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."