Patter Hellstrom

Los Angeles artist Patter Hellstrom travels exhibiting her work while examining the alchemy of how experience is lived out, dwelling in the constancy of change despite our desire for permanence. Her isolated brush movements executed with mudra-like precision give physical expression to an inner state of being. She offers a platform to investigate the dichotomy between thought and emotion; a curious space is ripe with a complexity.
Relocating her studio from the NYC metro area to San Francisco has inspired her for the last decade, with the natural beauty of California. Her work has been acquired by outstanding corporate collections such as JPMorgan Chase and museums like the Nantong Art Museum in China. Hellstrom was the first contemporary artists to mount a solo exhibition in NYC’s historic landmark Federal Hall on Wall Street.

“Quick Response” is her most recent solo debut of interactive works blending traditional painting discipline with innovative media and interactive technology. Offering the viewer new ways to connect with her abstract art. First glance is a surface with dazzling color and movement then with the click of a smart phone app through a digital portal moving deeper into each work of art.

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Hellstrom holds a BFA degree from University of Wisconsin / Milwaukee. Her grants and awards include support by NEA (Individual Artist Grant), a SECA award nomination from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and her project Monuments: Women in American History was supported by the Geraldine Dodge Foundation. She was a West Coast Finalist, Bombay Sapphire / RUSH Art Foundation NYC for the 2011 Artisan Series Award and nominated for a L'Oreal Women of Worth award by the Ethnic Arts Foundation for her work with women artists in India as a guest artist at the Mithila Art Institute, Madhubani, India. While living in the Midwest she was appointed to the Minneapolis Art Commission.

Additionally her Chinese painting study in Nantong, China and Italian Fresco study in Florence, Italy were supported by St. Peter's Preparatory school where she founded the Art Department.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 (QR) Quick Response: Interactive Works by Patter Hellstrom, ArtHaus Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2014 Arc Fine Arts curatorial project at Vedder Price, San Francisco Headquarters
2013 Patter Hellstrom, Square Headquarters in San Francisco, CA Currents: Patter Hellstrom, LIM Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2013 Meditative Flow, San Francisco Zen Center, CA
2012 Grief Path, California Institute of Integral Studies Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo Installation)
Grief Path at California Institute of Integral Studies, an urban interdisciplinary university in San Francisco, hosted Hellstroms' work, inviting her to interact with MFA students. The public program engaged the community with a conversation between artist Patter Hellstrom, curator Deirdre Visser and critic Dewitt Cheng. The documentary short film by French filmmaker, Cedric Pilard tells the story of the installation and painting process. The work was on campus in San Francisco from September - December 2012.
2011 Expressive Flow, The McLoughlin Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010 Flower Mandala, Unilever Campus, Turnbull, CT (installation)
2008 Chance Wind, Masterworks Institute for Works on Paper, San Francisco, CA
2007 Navigating Expressio...