Peter Waite | Paintings 1995-1996/ "it's like déjà vu all over again"

On view October 4 – November 15 , 2016

Art reception on October 14  Friday 6 – 8:30 pm

EBK Gallery [small works].
218 Pearl St.
Hartford, CT

 

Paintings 1995-1996/ “it’s like déjà vu all over again”

The 19 paintings in this exhibition were part of a series of 35 that were first shown at the Edward Thorp Gallery, NYC in 1996.

For this series I sought out locations that required special permission to visit and document: “super max” prisons; execution chambers; court rooms; casinos; hospital operating theaters and corporate board rooms.  All of these places represented a kind of mid-1990’s “growth industry” and for each location a certain amount of red tape was involved in order to gain access.  Because of the volume of images, I decided to work on a smaller scale than before. Single aluminum panels were fabricated for each image. Simply bent at the top and bottom, each hovers off the wall, the aluminum surface is hard and cold while the back side is grey and metallic.

The paired images of “Electric Chair” and “Jury Box” (the latter painting is not in the show) represent the often ironic connections which I look for.  Both share decidedly centered vantage points, be it looking “in to” or “out from”, and the single wooden and leather electric chair and the similar twelve juror’s chairs appear to have been made by the same hand.

I want to thank Eric Ben-Kiki for the opportunity to show some of the series again, it seems the “growth industries” that I depicted twenty years ago still remain in place…as Yogi said: “it’s like déjà vu all over again”. -P.W.

 

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Electric Chair / Jury Box

 

The two images shown are available as a signed fine art print.
The stacked diptych is 22 x 30 inches overall (paper size) with each image at 6 1/2 x 17 inches.

Also available in any of the images: Actual size (to the original painting 20 x 50 inches) low tack full color “sticky back” print of each which can be placed anywhere on a wall.

The paired images of “Electric Chair” and “Jury Box” (the latter painting is not in the show) represent the often ironic connections which I look for.  Both share decidedly centered vantage points, be it looking “in to” or “out from”, and the single wooden and leather electric chair and the similar twelve juror’s chairs appear to have been made by the same hand.

 

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For over 25 years I have made large scale paintings that document my travels — real visits to real places — to sites of the built environment that embody public sentiment or ideological concerns. Stadiums, formal gardens, bridges, museums, monuments, palaces, train stations, schools, prisons, casinos, corporate board rooms, suburban and urban housing, and ancient temples, are some of the locations that I have depicted. My interest lies in the intersection of personal and social memory. I have intentionally omitted the figure from the representation to emphasize the viewer’s participation as witness to the moment of perceiving, then remembering, these architectural spaces. In my studio, I work in acrylic on rigid panels and use an equal combination of photographs, memory, and sketches done on location, to complete the painting. Typically, the scale of my paintings is large and can range from 4 feet x 6 feet to 8 feet x 12 feet.

Travel, far and near, being there, has always been crucial to my work as a painter. I often target specific cities: Paris, Vienna, Rome, London, and most recently Liverpool and Leeds in the UK. Closer to home, I have been to Cincinnati and Chicago to develop a series of paintings about these cities, covering not only the well known or iconic, but also the more mundane or universal setting, like a subway station or stairwell. My goal has always been to make the known, unknown and the ordinary, extraordinary.

 

CV / Resume

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2016   Winston Wachter Fine Art/New York NY

2015   Carl Solway Gallery/Cincinnati OH

2013   Winston Wachter Fine Art/New York NY

            Winston Wachter Fine Art/Seattle WA

2011   Winston Wachter Fine Art/Seattle WA

2010   Winston Wachter Fine Art/New York NY

            John Slade Ely House/New Haven CT

2009   University of Connecticut/

Contemporary Art Galleries/Storrs CT

2008   Winston Wachter Fine Art/Seattle WA

2007   Edward Thorp Gallery/New York NY

             New Britain Museum of American Art/New Britain CT

2006   Winston Wachter Fine Art/Seattle WA

2005   Edward Thorp Gallery/New York NY

2003   Real Art Ways/Hartford CT

2002   Edward Thorp Gallery/New York NY

2001   Edward Thorp Gallery/New York NY

1999   RAW Gallery, Real Arts Ways/Hartford CT

1998   Zilkha Art Gallery, Wesleyan University/Middletown CT

1997   Winston Wachter Fine Art/New York NY

1996   Edward Thorp Gallery/New York NY

            Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage/Glen Ellyn IL     catalog

