La Petite Mort Gallery presents

PETER SHMELZER / DESPERATE PEOPLE / NEW PAINTINGS

October 5 – 28, 2012  / Vernissage Friday October 5 / 7 – 10pm

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ARTISTS STATEMENT:

Having reached the age of 41, I’m fairly certain that I don’t  
understand my work any better than anyone else. You might think that  
this would bother me. However, it does not. For a long time now I’ve  
really tried to make paintings that are almost unconscious. The  
imagery sort of evolves through some internal process and ends up on  
the canvas without really being censored or edited in any conscious  
way. I’ve always been drawn to things that seemed to be the honest  
and unique expression of an individual, that showcase the  
individuality of their experience and almost accidentally, almost  
embarrassingly, expose some of the hidden recesses of the mind. I  
think what I’m trying to do is let the world filter through me and  
allow my feeble mind to make of it what it will.    - Peter  
Shmelzer,  February 2012


Guy Berube
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