Posts Tagged ‘Peggy Bates’
Channels
Peggy Bates
October 20 – November 26, 2011
Presenting new acrylic paintings on canvas by abstract artist Peggy Bates in an exhibition entitled Channels inspired by the artist’s recent observations of light and color in California’s Channel Islands. Although Bates’ experiences with the landscape and seascape in her frequent travels inspire her work, her oeuvre is not landscape painting per se. They seem to be painted from a different angle than traditional landscapes. Looking at her work is like experiencing the land and the sea from the sky, with the horizon outside of one’s point of view. Bates encourages viewers to look, not for the facts of landscape, but for a remembered sense of air, land and water. What we see in Channels is carefully constructed, non-objective painting based on memory of ocean and land. Bates revisits her memories by creating a robust iconography that has a charmingly lyrical feel to it. Vivid hues of poured blues, greens, and oranges contrast and interact with pale blue, lavender or grey grounds. In Bates’ work, the active synthesis of hard-edged shapes and pale, flat grounds is uncommon. This is not simple figure-ground painting, and the fields in the paintings are never static. Following Bates’ colors on their journeys through imagined space is a joyful experience. As our eyes wander about in one of her paintings, we become aware of the breadth and depth of Bates’ vision, and of her bold attempt at designing a new, non-art-historical, abstract painting.
Peggy Bates
By deftly pouring bright acrylic onto smoothly primed canvases, Bates creates expressive, if elusive, vistas. The vivid paint runnels convey a palpable sense of shifting gravity while the varying opacities blend into transitions as smooth as flowing tides. In a few pieces, squiggled skeins of color convey dynamic energy like the spikes of an EKG monitor, fusing a technological frisson to Bates’s organic imagery.
EDUCATION
1990 Master of Fine Arts, Hunter College, New York, NY
1981 Bachelor of Arts, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
2011 Thomas Jaeckel Gallery, Channels, New York, NY
2008 Thomas Jaeckel Gallery, Barachois, New York, NY
2004 Neil Stevenson Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY
2001 John Gibson Gallery, Silver Water Paintings, New York, NY
1998 Tobey Fine Arts, Water, Rocks, New York, NY
1996 Black & Herron, New York, NY
1995 Black & Greenberg Gallery, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 Art Wynwood, Thomas Jaeckel Gallery, Miami, FL
2011 Creon Gallery, Space Perception, New York, NY
Jason McCoy Gallery 70 Years of Abstract Painting – Excerpts, New York, NY
2010 AQUA Art Miami, Thomas Jaeckel Gallery, Miami, FL
Thomas Jaeckel Gallery, Some are Painting, New York, NY
2009 Pool Art Fair, Me,Me,Me, Wyndam Garden Hotel, New York, New York
2007 Bluetenweiss, Drawings, Berlin, Germany
ICD, Transformation, Art Connects, New York, New York, NY
2006 Sikkema Jenkins & Co., Postcards from the Edge, Visual AIDS Benefit, New York, NY
Sakiko Gallery, Undergrowth, curated by Stephanie Buhmann, New York, NY
2005 Annina Nosei Gallery, Everland, New York, NY
Schweinfurth Art Center, Color Theory, Auburn, NY
Morsel Gallery, Bam! Boom! Bang!, Brooklyn, NY
2004 Michael Steinberg Fine Art, In Polytechnicolor, New York, NY
LMCC@Donna Karan, Splash, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY
White Columns, Benefit for Groundswell, New York, NY
Kenise Barnes Fine Art, In Color, Larchmont, NY
2003 Neil Stevenson Fine Art, Scope Art Fair, New York, NY
Educational Alliance Gallery, Some (Are) Painting II, curated by David Gibson, New York, NY
Hamden Gallery, Liminal, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mass
Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Affordable Art Fair, New York, NY
Heskin Contemporary Art, Affordable Art Fair, New York, NY
2002 Kenise Barnes Fine Art, In a Box, Larchmont, N
Bellwether, Benefit Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY
Fundacion Valparaiso, Almanzora, Mojacar, Almeria, Spain
Culture Road Show, POP, curated by IT Management, Champagne-Pommery, New York, NY
Kenise Barnes Gallery, Spill, Larchmont, NY
Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery, Suspend and Levitate, Lebanon Valley, PA
Kenise Barnes Gallery, Affordable Art Fair, New York, NY
Venezuelan Center, The Consulate of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, New York, NY
2001 John Gibson Gallery, Some (Are) Painting, New York, NY
2000 John Gibson Gallery, Gallery Artists Group Exhibition, New York, NY
Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Yaddo Painters Group Show, Brooklyn, NY
