Group show at George Billis Gallery in New York City
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Briefly, watercolor, 2022
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Cheery, watercolor, 2020
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Gummies, watercolor, 2023
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Three of my watercolor paintings were included in a group show at
George Billis Gallery in the Chelsea arts district in New York that opened on October 3, 2024 and continued through November 2, 2024.
George Billis Gallery
527 West 23rd Street (Ground Floor),
New York, NY 10011
Open Tuesday - Saturday 11 - 5 pm
(map)
www.georgebillis.com
See available paintings here...
Recent watercolors at Billis Williams Gallery in Los Angeles in 2024
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Distant, watercolor, 2023
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Quieter, watercolor, 2023
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A solo exhibition of my recent watercolors opened at Billis Williams Gallery in Los Angeles
on January 13, 2024.
Titled Every tiny little thing, the work in this show spanned a time period
during which I was recovering from a traumatic injury to my drawing hand that derailed my painting practice
for half a year and which is still impacting my productivity.
Containing some smaller watercolor paintings than I've shown before, this exhibition was about finding solace and
humor in lowered expectations and minor miracles.
This show ended on February 17, 2024.
Some paintings are still available.
You can read more about this exhibit in American Art Collector magazine.
Or click here to see all the paintings in this show.
Shop Available Watercolors Online
You can now browse and buy my available watercolors online through 1stdibs.com. Order fulfillment will be handled by Billis Williams Gallery in Los Angeles. Or buy open edition prints of select watercolors at fineartamerica.com. Please feel free to contact me with any questions.
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Watercolor Painting Tips on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube
You can follow me on TikTok or Instagram, or subscribe to my channel on YouTube to learn watercolor tips and techniques for all experience levels, or perhaps you might just be curious to see how my paintings are made...
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2021 Watercolor Show in Connecticut
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Crackers, watercolor, 2019
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Watching, watercolor, 2019
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An exhibition of my watercolor paintings exploring themes of transparency,
fragility, and a somewhat comforting illusion of safety from various mortal hazards,
opened at George Billis Gallery Westport on June 18, 2021. Eight of my recent paintings were featured.
This show ended July 25, 2021.
George Billis Gallery Westport
166 Main Street
Westport, CT 06880
(map)
Click here to see the paintings in this show.
Or browse all available paintings here
It's all arranged, solo show at George Billis Gallery Los Angeles
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Timeout, watercolor, 2019
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Quarantine, watercolor, 2020
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It's all arranged, a solo exhibition of my recent watercolor paintings, combining still life and painted text
with themes of confinement, yearning, and looming disaster,
opened at George Billis Gallery Los Angeles on November 21, 2020.
This show ended January 16, 2021.
George Billis Gallery
2716 S. La Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles, CA
(map)
Some paintings from the show are still available... Click here to see.
Or you can follow my studio account
@paulpitsker to see the very latest work in progress on Instagram.
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Signals, watercolor, 20 x 15 in.
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Exhibit at the Carnegie Art Museum
Two of my watercolor paintings were included in The Imaginary, a group show at the Carnegie Art Museum exploring art that co-mingles realism with elements arising from the imagination. The small creatures inhabiting my watercolor paintings in this show entice the viewer to first empathize with them as the unlikely heroes of staged dramas involving impossible situations or forces beyond their control, and then to imagine what might happen next. These otherwise realistic still life paintings encourage one to supply an imagined ending, happy or otherwise, to the impossible narratives they depict.Ended May 19, 2019
Carnegie Art Museum
424 S C St, Oxnard, CA 93030
Los Angeles, CA
(map)
See more recent work...
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Trace, watercolor, 2018
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Tap, watercolor, 2018
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What Lies Within, solo show at George Billis Gallery Los Angeles
Twenty of my watercolor paintings were featured in
What lies within, a solo exhibition
at George Billis Gallery Los Angeles.
The punning title of this show plays with the theme of transparency as it applies to colorful and translucent subjects rendered
in transparent watercolor as well as to the unreliability of the textual and narrative elements in these scenes.
Ended June 23, 2018.
Some paintings from this show are still available... Click here to see.
Soluble Power at the Carnegie Art Museum
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Sparky, watercolor, 2013
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Buzz, watercolor, 2014
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Click here to see the watercolors in this show.
