Paintings by Al Peters
by Al Peters
733 Third Avenue Lobby
New York, NY
(between 45th and 46th St)
May 28th - August 15th, 2013
Lobby Hours:
Monday - Friday, 8am - 6pm
If you're looking for meaning in the paintings of Al Peters, you'll have to do the heavy lifting. The painter offers up no explanations in his non-objective art, leaving viewers free to create their own.
The shapes that inhabit his works have been collected and refined over many years, and though they may allude to animals, plant life, or everyday objects, they have no inherent meaning. It may not be evident at first glance, but Peters’ shapes contain the possibility for communication, just as individual letters or parts of speech do. If the viewer is willing to make those connections, the juxtapositions, colors and layers of these shapes allow for meaning, emotion, ideas.
"My paintings are a visual poetry, or visual music, if you prefer, calculated to inspire emotion among whoever chooses to participate... one needs not know anything special to experience them, just exert the desire and confidence to do so."
If the task seems daunting, Peters has given us a guiding principle: "My work ultimately concerns the experience of joy! If the artwork is not concerned with the experience of joy, then I am not interested in it."
Artist Bio:
Al Peters was born in Detroit, Michigan and received his BFA and MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Mr. Peters was the recipient of a scholarship to the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, in Skowhegan, Maine, where he studied with John Button, Robert Andrew Parker and Bob Cronbach. From 1970 to 1976, Mr. Peters was an instructor in the Fine Arts Department of Minneapolis College of Art and Design. He has taught watercolor painting at the Educational Alliance in New York City, and is currently teaching Art History at Mercy College in New York City. His art has been shown in New York City, Minneapolis, Chicago, Vermont, Florida and is in numerous private collections.
Sales and information:
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(212) 675-3893
