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Peri Schwartz was born in Brooklyn, NY (1951), received a BFA from Boston University’s School of Fine Arts in 1973 and an MFA from Queens College in 1975. As a painter and printmaker she has had an extensive exhibition career and her work is represented in museums in the US and Europe. Schwartz’s primary subject has been the interior of her own studio. She works directly from life but her focus is in finding the abstraction from her subject matter. The process of searching out a composition is often visible in the traces of grid lines or the ghosts of objects she has decided to reposition. Invited to observe the painting’s progression in this way, the viewer has a sense of working through the compositional puzzle along with the artist. Process is paramount, and her paintings are more investigations or studies of an object than polished final products.

Some of the museums that have collected her work include the British Museum, London, the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, the Biblioteque Nationale, Paris, Kupferstichkabinett - Staatliche Museen, Berlin, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Fogg Museum, Cambridge, the Library of Congress, Washington, the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, the Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock.

References

Easel Does It, Style Weekly, March 2012

Tinney Contemporary Offers Intriguing Mix of Abstract, Representational Art TheTennessean, February 2012

Essay by Lulan Yu, Exhibition Catalog, Page Bond Gallery, March 2010

Interview with Harryet Candee, The Artful Mind, July 2007

Essay by Judith Tolnick, Exhibition Catalog for Wrapped Objects, University of Rhode Island, February 2002

Peri Schwartz Visits the Straight and Narrow, Women's News, March 2000

Painting Self as Link to Masters, NY Times, February 2000