A. D. PETERS
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A. D. Peters is an artist who has been working in a mode where medium and content are strangely interlinked – antithetical and correlated at the same time. Peters’ concerns for the natural world and his fascination with post-industrial materials play off one-another in a picturesque, poetic, and intellectually intriguing conversation. He uses the stuff of the industrial past – steel and copper – and attenuates it in concert with the forces of nature – rust and corrosion, typically a marker of waste and decay, but in Peters’ hands, a noble patina, a ground upon which the drama of his magic unfolds. From the emerging patterns of these natural processes Peters teases suggestive imagery of a pre- or para-industrial world, a wholesome world – landscapes, bucolic idylls, introspective moments of otherworldly light, and poignant declarations of eco-consciousness that resonate beyond the confines of the edges of the work.
Robert Thurmer Director, Art Gallery Cleveland State University |
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