Society6 Studio / wunderkammer

Transitions

Peter Shoemaker (peter) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:08:16 -0700

Another triptych (I mean, really, do I ever tire of these things? Yes, I do; I promise) this one a bit more abstract. Like Breathless, it can be hung either way, and spaced as far apart as desired. Acrylic on canvas; 51" x 13" unspread.

Breathless

Peter Shoemaker (peter) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:40:12 -0700

Continuing my exploration of fractured seeing and triptychs, this work is even more explicit. What I particularly like about this is that it's possible to arrange the three center canvases either horizontally or vertically and get a pretty significantly different experience with each. Furthermore, I've purposely not dictated how far apart each piece ought to be hung from its companions, leaving the final visual experience up to the one hanging it. Acrylic on canvas; 45" x 30" unspread

Eternal desire

Peter Shoemaker (peter) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:16:59 -0700

I've been interested for a few years now with triptychs. Breaking the visual field, doing away with the continuity that we expect in our day-to-day, offers something more intriguing. This piece, on a single sheet of canvas, mimics a more book-centric perspective, where text and image interact. The Sanskrit reads, "eternal desire", and the image is extrapolated and interpreted from a 1920s publication of the Kama Sutra. This is a large format painting - acrylic on canvas; 60" x 36"