Artist's Statement: MUSCLE, MIND AND ART

Man walks about in two space dimensions, the vertical and the horizontal, interpenetrating volumes of which he is the dynamic and controlling center………. In my paintings I have attempted to create sensory space so that the beholder could feel at one with the painting.

Tarmo Pasto

July 27, 1906 to December 26, 1986, USA Lived in Sacramento, CA, 1946 through 1986

BS and PhD Cornell University, 1932 and 1944; MA Albany State; also Art Student's League, NYC

Professor of Art and Psychology, Cal State University, Sacramento until the 1970's. Fulbright Professorship, University of Helsinki, Finland, 1955; Natl. Institute of Mental Health Grant, 1963-1965. Multiple articles, papers and invited lectures; book "The Space-Frame Experience in Art" 1964. Leader in psychoanalysis of art, discoverer of Martin Ramirez.

Previous exhibitions:

"Thru Scandinavian Eyes" at WORKS San Jose, with C. Midjo, February 6 through March 7, 2009

Retrospective, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, 1982

Pasto at the Art Gallery, Sacramento State College, 1963

Paintings of Tarmo Pasto, Crocker Art Gallery, 1958

U.S.I.S. Auditorium, Helsinki, Finland, 1955

Labaudt Gallery, San Francisco, 1954 Stevens Student Union, Univ. of Cal, Berkely, 1952

Art Critic's Review: "The first impact on the viewer is that he is looking into a special world, the likes of which he has never seen before, but one which he can understand and be moved emotionally by. Then he becomes aware that this world of space and form is his own world, after all, but it has been superbly restated by an artist so that he may experience it afresh."

John Oglesby, the Sacramento Bee December 1962