Biography:
Future and ongoing exhibitions:Art Resume:
Yuriy Pestov
Born: Leningrad, 1960
Selected Exhibitions (*Solo Shows)/ Performances
2009 Digital print in ArtAuction09 at SomArts Gallery, San Francisco, California.
Digital prints and mixed media in Annual Holiday Art Sale at Gallery 146, San Francisco.
2008 Drawing in Art for the House exhibition at The Shooting gallery,San Francisco.
Drawing in The Love Show exhibition at Gallery 146,San Francisco.
2007 Drawings in 7th Annual Monster Drawing Rally at Southern Exposure,San Francisco.
2006 Improvised drawings and dance performance in Raw and Uncut Festival at Shotwell Studios, San Francisco. Choreographer Martin A. David
Digital print at CounterPulse Gallery, San Francisco, USA.
Improvised drawings and dance performance in ...And Still Dancing at ODC Theater, San Francisco, USA. Choreographer Martin A. David.
2005 Digital prints and mixed media in Bayennale, Bay Area International Arts Festival at Cellspace, San Francisco, USA.
Digital prints and drawing in The Third Annual Art Nouveau at Whitney Young Cultural Center, San Francisco, USA.
Sculpture Convoluted in EcoArts, Lake County Sculpture Walk, Trailside Park, Middletown,
California.
Digital print in 20th Annual Hospitality House Art Auction at Haley Martin Gallery, San Francisco, USA.
2004 Digital and collagraph prints and drawing in Nouveau Salon at Whitney Young Cultural Center. San Francisco, USA.
Sculpture True Faker in EcoArts, Lake County Sculpture Walk, Trailside Park, Middletown,
California.
2003 Sculpture, prints, photography in Nouveau Salon at Whitney Young Cultural Center. San Francisco, USA.
Drawing in 18th Annual Hospitality House Art Auction at Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, USA.
2002 Digital images at Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California, USA.
Photography and mixed media in Wigged Out, Exhibition Party at Arty Pants Gallery, San Francisco, USA. Organized by ArtSalon.
TV installations, prints and performance "The Heroman" in "The TV Show", The Boon Project Juried Exhibition, The Warehouse, San Francisco, USA. Jurors: Mark Scandrette and David Starfas.
Digital graphics in The Flag Project at Culpepper Gallery, Abrons Arts Center, New York, USA
Collagraphs, photography and mixed media at Muddy's café, San Francisco, USA. Organized by ArtSalon.
Collagraph at Art with a Heart, Ritter House Juried Exhibition and Auction, San Rafael, California, USA. Jurors: Chester Arnold, Joanne Chappell, Robin Critelli, Charles H. Curley, Tyson
Underwood.
Installation at Sucky Tapioka café, San Francisco, USA. Organized by ArtSF.
Collagraphs at Build Gallery, San Francisco, USA. Organized by ArtSalon.
Digital graphics at Exit Art Gallery, New York, USA.
Sculpture Fly Like an Eagle at Christensen Heller Gallery, Oakland, California, USA.
Prints, two-person exhibition at Backstage Gallery, San Francisco, USA.
2001 *Photography at The Youth Center of Northern Countries, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Performance Under the Straight Line in Exit, International Festival for Unusual Live-
Performances, Helsinki, Finland. Curated by Roi Vaara.
2000 Prints in CSW Cyber Art & Poetry Spring/Summer Show 2000, based in USA. Organized by Sandy Curtis.
Performance From Holland to New Holland in Emplacements, International Art Project, St.
Petersburg, Russia. Curated by Gail Pearce, Great Britain.
1999 * Al-Ferdous, The Rose Garden, works on paper at The Jordanian Association of Plastic Artists,
Amman, Jordan.
1996 Works on paper at The Russian Cultural Center, Paris, France.
Commissions and projects
2005 Photography for Alma Cunningham Movement Dance Company, San Francisco, USA.
2004 Photography for West Coast Contact Improvisation Festival, Berkeley, California
2002 Photography for Beckett’s Last Dance, dance, choreographed by Jon Whittle, San Francisco
Fringe Theater Festival, San Francisco, USA.
