Peter Pinchbeck "Paintings"
Gary Snyder Project Space
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Gary Snyder/Project Space presents an exhibition of paintings by Peter Pinchbeck (1931 – 2000). The exhibition runs in conjunction with an exhibition of Pinchbeck’s sculpture and works on paper at Luise Ross Gallery (511 West 25th Street, January 17th through March 14th - luiserossgallery.com).
Originally from Brighton, on the south coast of England, Pinchbeck moved to New York City in 1960, where he was in uenced by the second generation of Abstract Expressionists and the new movements towards minimalism. Pinchbeck was featured in the “Primary Structures” exhibition at the Jewish Museum in 1966. His 1971 solo exhibition at the Paley & Lowe Gallery consisted of wooden boards extending into space “with the equivalence of a gesture or perhaps a thought,” Carter Ratcli noted in an ArtNews review.
In the 1970s, Pinchbeck returned to painting, limiting himself to a formal vocabulary of rectangles oating on colored elds. In the 1980s, his work became increasingly gestural and expressive, an evolution that continued throughout his life. In Pinchbeck’s obituary in The New York Times, (September 13, 2000) Roberta Smith writes: “In the 1990s his colors heated up and his shapes became more playful, eventually evolving into buoyant, barbell volumes that appeared, paradoxically, to be continuous with the light- lled space they inhabited”.
Pinchbeck was eloquent in describing his own work, believing that abstraction remained a viable way to explore the nature of consciousness, the history of art, and the latest ideas in physics and philosophy.
[Image: Peter Pinchbeck "Yearning for the In nite" (1990) oil on canvas, 48 x 66 in.]
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from January 07, 2009 to February 28, 2009