Peter Roux
Peter Roux paints landscapes which speak to the nature of contemporary spatial experience, often informed by the vocabularies of the narrative edit.
Motion, time and movement permeate his abstract work. In his Suspension series, Roux utilizes key motifs of landscape images – clouds, large open spaces – as visual pulls into illusory space, and then setting these against elements of flat mark-making.
Roux was awarded a month-long artist residency in northern Iceland, resulting in an ongoing body of work born out of the unique space and light of the region. The initial results formed the basis of a solo show at Bryant Street Gallery in Palo Alto, California at the end of 2013, followed immediately after by a two- person exhibition at Fetherston Gallery in Seattle, Washington. He was twice featured in New American Paintings, a juried competition-in-print published by Open Studios Press. His work is widely exhibited throughout the United States and held in numerous private and corporate collections.
Roux lives and works in the Boston, Massachusetts
“I’m curious about all the dynamics that are set in motion by relating one type of visual vocabulary against another. In these offsets I find tensions and relationships that reflect on how contemporary spatial language, and therefore contemporary space itself, can be understood.”
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