Photography for 9 Days on Dark Water, dance, choreographed by Angus Balbernie, Dance Mission
Center, San Francisco, USA.
2001 Photographic images in Vexations, dance, choreographed by Kerstin Kussmaul, ODC Theater, San Francisco, USA.
Installation for Iguandance, Canondance Theater, S. Petersburg, Russia.
1997 Outdoor sculpture, Tamarindo, Costa Rica.
1982 Stage design for Captains of the Sands, ballet, choreographed by Leonid Lebedev in The State Small Theater of Opera and
Ballet, Leningrad, Russia.
Publications
Anthology of photography Sketches Of The Eye by The International Library of Photography, USA, 2001.
Publicity
2002 Digital prints and mixed media in Bayennale, Bay Area International Arts Festival at Cellspace, San Francisco, USA. Reviewed by The San Francisco Art News Extra.
Collagraphs, photography and mixed media at Muddy's café. San Francisco, USA. Organized by ArtSalonSF. Reviewed by SanFranciscoArtMagazine.com based in San Francisco, USA.
Collagraphs at Build Gallery, San Francisco, USA. Organized by ArtSalon. Shown by French-American Television.
2001 Performance Under the Straight Line in Exit, International Festival for Unusual Live-Performances, Helsinki, Finland. Curated by Roi Vaara. Shown on ATV in Helsinki, Finland.
Installation for Iguandance, Canondance Theater, S. Petersburg, Russia. Shown on Channel 26.
2000 Performance From Holland to New Holland in Emplacements, International Art Project, St.
Petersburg, Russia. Curated by Gail Pearce, Great Britain. Reviewed by Vecherniy Peterburg.
1999 Al-Ferdous, The Rose Garden, works on paper at The Jordanian Association of Plastic Artists, Amman, Jordan. Reviewed by Al-Arab-Al-Yawm.
Awards and Honors
Scholarship at 17th Annual
West Coast Contact Improvisation Festival, Berkeley, California, 2005.
Grant for creative portrait photography workshop and travel. Anderson Ranch Art Center, Aspen,
Colorado, USA, 2001.
Honorable Mention. CSW Cyber Art & Poetry Spring/Summer Show 2000, based in USA, 2000.
The Artist Magazine (USA) Award. CSW Cyber Art & Poetry Spring/Summer Show 2000, based in USA,
2000.
Experience and Collections
Worked in printmaking in universities, cultural centers and with individual artists in USA, Russia, Finland, Spain, Colombia, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Syria, and Jordan.
Prints and other works are in state, corporate and private collections in above mentioned and other countries, including The Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., USA.
Education
2005 17th Annual West Coast Contact Improvisation Festival, Berkeley, California, USA.
2001 Workshop in creative portrait photography. Anderson Ranch Art Center, Aspen, Colorado, USA. Instructor: Judy Dater.
1995 La Scuola Internazionale di Grafica di Venezia, Venice, Italy. Courses on intaglio, serigraphy, lithography.
1977 School #190 at The Mukhina Industrial Arts Institute, Leningrad, USSR.
Dance Resume
Yuriy Pestov
Born: Leningrad,Russia, 1960.
Performance experience:
2010
“UN-bound (in-drawn), in-bound (out-driven)” in the UN Plaza, San Francisco. A series of two performances. Idea and movement direction by Yuriy Pestov. Commissioned by Independent Arts & Media- SF Arts Market program.
“in-cloud-merge” in the Garage, San Francisco. Work in progress. Choreographer Yuriy Pestov.
2009
"People Are People" in the Garage, San Francisco. Choreographer Aura Fischbeck.
”Occurence” by Himma Collective in the Garage, San Francisco. Choreography: Christine Cali and others.
"The Symmetry Project- Transmission" in Union Square in San Francisco. Choreography by Jess Curtis, Jess Curtis/Gravity.
"7 Ways to Say I Love You" in Julia Morgan Theater, Berkeley, California. Choreographer Amie Dowell.
