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Exhibition Detail Peter Siegel Decades Show (Peter Siegel Retrospective) Curated by: Christine Milo 3rd Rail Studio Gallery 49 Plain Avenue New Rochelle, NY 10801 1 person has recommended this exhibit September 15th, 2007 - October 13th, 2007

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SUPPORT THE ARTS who we are what we do who we serve what's happening arts links artist directory arts resources artist opportunities Main Menu Peter Siegel 472 Gramatan Ave Mt Vernon, NY 10552 Phone: 914 699-1224 Email: psiegelonline@mac.com Website: web.mac.com/psiegelonline/iWeb Visual Artist - Primarily Painter, I Work and Play with Colored Light Key paintings by Kandinsky, Klee, Matisse & Pousette-Dart in an Atomic Particle Smasher, fuse as one click to enlarge Affiliation(s) with the Westchester Arts Council On WAC's Roster of Teaching Artists Background The Late Great Leon Golub was perhaps my most influential art instructor. It is because of his genius and humanity as well as excellence as a teacher that I was able to sustain to this day, my art journey which began in earnest as a 1st year undergraduate student at Livingston College in 1970. Leon’s visionary understanding of my painting, progress, potential and kinship with the work of Lester Johnson led me to the Yale School of Art. There Lester taught me truly amazing things about drawing and helped me forge and negotiate a powerful synthesis of the NY School of Abstract Expressionism (my first “training ground”), with my figurative work influenced by Matisse and the Fauves, The Blue Rider Group, the early 20th century German Expressionists and Leon Golub as well. Lester introduced me to Jay Milder, and Peter Dean, two extraordinary painters, and magical spirits, who offered me understanding, hope, friendship, encouragement, feedback, inspiration, and a personal glimpse into the world of The Rhino Horn Group Painters. He also introduced me to Bill Barell, already living in Jersey City, NJ when I moved there. Bill and I became very good friends; he opened his studio and home to me. He helped connect me to the raw, burgeoning art scene of...

Comment by: psiegelonline on Friday 08/03/07 at 11:21 AM

NY Times Art Review

THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, JULY 9, 1995 ________________________________________________________________________ ART REVIEW A Modern Sensibility at Work in New Jersey ____________________ By William Zimmer ____________________ PAINTINGS BY PETER SIEGEL Shoe-String Gallery 111 First Street, Jersey City Through July 22. Open only on Satur- days 11A..M. to 4 P.M., or by appoint- ment (201) 429-5018   Peter Siegel’s “Jersey City Undercover” ___________________________________ A MODERN sensibility is at work at the Shoe-String Gallery in Jersey City. Peter Siegel is changing over, shifting from making paintings crammed full of rather fierce-looking human and animal heads to becoming an abstract painter favoring allover shades that summon up either geraniums or mangoes. But the shift is occurring on the same piece of canvas. Using thick acrylic paint, Mr. Siegel is painting over his heads, and even though the paint is thick enough to produce a lumpy texture reminiscent of goose bumps, the forms still show through spectrally. Mr. Siegel compares his transition to the major shifts made by Jackson Pollock and Philip Guston but he also knows that by in effect building a wall in front of formerly living presences, he is acting a bit audaciously. Perhaps that accounts...

Comment by: psiegelonline on Friday 08/03/07 at 11:20 AM

Art Which is Without End

ART WHICH IS WITHOUT END First entering Peter Siegel's studio I felt a great energy surge. It was all red energy. I immediately thought of the Egyptian temples which were equipped with many long tunnels, each of them with a specific color, where a patient would walk through to be healed. The harmonics of color intensity is curative. Mr. Siegel's paintings bathed me with their energies. Hindus wear certain colors in correspondence with planetary conjunctions. Through western art education we have been denied the knowledge of the proprieties of color harmonics which are understood and revered in most oriental cultures and in Tantric art, pure art is non-referential, it is a symbol which has too many facets to be given a name to. Mr. Siegel's work could be understood as a manifestation of essence and as an articulation of molecular energy. Art is a quest to understand the workings and flow of nature, its grand design. Einstein, in rebuttal to Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, based on the theology of the arbitrary stated: "God doesn't play dice with the universe" meaning that nature has a divine order. Mr. Siegel is in search for a divine, hidden order which is not found by linear, rational means. He states that his art is not about making a window by which to look through. The painting is experiential, a living entity. The platonic, eastern concept "We reach God through revelation", versus the Aristotelian window-box philosophy and the Marcel Duchamp materialism which are based on the proposition of reaching God through the intellect. The collective unconscious of the western worlds 'new brain linear' and, therefore schizophrenic, characterized by the split between mind and spirit, conscious and unconscious. Art that emanates primarily from the linear new brain doesn't help us to be more truly holistic. In experiencing Mr.-Siegel's work I percd4ved that the new brain couldn't hold the non-image of his recent paintings. At that point of inner frustration...

