The work of internationally known artist, Peter Milton, will be featured in
an exhibition opening May 4, and extending through June 30, at Jack Rutberg
Fine Arts in Los Angeles. This exhibition will feature selected major
etchings and drawings by the artist spanning more than 25 years.
The etchings of Peter Milton have long been regarded as being among the
most intriguing, if not enigmatic works in American contemporary
printmaking. Defying easy categorization, Milton employs complex etching
techniques to create works of extreme detail which, while ostensibly
rooted in realism, are in fact intricately layered apparitions depicted in
altered space and time.
Critically, Peter Milton has been described by noted critics such as
Theodore Wolff, as having carved out a unique and distinctive place in
20th Century art...the heir-apparent to the [great lineage of artists who
have taken printmaking to unique heights in the history of printmaking].
The Washington Post noted that Peter Milton is the whispering magician of
contemporary art. Upon the release of the book Peter Milton: Complete
Prints 1960 -1996, the Boston Globe described Milton's prints as
...surreal, touching, disturbing, and beautiful to behold. New York
Times critic, John Russell described these provocative images as
...remarkable both for power and straightforwardness of feeling...
Peter Milton's works are included in more than 150 museum collections
throughout the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan
Museum of Art, The National Gallery, The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, The
Tate Gallery, British Museums, Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris and Los
Angeles County Museum of Art.
In 1998, San Francisco's De Young Museum presented a major retrospective
exhibition of Peter Milton's prints. In the exhibition's accompanying
catalogue, curator Robert Flynn Johnson refers to Milton as ...a master in
the print world...[whose works'] surreal elements suggest a cross between
an Ingmar Bergman film and a Thomas Eakins painting.
Works from the De Young Museum's Retrospective will comprise the Peter
Milton exhibition at the Jack Rutberg Gallery. This exhibition will
preview Peter Milton's newest etching and most complex work to date.
IMAGE:
Peter Milton,
Points of Departure II, Nijinsky
Variations, 1996,
Resist-ground etching
and engraving
24 x 38 inches
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