"7 Ways to Say I Love You" in CounterPulse, San Francisco. Choreographer Amie Dowell.
2006
"Underground" in Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater, San Francisco. Choreographer David Dorfman.
"Shapes" in Mountain View Dance Festival, Mountain View, California. Choreography: Martin A. David.
"Shapes" and "Leaden Skies" in sjDANCEco 4th Annual Dancin' Downtown Festival, San Jose, California. Choreography: Martin A. David.
"Shapes" in Raw and Uncut Festival in Shotwell Studios, San Francisco. Choreography: Martin A. David. (Dance and Improvised drawings).
"Shapes" in Colors…and More in ODC Theater, San Francisco. Choreography: Martin A. David.
"Chance Meetings" in Colors…and More in ODC Theater, San Francisco.
Choreography: Jamie Ray Wright.
2002 solo performance "The Heroman" in The TV Show, The Boon Project in The Warehouse, San Francisco. Choreographer Yuriy Pestov
2001 solo performance "Under the Straight Line" in Exit, International Festival for Unusual Live- Performances, Helsinki, Finland. Choreographer Yuriy Pestov.
Teaching and choreography experience :
2010
“UN-bound (in-drawn), in-bound (out-driven)” in the UN Plaza, San Francisco. A series of two performances. Dancers: Sammi Sumampong and Yuriy Pestov. Idea and movement direction by Yuriy Pestov.
“in-cloud-merge” in the Garage, San Francisco. Work in progress. Dancers: Dominique Nigro and Yuriy Pestov. Choreographer Yuriy Pestov.
2007 Assistant choreographer in "Yearning" by Jewish Dance Theater at "Spring
Forward" Choreographers Showcase in Dance Mission Theater, San Francisco. Choreographer Bruce Bierman.
Solo performance in “Bang for the Buck” in West Wave Dance Festival in Project Artaud, San Francisco. Choreographer Yuriy Pestov.
2006 Taught performance workshop with …And Still Dancing in Bay Area National Dance Week in CounterPulse. (A San Francisco Bay Area National Dance Week's Cornerstone Event).
2002 solo performance "The Heroman" in The TV Show, The Boon Project in The Warehouse, San Francisco. Choreographer Yuriy Pestov.
2001 solo performance "Under the Straight Line" in Exit, International Festival for Unusual Live-Performances, Helsinki, Finland. Choreographer Yuriy Pestov.
Professional training:
At ODC, San Francisco and other venues,
studied contemporary dance with Chimene Pollard, Todd Eckert, Amy Foley, Leyya Tawil, and others.
Studied release with Kathleen Hermesdorf, Kelly Kemp, Christine Cali, and others. Studied contact improvisation with Nita Little, Rebecca Bryant, Brenton Cheng, Mark Koenig, and others.
Studied ballet with Marina Fukushima.
Studied ethnijazz with Natalia Njissang.
Scholarships and awards:
2005 Scholarship at 17th Annual West Coast Contact Improvisation Festival, Berkeley, California.
Additional experience
Stage and visual design and photography. Rock climbing, martial arts.
Art Category:
Gallery 1-2: prints about nature, after nature and sometimes out of nature. This means often collagraph, that is making impressions from natural found objects.
Gallery 3: tempera palm prints, or Dream World through the palm of the hand.
Gallery 4: installation-photographs and photography.
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Artist's statement:
We constantly experience input of information in our minds. This may not necessarily be formed into conscious knowledge. Rather it is unformatted environmental impingements, all exposure to the elements and resulting psychical and physical changes from this.
Traveling in different places and changing environments enhances this input. You just have to be attentive to details, fleeting occurrences. Tales, folklore, other media events and old myths can all be helpfull. Insight, as well as providing an immeasurable source of information, consolidates everything together .
My task as an artist is to put these data on paper or onto whatever material I am working with at the moment.
Diverse mediums such as: printmaking, stage design for concert dance, performance art, installation, photography bond me as a creator with art.
The human body has always been a central interest to artists. Movement adds a new dimension to the human personality. This is why both in photography and performance art my subjects often are movement of the human body and dance. Though sometimes vestigial human presence in surrounding ambiance is enough.
