An Elizabeth Leach Gallery group show depicts two faces of conceptualism, The Oregonian, Arts & Entertainment, Friday, June 30, 2000, p.63.; Zinsser, John. Painter's Journal, New Paintings in Chelsea, Ruth Pastine's Yellow Magenta Paintings at Margaret Thatcher Projects. artnet.com Magazine, Oct. 20, 2000, p. 1 - 4.; 1999; Pincus, Robert L. Color Guard-Ruth Pastine Revels In The Art Of The Hue, San Diego Union Tribune, April 1, 1999, p. 48.; Schultz, Carol Ebert. Artist Pastine envelops viewers in radiance, La Jolla Village News, Thurs. March 25, 1999, Vol. 4, No. 19, front cover & p. 4.; Schultz, Carol Ebert. Pastine's radiant paintings envelop viewers, Golden Triangle News, Thurs. March 25, 1999, Vol. 3, No. 19, front cover & p. 4.; 1998; Kuspit, Donald. Ruth Pastine and Frederick Holland at Deven Golden Fine Art, Artforum, May 1998, p. 150-151.; Morgan, Robert C. Ruth Pastine at Deven Golden Fine Art, Review, February 15, 1998, p. 25.; Newhall, Edith. Ruth Pastine, New York Magazine, February 16, 1998, p. 71.; 1997; Koplos, Janet. Drawing From Life at Stark, Art in America, May 1997, p. 126.; Lambert, Jesse. Presentational Painting: Ruth Pastine, exhibition brochure essay.; Smith, Roberta. Drawing From Life, The New York Times, February 7, 1997, p. C26.; 1996; Roche, Harry. Mergings, Ruth Pastine, San Francisco Bay Guardian, September 18, 1996, p. 109; 1995; Karmel, Pepe. Vulnerability, Ruth Pastine, The New York Times, September 22, 1995, p. C31.; Morgan, Robert C. Tense Present-Tense: Ruth Pastine, Cover Magazine, October 1995, p. 48.
Films and Feature Motion Pictures: 2005; "Syriana," Warner Bros. Pictures Inc.; 2000; "Autumn in New York," Lakeshore Entertainment


		Born New York City, New York Lives in Ojai, California Education M.F.A. Hunter College of the City University of New York, New York, NY; 1990–1993 The Rietveld Akademie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 1987–1988 B.F.A. The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY; 1984–1987 State University of New York College at Purchase, Purchase, NY; 1982–1984 Solo Exhibitions 2020 Depths, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA (online exhibition) 2019 Sublime Terror, Edward Cella Art & Architecture, Los Angeles, CA 2018 Ruth Pastine at Expo Chicago, Solo Booth Presentation, Edward Cella Art & Architecture, Chicago, IL Ruth Pastine in Residence, Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation, Ojai, CA Broad Bands, Porch Gallery, Ojai, CA 2017 Mirroring, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX Matter of Light, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA WITNESS, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA 2016 Matter of Light, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Ethereal Material, Ace Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA 2015 The Inevitability of Truth, Edward Cella Art & Architecture, Los Angeles, CA Present Tense, Paintings and Pastel Works on Paper, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA 2014 MIND’S EYE / Sense Certainty Series, Paintings and Pastel Works on Paper, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA Ruth Pastine Attraction 1993-2013, Paintings and Pastel Works on Paper, Lancaster Museum of Art and History – MOAH, Lancaster, CA 2013 Interplay, Paintings and Pastel Works on Paper, Scott White Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA 2012 Counterpoint, Pastel Works on Paper, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Los Angeles, CA Imminence, Primary and Secondary Color Series, Quintenz & Company Fine Art, Aspen, CO 2011 Immaterial Matters, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA Conquer Surrender: Green Orange Violet, Secondary Color Series, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA Transcendent Boundaries, Edward Cella Art & Architecture + Cabana Home, Santa Barbara, CA 2010 Present Fugitive: Red Green & Blue Orange Series, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX 2009 Limitless, Red Green Series, Edward Cella Art & Architecture, Los Angeles, CA Phase and Shifting, Gray Series, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA 2008 Convergence, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA Ever Present, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX 2007 Black Light, Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai, CA Focus on the Masters, Tuesday Talk Series Interview, Ventura, CA 2004 Luminesce-Red Green, Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai, CA 2003 Expedition-Yellow Violet paintings, Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ 2000 Numinous Duochrome, Yellow Magenta-Violet