David Allan Peters
DAVID ALLAN PETERS
March 17 – April 16, 2016
Selected Works
Press Release
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – AMERINGER | McENERY | YOHE is pleased to announce new paintings by David Allan Peters. The exhibition will open on 17 March and will remain on view through 16 April 2016. A public reception for the artist will be held on Thursday 17 March from 6:00 to 8:00 PM.
Several thin layers of acrylic paint are the foundation of David Allan Peters’ rich, dense, and intensely intricate works.
Highly physical, patience is required in creating these deeply topographical paintings. Intuition and exploration drive Peters as he dives into the layers with a linocut knife, cutting, sculpting, slicing, and carving.
Patterns begin to pulsate and radiate throughout the work. Painting turns into sculpting and gestures mark decisions and hesitations that are made, hidden, and re-discovered again and again. Like pages of a book, the edges of each work are built up revealing the passage of time.
DAVID ALLAN PETERS was born in Cupertino, California, in 1969. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco, CA, and his Master of Fine Arts degree from Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, CA.
He has had numerous solo exhibitions, including “Super Optic,” Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, Oakland, CA; “David Allan Peters,” Royale Projects: Contemporary Art, Palm Desert, CA; “Paintings,” Marc Arranaga Contemporary Art, New York, NY; “Integrity Spiral,” Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA; and an MFA Exhibition, Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont, CA.
Recent group exhibitions include “Hello My Name Is...Los Angeles,” Royale Projects, Los Angeles, CA; “Aftermath Post-Minimal Abstraction,” Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, Oakland, CA; “Fresh,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; “Letters from Los Angeles,” Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA; “Deep Paint,” curated by Anne Martens and Jayna Zweiman, at Hudson | Linc, Los Angeles, CA; “Palette to Palate,” Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, CA; and “Spectrum,” Kellogg Gallery, Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, CA.
Peters received the Nora Bartine Memorial Award from De Anza College, Cupertino, CA, in 1994.
Peters lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.