I do not look purposefully for materials for my works, though often ponder on a subject for a long time. Materials are often found by themselves, unintentionally. This is why in my printmaking I favor so much collagraph, where I can incorporate natural, discarded and found objects which leave on paper bas-relief-like palpable indentations. Unpremeditated freely flowing lines, unexpected patterns are the rewards. I am fascinated with cloth for the same reason: creating spontaneous results with its folds and creases.
These techniques and the desire to be more precise in my work determine my way of usually working immediately, in situ, or site-specifically. That is to say, in a general environment, and not directly in nature as impressionists or Russian peredvizhniks did. Sometimes I finish pieces later but if too much time has passed I feel it very difficult to find the mood again.
I certainly have artistic influences, some good and some bad, retarding ones, but I favor abandonment as far as possible to the local idiom, at whatever place I am at the time.
Press Release for The TV Show Exhibition
PRESS RELEASE
DREAM AND REALITY/ LEVITATION AND GRAVITY.
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Some thoughts on viewing the exhibition The TV Show.
Do glass chimes and slow but persistent heavy thuds take you away to the crest of a Himalayan peak and beyond to the celestial realms?
Then sit in front of a Blue Screen showing a waterfall of bowls of digital image substance pouring over you and then disappearing at the bottom, accompanied by ethereal sounds. As you concentrate on the screen, the rainbow-colored beetles in front of the carpet covered (disguised) TV suddenly seem to be crawling upwards.
Why are we so often in front of the TV? Do we have time for traditional values like religion, ritual and reflection? Has all-pervasive entertainment replaced them? Invented by Iouri Pestov, this Perpetual Meditative Entertainment device draws attention to these problems and at the same time reconciles entertainment and meditation.
Flight to the Heavens has always been one of the most sacred of man's desires. It figured prominently in ancient myths as it does in contemporary ones. As you sit in front of the Blue Screen your dreams fly together with Batman, Superman and Spiderman. Are you destined to detach from reality? Is unreality real? These inquiries may be especially important now, when our hopes fly so high.
In his performance as the Heroman, Mr. Pestov aspires as much to reach towards the skies as these heroes did, though in a more realistic way.
What encumbers our daily flights? Language, playing an important role in all aspects of life, is augmented by media. It can be guiding and misleading. The bureaucratic language of public notices strives to be both. The artist uses language in all his works in the exhibition. Another TV installation piece by the artist, The TV Revelation , has a drape in place of a screen. The instructions for use of the apparatus tempts you with many entries to open it and inspect the contents only to find your own reflection in the mirror. Well after all, man is at the core of everything man-made. The asterisk at the bottom of the
instructions advises you in case of difficulty in returning to usual life after the inspection to "please contact a local administrator or your doctor". Not surprisingly, many viewers start or scream in astonishment at the process.
There were two more of Iouri Pestov 's works in the exhibition, collagraphs, Eat drink and T Eat Drink, which dealt with advertisement, so often educating our tastes on the screen.
The exhibition, which was a host to fourteen other artists, was organized and juried by The Boon Project. It was on view in The Warehouse at 3075 21st Street in San Francisco from June 29th through July 25th. Names of the participating artists can be seen at: http://www.pearpod.com/tvshow2/.
Dedicated to the television, the theme of the exhibition can be surmised from the words of the organizers:
"From profane to the profound, we express the varieties of human experience symbolically through electronic communication and mass media. Yet these mediums and technologies themselves reconstruct our perceptions of culture, community, politics, economics, values, spirituality, gender and sexuality."
Iouri Pestov, having received a multifaceted art education, works in many mediums, including sculpture, installation, theater visualization, performance, printmaking, and photography. He has extensively exhibited and performed often while traveling throughout the world. In United States he was represented in such venues as Christensenheller Gallery in Oakland, California, and Exit Art Gallery in New York City. His works were shown in San Francisco on The French American Television. He has received awards and grants for his achievements in art.
My Interests and Hobbies: traveling
My Geographic Location: San Francisco, USA.
