Sammy Peters has exhibited extensively around the United States and overseas. His work is included in numerous collections around the world including the Arkansas Arts Center, the McDonalds Corporation in London, England, The Venetian Resort Hotel in Macao, China, the estate of Winthrop Rockefeller and the private collection of actor Gene Hackman. Peters describes his work as a living dichotomy, straddling the line between ambiguity and rhythm. “My paintings have an intrinsic tempo within them that may not be obvious at first glance. I begin to sense the rhythm of the painting early in the work, and often that sense of rhythm asserts itself in devices like ladder shapes or stripes or polka dots or various marks,” said Peters. “The rhythm of the painting perpetuates itself and reasserts itself as I paint, and I just go along for the ride.”
Peters, completed paintings continuing a theme expressing interiority while in residence. The paintings of abstract spaces, ambiguous emotions showing expressive rhythms and temporal duration will be part of exhibitions at The New Gallery, Houston, TX; The Heights Gallery, Little Rock, AR; and Lew Allen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM. His last New York showing expressing many of the same issues was at Anita Shapolsky in 1997.
