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The Arts Center at Duck Creek is pleased to announce Promised Land, an exhibition of five mixed media paintings by Peter Gregory, on view in the little barn at Duck Creek Farm. This exhibition will be on view from August 15 - September 15. Gallery Hours are Thursday - Sunday, 2 - 6pm.

Peter Gregory is an emerging American painter influenced by nature and the counterculture of the 1960’s. These guiding principals are present in the formal aspects of his abstract compositions, as well as their processes. The artist’s materials of choice, found fabrics, dyes and pigments, read like a Dead Head’s shopping list. But Gregory works the iconic tie-dyed spin out of its psychedelic pigeonhole and into the language of abstract expressionism.

The five paintings in this exhibit are part of a series Gregory calls Flags, each featuring a quadrant of the panting that alludes to this symbol. Formally, the divided canvas and collage function as a nod to artists like Robert Rauschenberg. Philosphically, Gregory’s approach to painting is more aligned with Motherwell, who once said, “Painting, like music, tends to become its own content.” Gregory believes in the power of pure painting, but the flag series, which began in 2016, is a kind of peace offering to his viewers. He considers each work a flag of its own, a symbol of personal freedom, for anyone who needs one. “Perhaps today it would be nice to have your own flag that identifies you, rather than your politics, and maybe unifies us as individuals.”

These particular five paintings were made after a visit to Duck Creek in mind “I incorporated the color, movement and serenity of the environment at Duck Creek into the works. The blues, browns, greens and yellows of nature combine to connect the barn, land, sky and farm. My experience of Duck Creek was key in producing these site specific paintings.”

Peter Gregory was raised in North Carolina, where his father natured a love of music that is revealed in the exhibition title, as well as the painting titles themselves.

To see more of Peter Gregory’s work, follow him on instagram @petergregory.pdf

For further information please contact Jess Frost at duckcreekarts@gmail.com