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Peri Schwartz
Studio 2015
Studio XLIV 2017 48x38
Studio XLIII 2016 46x38
Studio XLII 2016 44x38
Studio XXXIX 2015 50x40
Studio XXXVII 2015 52x44
It is essential for me to work directly from life. For the past fifteen years the subject has been the interior of my studio and a collection of bottles
and jars filled with beautiful liquids. One might expect this narrow subject matter to be limiting. On the contrary, the exercise allows me to
uncover a seemingly boundless reserve of compositions, colors, and surfaces.
The history of each image is often visible in the traces of grid lines or the ghosts of objects I reposition.
The viewer has a sense of observing the painting's progression in this way, as if working through the
compositional puzzle along with me. Process is paramount, and my paintings and drawings
are more investigations or studies of an object than polished final products
and jars filled with beautiful liquids. One might expect this narrow subject matter to be limiting. On the contrary, the exercise allows me to
uncover a seemingly boundless reserve of compositions, colors, and surfaces.
The history of each image is often visible in the traces of grid lines or the ghosts of objects I reposition.
The viewer has a sense of observing the painting's progression in this way, as if working through the
compositional puzzle along with me. Process is paramount, and my paintings and drawings
are more investigations or studies of an object than polished final products
Studio 2011 - 2014
Studio XXXV 2014 52x44
Studio XXXIV 2013 54x44
Studio XXXIII 2013 52x46
Studio XXXV 2014 52x44
Portraits
Cody 2009 Monotype 34x21
Marieke - 2009 Monotype 52x21
Marieke II - 2009 Monotype 34x20