Peter Waite Thresholds Winston Wächter Fine Art
Winston Wächter Fine Art Seattle is proud to announce, Thresholds, an exhibition of new paintings by Peter Waite. Throughout his career Waite has focused on memory, specific times and places, and how those memories shift when merged with our emotional relationship to those spaces. He explores how our minds create something wholly new, and existing differently for each of us. The addition of unnatural fluorescence solidifies the feeling of peering into someone else’s personal film, marked by the passing of time. The paintings in Thresholds came about from recent encounters with locations in Los Angeles, Cincinnati, New York, Barcelona, Madrid and New England. Waite’s paintings are included in several prestigious public collections, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Cover Crystal Palace / Retiro / Madrid 2017 Acrylic on panels 72 x 96 inches
Opposite Pool / LA 2017 Acrylic on panels 72 x 96 inches
Opposite Bank / Cincinnati 2016 Acrylic on panels 72 x 96 inches
Right Stairs / PS1 2017 Acrylic on panels 72 x 48 inches
Path / Retiro Madrid, 2017, Acrylic on panels, 48 x 72 inches
Greenhouses 2016 Acrylic on panels 96 x 96 inches
Old School Boys Pool / Cincinnati, 2015, Acrylic on panels, 48 x 72 inches
Lecture Theatre / Liverpool, 2015, Acrylic on panels, 48 x 72 inches
Court / LA 2017 Acrylic on panels 72 x 48 inches
Pool / Vermont, 2017, Acrylic on panels, 48 x 72 inches
Pool / Governors Island, 2017, Acrylic on panels, 24 x 96 inches
MacDonough’s Pool, 2017, Acrylic on panel, 24 x 48 inches
Opposite Old School Gym 2016 Acrylic on panels 72 x 96 inches
Left Train Station / Barcelona 2017 Acrylic on panels 72 x 48 inches
Old Pool, 2017, Acrylic on panels, 48 x 96 inches
Temple / Cincinnati 2017 Acrylic on panel 72 x 48 inches
Peter Waite Born 1950 Education 1975 1972
North Adams, MA M.F.A. School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL B.F.A. Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT
Selected Solo Exhibitions 2018 Thresholds, Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle, WA 2016 Site/Sight, Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NY 2015 The Cincinnati Series, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH 2013 Space Travel, Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NY and Seattle, WA 2011 Passages, Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle, WA 2010 Paintings/Paris, Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NY Parallel Play: Sculpture/Fetish/Object/Things, John Slade Ely House, Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT 2009 Sculpture/Fetish/Object/Things, Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 2008 Arrivals and Departures, Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle, WA 2007 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT 2006 Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle, WA 2005 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY Olin Gallery, Roanoke College, Salem, VA 2003 Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT 2002 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY 2001 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY 1998 Peter Waite: Social Studies, Zilkha Art Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT (Cat.) 1997 Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NY 1996 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL (Cat.)
1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1988 1987 1982
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA (Cat.) Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH (Cat.) ZONE Art Center, Springfield, MA Damon Brandt Gallery, New York, NY University of Missouri-Kansas City Gallery of Art, Kansas City, MI (Cat.) Damon Brandt Gallery, New York, NY Damon Brandt Gallery, New York, NY Atrium Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT Artists Space, New York, NY Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Selected Group Exhibitions 2011 I Think It’s Conceptual, John Slade Ely House, Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT 2008 Connecticut Biennial 2008, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT 2007 Connecticut Contemporary, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT 1994–2007 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY 2003 A River Half Empty, The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT LeWitt’s LeWitts: From the Collection of Carol & Sol LeWitt, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT 2001 Gallery 2211, Los Angeles, CA 1999 Mumia 911, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY Mumia 911, 1199 Gallery, New York, NY 1998 Orlando Museum of Art, The Edward R. Broida Collection, Orlando, FL Surfing the Surface, DFN Gallery, New York, NY 1997 Heaven and Hell, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT 1995 Drawn on the Museum, The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT 1994 Desire and Loss, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH 1992 BlumHelman, New York, NY John Stoller Gallery, Minneapolis, MN The Colt Four, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT BlumHelman Warehouse, New York, NY Tomoko Liguori Gallery, New York, NY
1991 1990 1989 1988 1986 1983 1982 1981 1980
The Highgate Series, Projects Room, David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY 9 Artists / 9 Visions, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA 15 Years of RAW, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT Past Tense, Wilson Arts Center, The Harley School, Rochester, NY Recent Acquisitions, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT Sherry French Gallery, NYC; The Wichita Art Museum, KS; The National Charged: Places and Things, Academy of Science, Washington, D.C. Invitational Alumni Exhibition, Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School, CT John Constable Landscape Series, ZONE Art Center, Springfield, MA Space Invaders, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT Visual Politics, Alternative Museum, New York, NY Sutton Gallery, New York, NY Artworks at the Atheneum, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT Mid-Way Between Comedy and Art, Mid-Way Gallery, University of Chicago, IL
Collections The New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT The Cartin Collection, Hartford, CT The Baron Collection, West Hartford, CT The Edward R. Broida Collection Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT The Prudential Life Insurance Co., Newark, NJ NASA, Washington, DC The New School, New York, NY Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA The Benton Museum, Storrs, CT MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ontario Edward Albert Collection, Chappaqua, NY