Paintings, Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ Red-Green & Yellow-Magenta Paintings, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA Yellow-Magenta Paintings, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY 1999 New Paintings, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA 1998 Ray Paintings: Blue-Orange-Violet, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA Ray Paintings: Blue-Yellow-Violet, Deven Golden Fine Art, New York, NY 1996 Mergings, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA East Meets West, West Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA 1993 Diffusion Paintings, Times Square Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY 1987 Arc Paintings, Houghton Gallery, Cooper Union, New York, NY Group Exhibitions 2022 FRAMED: Works by Peter Alexander, Robert Arneson, Andrew Belschner, Roy De Forest, Adam Fowler, Dana Hart-Stone, Robert Hudson, Ed Moses, Ruth Pastine, Paul Sarkisian and Andrea Way, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA 2020 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA; exhibition catalog The Light of Space, MOAH Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA 2019 Accrochage 2019, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX Made in California, Contemporary Art from the Frederick R Weisman Art Foundation, Pete and Susan Barrett Art Gallery, Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA Fierce Generosity 2.0, Burnet Fine Art, Minneapolis, MN Los Angeles Painting, MOAH Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA Simply Red, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX Paintings from the Interior, Culver Center for the Arts, Riverside, CA 2018 Water and Light, Ochi Gallery & Emily Friedman Fine Art, Ketchum, ID North / South: California Art, Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA Art on Paper, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX Sublime Abstraction, Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA 2017 Between Two Worlds: Art of California, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA California Dreaming: Contemporary Art from the Weisman Art Foundation, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine, Malibu, CA California Connections: Selections from the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, California Center for the Arts, Escondido Museum, Escondido, CA LA Painting: Formalism to Street Art, Bruno David Gallery, Clayton, MO Spectral Hues: artists + color, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA Summer Group Exhibition, Scott White Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA 2016 L.A. Today, Curated by Carl Schlosberg, Royale Projects, Los Angeles, CA Light, Edward Cella Art & Architecture, Los Angels, CA Color and Light, Art in Embassies (AIE), U.S. Embassy, Panama City, Panama Replay: Gallery Selections, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Made in California: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ 2015 Holiday Group Show 2015, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Made in California: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Mana Wynwood, Miami, FL RE-OP: 'The Responsive Eye' Fifty Years After - Visual Perception Today, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM San Diego Collects, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD), La Jolla, CA Minimalist Abstraction, Scott White Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA Is it...Monochrome? Colorfield? Or an Object? Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX Unbound, Edward Cella Art & Architecture, Los Angeles, CA BLACK + BLUE, KM Fine Arts, Chicago, IL A Rotating Exhibition of Selected Artworks, Ace Gallery, Beverly Hills & Los Angeles, CA Surface to Edge, Curated by Carl F. Berg, Cypress College Art Gallery, Cypress, CA 2014 A Rotating Exhibition of Selected Artworks, Ace Gallery, Beverly Hills & Los Angeles, CA 6018 Wilshire, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Los Angeles, CA Black and White: Reductive and Conceptual Art, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX Colorimetry, Lancaster Museum of Art and History - MOAH, Lancaster, CA Convergence, Marietta Patricia Leis and Ruth Pastine, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX 2013 Summer Group Exhibition, Scott White Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA Spring Group Exhibition, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA 2012 Collectors Show, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR Transcending Abstraction III, Contemporary Perspectives in Reductive Art, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA Cool Calm Collected, Danese, New