SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2016 “Nature-Improv”, duo show, LA Artcore, Los Angeles, 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

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.

BLANDINE SAINT-OYANT

Blandine Saint-Oyant’s vibrant abstract paintings reflect her passion for the process of painting, her love of color and of the sensuality of the materials. Her work explores the relationship between spontaneity and formality, randomness and structure, fluidity and control.

She was born in Lyon and grew up in Avignon, France. In 1980 she moved to the United States. Shortly afterwards she began studying art at the Art Institute of Chicago and later at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where she received a BFA and diploma in painting. In 1994 she received an NEA/SAF Fellowship. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows on the east coast and in the Los Angeles area. She lives and has her studio in Pasadena, California, but she has maintained her roots in France, where she spends part of every year.

ARTIST STATEMENT

I am an artist who was trained in the United States and have been living and working as a painter in Pasadena for many years. I am a contemporary abstract painter and a 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 back and forth, the pigments intermingle and fuse into visually striking patterns and shapes. 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. I see these paintings as “ intuitive landscapes”, many of which suggest fictional natural phenomena (cloud formations, stormy skies, cascades, patterns of moving water, minerals). 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 – a painting.

EDUCATION

1997-1998 1986-1989 1983-1985

AWARDS

Studied Visual Art & Art Pedagogy at University of Paris I /Sorbonne, France.

BFA and Diploma in Painting, School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University, Boston, MA.

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

Studies: Art history, Painting, drawing, sculpture, performance art

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

American Artwork 2019
Studio Visit, (Open Studio Press, 2009, 2010)

REPRESENTATION

2018 - Present Dab Art Co., Los Angeles, CA