Peter Barron: The Garden of Earthly Delights
Evans Contemporary, Peterborough
January 5 - 27, 2018
Evans Contemporary presents The Garden of Earthly Delights, an exhibition of powerful new paintings by Peterborough artist, PETER BARRON.
Peter Barron’s recent work presents colourful, and explosive images of tangled landscapes where figures seemingly materialize magically from the pigmented environment. Both edgy and sinister, Barron’s incongruous, abstracted figures populate a landscape of vivid colour, tangled brushstrokes, and colliding paint. Vivid in their palate and subject matter, the artist leads the viewer into this ominous, yet beautiful environment.
Peter Barron’s works are painted in acrylic and oil on canvas and panel. The artist takes his cues from the traditions of expressionism and can be compared to the work of German artists Georges Rouault, Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, Erich Heckel, and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.
PETER BARRON
Originally from the Welland, Ontario area, Peter Barron arrived in Peterborough in the early seventies for work as a school art teacher. Immediately setting up a studio, he met the artists that were building the city’s burgeoning art scene and immersed himself in what would become the beginnings of the parallel gallery movement. Surrounding himself with an ensemble of artists like Dorothy Caldwell, David Bierk, Joe Stable, Harold Town, Dennis Tourbin, and Erik Loder, Barron began his career as a prolific and powerful painter, and printmaker.
For almost fifty years, Peter Barron has maintained a studio practice in Peterborough, Ontario. His paintings have been exhibited extensively in Ontario, and throughout the city’s galleries. His printed work has shown at print fairs, and biennials in Russia, Seoul (South Korea), Trois Rivières (Quebec), Montreal, Ottawa, Sofia (Bulgaria), Finland, Connecticut (USA) and has been artist in residence at Pouch Cove Artist Residency in Newfoundland.
Peter Barron has maintained a painting studio in downtown Peterborough since the early 1970’s. He continues to paint daily in a third floor studio in the arts district’s historic Commerce Building.
EVANS CONTEMPORARY
#2 Bankers Common - Peterborough, ON - K9H 3L7 – Canada
