Ruth Pastine. Depths

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Ochi Projects and Emily Friedman Fine Art are pleased to present Ruth Pastine: Depths, a Pop-Up at Ochi Projects, featuring a curated selection of paintings, pastels on paper, and a new series of paintings on paper featuring the newest advancement of Pastine’s investigation of the perception of color through fluctuating parameters, relationships and structures. Depths reveals the essential tensions that drive Pastine’s work: surface and depth, light and matter, materiality and immateriality, the finite and the limitless.

Depths presents a conceptual move to contextualize the interplay of transcendental fields with definable forms. By bringing together the tangible with the intangible, Pastine states that there is, “an essential tension in my work, an ever-present exchange and dialogue between presence and absence, matter and light, light and space, intention and spontaneity, and the finite and the limitless. This demands letting go, and accepting the free fall of the unknown, and risking failure. The unknown is always at the edge of discovery and is the on ramp to new work.”