Pouke Halpern

Born and raised in Paris, France. Resides in the San Francisco area.
attracted by the quiet eye of Morandi on certain days and the frenzied anguish of Francis Bacon on others.

My paintings represent a transformative process. I start with drips of color and large swatches of bold tones scrawled over with statements that reflect my current emotional and intellectual state. Often it’s an angry me, disturbed by injustice, violence and fear. But eventually, as I continue working on the canvas, I find a way to integrate that angry me with the rest of me…the more balanced me that seeks harmony in domestic objects - like vases, glasses or floral distractions - that remind us of the essential beauty of the world around us. Like the objects I draw, my paintings are “pretty” vessels that still contain, both literally and figuratively, the raw emotions present at the start of my creative journey.

M.A Interdisciplinary and experimental Visual Arts .SF State University 1986

-Slate Gallery, " Less is more" group show.Oakland , CA December 2010
-Slate Offsite,group show. Oakland, march 2011
-Collector Gallery,Berkeley, September 2012
-Cecile Moochnek gallery, Berkeley , various shows 2009-2013
-"Same same but different "group show HangArt gallery SF.december 2015
-Piedmont Center for the Arts.3rd Annual Juried show. January-February 2016.3rd place cash award.
-'Freshly painted" a mural installation.HangArt Gallery SF. January 2016
-Annual Juried show MOCA-Marin, Novato, CA October-November 2016
-Solo show "Delicacy" February 2017 HangArt gallery San Francisco
-Flora and Fauna . Group show .National Juried exhibit .Arc Gallery. San Francisco.May 2017
-Piedmont center for the Arts.5th Annual juried show.Piedmont, California . January -February 2018
-"vignette" 2 person show at HangArt gallery San francisco.April 2018
-Left Coast annual juried exhibit 2018.First place award winner( cash award and exhibit).Sanchez Art Center Pacifica,CA April-May 2018
-10th Annual Bay Area women artists. Juried show by D Seager and S Gray.O'Hanlon Center for the Arts .Mill Valley .CA .August 2018
-Group show"still Life"at the San Ramon Valley Conference Center.Organized by Slate Art Consulting.July-October 20...