Theater for the New City, All-Over, New York, NY
1999 John Gibson Gallery, Project Room: Aqua Project, New York, NY
Gale Gates et al., Size Matters, Curated by Mike Weiss, Brooklyn, NY
Pierogi 2000, Flatfile, Brooklyn, NY
Artists Space, Night of 1,000 Drawings, New York, NY
1998 John Gibson Gallery, Project Room: Sliver of Silver, New York, NY
Kunst + Technik, Urban Process, Berlin, Germany
Pierogi 2000, Flatfile, Brooklyn, NY
Velocity Gallery, Libertine, Brooklyn, NY
Tate, Project Room: Ripple Paintings, New York, NY
1997 The Gramercy International Contemporary Art Fair, 4th Annual, New York, NY
Stichting Kunst en Complex, Input-Output, Rotterdam, Netherlands
1996 Centrum Beeldende Kunst Rotterdam,Neighbourhood, Rotterdam, Netherlands
1995 Stichting Kunst en Complex, Donker, Erg Donker, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Renegade Space, Buoys/Marking the Place, New York, NY
1994 Thread Waxing Space, Cummington Community of the Arts Group Exhibition, New York, NY
Lehman College Art Gallery/Krasdale Corporation, The Art of Discovery, Bronx, NY
Salena Gallery, Long Island University, Where is the Moon, Brooklyn, NY
1992 Artists Space, Neurotic Art, curated by Four Walls Gallery, New York, NY
La Galeria en El Bohio, Independents, New York, NY
1991 Minor Injury, Private Into Public, Brooklyn, NY
Times Square Gallery, Hunter College, Reconfiguring Bodies/Reconceiving Selves, New York, NY
Black & White In Color Gallery, Five Artists/Five Boroughs, Bronx, NY
Times Square Gallery, Hunter College, The Decade Show, New York, NY
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2010 “Abstraction: Informers and the Informed”, by Peggy Roalf, Design Arts Daily,, 2010
2008 “Peggy Bates, “Barachois”, by R.C Baker, Village Voice, & www.villagevoice.com, November 4, 2008, New York, NY
“Peggy Bates, “Water Ripples”, articalprojectsblogspot.com, October 9, 2008, New York, NY
“Surreal Encounters in Chelsea,” by Bill Bradley, www.vanityfair.com, October, 20, 2008, New York, NY
2003 “Front Page: New York Fairs Provoke and Promise,” by David Ebony, Art in America, May, 2003, New York, NY
2002 “Paint All by Itself”, by Dominick Lombardi, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, The New York Times, June 2002, New York, NY
2001 “Some (Are) Painting, John Gibson Gallery” by Ken Johnson, The New York Times, June 2001, New York, NY
“Peggy Bates, “Water Ripples”, www.articlemagazine.com, Winter/Spring 2001, New York, NY
2000 Peggy Bates, Featured Artist, www.liquitex.com, 2000
1998 “Peggy Bates at Tobey Fine Arts,” by David Ebony, Art in America, Nov. 1998, New York, NY
“Peggy Bates, “Water Rocks” by David Gibson, Zingmagazine, June, 1998, New York, NY
“Peggy Bates, Tobey Fine Arts”, by Stuart Nicholson, Cover Magazine, May, 1998, New York, NY
Current Top Picks: “Peggy Bates”, by Saul Anton, CitySearch.com, Feb, 1998
1996 “Context/Content”, Buixenpost, January 1996, Rottedam, Netherlands
“Buoys/Marking the Place”, Catalog by Bill Bace, Renegade Space, 1996, New York, NY
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2002 Fundacion Valparaiso, Residency Fellowship, Mojacar, Almeria, Spain
2001 The Hambidge Center, Residency Fellowship, Hambidge, GA
1999 The MacDowell Colony, Residency Fellowship, Peterborough, NH
1997 Atlantic Center for the Arts, Residency Fellowship, New Smyrna Beach, FL
1996 Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc., Grant, New York, NY
1995 Netherland-America Foundation, Grant, New York, NY
Stichting Kunst en Complex, Residency Fellowship, Rotterdam, Netherlands
1994 Yaddo, Residency Fellowship, John H. Tinker Award, Saratoga Springs, NY
1993 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Residency Fellowship, Sweet Briar, VA
1992 Yaddo, Residency Fellowship, Saratoga Springs, NY
ASSISTANTSHIPS
1992 Hunter College, The City University of New York, Teaching Assistantship, New York, NY
1987 La Galeria en El Bohio, Assistant Curator and preparator of benefit exhibition for the “National Sanctuary Defense Fund”, George Moore, Director, New York, NY
SELECTED CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
2000 Champagne-Pommery, Reims, France
Deutsche Bank, Contemporary Art Collection, New York, NY
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
Pfizer, Inc., New York, NY
Saks Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Sony Corporation of America, New York, NY
Barachois
Peggy Bates
October 16 – November 11, 2008
532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel presents “Barachois,” a series of new paintings by Peggy Bates in which the artist continues her fascination with the signification and expressivity of organic form as a direct charismatic link to the natural world.