Comment by: psiegelonline on Friday 08/03/07 at 11:16 AM

Exhibition Resume

EXHIBITION RESUME 2007- One Man “Decades” Show, 3rd Rail Studio Gallery, New Rochelle, NY 2007- Best of Westchester Waterworks Exhibit, Iona College, New Rochelle, NY 2006- Best of Westchester Waterworks Exhibit, Iona College, New Rochelle, NY 2005- Fuse exhibit, Multimedia Performance Dance Studio, Norwalk, CT 2005- Exhibit, Pain, Spine and Sports Treatment Center, Hartsdale NY 2005- Exhibit, Jay Lombard Neurology Clinic, Pomona, NY 2004- NYSATA Members Exhibit- Rye, NY 2000- Z Gallery, NY, NY 1999-Het Jan Gallerie, Rotterdam, NL 1998-Shoe String Gallery, Jersey City, NJ 1998-110 First St. Community Gallery, Jersey City NJ 1997-New Artists, City Hall, Jersey City, NJ 1996- Best of Jersey City Exhibit, Grace Church, Jersey City, NJ 1995-New Artists Exhibit, City Hall, Jersey City, NJ 1995 Annual Studio Tour, Jersey City, NJ 1994- 1st Annual Studio Tour, Jersey City, NJ 1991-Studio Visit/Exhibit, Jersey City, NJ 1990-Yale under Fire Show, 44 Wooster St Gallery, NY, NY 1989- Muscle Beach Gallery, NY, NY 1985- NYSTA- Lincoln Center, NY, NY 1983- BAHA Center, Mural Exhibit, East Village, NY 1982-Red Parrot Gallery, NY, NY 1981-All Fools Show, Williamsburg, NY 1981- Heads Show- PS1, NY, NY 1978- Heads, Masks and Figures, New Haven, CT 1978-CETA Murals and Screens, New Brunswick, NJ 1977-ECA, New Haven, CT 1977-MFA Thesis Show, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT 1974-Bi-annual, NJ State Museum, Trenton, NJ 1974- Livingston College, Rutgers U, Piscataway, NJ 1972-Croydon College of Art, Croydon, London, UK Collections: Syracuse Museum, Syracuse, NY Lester Johnson, Greenwich, CT Howard Siskowitz, Princeton, NJ Unisys Corp. Springfield, NJ Michael Sosnay (on permanent exhibit) 119 57th St. NYC, NY Fannie Mae Corp. (Naomi Bayer), NYC, NY Dr. D. Nelson (Physiatrists, PPC), Hartsdale, NY Gould Family, Princeton, NJ Morris and Yetta Siegel, Highland Park, NJ Obie Bing, Engineering Associates, NY, NY Weisman Family,...

Comment by: psiegelonline on Friday 08/03/07 at 11:14 AM

Outstanding Event

In Decades: A Peter Siegel Retrospective, 3rd Rail Studio is commemorating an artist’s life’s work spanning nearly forty years. It is Peter Siegel’s intention through this body of work to provoke an immediate, visceral response and to encourage a dialogue between the spectator and each painting. “This is our first retrospective exhibit at 3rd Rail Studio,” notes Executive Director Christine Milo. Milo added “It is exciting to see the progression of an artist’s career, especially of an artist who is so devoted to his craft and determined to push each piece to the edge of success.”

Comment by: psiegelonline on Friday 08/03/07 at 11:11 AM