Peter Sacks: Paintings

Opening Reception: Thursday, October 29, 6-8 p.m.

Paul Rodgers / 9W Gallery is pleased to announce "Paintings", an exhibition by American painter Peter Sacks. The exhibition consists of painting and collage in mixed media and in a variety of formats which extend to the monumental. The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue, commissioned by the gallery, with full color illustrations, featuring a substantial essay by celebrated author and New Yorker critic, Louis Menand. "Paintings," is the first opportunity for the New York art scene to experience Peter Sacks' exciting and expansive art that incorporates found objects, lace, cardboard, cloth and manually type-written text, along with the whole range of painting technique.

detail from Visitation 3 - Job and Dante, 2003-2008, mixed media, 76 3/4 x 51 1/4 inches (195 x 130 cm)

Peter Sacks, an expatriate, was born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa and raised in Durban. Sacks has taught at Johns Hopkins and Harvard, and is a published author and poet. Sacks' paintings contain a rich visual palette combining a complex appreciation of historical texts and vivid experiences of his South African background with its fraught political climate. Viewing a Sacks painting is an event that becomes increasingly significant with time - each layer introduces a new emotion, motif or experience, and embodies an important moment in the life of the artist and our own history.