Pachi Almeyda

Argentine contemporary artist. Her artwork in recent years has materialized in different series of abstract paintings based in the idea of paths, territory and landscape, identity and culture, in which the gesture and the material used become elements of high symbolic power. The urbanized, normalized and also the uninhabited territory, the paths traveled and implicitly those to be traveled. In their particular context and experience, these concepts are linked to Indo-American culture and the vast lands of her own country. It is from there that she takes the raw material with which she has been working since 2012: crude oil, from different oilfields in Argentina, which she uses as a binder for oil and pigments, made by herself. The substance of each of these paths and territories - whether through this or other materials, from the monochrome or from the color, from the constructive or the gestural - is not only crystallized in a poetics of the place but also a lifetime journey which transcends the geographic and political stipulated limits, to focus on the existential experience - at the same time, individual and collective, ancestral and contemporary - of each one of them.

Studies and workshops:
• Starts modeling and sculpture in clay in 1970.
• 2010 to current: Stoneware modeling (Grès).
• Studies and works in interior design between 1979 and 1989.
• Attends painting workshops of Greg Martínez -1990- (Pleasant Hills, California), continues in Buenos Aires with Marcela de Barruel, Anna Rank and Fine Arts workshop of Guillermo Roux.

Seminars, Artwork clinics, Courses:
• 1984 Attends seminar of Contemporary Art at CCEBA with F. Rodriguez Querejazu.
• 2000 - 2002 Attends seminars of ‘Watercolor’ with G. Roux, 2004 - ‘Wax modeling and its application to metals’ with Antonio Pujía.
• 2002 - 2007 Conceptual art clinic with Fabiana Barreda, M. Pellisier.
• 2008 to current: Attends Postgraduated courses from the Art Department of the ‘Di Tella University’, seminars with A. Giunta and V. Noorthoorn at ‘Ciacentro’.
• 2005 - 2009 Artwork analysis with Luis Felipe Noé.

Solo exhibitions:
2019: Casa Foa.
2016: Insight Art Gallery.
2014: Arte Espacio Fair, Buenos Aires.
2013: Casa FOA.
2011: Insight Art Gallery, CASA FOA, and Alliance Francaise, Martinez.
2010: Bank of the City of Buenos Aires.
2009: Alliance Francaise of Buenos Aires,
2007: Insight Art Gallery and Bank of the City of Buenos Aires,
2006: Bank of the City of Buenos Aires,
2004: ‘Bank of Boston Foundation’, ‘Utopia’, Art and Design Space (San Isidro).

Selection of group exhibitions:
2015: Art Expo New York. April 23rd. to 26th.
2014: Houston Fine Art Fair, (HFAF) Sep 18th / 21st , Emerge Art Fair, Was. D.C Oct.
2/5th .
2013: Puertas al Arte, Intercontinental Hotel.
2012: Selected at the International Miniature Art Biennial, Canada. Participated in
the art@hospital project
2011: Rubbers’ International Gallery, ‘Arte Ayuda’ for Mozarteum Argentina.
2010: Rubbers’ International Gallery, Miniature Biennal, Canada, ‘El Ateneo’, Bs.
As, ‘Arte Ayuda’ for Mozarteum Argentina,
2009: ‘Bolsa de Comercio de Buenos Aires, ‘Arte Ayuda’ for Mozarteum Argentina,
Arte BA (Insight Arte gallery)
2008: Bolsa de Comercio de Buenos Aires, Insight Arte Gallery.
2006: Centro Cultural Borges.
2005: Crimson Gallery, Metropolitan Muse...