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Peggy Ferris
Portfolio Artist Statement Online Information   Glimpse 1&2 Acrylic on canvas, 24x24" each, 2006   Dance Floor 2a, 2b Acrylic on canvas, 24x24" each, 2006  Hard-Edge Paintings Peggy Ferris studied art and design at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, Holland, and at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, where she received a BFA in graphic design. Her paintings are composed of abstract, non-representational hard-edge forms that suggest a feeling, mood or energy associated with a physical place, state of mind, or memory. Buried within the subconscious, remnants of these fleeting impressions are resurrected and transmuted into abstracted forms in the paintings.
Structurally, carefully mixed solid colors create an illusion of transparent overlapping planes suggesting depth and multiple layering while adhering to the flat two-dimensionality of the canvas. In contrast to the flattened planes and simple shapes of the mid-century's hard-edge legacy, her paintings are a visual response to todays increasingly complex technology-driven mass-producing culture. Digital processes with complex layering systems assist in creating and refining the initial images. The images are then manually deconstructed and recreated through taping, mixing and painting, into a one-of-a-kind 21st century hard-edge painting ... an act of reverse technology. |
