BIOGRAPHY

PATRICK DINTINO holds three degrees in fine and industrial arts: after earning a BA degree in Industrial Arts from San Diego State University in 1988, he completed both a BFA degree (1999) and an MFA degree (2001) in painting from the California College of Arts and Crafts. Born in San Francisco in 1964, Dintino has resided in California his entire life, yet his travels abroad have also informed and inspired a diversity of creative endeavors. In 1989 he co-founded Artists in Motion art collective, a group of artists who created funk-art fashion, sculpture and furniture out of reclaimed materials. In 1990 he co-founded a musical ensemble called ‘Naked Earth,’ and became Art Director for Ecodisc Records. In 1994 he returned to the San Francisco bay area to emerse himself in the vibrant art and music scene and enrolled in CCAC in 1998. In 2000 Dintino was invited as a guest artist to work with Sol LeWitt to create “Sol LeWitt: A Retrospective” at SFMOMA. A finalist for SFMOMA’s SECA emerging artist award, and a recipient of the Pollack/Krasner Foundation Grant, Dintino continues to create art in his Bay Area studio and teaches painting and drawing at California College of the Arts.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Dec Red Dot Artfair Miami, Miami Beach FL
2008 International Art Exposition with Andrea Schwartz Gallery

Nov Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY
2008 'Future of Abstraction' Group Show

Jun Artamo Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2008 Solo show of latest Spectrum Paintings

Mar Red Dot Art Fair, New York, NY
2008 Group show of painting and collage with Andrea Schwartz Gallery

Mar Arts4BonacTonic, Hamptons, NY
2008 Group exhibition of art collective participants

Feb Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008 ‘Endangered Species’ Solo show of Spectrum paintings

Jan Bridge Artfair Miami, Miami Beach FL
2007 International Art Exposition with Andrea Schwartz Gallery

Jun Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006 ‘Two Feet Up’ summer group show with Jorge Santos and others

Nov Operation: Bend Over, SOMARTS San Francisco, CA
2005 Collaboration with modern dancers involving video installation

Apr Drawing Club, New York, NY
2005 Exhibition of drawings from art collective, Celsea, NY

Feb Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005 Two person show of latest Spectrum paintings

Oct AAF New York, NY.
2004 Annual art expo in New York

Jul Bryant Place Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2004 Solo show produced by Videology Productions

May Gensler & Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2003 Group show with Roy Tomlinson and Griff Williams among others

Jan San Francisco International Art Expo with Michael Martin Gallery
2003 San Francisco, CA.

Oct Michael Martin Gallery, San Francisco, CA..
2002 Group Show with Rex Ray, Lynn Kirby and Henry Jackson entitled ‘Together’

Oct Big Pagoda, San Francisco, CA.
2001 Solo painting show entitled ‘Between the Lines.’ Recent Spectrum Paintings

Apr Kristi Phippen Gallery, Central California Art League.
1998 ‘Transcendental Landscapes’ two-person exhibition with Don Porcella of paintings, sculpture, mixed media and collaborations.

May Playschool Fashion and Performance Art Show, San Diego Sports Arena.
1990 Created performance art as a founding member of Artists in Motion.

SPECTRUM PAINTINGS

Composed of broad, blended bands of color, the intermeshed lines in Dintino’s paintings produce a plethora of shades, tones and hues that embark the viewer upon a delightful journey of discovery. Upon first glance we are drawn immediately towards the bolder, sharper contrasts through Patrick’s subtle choice of hue and line. Complexities arise for the viewer as the eye, captured by this stark disparity, then attempts to “read” the painting from left to right, as is our programmed inclination. The varying thickness of line-some ample, others slender-both speeds up and slows down the eye, creating an undulating sense of movement within the work as we take a second, more measured look. As we re-read, the bolder lines are then even more richly realized in context. Yet the complex play between aesthetic and metaphor is crucial to Dintino’s work. He explores a fresh understanding of how we make meaning through ordering our experiences. Through his prismatic brush, Dintino’s vision imagines an abstract “spectrum” of a particular experience. In Excavation: Tel Dor, 2002, we are thrust into an archaeological dig. Earthy hues contemplate the dust and labor of the artist’s experience. The elaborate interaction of color emotes the artist’s sensations. By re-ordering and encoding this impression, Dintino formulates his feelings of the event in an autobiographical fashion that exposes the viewer to an alternate way of seeing. A new communication has been forged between artist and audience, as the latter is compelled to speak a new language in order to decode and reconstruct Dintino’s experience. Now fluent, the audience is then enabled to see spectrums in the everyday. This calls to the importance of Dintino’s work; his spectrums reveal the enigmatic interplay of seeing and meaning-making. Colin Stewart

 AWARDS

Pollock/Krasner Foundation Grant • SFMOMA InSite (Seca) Award finalist • National Endowment for the Arts • Kenneth Price Scholarship • CCAC Scholarship