Inspired by Tahiti Pehrson

RVCA

Tahiti Pehrson (born in Santa Rosa, California, 1972) is an American_x000D_ artist based in Nevada City, California. He studied painting and other art_x000D_ related subjects at the San Francisco Institute of Art. He has been_x000D_ creating geometrical hand cut paper layered into three-dimensional_x000D_ structures for fifteen years. His work has been featured in numerous group_x000D_ and solo exhibitions, including the ICA San Jose ³Variations & Betwixt²_x000D_ Window Installation in 2014, the S.F. Art Commission ³Sea of Love²_x000D_ installation, curated by Triple Base and the solo show ³Connectivity² held_x000D_ at the Salon 91 Gallery in Cape Town, South Africa. In 2015 Tahiti¹s work_x000D_ has also been included in the Facebook Permanent Collection. Pehrson is_x000D_ currently represented by the K. Imperial Gallery in San Francisco, the_x000D_ Salon 91 Gallery in Capetown, South Africa and the Joseph Gross Gallery in_x000D_ NYC, NY.

Tahiti on his work:

Art for me has always been the inevitable consequence of a necessary_x000D_ compulsive behavior, a second language with more leeway to interpret and_x000D_ redefine reality. The inexactness of Art serves as a better description_x000D_ for the amorphous and indefinite nature of our experiences._x000D_ My work has a lot to do with symmetry, compositional balance and_x000D_ perception: I like the idea of it being somewhat universal and relatable_x000D_ to a wider framework.

During the past ten years my work has been centered_x000D_ on repetitive architectural patterns and the interaction of form and_x000D_ volume with light and shadow. These creations tend to incorporate an_x000D_ obsessive, neurotic and ultimately meditative element that aims to draw_x000D_ attention to the unintelligible mechanism concealed behind the intricacy_x000D_ of certain shapes and patterns.