Date: June 21-July 14
Artist's Preview: Saturday, June 21
Artist's Reception: July 5, 4-6pm
Location: Kaaterskill Fine Arts, Route 23A, Main Street, Hunter, NY
Hours: Monday, Friday, Saturday 10am-6pm; Sunday 10am-5pm
Information: 518 263 2060

Paintings By George A. Peterson
Although the focus of his painting is color and texture, George Peterson considers himself an "objective" painter. His paintings depict things you can recognize, but he's most interested in interactions of color, texture, line, and shape. The unifying element of his work is objective form, expressively rendered. George believes that paint is capable of creating form and simultaneously expressing its own essence. He loves moving paint across canvas and generally paints with large brushes. His paintings require many sessions as the surfaces are progressively built up. Colors and forms are altered and move with each new layer. As paint layers overlap, older layers of dried paint interact with strokes of fresh, wet paint; creating energizing textures and color juxtapositions at the same time as forms emerge and evolve.

George says, "I paint cows because I grew up on dairy farm. And I paint cows in series because I find that their bulky mass lends itself to experimentation with color combinations and infinite variations in color and texture. But true to my roots as an 'objective' painter, I do try to capture the essence of the cow personality in each of my paintings. The same can be said for my paintings of black bears, which I also paint in series. These massive animals are frequent summer visitors to the blue-berry-laden meadow behind my Catskill studio. I apply the same painting principles and methods to my paintings of the human figure. I often paint series of seated figures. One of my goals is to create paintings which have an atmosphere—one which the viewer can feel....a small world in effect....a mysterious one....one open to many interpretations, but one whose meaning remains illusive."