Patter Hellstrom's Hungry Ghost Dreams 48" x 48" was featured by designer Scott Meacham Woods at The 2015 Hampton Designer Showhouse presented by Traditional Home to benefit Southampton Hospital.
Inside Innovative Minds: An Interview with Entrepreneur Patter Hellstrom. "Earning respect and a living as an artist is no easy feat but Patter Hellstrom has done just that. Working out of her San Francisco studio, the postmodern American abstract painter has exhibited in museums across the country, and has served as guest artist to the Mithila Art Institute in India in 2008. In 2012 French filmmaker Cedric Pillard created a short film about Hellstrom's process related to her installation project at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Armed with such impressive credits, Meet Advisors was excited to find out what makes this energized artist tick by asking three key questions."
LIM Gallery presented a solo exhibit of abstract and prismatic works by Patter Hellstrom July - September. That work unlocked the flow of color and emotion through acrylic ink on a slick polypropylene surface. Hellstrom walked the tight rope between balance and chaos.
LIM Gallery located at the base of Potrero Hill in the Design Center at the corner of 16th Street and Rhode Island, Lim Gallery is an innovative event-based space. Determined to suit a lifestyle occupied with art, tech, design, and culture in San Francisco, Lim Gallery serves as a meeting place for the city's most influential artists, tech innovators, entrepreneurs and thinkers, all of whom have helped redefine what it means to live, work, and thrive in the digital world.
Hellstrom's January 2013 exhibition was an excellent fit with the aesthetic of her work - flowing with gesture and color.
‎"Meditate on the confluence of art and spiritual practice here through Patter Hellstrom's manifestations of serene spontaneity."
On September 4, 2012, we’ll unveil a 40-foot long mural entitled Grief Path, on view through the end of 2012 in the 3rd floor gallery of the CIIS Main Building at 1453 Mission Street in San Francisco. Integrating techniques developed over a fifteen-year study of Chinese brush painting with very contemporary materials, Hellstrom often paints on slick polypropylene surfaces. The artist balances structure and chance, and artistic influences that range from the remote villages in the Bihar region of India near Nepal to Agnes Martin’s measured abstraction.
Utilizing the loose, expressive, calligraphic brushstroke that characterizes her bestknown work, Hellstrom will put to use a wide range of tools, working with everything from house brooms and broad old-fashioned wall-paper paste brushes, to Japanese sumi brushes. To achieve the viscosity required to work upright on a wall at this scale, she’ll use low VOC house paints from the hardware store to achieve her lush, translucent, and emotionally evocative washes.
Deirdre Visser, CIIS arts curator, comments on the mural: “Mapping the emotional, psychological and cognitive dimensions of grief, as they’re experienced through time, Hellstrom’s piece will complicate conventional ideas about grief and loss. These conventions include suggestions that it should last only a fixed period of time, or that there is an uni-directional path of healing that will be common from one individual to the next, or even one experience of loss to the next for the same person.” The mural will be on view to the public through the end of 2012. Public Programming: Friday, September 21, The Arts at CIIS hosts Patter Hellstrom in a public dialogue about her work, and intersecting influences from Buddhism to abstract expressionism.
(catalog available) Exhibit jurred by Dr. Joyce Aiken, Dr. Ruth Weisberg and Patricia Rodriquez is concurrent with a conference.
GIRL GROUP at ArtHaus San Francisco - See Patter Hellstrom in the context of women artists from New York and California in December 2011. Link to TV coverage of the event.
RUSH Arts Foundation / Bombay Sappire Artisan awards west coast finalist in San Francisco at 5 Claude Lane Gallery curated by Andre Guichard. Tantra seen here was included in that stage of judging.
"ArtBusiness said of Patter Hellstroms' work: "Bright colors frozen in motion and abstraction. Wonderful and accessible. These artworks meander their way into your consciousness."
LA Weekly said of her work: "Patter Hellstrom, whose calligraphic brushstrokes and daring use of color will have a natural dialogue with the chance element of the flow painters."
"Patter Hellstrom SF artist and SECA Award nominee Patter Hellstrom shows off her brilliant brushwork in bold colors."
byline and reproduced art by Patter Hellstrom Got Attitude?
Having recently returned from an extended voyage to India, Patter Hellstrom shares her visual and spiritual inspiration for a new body of work showcased in this exhibition. The complexity and fluidity of the many peoples, ideas, histories, religions, and personal narratives encountered on her journey find allegorical expression in paintings such as Travel Log; an impenetrable yet absorptive column of swirling liquid blues and murky black, marked by faint yellow paths and strains of vermillion passages and points. Tradition and ephemerality scream and fade through works such as Sindoor, with fiery blots of red and orange bleeding vapors of yellow and sky blue streams to the edges of the sheet. The enigmatic steps and arcs that comprise India lures viewers to linger on each pool, spray, speckle, and rivulet of color, encouraging them to construct their own stories and imaginary maps. This exhibition will be on view and open to the public from Oct. 23 - Nov. 13, 2008.