Tahiti Pehrson

CURRENT EXHIBITION
Rodney Ewing and Tahiti Pehrson
What Kind of Cool (Will We Think of Next)
October 14 to November 30, 2020

Tahiti Pehrson is a Northern Californian artist with long ties to the Bay Area. His recent work explores the fragility and interconnectedness expressed by physical structures. Large scale installations of geometrical hand-cut paper are layered into three-dimensional structures. Pehrson has been working in paper for nearly fifteen years. Born in 1972 to artist parents in Santa Rosa, California, Pehrson began early life as a painter. Like many painters, he wanted to imitate light in such a way as to capture it. After traveling to Mexico, China and the museums of Europe in search of art, he moved to San Francisco to follow in the footsteps of his father by attending art school in the Bay Area. At the San Francisco Art Institute, Pehrson found himself increasingly disillusioned with painting as he was exposed to new ideas and modes of working. In reaction, he sought to “drop-out” of art and work in the streets with stickers and stencil making–a process that would evolve into a more developed and dedicated practice of paper-cutting, and also beginning a new process of public engagement.