York, NY Summer Group Exhibition, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA Selections, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Santa Barbara, CA Summer Pop, Edward Cella Art + Architecture @ Ilan Dei Studio, Venice, CA Transcending Abstraction II: Contemporary Perspectives in Reductive Art, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA Accrochage 2012, Celebrating 21 Years, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX Transcending Abstraction: Contemporary Perspectives in Reductive Art, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA 2011 The Gleam in the Young Bastard's Eye, William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Summer Group Show, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA Art in Public Spaces, Peter Blake Gallery, Riviera Art Space, Newport Beach, CA Contemporary, Scott White Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA Latitude 34-40, Los Angeles incontra Napoli, Art 1307, Villa di Donato, Naples, Italy California Winter Group Show, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA 2010 In House, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA Fresh Figures & Abstraction, Scott White Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA Sulle Tracce di Luca Giordano, Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Contemporanea, Naples, Italy 2009 Accrochage 2009, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX QUINT: Three Decades of Contemporary Art, California Center for the Arts, Escondido Museum, CA Summer Group Show, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA The Non-Objective Object, Four Abstract Painters, CSUCI Gallery, Camarillo, CA White, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2008 Supermarket, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA 15 Years 15 Artists, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA History is Now, Photographic Portraits by Donna Granata, Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, CA 2007 X Invitational, California State University Channel Islands, SCIART, Camarillo, CA Pulse London Contemporary Art Fair, London, England Pulse Miami Contemporary Art Fair, Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Miami Beach, FL Red Dot Art Fair, Miami Beach, FL 2006 Transformative, Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai, CA Art LA, Contemporary Art Fair, Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2005 Good Clean Fun, The Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA Installations, Yellow Violet Paintings, Bentley Projects, Phoenix, AZ Pool Party, Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai, CA Summer Sensation, White paintings, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY 2004 Inaugural Exhibition: 23+ on 9th St., Celebrating 23 Years, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR New Location Grand Opening Exhibition, Scott White Contemporary Art, Telluride, CO 2002 Breathing Room, Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY Signals, Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ Terrain: Literal to Metaphysical, Scott White Contemporary Art, Telluride, CO Crossover, Kurashiki City Art Museum, Kurashiki, Japan Continuous Senses, Gallery Jurou, Kurashiki, Japan 2001 Abstraction and Immanence, Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY Monochrome/Monochrome?, Florence Lynch Gallery, New York, NY Three Painters, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY 2000 Abstraction: Form To Field, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR (In)tangible, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY Overcast, Allston Skirt Gallery, Allston, MA Live from New York, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1999 Core, Stark Gallery, New York, NY Sudden Incandescence, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Nebraska 1998 4th Annual Group Show, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Gallery Artists, Deven Golden Fine Art, New York, NY Jewel Box Project, GAGA Gallery, New York, NY Self-Portrait, Gallery at Dieu Donne Papermill, New York, NY 10 Year Anniversary Group Show, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico What's On The Wall, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY 1997 Abstraction Index, Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, NY Art Without Curves, Invitational, Phoenix, AZ Benefit Exhibition, Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, NY Drawing from Life, Stark Gallery, New York, NY On the Wall - Current Expressions in Contemporary Art, TIAA/CREF, New York, NY Presentational Painting II, Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, NY Pools of Light, Donahue/Sosinski Art, New York, NY 1996 A Large Show of Small Works, Houghton Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York, NY Formal Abstraction / New York, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Group Show, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Places of the Imagination, E.M. Donahue Gallery, New York, NY Summer 1996, E.M. Donahue Gallery, New York, NY 1995 Gramercy International Contemporary Art Fair L.A. at Chateau Marmont, Friedman-Guinness, L.A., CA; (James Turrell, Gary Lang, Ruth Pastine, Herbert Hamak) Vulnerability, The Dahn Gallery, New York, NY 1994 Outreach Alumni 2, The Cooper Union, New York, NY 1993 MFA Selection, Wexler Library, Hunter College, New York, NY 1991 Voorhees Painting Exhibition, Times Square Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY 1987 Annual Exhibition, Houghton Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York, NY Grumbacher Emerging Artists Exhibition, New York, NY and National Travel Show National Arts Club Annual Art Exhibition, National Arts Club, New York, NY 1986 Annual Exhibition, Houghton Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York, NY Group Show, Houghton Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York, NY 1985 Annual Exhibition, Houghton Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York, NY 1984 Annual Exhibition, S.U.N.Y. Purchase, Purchase, NY Small Works Exhibition, S.U.N.Y. Purchase, Purchase, NY 1983 Annual Exhibition, S.U.N.Y. Purchase, Purchase, NY 1982 Honorary Group Exhibition, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Public and Corporate Collections Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco AXA Art, Cologne, Germany Brookfield Properties, Ernst & Young Plaza, Los Angeles, CA CIM Group Headquarters, Los Angeles, CA Citi Smith Barney Investments, New York, New York Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, Monterey, CA Goodwill Industries International, San Francisco, CA Lakeshore Entertainment, Los Angeles, CA Lancaster Museum of Art and History - MOAH, Lancaster, CA Lehman Brothers/Townsend Analytics, New York, NY Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA PIMCO, Global Headquarters, Newport Beach, CA Proskauer, Washington, DC Qualcomm, San Diego, CA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Tarsadia Investments, Newport Beach, CA UNICEF, New York, NY United Airlines, Los Angeles, CA Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA Honors and Awards 2018 Ruth Pastine in Residence, Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation, Ojai, CA 2000 Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Grant The Shifting Foundation Matching Grant 1999 Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Grant 1993 Hunter College Graduate Study Award 1992 Hunter College Graduate Study Award Esther Fish Perry Scholarship Award, Hunter College 1990 Harriet Rutter Eagleson Scholarship Award, Hunter College 1987 Independent Study Grant, The Rietveld Akademie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Cooper Union Independent Study Grant; The Rietveld Akademie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Grumbacher Artist Award and National Traveling Exhibition 1984 Four Year Scholarship, The Cooper Union 1982 Alexander Medal, Merit in Art, School Art League of New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art Honorary Award and Exhibition Lectures and Teaching 2020 Ruth Pastine: Depths, Artist Talk, Ochi Projects, CA 2019 Ruth Pastine in conversation with MOAH curator Andi Campognone, Edward Cella Art & Architecture, Los Angeles, CA 2018 Ruth Pastine: BroadBands, Kipaipai in Ojai, Porch Gallery, Ojai, CA BroadBands, Porch Gallery, Ojai, CA Ruth Pastine In Residence, Interview Podcast with Frederick Janka, Executive Director, The Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation, Ojai, CA 2017 Mirroring, Artist Talk and Exhibition Tour, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX Witness, Artist Talk and Exhibition Tour, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA 2016 Creation, Conservation, and Time, Artist Panel Discussion about Modern Paints, Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, CA Matter of Light, Artist Talk & Exhibition Tour, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Ethereal Material, Artist Talk & Exhibition Tour, Ace Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA 2015 The Inevitability of Truth, Artist Talk & Exhibition Tour, Edward Cella Art & Architecture, Los Angeles, CA Present Tense, Artist Exhibition Lectures, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA 2014 MIND’S EYE, Sense Certainty Series, Artist Talk, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA Attraction 1993–2013, Artist Exhibition Lectures, MOAH Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA 2013 Interplay, Artist Talk and Exhibition Tour, Scott White Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA 2011 Limitless, Red Green Series and Blue Orange Series, Public Painting Installation at Ernst & Young Plaza, Artist Talk and Tour, Laguna Art Museum L.A. Extreme Tour: Public Art in Los Angeles Transcendent Boundaries, Artist Talk, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Santa Barbara, CA 2010 Limitless, Red Green Series and Blue Orange Series, Public Painting Installation, Artist Talk and Tour, Ernst & Young Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 2009 Limitless, Red Green Series, Exhibition Talk, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Los Angeles, CA 2007 Focus on the Masters, Tuesday Talk Series Interview with Donna Granata, Founder and Director of www.focusonthemasters.com, Ventura, CA 2006 Guest Artist Lecture, Painting's Edge Workshop, Idyllwild Arts, Idyllwild, CA 2004 Artist Lecture, Luminesce- Red Green Paintings, Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai, CA Artist Talk, Group Exhibition: Pool Party, Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai, CA 2003 Artist Lecture, Expedition- Yellow Violet paintings, Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ 2002 Guest Artist Lecture, Painting's Edge Workshop, Idyllwild Arts, Idyllwild, CA 1997 Visiting Artist, Arizona State University; Tempe, AZ Panel Discussion, Presentational Painting II, Hunter College; NYC, NY 1996 Guest Artist Lecture, U.C.L.A. Department of Art; Los Angeles, CA Guest Artist, Atlantic Lecture Series, Claremont Graduate School; Claremont, CA 1995 Guest Artist Lecture, Drew University Department of Art; Madison, NJ 1993 Assistant Teacher for Beginning and Advanced Painting; Hunter College, NYC, NY 1992 Assistant Teacher for Beginning and Advanced Painting; Hunter College, NYC, NY 1985–86 Painting Teacher for Saturday Art Program; The Cooper Union, NYC, NY Publications 2018 Ruth Pastine: BroadBands, Exhibition catalog, Porch Gallery, Ojai, CA 2017 Art in Embassies Exhibition Catalog, United States Embassy Panama 2016 Ruth Pastine: Ethereal Material, Ace Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA 2015 Ruth Pastine: The Inevitability of Truth, Edward Cella Art & Architecture, Los Angeles, CA 2014 Ruth Pastine Attraction: Paintings and Works on Paper 1993–2013, exhibition catalog, Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA 2013 Interplay, Paintings and Pastel Works on Paper, exhibition catalog, Scott White Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA 2012 Counterpoint, Pastel Works on Paper, exhibition catalog, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Los Angeles, CA 2010 Fresh Figures & Abstraction, exhibition brochure, Scott White Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA 2009 Limitless, exhibition brochure, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Los Angeles, CA 2008 History is Now, Portraits by Donna Granata, exhibition catalog, Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, CA 2007 SCIART Tenth, exhibition brochure, CSU Studio Channel Islands Art Center, Camarillo, CA 2006 New American Paintings, Open Studio Press, Boston, MA 2005 Bentley Gallery Publications, April-May 2005, Scottsdale, AZ 2001 Abstraction and Immanence, Hunter College of the City University of New York, NY 1997 Presentational Painting II, Hunter College of the City University of New York, NY 1993 XII Spring, M.F.A. Candidates, Hunter College of the City University of New York, NY Bibliography 2019 Campognone, Andi. Ruth Pastine in conversation with curator Andi Campognone podcast, October 5, 2019. Goldman, Edward. Three LA Exhibitions with Tears, Terror, and Radiance, Art Matters, September 19, 2019. link Lazare, Lewis. United Airlines opening Los Angeles Polaris Lounge, Chicago Business Journal, January 10, 2019, link 2018 Dambrot, Shana Nys. Los Angeles Galleries Steal the Show at Expo Chicago 2018, LA Weekly, October 2, 2018. link Dambrot, Shana Nys. Ruth Pastine: BroadBands at Porch Gallery, Art and Cake LA magazine, April 18, 2018, link Janka, Frederick. The Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation Presents Ruth Pastine in Conversation with Frederick Janka, Executive Director (podcast). Bryant, Charlotte. Ruth Pastine in Residence at the Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation, Santa Barbara Magazine, Spring 2018, 90. 2017 Myong, Elizabeth. Ruth Pastine’s Mirroring Offers a Kaleidoscopic, Enveloping Experience with Color, Houstonia magazine, Arts & Culture, September 15, 2017, link Roth, David M. Ruth Pastine: WITNESS @ Brian Gross Fine Art, SquareCylinder.com, February 3, 2017, link 2016 Villarreal, Jose. Exhibition of new oil paintings by southern California artist Ruth Pastine opens at Brian Gross Fine Art, artdaily.org, Janauary 8, 2017. link Learner, Tom. Levin, Jeffrey. Creation, Conservation, and Time: A Discussion about Modern Paints, Conserving Modern Paints, Conservation Perspectives, The Getty Conservation Institute Newsletter, Fall 2016, 19-24. Fay, Laurel. This Week’s Major Events: Ruth Pastine: Matter of Light, InCollect, November 22 – November 28, 2016, link Mason, Isabella. Ruth Pastine’s ‘Ethereal Material’ at Ace Gallery, Beverly Hills, BlouinArtInfo, November 10, 2016, link Pagel, David. “What to see in L.A. galleries: Andrew Masullo’s off-kilter world, plus Gary Lang and Ruth Pastine,” Los Angeles Times, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2016, link Abatemarco, Michael. Exhibitionism: Ruth Pastine: Matter of Light, Pasatiempo Magazine.com, November 11, 2016, 55. Brandes, Jeanie. Ruth Pastine “Ethereal Material” at Ace Gallery Beverly Hills Interview, LATalkRadio.com Channel 1. Gleason, Mat. Eric Minh Swenson’s Art World Yearbook, Coagula art journal, Issue 113, May 2016, 68. 2015 Pagel, David. “What is truth? One painter’s mesmerizing new show offers an answer,” Los Angeles Times, Tues., Sept 29, 2015, link Will, Rachel. Discovering the Sublime with Color Field Painter Ruth Pastine, Artsy Editorial, September 29, 2015, link Hanson, Sarah P. Ruth Pastine Paints To Tease The Eye, Editor’s Pick, 1stbibs, Introspective Magazine, September 21, 2015, link McInnis, Caitlin. “Edward Cella Art + Architecture: Ruth Pastine “Inevitability of Truth,”” September 10, 2015, Fabrik, link ForYourArt, link Patrick Ogle. Ruth Pastine’s “The Inevitability of Truth” and Pedro Guerreo’s “Masterworks” at Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Mapanare.us, link Goldman, Edward. Ruth Pastine, “The Inevitability of Truth” at Edward Cella Gallery, September LA, a Bursting Art Scene, KCRW Art Talk, September 8, 2015, link Tewksbury, Drew. Ruth Pastine: Edward Cella Art & Architecture. Los Angeles magazine, The Guide, 30 Can’t-Miss Events in September, Art, Editor’s Pick, 83, link Tommaney Susie. Is it… Monochrome? Colorfield? Or an Object? Houston Press, June 12, 2015, link Williams, Maxwell. Unbound: A Group Show at Edward Cella’s New Location Allows Painting to Be Itself, Artsy, May 14, 2015, link Carasso, Roberta. Ruth Pastine: Present Tense at the Carnegie Art Museum, Visual Art Source, ArtSceneCal, April 2015, 11-12. link Frank, Peter. Ruth Pastine, Haiku Reviews: ART 2014 Roundup lll, Huffington Post, Arts & Culture, January 9, 2015, link Roth, David. Ruth Pastine @ Brian Gross, 2014: The Year in Review, SquareCylinder.com, January 04, 2015, link 2014 Pagel, David. “‘6018 Wilshire’ at Edward Cella: Last show before the wrecking ball,” Los Angeles Times, November 3, 2014. link Flood, Greg. ‘MIND’S EYE/ Sense Certainty Series’ - Ruth Pastine at Brian Gross Fine Art, SF Contemporary Art Examiner, Sept. 20, 2014, link Roth, David. M. Ruth Pastine: Mind’s Eye / Sense Certainty Series @ Brian Gross, SquareCylinder.com, September 10, 2014, link Melrod, George. Curating for the 21st Century, Art Ltd. magazine, May/June 2014, 17 & 50-54. Porter, Lorie D. True Colors, Arts Scene, Santa Barbara Magazine, Spring 2014, 87-88. Senn, Evan. The Color Couple: Gary Lang and Ruth Pastine, KCET, April 3, 2014, http://www.kcet.org/arts/artbound/counties/ventura/gary-lang-ruth-pastine-circleswords.html. Frank, Peter. “Colorimetry” Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, Artillery magazine, March/April 2014, vol 8, issue 4, 54. Nichols, Kimberly. Colorimetry Uses Color as Instigator, Droste Effect, February 25, 2014, http://www.drosteeffectmag.com/colorimetry-uses-color-instigator/. Alvarado, Ruby. ‘The Colors of Music,’ Antelope Valley Press, Valley Life, Saturday, February 22, 2014, A13. Swenson, Eric Minh. MOAH : Colorimetry, published 1/27/2014, http://youtu.be/NXhM8O6FLi4. Kuspit, Donald. “Selfless Sensation: Ruth Pastine’s Paintings,” catalog essay published on occasion of the exhibition ‘Attraction 1993-2013,’ Paintings and Works on Paper, Lancaster Museum of Art and History - MOAH, Lancaster, CA. Valentine, DeWain. Beholding Ruth Pastine’s Current Paintings, catalog appreciation published on occasion of the exhibition ‘Attraction 1993-2013,’ Paintings and Works on Paper, Lancaster Museum of Art and History - MOAH, Lancaster, CA. Frank, Peter. “Ruth Pastine: The Optical Sublime,” catalog essay published on occasion of the exhibition ‘Attraction 1993-2013,’ Paintings and Pastel Works on Paper, Lancaster Museum of Art and History – MOAH, Lancaster, CA. 2013 Swenson, Eric Minh. “Ruth Pastine: Interplay,” 12/11/2013, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJzsVFwA5Ug. Ogle, Patrick. “Ruth Pastine Showing New Work At Miami Project Via Brian Gross Fine Art,” Mapanare.us, 12/1/2013, http://www.mapanare.us/5/post/2013/12/ruth-pastine-showing-new-work-at-miami-project-via-brian-gross-fine-art.html. Galpin, Amy. Ruth Pastine: “Interplay” at Scott White Contemporary Art, Art Ltd. magazine, Nov/Dec 2013, 36. Frank, Peter. “Ruth Pastine: The Optical Sublime,” catalog essay published on occasion of the exhibition ‘Interplay,’ Paintings and Pastel Works on Paper, Scott White Contemporary Art. White, Scott. “Let there be light- The Illuminated Experience by Ruth Pastine,” catalog introduction essay published on occasion of the exhibition ‘Interplay,’ Paintings and Pastel Works on Paper, Scott White Contemporary Art. Flood, Greg. Post-mortem on artMRKT 2013 (part 2) – San Francisco Contemporary Art, Examiner.com, June 25, 2013, http://www.examiner.com/article/post-mortem-on-artmrkt-2013-part-2. 2012 Frank, Peter. “Ruth Pastine: Counterpoint,” FABRIK magazine, October 2012, issue 18, 78-79, http://issuu.com/fabrik/docs/fabrik18?mode=window&viewMode=doublePage. Carasso, Roberta. “Ruth Pastine: Counterpoint,” ArtScene, October 2012, volume 32, no. 2, 28. Cella, Edward. "Counterpoint," essay and catalog published on occasion of the exhibition ‘Counterpoint,’ Pastel Works on Paper. Harrison, Suzie. "ARTiculation: Peter Blake exhibits Abstraction," Stu News Laguna, March 20, 2012, volume 4, issue 23. Fitzpatrick, Kyle. "Los Angeles I’m Yours, Best of LA Art Show: Peter Blake Gallery," January 26, 2012, http://www.laimyours.com/?s=peter+blake+gallery. 2011 Carasso, Roberta. "Ruth Pastine at Ernst & Young Plaza," American Contemporary Art magazine, December 2011, 22-24, http://acamagazine.com. Kalisher, Richard. “Ruth Pastine: Immaterial Matters at Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco,” American Contemporary Art magazine, September 2011, 43. http://acamagazine.com. Lindell, Karen. “The Art of Coping: Chaos and Creation and Artistic Aftermath: Ruth Pastine,” Ventura County Star, Time Out magazine, Arts Weekly, September 9, 2012, cover and 20- 21. Garver, Gary. "Ruth Pastine 'Limitless,'" June 24, 2011, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs8gwi2eVnA Carasso, Roberta. "Ruth Pastine: Conquer Surrender: Secondary Color Series," Coast Magazine, Art Access, March 2011, p. 105. Carasso, Roberta. "Tony DeLap & Ruth Pastine at Peter Blake Gallery," Visual Art Source, April 1, 2011. Frank, Peter. "Tony DeLap & Ruth Pastine," Huffington Post, Haiku Reviews, April 8, 2011. Head, Anthony. "Art and Interiors," Pulse: Tracking the Beat of the 805, 805 Living, March 2011, p. 17-18. Salvucci, Nancy. "Ruth Pastine: Transcendent Boundaries," SBDigs.com, February/March 2011. 2010 Britt, Douglas. "Ruth Pastine's Paintings Astound," Houston Chronicle, November 10, 2010. Carasso, Roberta. "Ruth Pastine" Artist Profile, Art Ltd. Magazine, January/February 2010, p. 60-61. 2009 Campognone, Andi. “Ruth Pastine and Gregg Renfrow”, The Magazine, L.A., March 2009. Carasso, Roberta. “2 Artists Showcase Heritage, Finesse in New Collections,” Jan. 27, 2009, Orange County Register, Art News, Art Waves, www.ocregister.com Stein, Rick. Ruth Pastine at Peter Blake Gallery, SparkOC.com, January 11, 2009. 2008 Hurt, Maxine. “Focus on the Women”, Ventana Magazine, November 2008, p.41-44. Britt, Douglas. “Ruth Pastine at Sonja Roesch,” Houston Chronicle, July 2, 2008. Klaasmeyer, Kelly. “Ruth Pastine: Ever Present,” Houston Press, Capsule Art Reviews, June 19 - 26, 2008, p. 35. Granata, Donna. “History is Now, Focus on the Masters Portrait Series”, catalog and exhibition, Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, CA, Sept. 21, 2008 – Jan. 12, 2009. 2007 Sherwin, Brian. “Ruth Pastine Interview”, Brian Sherwin is Senior Contributing Editor for www.myartspace.com/interviews, October 5, 2007 D’Amore, Nicole. “Artist Wants People Who Look at Her Paintings to Think,” Ventura County Star, Friday, April 27, 2007, p. B4. Granata, Donna. “Focus on the Masters”, Live taped interview and formal documentation, Ventura, CA Kinnear, Stephanie. “Ruth Pastine & Gary Lang – Paint by Heart, A Passionate Affair With Paint, Life, art and love collide for Ojai’s Gary Lang and Ruth Pastine,” Ventana Monthly Magazine, February 2007, p. 10 – 11. Row, Ron. “Black Light” paintings by Ruth Pastine at the Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai & Ventura Voice, Friday, May 4, 2007, Volume 20, number 1, p 12. Kinnear, Stephanie. "Ruth Pastine & Gary Lang - Paint by Heart, A Passionate Affair With Paint, Life, art and love collide for Ojai's Gary Lang and Ruth Pastine", Ventana Monthly magazine, February 2007, pp. 10 - 11. 