Peri Schwartz

Tony's Weights Revisited #7, 2007

Monotype

Image size: 19 5/8" x 19 1/4"

Paper size: 29 3/4" x 22"

Estimated value: $1800

Printed at CCP by Anthony Kirk

Peri Schwartz grew up in Far Rockaway, NY, and began her studies at Boston University's School of Fine Arts receiving a BFA, and continued on to Queens College to receive her Masters of Fine Arts. Realism and abstraction come together in her pieces as she works directly with her subjects depicting them with deliberate linear strokes. The contained settings of her most recent work, "Studio Interiors", engage the viewers with dynamic, flattened compositions. In paintings, prints and drawings, Schwartz explains that she focuses on composition and the interplay of color, light and space.

Boston Globe correspondent, Cate McQuaid, writes of her work, "She maps her works onto a grid, so at first glance they appear flat, gestural, and purely abstract. But look again: It's a studio space [...] Each gesture, each block of color is a playing card in the house of cards that is this space. One shift, and the scene threatens to collapse delightfully into abstraction."

Peri has an extensive exhibition record in both the US and abroad. Her work is included in collections internationally, among them the Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria; the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK; Biblioteca Nacional de Espana, Madrid, Spain; Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris, France; the Boston Public Library, Boston, MA; Davison Art Center, Middletown, CT; Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Janet Turner Print Museum, Chico, CA; the Library of Congress, Washington, DC: the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Minneapolis Art Institute, Minneapolis, MN; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR; Staatliche Museum, Berlin, Germany; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK; the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA; the Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ.