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Paul Pitsker:
Mortal Dilemmas and
Narrow Escapes
This 54-page hard-cover book is published by Left Coast Galleries and
features 25 full-page color reproductions of my recent watercolor paintings,
along with
a short introductory essay. The images are high quality -- it's the
next best thing to seeing the paintings in person. Price: $68.
If you would like to order a copy, please contact
Left Coast Galleries:
818-760-7010
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Spotted, 2009, watercolor, 20 x 15 in.
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Tiger beetle exhibit in Lincoln, Nebraska
I am pleased to be participating in "Salt Creek Environment: Local and Endangered,"
an entomology/conservation-themed exhibit at the Haydon Gallery in Lincoln, Nebraska.
This show will feature 23 artists who have completed works involving
the endangered salt creek tiger beetle, one of the rarest insects in the world.
This beetle, and the unique inland saline marsh in which it lives, is currently
threatened by encroaching development and habitat degradation.
Curated by entomologist Tierney Brosius at the University of Nebraska Lincoln,
the exhibit is funded in part by the Nebraska Environmental Trust, the Saline
Wetland Partnership, and the Xerces Society.
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July 10 - July 31, 2009
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Where:
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Haydon Art Center, 335 N. 8th Street, Lincoln, NE
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Read more about salt creek tiger beetles
at www.xerces.org.
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Now on view at
Left Coast Galleries
in Studio City, CA
A selection of my paintings spanning the past few years,
including several new watercolors never shown before,
are currently on view at Left Coast Galleries
in Studio City.
Please feel free to stop by and enjoy some art...
Left Coast Galleries
12324 Ventura Boulevard
Studio City, CA 91604
(map)
www.leftcoastgalleries.com
Hours:
Tue - Sat 11 - 6, Sun 12 - 5
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After, 2007, watercolor, 25 x 18 in.
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Dazzled, 2008, watercolor, 10 x 7 in.
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Feature articles & magazine covers...
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Watercolor, Spring 2009, pp. 54-61
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Bootleg Magazine cover, August 2008
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District Weekly cover, April 2, 2008
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Grounder, 2006, watercolor, 24 x 18 in.
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PAST SHOWS:
Spirits Of Los Angeles at the L.A.
Municipal Gallery
in Barnsdall Art Park
Curated by Raoul De la Sota, this exhibit brought together 14 Los Angeles artists
who share a common interest in the unseen, and who explore,
in varying degrees, the duality of
a symbolic, non-material reality existing side by side with the contemporary
urban experience. I contributed five works to this show -- three oil paintings
at the main gallery space at Barnsdall Art Park, and two additional works
(including the watercolor to the left) that were exhibited
at the Los Angeles International Airport.
Click
here
to see other images of recent work...
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You are here at Bandini Art
in Culver City: Nov 3 - Dec 8, 2007
Bandini Art Gallery
in Culver City featured over a dozen of my recent works on paper
in a two-person exhibit with assemblage artist Ashley McLean Emenegger.
Called
You are here,
this exhibit explored issues of
presence, perspective, and impermanence. My contribution was a series of
watercolors that combine fictional scenes of impending
disaster with word play and dark humor.
With its growing lineup of new and established contemporary art galleries,
Culver City
has become an exciting new art destination --
a hot zone for contemporary art on the West Coast.
Come see what's happening...
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Bandini Art Gallery
Culver City, CA
310-837-6230
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Ended:
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December 8, 2007
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Click
here
to see the work in this show...
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Pinch, 2007, watercolor, 20 x 15 in. See more...
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Erasing, 2006, watercolor, 10 x 7 in.
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At Modern Masters Fine Art
in Palm Desert - November 2007
Several of my watercolor paintings were included in the winter Contemporary
Realism show at Modern Masters
Fine Art in Palm Desert, CA. Also featured were
recent paintings by Braldt Bralds, Dan Griggs, and Michael Sokolis.
A few works are still available.
Please contact
Melissa Morgan Fine Art
(formerly Modern Masters Fine Art) for details.
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Where:
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Melissa Morgan Fine Art
Palm Desert, CA
(760) 341-1056
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Ended:
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December 8, 2007
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You can read more about the hot contemporary art scene in Palm Desert here.
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About me
I have been making art obsessively all my life
in a variety of media. My latest works are
watercolors depicting puzzling dilemmas and staged
existential dramas involving local urban fauna,
which I strive to render with clarity, humor and sympathy.
These paintings are part of
my ongoing project to combine an intense, sharp-focus realism
with an atmosphere of disquiet and a sense
of the impenetrable strangeness and fragility of life.
If you have questions or comments,
please feel free to contact me.
Or click here to see more paintings...
(Please note: Pitzker, Pitzger, Pitsger, Pitzer, and Pritzker are perfectly acceptable alternative spellings for most situations. Be creative.)
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Stuck, 2005, watercolor
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