NEW WORKS BY PEGGY BATES

THOMAS JAECKEL GALLERY
532 West 25th Street, 2nd floor
New York, New York 10001
Some (Are) Painting
CURATED BY DAVID GIBSON
Opening on Thursday, July 8, from 6 to 8 p.m.

July 8 – July 31, 2010

Peggy Bates, Michael Benjamin, Barbara Campisi, Sean Greene, Halsey Hathaway, Cate Holt, Madeleine Hatz, Ian Hughes, Tricia Keightley, Jesse Lambert, Michelle Mackey, John Mullen, Hendrik Smit, Claudia Sperry

The promise of painting, especially abstract painting, has to do with its ability to take us into various models of the world. Each painter attempts to delineate a specific perspective on how matter is organized, how space is allotted, how color and light, depth and viscosity work to establish standards for understanding how the universe affects us.  Each of the artists participating in “Some (Are) Painting” has achieved a level of mature investigation into such matters. Peggy Bates samples the constancy and depth of movement in natural bodies of water, manifesting how interior or elemental vibrations meet the specificity of mark-making.