Peri Schwartz:
Self Portraits & Studio Paintings
On View: January 8 – 30 2021
“The exhibition comprises a mix of both studio paintings as well as self-portraits dating to the 80s and 90s. The studio paintings reflect Schwartz’s long history of using her space as her subject matter. In the studio, where she creates stage sets using books, bottles, and the architecture of the space, she is constantly arranging, re-arranging, adding, and subtracting objects in each painting. Schwartz plays with the scale of her space using bottles and jars set against the backdrop of large blocks of color, which is then set against a window to the exterior of her studio in New Rochelle, NY. Her palette is filled with both pastel and vibrant tones and often punctuated by sharp black.”
Peri Schwartz
Peri Schwartz (born 1951) passed away in 2021 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Schwartz was born and based in New York, began her studies at Boston University’s School of Fine Arts, and continued on to Queens College to receive her Masters of Fine Arts.
Realism and abstraction come together in her pieces as she worked directly with her subjects depicting them with deliberate linear strokes. The contained settings of her, “Studio Interiors,” engage the viewers with dynamic, flattened compositions. The studio paintings reflect Schwartz’s long history of using her space as her subject matter. In the studio, where she created stage sets using books, bottles, and the architecture of the space, she was constantly arranging, re-arranging, adding, and subtracting objects in each painting. Schwartz played with the scale of her space using bottles and jars set against the backdrop of large blocks of color, which was then set against a window to the exterior of her studio in New Rochelle, NY. In paintings, prints and drawings, Schwartz explained that she focused on composition and the interplay of color, light and space.
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