SAMMY PETERS & CARMEN VETTER SURFACE LANGUAGE
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Sammy Peters & Carmen Vetter Surface Language
On View March 24 - April 23.2017 Artists’ Reception March 31.2017, 5:00- 7:00 PM
LewAllenGalleries 1613 Paseo de Peralta | Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 | tel 505.988.3250 www.lewallengalleries.com | info@lewallengalleries.com cover: Woe IV, Carmen Vetter, 2017, kiln-formed glass, 42 x 42 in
Sammy Peters and Carmen Vetter Surface Language Surface Language explores the dynamic relationship between two of fine art’s most interesting forms, mixed media on canvas and studio glass. Featuring the work of two long-time masters of surface texture — Sammy Peters working in mixed media and Carmen Vetter who makes layered kiln-formed glass wall pieces — this exhibit illustrates the aesthetic tensions between flatness and three-dimensionality. Sammy Peters creates highly textured canvases that feature a sophisticated interplay of painting, and collage. Uninterested in clean, uniform surfaces, Peters arranges fields of expressive brushwork, paper and fabric in subtle allusions to patterning and iconography. With a background in signage and set design, Peters has a vast understanding of diverse methods of image-making, resulting in layered fields of assorted texture and color. Peters’ fascinating engagement with materials and surface references the full effects of collage – its intricacies as well as its depth of association. Over the years, he has earned many accolades, including awards in competitive exhibitions, fellowships and solo exhibitions in major cities. Drawn to the wide-ranging properties of surface, glass artist Carmen Vetter is inspired by its ability to convey history through touch. Vetter’s fused glass panels are just as likely to suggest aerial views of cities or eroding land as they are to recall glacial ice or cellular structures. “The relationship between these surfaces and the things that underlie them – their unique histories, the unseen events that preceded them and created them, the mystery of what they are becoming – is what truly interests me,” Vetter writes. “I seek the intrinsic.” A rising star of the glass world, Carmen Vetter has been working with kilnformed glass since 1999.
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Meaning: relentless; resistance, Sammy Peters, 2017, oil & mixed media on canvas, 72 x 60 in 3
Determined: illusory; opposition, Sammy Peters, 2017, oil & mixed media on canvas, 48 x 36 in
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Consequence: ingenious; reaction, Sammy Peters, 2017, oil & mixed media on canvas, 72 x 60 in 5
Appearance: controlled; purpose, Sammy Peters, 2017, oil & mixed media on canvas, 48 x 48 in 6
Appearance: neglected; existence, Sammy Peters, 2017, oil & mixed media on canvas, 60 x 48 in 7
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Excavation: embattled; return, Sammy Peters, 2017, oil & mixed media on canvas, 68 x 90 in 9
Uncontrolled: fabricated; artiface, Sammy Peters, 2017, oil & mixed media on canvas, 12 x 16 in 10
Reconciled: poetic; context, Sammy Peters, 2016, oil & mixed media on canvas, 60 x 48 in 11
Emergence: natural: beginning, Sammy Peters, 2017, oil & mixed media on canvas, 60 x 48 in 12
Reference: bounds; incomplete, Sammy Peters, 2017, oil & mixed media on canvas, 48 x 48 in 13
Essence: perpetual; finality, Sammy Peters, 2017, oil & mixed media on canvas, 14 x 11 in 14
Formula: ethical; definition, Sammy Peters, 2017, oil & mixed media on canvas, 16 x 12 in 15
Occurrence: inseparable; objective, Sammy Peters, 2017, oil & mixed media on canvas, 14 x 11 in 16
Retreat: vital; persona, Sammy Peters, 2017, oil & mixed media on canvas, 16 x 20 in 17
Alternate: relative; conception, Sammy Peters, 2017, oil & mixed media on canvas, 16 x 12 in 18
Distraction: impractical; realm, Sammy Peters, 2017, oil & mixed media on canvas, 16 x 12 in 19
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Flow III, Carmen Vetter, 2017, kiln-formed glass, 21 x 42 in
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Breccia, Carmen Vetter, 2017, kiln-formed glass, 21 x 42 in
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Flux VI, Carmen Vetter, 2017, kiln-formed glass, 21 x 42 in
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Flux IV, Carmen Vetter, 2017, kiln-formed glass, 21 x 63 in
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Stain, Carmen Vetter, 2017, kiln-formed glass, 42 x 42 in
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Bloom, Carmen Vetter, 2016, kiln-formed glass, 42 x 42 in
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Objective: aligned; metaphor, Sammy Peters, 2017, oil & mixed media on canvas, 36 x 48 in 28
SAMMY PETERS
b. 1939, Shreveport, Louisiana
EDUCATION
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
2016
Mason Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
Little Rock University, Little Rock, AR
2015
LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM
Arkansas Arts Center School of Arts & Drama,
2014
Greg Thompson Fine Art, Little Rock, AR
Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR
2012
Greg Thompson Fine Art, Little Rock, AR
2011
Winthrop Rockefeller Legacy Exhibition,
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Morrilton, AR
2016 Then and Now, Memphis College of Art, Hyde
2010
Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV
Gallery; University of Arkansas-Fort Smith,
2009
Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
Windgate Gallery, Fort Smith, AR
2007
Historic Arkansas Museum, Little Rock, AR
2015
LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM; also 2013,
2006
Gail Harvey Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2011, 2009, 2007, 2005, 2003, 2001, 1999
Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2014
Arkansas Tech University, Russelville, AR
LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2013
Alan Avery Art Company, Atlanta, GA
2005
Stephen F. Austin University, Nacogdoches, TX
2008
The Heights Gallery, Little Rock, AR
2002
Perry Nicole Gallery, Memphis, TN
2007
Multiple Impressions, New York, NY
2000
The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
2005
Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1999
Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY
2004
Contemporanea, Hot Springs, AR
1994
Paintings from America’s Heart, Berlin &
Craighead/Green Gallery, Dallas, TX
Bremen, Germany
2003
Hendrix College, Conway, AR
1993
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa,
2002
New Gallery, Houston, TX,
Tuscaloosa, AL
Perry Nicole Gallery, Memphis, TN
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
1998
Cindric Meyer Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
1996
Allene Lapides Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
1995
The New Gallery, Houston, TX
2003 VSC Press Printmaking Fellowship
1994
The Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2001 Vermont Studio Center Fellowship
University of Central Ark., Conway, AR
2000 MacDowell Fellowship
The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
1992 M-AAA/NEA Fellowship
Stephen F. Austin University, Nacogdoches, TX
1967 Juror’s Award, 10th Delta Annual
1992
The Lowe Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1965 Juror’s Top Award, 10th Annual Mid-South
1991
Shidoni Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Little Rock, AR
San Francisco Mime Troupe, San Francisco, CA
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Exhibition
Emanate, Carmen Vetter, 2017, kiln-formed glass, 42 x 42 in 30
CARMEN VETTER b. 1957, Dallas, Oregon EDUCATION
2009
Fading Gray: Patterns on Polarization, Traver
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Gallery, Tacoma, WA
Bemis Foundation, Omaha, NE
2004
Assimilation, Vetri International Glass,
Bullseye Glass Factory, Portland, OR
Seattle, WA
Table Top and Tile, Artist Exchange Residency
2001
Group Glass Show, Rock Creek Gallery, PCC,
Portland, OR
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1999
Table Top and Tile, Bullseye Connection,
2016
Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
Portland, OR
Emerge/Evolve, Bullseye Projects, Portland, OR
2014
Folding/Faulting, Circa Gallery,
AWARDS
Minneapolis, MN
2008 Finalist, Bullseye Emerge Competition
After Before, Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
2006 Finalist, Bullseye Emerge Competition
2012 Unforgiving Edge/What Remains, Bullseye
Gallery, Portland, OR
PUBLICATIONS
2011
Fill, Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
2015
Minneapolis Star Tribune, “Made by Hand Art
2009
Fading Gray: Patterns on Polarization, Traver
at Three Minneapolis Galleries,” Mary Abbe
Gallery, Tacoma, WA
Art and Antiques, April issue, “Crystallizing
2004
Assimilation, Vetri International Glass,
an Idea”
Seattle, WA
2012
New Glass Review 33, Corning Museum
Assimilation, Firehouse #12, Vancouver, WA
2010
New Glass Review 31, Corning Museum
2003
Salishan, Lincoln City, OR
2009
Tacoma Weekly – Review, February 26, 2009
2000
Bedeviled, Brian Marki Fine Art, Portland, OR
The News Tribune, Tacoma, Washington –
Review, February 16, 2009
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 2016
Artem Vitro, LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
2015
Fired: Iron, Ceramics, and Glass, Arvada Center
2012
Instructor for weekly introductory art class,
for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, CO
Operation Night Watch, Portland, Oregon;
2014
Shades of White, Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
also 2009-2011
2012
Chromatic Fusion: The Art of Fused Glass, New
2010 Presenter, “Finding My Depth: Bas Relief with
Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
Frits and Powders,” G.A.S. Conference,
2011
Clear and Present: Works in Glass; LewAllen
Louisville, KY
Galleries, Santa Fe, NM
2009 Guest Presenter for Alicia Lomne, Pilchuck 31
Glass School
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1613 Paseo de Peralta | Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 | tel 505.988.3250 www.lewallengalleries.com | info@lewallengalleries.com Š 2017 LewAllen Contemporary LLC 34 Artwork Š Sammy Peters and Carmen Vetter