Peri Schwartz
Peri Schwartz (born 1951) passed away in 2021 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Schwartz was born and based in New York, began her studies at Boston University’s School of Fine Arts, and continued on to Queens College to receive her Masters of Fine Arts.
Realism and abstraction come together in her pieces as she worked directly with her subjects depicting them with deliberate linear strokes. The contained settings of her, “Studio Interiors,” engage the viewers with dynamic, flattened compositions. The studio paintings reflect Schwartz’s long history of using her space as her subject matter. In the studio, where she created stage sets using books, bottles, and the architecture of the space, she was constantly arranging, re-arranging, adding, and subtracting objects in each painting. Schwartz played with the scale of her space using bottles and jars set against the backdrop of large blocks of color, which was then set against a window to the exterior of her studio in New Rochelle, NY. In paintings, prints and drawings, Schwartz explained that she focused on composition and the interplay of color, light and space.
Boston Globe correspondent, Cate McQuaid, writes of her work, "She maps her works onto a grid, so at first glance they appear flat, gestural, and purely abstract. But look again: It's a studio space [...] Each gesture, each block of color is a playing card in the house of cards that is this space. One shift, and the scene threatens to collapse delightfully into abstraction."
Peri Schwartz’s work can be found in many public and museum collections including the British Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, LACMA, the Harvard Art Museums, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, the Victoria & Albert Museum, and most recently the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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Peri Schwartz
Peri Schwartz (born 1951) passed away in 2021 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Schwartz was born and based in New York, began her studies at Boston University’s School of Fine Arts, and continued on to Queens College to receive her Masters of Fine Arts.
Realism and abstraction come together in her pieces as she worked directly with her subjects depicting them with deliberate linear strokes. The contained settings of her, “Studio Interiors,” engage the viewers with dynamic, flattened compositions. The studio paintings reflect Schwartz’s long history of using her space as her subject matter. In the studio, where she created stage sets using books, bottles, and the architecture of the space, she was constantly arranging, re-arranging, adding, and subtracting objects in each painting. Schwartz played with the scale of her space using bottles and jars set against the backdrop of large blocks of color, which was then set against a window to the exterior of her studio in New Rochelle, NY. In paintings, prints and drawings, Schwartz explained that she focused on composition and the interplay of color, light and space.
Boston Globe correspondent, Cate McQuaid, writes of her work, "She maps her works onto a grid, so at first glance they appear flat, gestural, and purely abstract. But look again: It's a studio space [...] Each gesture, each block of color is a playing card in the house of cards that is this space. One shift, and the scene threatens to collapse delightfully into abstraction."
Peri Schwartz’s work can be found in many public and museum collections including the British Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, LACMA, the Harvard Art Museums, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, the Victoria & Albert Museum, and most recently the Philadelphia Museum of Art.