Peri Schwartz
Reverberations: Fifty Years of Still Lifes
On View: April 3–May 2, 2026
Reception: Friday, April 3, 4–6 pm
Making things up bored Schwartz; she wasn’t interested in recording the imaginative associations of her own mind. She craved the sustained attention required of direct observation. It is a marvel, almost a contradiction, that the finished work appears so spacious and free, like an improvisation. Within the rules she imposed on herself, Schwartz found creative liberation.
—Cody Upton, Executive Director of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Peri Schwartz
Peri Schwartz passed away in 2021 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Her work is included in numerous national and international collections, including Bibliothèque Nationale de France, The British Museum, The Denver Art Museum, Harvard Art Museums, LACMA, The Library of Congress, The MFA Boston, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Portland Art Museum, and the Victoria & Albert Museum.