Biographical Information:
Blandine Saint-Oyant is a French-American artist who was trained in the US and has been living in Pasadena for many years. She also keeps a studio in southern France. She is an abstract painter and accomplished colorist who works with poured paint. Her work has been shown in different venues in Southern California and in France.
Artist Statement:
I am a French-American artist who has been living and working as a painter in Pasadena for many years. I am a contemporary abstract painter and colorist who works with oil. I have developed a distinctive painting process that uses liquid oil paint poured against a background prepared on canvas or paper.
My work explores the relationship between fluidity and control, spontaneity and structure, calmness and exuberance. My process employs liquid oil paint poured on the surface of the canvas. When the different batches of colored paint are poured and the canvas rotated, the pigments intermingle and fuse into visually striking patterns and shapes. My most recent work, ‘Resist’, experiments with juxtaposing drawing and painting techniques used as a single mode of expression. The drawing is done with free spontaneous strokes of charcoal or oil stick, while the painting mixes liquified oil paint poured onto the canvas with thick, organic strokes applied with a spatula.
After many years of painting practice, my process remains largely experimental and improvisational. My aim is to create a space in which contrasting elements are interwoven into organic and fluid compositions. They are about a world in a perpetual state of transformation, an unfolding elegant chaos of energies, a moving buoyant magma of colors and forms frozen into art.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 “This is It,” Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (Sept-Oct 2024)
2021 “On the Move: Strokes, Pours, Color”, Creative Arts Group Gallery, Sierra Madre CA (May-June 2021)
2016 “Nature-Improv”, duo show, LA Artcore, Los Agneles, CA (October 2016)
2012 Alliance Française de Pasadena, Pasadena, CA (October 2012)
2010 LA Artcore, Los Angeles CA (July 1- August 8, 2010)
1994 “Blandine Saint-Oyant: New Paintings,” Durham Art Guild, Durham, NC
1994 "The Ploughman ", Louise G. Brown Gallery, Bryan Center, Duke University, Durham, NC
1993 "Gestures of Ritual and Work", Hanes Art Center Gallery, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill NC
1992 "Pillars and Fragments”, Louise G. Brown Gallery, Bryan Center, Duke University, Durham, NC
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Los Angeles Art Association 2022 Open Show, Gallery 825, Los Angeles CA (Dec 2022- Jan 2023)
2021 “Uzès soutient ses artistes,” L’Ancien Évêché, Uzès, France, May 2021
2019 Los Angeles Art Association 2019 Open Show, Gallery 825, Los Angeles CA (Dec 2019- Jan 2020)
“Eggiwegs,” H Gallery, Ventura, CA (January 2019- February 2019)
TAG Gallery 2019 LA Open Juried Show, Los Angeles CA (Dec 2018-Jan 2019)
2018 “Metamorphosis”, Avenue 50 Studio, Los Angeles, CA (July 2018)
“Nod to Mod,” H Gallery, Ventura, CA (December 2017- February 2018)
“Enough Art Show,” Shockboxx Project Gallery, Hermosa Beach (January 2018)
2017 “Perched Upon the Tree of Life”, Laemmle Royal Theater (July – October 2017)
2015 “Space is a doubt”, Altadena Library, Altadena, CA – Performance/Concert/Painting exhibit (December 2015)
2014 “AbstractionsTangibles,” Galerie de l’Évèché d’Uzès, Uzès, France (Sept-Oct 2014)
Pasadena Art Alliance Biannual Show and Auction, Pasadena CA (April 2014)
2013 Galerie de l’Évèché d’Uzès, Uzès, France (July 2013)
“Millenial Abstractions”, Marin County Foundation, Novato CA (April-May 2013)
2010 “Brilliant Paintings & Amazing Ceramics,” Sylvia White Gallery, Ventura CA (March 2010)
Pasadena Art Alliance Biannual Show and Auction, Pasadena CA (April 2010)
Brewery Artwalk, Telemachus Studio, Los Angeles, CA (April 2010)
2009 “Off the Wall,” Armory Center for the Arts Biennial Art Auction, Pasadena, CA
2008 Juried Show, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
Brewery Artwalk, Telemachus Studio, Los Angeles, CA
Pasadena Art Alliance Biannual Show and Auction, Pasadena CA
2007 LA Artcore, Los Angeles, CA (July 2007)
“Off the Wall,” Armory Center for the Arts Biennial Art Auction, Pasadena, CA
2006 Fullerton College Group Show, Fullerton College Gallery, Fullerton, CA
“Paintings Edge 2006 Exhibition,” Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA.
“Painting’s Edge,” Parks Exhibition Center, IdyllwildARTS, Idyllwild, CA.
Pasadena Art Alliance Biannual Show and Auction
2005 “Group Show,” Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
“Wallworks,” LA Artcore, Los Angeles, CA.
“Paintings Edge 2005 Exhibition,” Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA.
“Painting’s Edge,” Parks Exhibition Center, IdyllwildARTS, Idyllwild, CA.
2003 “Open Haus,” Haus Gallery, Pasadena, CA
“Painting’s Edge,” Parks Exhibition Center, IdyllwildARTS, Idyllwild, CA.
2002 “All Media Group Show,” Beckstrand Gallery, Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos Verdes, CA.
“Painting’s Edge,” Parks Exhibition Center, IdyllwildARTS, Idyllwild, CA.
2001 “Side Order”, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA.
2000 “Light Show”, Peppers Art Gallery, University of Redlands, Redlands, CA.
1998 “Gallery 825 1998 Open,” Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA.
1997 “Group Show,” Pasadena Art Space, Pasadena, CA.
1994 Group Exhibition for Recipients of SAF/NEA Award, Southeast Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC. (Catalogue)
1993 “3rd Annual New Show,” Wake Visual Art Association, Raleigh, NC.
“Group Show,” 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA.
“The Artist's Show,” City Gallery of Contemporary Art, Raleigh, NC.
“Group Show,” Orange County Women's Center, Chapel Hill, NC.
1990 “Group Show,” CCA Competitive Exhibition, Kinston, NC.
1989 “Staff Art Show,” Grossman Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
EDUCATION
1997-1998 Studied Visual Art & Art Pedagogy at University of Paris I /Sorbonne, France.
1986-1989 BFA and Diploma in Painting, School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University, Boston, MA.
1983-1985 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Studies: Art history, Painting, drawing, sculpture, performance art
AWARDS
1994 National Endowment for the Arts/Southern Arts Federation Visual Arts Fellowship
RESIDENCIES
2002, 2003, 2005, 2006 Painting’s Edge, IdyllwildARTS, Idyllwild, CA.
Publications/CATALOGUES
DiversionsLA: https://www.diversionsla.com/tag/blandine-saint-oyant/
Interview: voyagela.com
American Artwork 2019
Studio Visit, (Open Studio Press, 2009, 2010)
