October 2010
Peter Shmelzer
For Any Occasion : Greeting Cards by Peter Shmelzer
October 1-31, 2010
Vernissage: Friday October 1, 2010/ 7-10pm
Our lives are punctuated by the events we have decided are pivotal and mark our passage from one phase to another. These occasions act as the structure upon which we build our lives and allow us to compartmentalize and thereby comprehend what would otherwise be, viewed in whole, incomprehensible. These paintings utilize some of the conventions of commercial greeting cards combined with figures both human and animal, or something in between. The work is startling; in the same moment it is both comfortably familiar and upsetting, while retaining a sense of humour.
