GARY PETERSEN
Gary Petersen was born in Staten Island, New York. He holds a B.S. degree from The Pennsylvania State University and an M.F.A. from The School of Visual Arts. Awards have included The Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, Space Program, 2010-2011, The New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Painting Fellowship Award, 1993, 2002, and 2011, and the Visual Arts Fellowship Award, Edward F. Albee Foundation, 1988. His work has been exhibited widely in New York City and throughout the United States including solo exhibitions at Michael Steinberg, New York, Fusebox, Washington, D.C., Genovese/Sullivan Gallery, Boston, and White Columns, New York. Recent group exhibitions have included Jason McCoy Gallery, Theodore Art, Storefront Bushwick Gallery, Edward Thorp Gallery, McKenzie Fine Art, Lori Bookstein Gallery, Allegra La Viola Gallery, The Painting Center, Sue Scott Gallery, and The Bronx River Art Center. Past group exhibitions include Janet Kurnatowski, Lohin-Geduld, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Triple Candie, Plus/Ultra (Winkleman) Gallery, Nicole Klagsbrun, Diverse Works (TX), the Newark Museum and The American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has been reviewed and covered by Art in America, The Wall Street Journal, NY Arts Magazine, Whitehot Magazine, The New York Sun, The New York Times, The Boston Globe and The Partisan Review. He currently maintains a studio in Bushwick, Brooklyn and resides in Hoboken, New Jersey.
All images are installation details from Tilting Points, 2014, acrylic on wall
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Major support for the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey is provided in part by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, the Wilf Family Foundations, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, The Horizon Foundation of New Jersey, the WJS Foundation, and Art Center members and donors. Additional support is also provided by the Art Center’s Exhibition Support Team: Helaine & John Winer and Elisa & Louis Zachary.
TILTING POINTS