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Lamar Peterson

Twisted

March 22 – April 28, 2007

Lamar Peterson
Lamar Peterson
Lamar Peterson
Lamar Peterson
Lamar Peterson, Capitol I, 2006

Lamar Peterson

Capitol I, 2006

Oil and acrylic on canvas over panel

28 x 26 inches 71.1 x 66 cm

Lamar Peterson, Boat People, 2006

Lamar Peterson

Boat People, 2006

Acrylic on paper mounted to found poster

15.5 x 19.5 inches 39.4 x 49.5 cm

Lamar Peterson, Bird, 2006

Lamar Peterson

Bird, 2006

Oil and acrylic on canvas over panel

20 x 18 inches 50.8 x 45.7 cm

Lamar Peterson, Scramble, 2006

Lamar Peterson

Scramble, 2006

Acrylic and mixed media on paper

24 x 21 inches 61 x 53.3 cm

Lamar Peterson, Spin, 2006

Lamar Peterson

Spin, 2006

Oil and acrylic on canvas over panel

35 x 30 inches 88.9 x 76.2 cm

Lamar Peterson, Perch, 2006

Lamar Peterson

Perch, 2006

Acrylic on paper

35 1/4 x 29 1/2 inches 89.5 x 74.9 cm

Lamar Peterson, Movement, 2007

Lamar Peterson

Movement, 2007

Oil, acrylic and mixed media on canvas over panel

35 x 30 inches 88.9 x 76.2 cm

Lamar Peterson, Cop, 2007

Lamar Peterson

Cop, 2007

Acrylic and mixed media on canvas on panel

28 x 28 inches 71.1 x 71.1 cm

Lamar Peterson, Untitled, 2006

Lamar Peterson

Untitled, 2006

Oil, acrylic, and mixed media on found painting

16h x 14w in

Lamar Peterson, Untitled, 2006

Lamar Peterson

Untitled, 2006

Oil, acrylic, and mixed media on found painting

16 1/2h x 14 1/4w in

Lamar Peterson, The Narrator, 2007

Lamar Peterson

The Narrator, 2007

Acrylic on paper mounted to found poster

72h x 28w x 2d in

Lamar Peterson, Reception, 2006

Lamar Peterson

Reception, 2006

Acrylic on paper mounted to found photograph

11 3/4h x 9w in

Press Release

Fredericks & Freiser is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new paintings and collage by Lamar Peterson. Over the past few years, Peterson has become known for depicting the black suburban everyman and his nuclear family set in dreamlike landscapes. Twisted, however, represents the artist's decided turn away from the childlike wonder and vacant plasticity of his archetypal subjects and their idyllic settings. Inspired partly by CNN and partly by horror movies, his figures are twisted, stretched, and mangled. Weather is a malevolent force. A dystopian vision has replaced the eerie casual detachment: whereas once his characters smiled, now they explode. For this exhibition, Peterson incorporates a new sense of dimensionality with craft-store supplies, framing devices, and a loosening of his once irrefutable brushwork.

 

About the Artist
Lamar Peterson was born in 1974 in St. Petersburg, Florida, and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He will be the subject of a five-year survey in 2008 at the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri (traveling with catalogue), and has had previous solo exhibitions at The Studio Museum of Harlem, New York; Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles; and Deitch Projects, New York. He has exhibited in numerous group shows including the Fifth International SITE Santa Fe Biennial 2004, New Mexico; The Drawing Center, New York; and the Kemper Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri (upcoming). This is his second solo exhibition with Fredericks & Freiser.