A POP-UP CURATED BY EMILY FRIEDMAN FINE ART AT OCHI PROJECTS FEBRUARY 5 – 16, 2020 Opening Reception February 5th, 5-8PM Artist Walkthrough February 13th, 11AM-1PM Ochi Projects and Emily Friedman Fine Art are pleased to present Ruth Pastine: Depths, a Pop-Up at Ochi Projects, featuring a curated selection of paintings, pastels on paper, and a new series of paintings on paper featuring the newest advancement of Pastine’s investigation of the perception of color through fluctuating parameters, relationships and structures. Depths reveals the essential tensions that drive Pastine’s work: surface and depth, light and matter, materiality and immateriality, the finite and the limitless. Informed by the systematic understanding of color developed at the Bauhaus and the 19th Century research of Michel Eugène Chevreul and his discovery of simultaneous contrast; her new works challenge phenomena of color perception and the relativity of color, light and space in an installation that reveal themselves between the uncertainty and intentionality of their making. For Pastine, “Color itself, in its infinite beauty, constitutes the terrifying immeasurable field of light and space that it defines."