1995   Williams College Museum of Art/Williamstown MA     catalog

1994   Edward Thorp Gallery/New York NY

             Carl Solway Gallery/Cincinnati OH     catalog

1993   ZONE Art Center/Springfield MA

1992   Damon Brandt Gallery/New York NY

1991   University of Missouri-Kansas City Gallery of Art/

Kansas City MO     catalog

1990   Damon Brandt Gallery/New York NY

1988   Damon Brandt Gallery/New York NY

1987   Atrium Gallery, University of Connecticut/Storrs CT

1982   Artists Space/New York NY

            Real Art Ways/Hartford CT

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008    Connecticut Biennial 2008 Mattatuck Museum/Waterbury CT

2007     Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art/Hartford CT

              “CT Contemporary”

2005     Edward Thorp Gallery/New York NY

2003     Edward Thorp Gallery/New York NY

               The Aldrich Museum/Ridgefield CT     “A River Half Empty”

               New Britain Museum of American Art/New Britain CT

             “LeWitt’s LeWitts: From the Collection of Carol & Sol LeWitt”

2002     Edward Thorp Gallery/New York NY

2001     Gallery 2211/Los Angeles CA

1999     George Adams Gallery/New York NY     “Mumia 911”

               1199 Gallery/New York NY     “Mumia 911”

1998     Orlando Museum of Art/Orlanda FL

              The Edward R. Broida Collection

               Edward Thorp Gallery/New York NY

               DFN Gallery/New York NY     “Surfing the Surface”

1997     Edward Thorp Gallery/New York NY

              Real Art Ways/Hartford CT     “Heaven and Hell”

1996     Edward Thorp Gallery/New York NY

1995     The Aldrich Museum/Ridgefield CT     “Drawn on the Museum”

               Edward Thorp Gallery/New York NY

1994     Carl Solway Gallery/Cincinnati OH     “Desire and Loss”

               Edward Thorp Gallery/New York NY

1992     BlumHelman/New York NY

              John Stoller Gallery/Minneapolis MN

              Wadsworth Atheneum/Hartford CT     “The Colt Four”

              BlumHelman Warehouse/New York NY

              Tomoko Liguori Gallery/New York NY

              David Beitzel Gallery/New York NY     Projects Room

             “The Highgate Series”     catalog

1991     DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park/Lincoln MA

              9 Artists/9 Visions”     catalog

1990     Real Art Ways/Hartford CT     “15 Years of RAW”

1989     Wilson Arts Center, The Harley School/Rochester NY

              “Past Tense”

              Wadsworth Atheneum/Hartford CT     “Recent Acquisitions”

1988     Sherry French Gallery/New York NY

              The Wichita Art Museum/Wichita KS

              The National Academy of Science/Washington DC

              “Charged: Places and Things”

1986     Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School/West Hartford CT

              “Invitational Alumni Exhibition”

              ZONE Art Center/Springfield MA

              “John Constable Landscape Series”

1983     Real Arts Ways/Hartford CT     “Space Invaders”

1982     Alternative Museum/New York NY     “Visual Politics”

              Sutton Gallery/New York NY

1981     Wadsworth Atheneum/Hartford CT

              “Artworks at the Atheneum”

1980     Mid-Way Gallery, University of Chicago/Chicago IL

              “Mid-Way between Comedy and Art”

1979     N.A.M.E. Gallery/Chicago IL     “Daley’s Tomb”

              ARC Gallery/Chicago IL

1977     New Britain Museum of American Art/New Britain CT

              “Apperceptions”

 

SELECTED PUBLIC & PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

The New Britain Museum of American Art/New Britain CT

The Baron Collection/West Hartford CT

Edward Albert Collection/Chappaqua NY

The Cartin Collection/Hartford CT

Benton Museum/Storrs CT

The Edward R. Broida Collection

Williams College Museum of Art/Williamstown MA

Metropolitan Museum of Art/New York NY

Wadsworth Atheneum/Hartford CT

NASA/Washington DC

New School/New York NY

Palm Springs Desert Museum/Palm Springs CA

SELECTED COMMISSIONS

Laurel Hall, University of Connecticut/Storrs CT
(Art in Public Spaces, Connecticut Commission on the Arts)

Pacific Enterprises/Los Angeles CA

NASA Art Program

Sheraton Hotel/Hartford CT

Waterbury Criminal Court/Waterbury CT
(Art in Public Spaces, Connecticut Commission on the Arts)

GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS

2006      Gottlieb Foundation

2003      Berkshire Taconic Artist Resource Trust

1995      Guggenheim Fellowship

               Connecticut Commission on the Arts

1994      Pollock-Krasner Foundation

1983      National Endowment for the Arts

1979      Connecticut Commission on the Arts

1977      Connecticut Commission on the Arts

1975      Ryerson Fellowship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

 

 

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