Paul Paiement

I recently worked on an art auction (actually, I lived, breathed, slept, dreamt, sweated and fretted an art auction for six months), and the end result was a lovely event. But for Eric and me, the event brought three new works of art into our collection. Thought I should take a little time to talk about the three artists, so let's start with Paul Paiement!

Paul lives and works right around the corner from us in Long Beach, but his recognition is much broader. He had a solo show at Laguna Art Museum a couple years ago, so he's very much an established artist. We're just lucky enough to have him living in the LBC! He's also an art professor at Cypress College in Cypress, CA, and also its gallery director.

Paul is perhaps best-known for his "hybrid" series, where he depicts insects that are on the verge of morphing into a computerized, digitized creature. They are so beautiful, at once embracing nature and technology. The piece above is the lovely watercolor we acquired at the art auction.

Paul recently finished a large-scale installation for Heather Marx and Steve Zavattero (Paul is rep'd in SF at Heather Marx Gallery. They hired San Francisco filmmaker Jim Sottile to document the making of the piece, check it out, it's a really cool project.