JON PETERS

I aim for an architectural dynamic in my paintings that reports experience and a sense of something made well with the appropriate materials.   For me, each painting is its own little utopian universe. The goal of my work is to seduce the viewer and once seduced to entice the viewer to have a closer look. Color and surface are the vehicle for my images, and I immerse myself in detail.  My work is about process, the sanding and applying of layers whether it is lacquer, epoxy, encaustic or acrylic.  I enjoy the cadence of my work.  My ultimate goal is a one dimensional object that appears three dimensional-in color, surface and edge.

Works on Paper

I feel that the constant bombardment of imagery whether through television, movies, advertisements and internet make the idea of coming up with an original image an almost impossible task.  It is with this admission that I give myself the freedom of what I consider sampling.  By taking a well known image from a well known artist and aligning it with another image, not only gives the piece a different perspective but acknowledges the importance of the original piece.

-Jon Peters 2004

Born: 1968

Education:    

Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ
Parsons School of Design, New York, NY

Solo Exhibitions:

2004	"Lick", Bettcher Gallery, Miami, FL
2001	"Cuts" Laurel Tracey Gallery, Red Bank, NJ
1999	"Clamour and Silence" Laurel Tracey Gallery, Red Bank, NJ
1998	Fairleigh Dickinson University, The Stadler-Zenner Academic Building, Beverly & Robert   Chell Lounge, Madison, New Jersey
1997	The Paterson Museum, Paterson, NJ Watchung Arts Center, Watchung, NJ
1993	Franklin Lakes Gallery, Franklin Lakes, NJ

Group Exhibitions:

2004	Bettcher Gallery, "This is What You Want", Miami, FL
2002	Laurel Tracey Gallery, "Art in America Contemporary Painting", Red Bank, NJ
2002	Laurel Tracey Gallery, "Paper and Steel", Red Bank, NJ
2001	Laurel Tracey Gallery, "Small Works", Red Bank, NJ
2000	Laurel Tracey Gallery, "Summer Sculpture Series", Red Bank, NJ
1999	Laurel Tracey Gallery, "Painting", Red Bank, NJ
1997	Two Sculptors, New York, NY Art Forms, Red Bank, NJ
1996	Monmouth Museum, NJ Juror, Joseph Jacobs, Newark Museum,
1995	South Jersey Art Show, Cherry Hill, NJ

Commissions/Special Projects:

1998	Curator, The Paterson Museum, The Winter Sculpture Exhibit, featuring the works of Michael Malpass
1994	Outdoor Sculpture fabricated from parts of silk looms.  Commissioned by The Paterson Museum,Paterson, NJ.

Newspapers/Periodicals:

Nash, Margo "Computers, Beeswax and Minerals" New York Times, December 2002
DeNicola, Linda "Cuts" The Hub, February 2001
DeNicola, Linda "Summer Sculpture Series" The Hub, July 2000
Rogers, Lois " Soho on the Navesink" The Asbury Park Press" August 2000
Traster, Tina "The Art of Collecting Art" New Jersey Savvy Living, Summer 2000
Casey, Sheilagh "Clamour and Silence" The Two River Times, November 1999
Bischoff, Dan "Two New Galleries Surface in NJ" Star-Ledger, November 1999
Flint, S.K.  “Exploring Abstraction,” Artspeak, (April 1996) pp. 22
Grant, Will.  “Emerging Artists,” Artspeak, (November 1995) pp. 11 Illus.
Kolflat, Gail.  State of the Arts, (November, December 1996)