Selected Works

Miles McEnery Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by David Allan Peters, on view 11 July through 23 August 2024. Accompanying the exhibition is a fully illustrated digital publication featuring an essay by Stephen Wozniak. 

David Allan Peters’ sixth solo exhibition with the gallery presents ten paintings, including the largest work the artist has created over the course of his twenty-five year career. Rooted in process, Peters begins each work by layering acrylic-bound pigments on plywood panels in a chromatic spectrum of electric hues. After building up each panel with an inch of paint and letting it dry, he uses a lino cutter to carve into the surface, revealing the strata of colors beneath. 

The finished paintings reverberate with color, texture, and movement. With a closer look at the seemingly spontaneous compositions, the viewer notices that the precise carvings follow measured patterns and grids. Stephen Wozniak, upon leaving Peters’ studio, recounts: “I think about two inescapable features that viewers readily see in his work: the cascade of color-riddled forms—rushing, relentless, free—and the gridwork that conveys a sense of stability in the face of chaos.”