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Artist: Denis Peterson
Show: New Paintings - Don't Shed No Tears
URL: www.denispeterson.com
About the Show
Gallery: Next Gallery
75 Varick St. 12th Fl.
NYC, New York
Dates: 6 May - 31 July 2006
Phone: 212-343-1234 x2209
Peterson’s masterful photorealist paintings are metaphoric silent witnesses - quintessential portraitures of salient human beings and incorporeal landscapes.
Don’t Shed No Tears is at once visceral and ethereal. Be forewarned – these deftly crafted images of chaotic order constrained by compositional harmony will remain with you as haunting memories.
To witness genocide is to feel not only the chill of your own mortality, but the degradation of all humanity. Even the most brilliant photography cannot capture the landscape of genocide…
This room is empty, though it is full. It has been emptied thus, not by the misfortune of disease or disaster, but by the hatred of other people.
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