Peter Brooke & Peri Schwartz:
Works on Paper
On View: January 3 – 25, 2020
Reception: Friday, January 3, 6 — 8pm
Peter Brooke
Peter Brooke has exhibited his landscape-based paintings regularly for the past fifteen years in Boston, in New York, and in many other sites throughout New England and along the East Coast. During this time the work has evolved considerably, from depictions of dark, foreboding Delaware wetlands to vaulting atmospheres gathering above the Irish coast to inventions, in the vocabulary of the Vermont hill country, in which trees appear to be forming out of thin air or dissolving out of existence.
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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.
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