Peri Schwartz
Peri Schwartz is a New York based artist whose powerful paintings, prints and drawings are said to blend realism and abstraction with predominating angles, shapes and lines. Her work is included in many public and museum collections including the British Museum, the Corcoran Gallery, the Fogg Art Museum, the Boston Museum, the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, the Yale University Art Gallery and the New York Public Library.
Ms. Schwartz studied at Boston University’s School of Fine Arts and received a Masters of Fine Arts at Queens College.
In a recent interview with Harryet Candee published in The Artful Mind, in July 2007, Ms. Schwartz discusses the progress she has made; “Working in different mediums is important for me. Thinking in black and white is a way to clarify a visual idea. By eliminating color I can focus on the composition and the light. There is also a directness and immediacy to drawing that allows for great freedom. When I return to painting after drawing, color becomes the subject and I don’t worry as much about defining everything.
Making prints, especially monotypes, is a medium I am fascinated with.
For the past couple of years I have worked with the master printer, Tony Kirk, at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Norwalk. Collaborating with Tony is exciting because I learn about different ways to get the image I want.”