Barry Peterson

Biography

Available upon request

Artist Statement

It is hard to describe the thing that binds together the work of an artist, architect and printmaker, but here is a very brief attempt; An architect focuses not so much on the masses of walls, floor and roof, but on the voids, the spaces and light that occur between them. As an artist I tend to focus on motion, gesture—especially in my figurative work. As a printmaker it is not so much the objects I depict that matter most, but the atmosphere that holds them fixed and still. In all cases it seems to be the elusive things that exist because of, and adjacent to, the solid, matter-of-fact and very tangible things in the world. Somebody has to make a case for all that lies between. Yes?

Art Education

Studied a myriad of subjects in my 15 years of higher education including ceramics, painting, drawings, marine biology, botany, physics, and architecture. Schools I have attended are UC Santa Cruz, San Francisco State, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Academy of Art College in San Francisco. I was an apprentice architect at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin / Taliesin West , studied drawing under Michael Markowitz and recently finished a printmaking workshop at Crown Point Press in SF.