What's Clear Now, solo show at George Billis Gallery Los Angeles
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Dreamcatcher, watercolor, 2015
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Nesting, watercolor, 2014
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Ended April 2, 2016
A few paintings are still available... View the Gallery
George Billis Gallery
2716 S. La Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles, CA
(map)
WILDlife at Heather James Fine Art
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| Chill, watercolor, 2008 |
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| Muffled, watercolor, 2011 |
Heather James Fine Art
172 Center Street
Jackson, WY
(307) 200-6090
Ended September 30, 2011.
Enigmas and Elegies at Left Coast Galleries, Studio City, CA
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| Tilt, watercolor, 25 x 18 in. |
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| Pointed, watercolor, 20 x 15 in. |
Left Coast Galleries
11734 Ventura Boulevard
Studio City, CA 91604
Ended: May 25, 2010
See more paintings from the show...
Paul Pitsker Feature Articles and Magazine Covers...
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| Spotted, watercolor, 20 x 15 in. |
Tiger beetle conservation exhibit in Lincoln, Nebraska
I was pleased to be invited to participate in "Salt Creek Environment: Local and Endangered," an entomology/conservation-themed exhibit at the Haydon Gallery in Lincoln, Nebraska. The work of the 23 artists in this show feature the endangered salt creek tiger beetle, one of the rarest insects in the world. This predatory beetle, and the unique inland saline marsh in which it lives, is currently threatened by encroaching development and habitat degradation.Curated by entomologist Tierney Brosius at the University of Nebraska Lincoln, the exhibit was funded in part by the Nebraska Environmental Trust, the Saline Wetland Partnership, and the Xerces Society.
Ended July 31, 2009
Read more about salt creek tiger beetles here.
Spirits Of Los Angeles at the L.A. Municipal Gallery in Barnsdall Art Park
Curated by Los Angeles painter Raoul De la Sota, this exhibit brought together 14 L.A. artists who share a common interest in the unseen, and who explore, in varying degrees, the duality of a symbolic, non-material reality existing side by side with the contemporary urban experience. I contributed five works to this show -- three figurative oil paintings at the main gallery space at Barnsdall Art Park, and two additional works (including the watercolor shown here) that were exhibited in the Tom Bradley International Terminal at the Los Angeles Airport.Los Angeles Municipal Gallery
4800 Hollywood Blvd
Hollywood, CA
Ended April 20, 2008
Click here to see other images of recent work...
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| Grounder, watercolor, 25 x 18 in. |
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Pinch, watercolor, 20 x 15 in.
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Dryer, watercolor, 25 x 18 in.
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New works on paper: You are here at Bandini Art in Culver City
Bandini Art Gallery in Culver City featured over a dozen of my latest works on paper in a two-person exhibit with assemblage artist Ashley McLean Emenegger. Called You are here, this exhibit explored issues of presence, perspective, and impermanence. My contribution was a series of watercolors that combine fictional scenes of impending disaster with word play and dark humor.Bandini Art Gallery
2635 S. Fairfax Ave
Culver City, CA
Ended December 8, 2007
You can see the work in the show here.
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Erasing, watercolor, 10 x 7 in.
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Everything, watercolor, 25 x 18 in.
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Contemporary Realism at Modern Masters Fine Art in Palm Desert, CA
Several of my watercolor paintings were included in the winter 2007 Contemporary Realism show at Modern Masters Fine Art (now Melissa Morgan Fine Art) in Palm Desert, CA. Also featured were recent paintings by Braldt Bralds, Dan Griggs, and Michael Sokolis.
Ended December 2007
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About Paul Pitsker
I have been making art obsessively all my life
in a variety of media. My
watercolors depict puzzling dilemmas, unexpected encounters, and staged
existential dramas, often involving local urban wildlife,
which I strive to render with photographic clarity, humor and sympathy.
These small creatures might be stand-ins for you and me in urgent situations
involving seemingly indifferent forces beyond our control. Or they might be the
apparent recipients of scrawled messages lying directly underfoot and yet remaining
forever outside their awareness.
These paintings aim to combine an intense, sharp-focus realism
with an atmosphere of disquiet and a sense
of the impenetrable strangeness and fragility of life.
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