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  • The Evolution of Painting: Peter Crow’s Nineteen

    Beginning I began this painting on February 14th of this year and continued working on it consistently for nearly three months. The piece consists of three panels, each measuring 72 inches by 40 inches. When assembled, the painting stands 72 inches high and spans 120 inches wide. My inspiration for…

  • Exploring Peter Crow’s Unique Works on Paper

    For some reason, I have resisted showing my work in progress, because well, because it is not complete. But these are different, they insist on revealing themselves now. Except for the last one in this group, it is unlikely that there will be revising, though they will change as they…

  • Exploring Recursion in Art: Lessons from George Saunders

    I needed 5 paintings to send to a jury for a show. I had 3 paintings on hand, two were unfinished. So, I revised those three, but I needed two more. This may reveal more about myself than I care to reveal, but I had to produce two paintings. I…

  • the art of revision: lessons from abstract painting

    the art of revision: lessons from abstract painting

    When I was in my mid to late 20s, I was a graduate student in the art department at Indiana University. There were a few problems with this situation, but the most important one was that I was primarily an abstract artist at one of the most figurative schools in…

  • Overcoming Obstacles: the artistic journey in the garden

    In late spring, I emptied a bag of wildflower seeds into a mound of dirt I’d dug at the southeast corner of my house in rural Maryland. I raked the seeds into the soil, and it rained and rained. Green shoots began to come up, which eventually became zinnias, cosmos,…

  • the creative process behind ‘mcKinleyville’

    Eastern Shore, Maryland McKinleyville is the first painting that I have completed since moving here there years ago. McKinleyville is the name of the street that I live on, but it also embodies this place, rural, somewhat isolated, saturated with light and color. The painting began very differently than it…

  • Two weeks in February

    Two weeks in February

    In November, I rented a small workspace in Baltimore. Though only about 125 sq. ft., I’ve already filled it with a table given to me by my sister, a sculptor and long-time Baltimore artist, a shaky table left by the previous tenant, a built-in table that collapsed when I leaned…

  • In a New Space

    I’m going to try and say something about being in a new place, and a new space. A whole new place, that is, as the old place was in the midwest. This new place is on the east coast, and it’s far less isolated than my old place. My old…

  • A work on paper

    Untitled 7 is a work on paper of gouache, acrylic, and cut and pasted paper that I started last summer and only completed recently. Working on a drawing of that duration has given rise to some questions.