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http://modernnyc.com/gary_petersen_brian_morris_gallery.html
Dar Dowling interviews painter Gary Petersen whose work is currently on view in the group show Tectonic Drift at Brian Morris Gallery, New York, through March 16, 2013.
Petersen comments: "The vocabulary I use has developed over time and begins with my interest in line: how line defines a space, echoes the edge and also, at times, references the figure. The geometry is both serious and playful, severe yet lyrical, all at the same time. Those contradictions, like in life, are interesting."
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http://www.haberarts.com/2012/10/second-derivative/
John Haber blogs about the resurgence of abstract painting, evident in a large number of high quality exhibitions recently on view in New York.
Haber writes: "Call me old-fashioned. Just don’t call me derivative. That put-down dogged abstraction for a long time, back when painting was, you know, dead. Since then abstraction has roared back, but by quoting - often to the point of conceptual art. So surprise, for early fall has brought no end of sincerity, with pleasures of its own."
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http://elisabethcondon.blogspot.com/2012/09/sunday-les-92312.html
In a two part post, Elisabeth Condon photoblogs paintings currently on view at New York's Lower East Side galleries including Agro Crag at Bosi Contemporary, Drew Shiflett at Lesley Heller Workspace, Line and Plane at McKenzie Fine Art, and Josh Podoll and Gina Magid at Feature, Inc.
In the accompanying post Condon features Matthew Miller at Pocket Utopia, Judy Linn at Feature Inc., Mary Weatherford at Brennan & Griffin, and Color/Forms: Doreen McCarthy and Ivelesse Jiminez at Cuchifritos.
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http://structureandimagery.blogspot.com/2012/06/there-are-no-giants-upstairs.html
Paul Behnke photoblogs images from the exhibition There Are No Giants Upstairs at Theodore:Art, Brooklyn through July 29, 2012.
The show features paintings by Chris Baker, Harriet Korman, Mel Bernstine, Gary Petersen, Steven Charles, and Andrew Seto; a group of artists that James Panero recently noted "share is a deeply felt relationship to paint and an appreciation of the magic it can conjure."
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http://leftbankartblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/art-news.html
Charles Kessler blogs about several impressive painting exhibitions currently on view at the 56 Bogart building in Bushwick, Brooklyn including: Shingo Francis: Bound For Eternity at Bogart Salon (through July 23), There Are No Giants Upstairs at Theodore:Art (through July 29), Text at Studio 10 (through July 22) and Claudia Chaseling: Infiltration at Slag Gallery (through August 30).
Kessler writes: "The best contemporary art in NYC right now can be seen in Bushwick, all in one building - 56 Bogart... [including] breathtaking wrap-around colorfield paintings by Shingo Francis... [and] Theodore:Art has one of the best shows of small abstract paintings I’ve seen in a long time."
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http://www.nyartsmagazine.com/?p=8517
Amanda Church interviews painter Gary Petersen about his work which is on view in the exhibition There Are No Giants Upstairs at Theodore:Art, Brooklyn through July 29, 2012.
Petersen remarks: "my work does not 'abstract' from nature, it is just that all these things are in you and if you are in touch with these memories they do come out in the work... [My compositions] are intuitive. I start with a line, with certain ideas or feelings in my head, and work from there. Things start to happen and I think that process is reflected in the work. Humor and contradiction are all a part of it."
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http://joannemattera.blogspot.com/2011/10/optic-nerve.html
Joanne Mattera reviews and photoblogs the exhibition Douglas Melini, Gary Petersen, Sarah Walker at McKenzie Fine Art, New York, on view through October 8, 2011.
Mattera writes: "Each [artist] is working with a geometric vocabulary and saying different things. The resulting exhibition is a retinal workout of differing planes and spatial fields, twists and folds, excavations and layers."
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http://www.twocoatsofpaint.com/2011/05/talking-walls-at-painting-center.html
Sharon Butler posts about the exhibition Wall Works, curated by Stephen Maine, at The Painting Center, NYC on view until May 21, 2011. The artists install and discuss their work in two excellent videos. Wall Works is "an exhibition of painting, drawing and installation engaging the gallery's walls as the primary support and framing device... A wall painting inflects the surrounding physical space differently than a painting-as-object does, becoming indivisible from the viewer's perception of that space."
