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| Richard Pastor’s work blends the immediacy and dynamic nature of photography with the more static qualities and traditions of oil paint. Working from collages of his own photographs, he creates paintings imbued with a simultaneous sense of frozen time and motion, at once fleeting and permanent. The photograph becomes a tool in this process, utilized in its most literal sense as the document of light-writing, augmenting objective reality with the fluid and impressionistic reality of human perception to make works abstracted back to the point of recognition. Richard graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, winning the prestigious Henry J. Scheidt Memorial Travel Scholarship. He currently lives and works in Philadelphia. | |||
| awards and scholarships | |||
2009- The Henry J. Schiedt Memorial Travel Scholarship 2009- The Haney Foundation Award for Philadelphia Artists 2009- The Cadwallader Award for Landscape Painting 2008- The Grey Trust Scholarship |
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| selected exhibitions | |||
2010- Copious - Salt Gallery, Philadelphia PA 2010- Building - Salon Des Amis Gallery, Malvern PA 2010- Four Square - Projects Gallery, Philadelphia PA 2010- Place Your Art Here - Sedso Studios, Philadelphia PA 2010- Gone Printing' - Projects Gallery, Philadelphia PA 2009- What's with the Square? - Studio 814, Philadelphia PA 2009- August Salon - The Lanesburough, Philadelphia PA 2009- A S E - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia PA 2009- When Worlds Collide - Vesuvio's, Philadelphia PA 2008- Gallery 128, Philadelphia PA - Juried Show 2008- Night Life - Skylight 307, Philadelphia PA 2008- A S E - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia PA - 2007- One Night Stand - Main Line Arts Center, Haverford PA 2006- Annual Juried Exhibition - Fine Arts People Gallery, Exton PA 2006- CCP Re-Unite - Gilbert Gallery, Philadelphia PA 2005- One Night Stand - Main Line Arts Center, Haverford PA 2005- CCP Unite - Gilbert Gallery, Philadelphia PA |
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| education | |||
2005-2009- Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) 2005- Lorenzo de' Medici school of The Art Institute of Florence 2003-2005- Community College of Philadelphia |
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