Reception Friday, June 19 from 6-9 pm

Untitled (7.21.25) Acrylic on canvas 2026 20.75 x 23.

Christopher Peterson’s paintings combine collage, geometric form, and color to produce bold, layered abstractions that evolve through an iterative process of painting, cutting, and recomposition. Forms shift between shape and symbol, resisting fixed meaning while establishing a visual language that feels both familiar and elusive. Through accumulation, revision, and intuitive decision-making, each work develops its own internal logic, inviting viewers into a space where structure and spontaneity coexist. 

Borrowed from ecology, the idea of rewilding suggests a return to natural processes. In Peterson’s work, it becomes a way of making that welcomes transformation, surprise, and the unexpected. Fragments are rearranged, surfaces disrupted and rebuilt, and compositions emerge through experimentation rather than predetermined outcomes. The resulting paintings balance precision with improvisation, creating dynamic fields of color and form that remain open-ended and alive with possibility. 

Born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Christopher Peterson lives and works in central Virginia. Recent solo presentations include Satchel Projects and Future Fair in New York. Additional exhibitions include 57W57arts, New York; Hotel Michel, Margate, UK; Tappeto Volante, Brooklyn; Tourist, White River Junction, Vermont; and PS122, New York. He received his BFA from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. 

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