Peter Sacks "Paintings"

Paul Rodgers/9W Gallery

poster for Peter Sacks "Paintings"

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Paul Rodgers / 9W Gallery presents “Paintings,” an exhibition by American painter Peter Sacks. The exhibition consists of painting and collage in mixed media and in a variety of formats which extend to the monumental. The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue, commissioned by the gallery, with full color illustrations, featuring a substantial essay by celebrated author and New Yorker critic, Louis Menand.

“Paintings,” is the first opportunity for the New York art scene to experience Peter Sacks’s exciting and expansive art that incorporates found objects, lace, cardboard, cloth and manually type-written text, along with the whole range of painting technique. Sacks’s paintings serve as a visual record of his life experiences and travels and are both familiar and strikingly unique. The rich, highly saturated canvases and works on panel appear battered yet luminous, distressed but filled with resilient vitality. Sacks’s works are immensely detailed and each layer exposes another dimension of complexity. Their labor intensive, archaeological density and their transformative blend of materials give them the feeling of ritual sites or objects. Viewing a Sacks painting is an event that becomes increasingly significant with time - each layer introduces a new emotion, motif or experience, and embodies an important moment in the life of the artist and our own history.

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Schedule

from October 29, 2009 to January 30, 2010

Opening Reception on 2009-10-29 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Peter Sacks

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