2006 Herbert, Simon. "A New Buzz in Paradise", Lifescapes, May 2006, p. 28 - 29. Richmond, Holly. Painterly Space, Interview with Ruth Pastine and Gary Lang, Santa Barbara Magazine, August/September 2006, p. 110. 2005 Frank, Peter. Neovernacular, Good Clean Fun, LA Weekly, December 2-8, 2005. 2004 Campbell, Rob. A Year In Review, newsletter, Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai, CA, Sept. 2004. Freedenberg, Molly. Red Light, Green Light: Ruth Pastine explains the intent behind her solo show Luminescent Red Green to 20 art-savvy locals (and one bewildered, Minimalism-challenged writer), Nathan Barramundi Gallery, Ojai, CA, Ventura County Reporter, Thursday, September 30, 2004, p.24. Lindell, Karen. Minding the Store- Gallery owner Nathan Larramendy wants to sell customers on the brain-broadening power of art, "Luminesce: Red Green," Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai, CA, Ventura County Star, Time Out weekly entertainment guide, Thursday, September 2, 2004, p.10-11. Phelps, Jesse. Larramendy Hosting Solo Pastine Show: "Luminesce: Red Green," Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai, CA, Ojai Valley News, Friday, Aug. 27, 2004, p. A-8. 2002 Matsuyama, Sadamichi. Continuous Senses, Gallery Jurou, Kurashiki, Japan, Sunyo News, Nov. 6, 2002 Viebrock, Susan. 'Terrain: Literal to Metaphysical,' at Scott White Contemporary Art, Scott White Contemporary Art, Telluride, CO, Telluride Weekly Planet, Pulse, May 31, 2002, p. 10-11. 2001 Johnson, Ken. "Abstraction and Immanence," Hunter College / Times Square Gallery, The New York Times, Friday, March 23, 2001 Longo, Vincent. "Abstraction and Immanence," Hunter College / Times Square Gallery, Exhibition catalog essay, February 22 - April 7, 2001. MacAdam, Barbara A. "Monochrome/Monochrome?," Florence Lynch, ArtNews, May 2001, .190 Phillips, Laura Sue. "Abstraction and Immanence," Hunter College / Times Square Gallery, Exhibition catalog essay, February 22 - April 7, 2001. Pincus, Robert L. Concentric fields, Artist paints with flowers on an unpredictable garden canvas, Gary Lang's Circles and Cycles, a Chance Garden, The San Diego Union Tribune, Sunday, April 22, 2001, p. I-32. 2000 Baker, Kenneth. Paintings Colored By Illusion: Ruth Pastine: Red Green and Yellow Magenta Paintings at Haines, San Francisco Chronicle, Datebook, Saturday, Aug.12, 2000, p. D-1. Baker, Kenneth. Paintings Colored By Illusion: Ruth Pastine: Red Green and Yellow Magenta Paintings at Haines, San Jose Mercury News, Saturday, August 19-26, 2000, p. D-1. Johnson, Ken. Ruth Pastine, The New York Times, Weekend, Friday, October 6, 2000, p. E40. Morgan, Robert C. Duchamp & The Postmodern Contemporary Artist, May 2000, University of Buenos Aires, p. 117-118. Row, D.K. The pleasures of abstraction, An Elizabeth Leach Gallery group show depicts two faces of conceptualism, The Oregonian, Arts & Entertainment, Friday, June 30, 2000, p.63. Zinsser, John. Painter's Journal, New Paintings in Chelsea, Ruth Pastine's Yellow Magenta Paintings at Margaret Thatcher Projects. artnet.com Magazine, Oct. 20, 2000, p. 1 - 4. 1999 Pincus, Robert L. Color Guard-Ruth Pastine Revels In The Art Of The Hue, San Diego Union Tribune, April 1, 1999, p. 48. Schultz, Carol Ebert. Artist Pastine envelops viewers in radiance, La Jolla Village News, Thurs. March 25, 1999, Vol. 4, No. 19, front cover & p. 4. Schultz, Carol Ebert. Pastine's radiant paintings envelop viewers, Golden Triangle News, Thurs. March 25, 1999, Vol. 3, No. 19, front cover & p. 4. 1998 Kuspit, Donald. Ruth Pastine and Frederick Holland at Deven Golden Fine Art, Artforum, May 1998, p. 150-151. Morgan, Robert C. Ruth Pastine at Deven Golden Fine Art, Review, February 15, 1998, p. 25. Newhall, Edith. Ruth Pastine, New York Magazine, February 16, 1998, p. 71. 1997 Koplos, Janet. Drawing From Life at Stark, Art in America, May 1997, p. 126. Lambert, Jesse. Presentational Painting: Ruth Pastine, exhibition brochure essay. Smith, Roberta. Drawing From Life, The New York Times, February 7, 1997, p. C26. 1996 Roche, Harry. Mergings, Ruth Pastine, San Francisco Bay Guardian, September 18, 1996, p. 109 1995 Karmel, Pepe. Vulnerability, Ruth Pastine, The New York Times, September 22, 1995, p. C31. Morgan, Robert C. Tense Present-Tense: Ruth Pastine, Cover Magazine, October 1995, p. 48. Films and Feature Motion Pictures 2005 "Syriana," Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. 2000 "Autumn in New York," Lakeshore Entertainment