First Thursday Opening Reception: Blooms by Karen Eastman and Echoes by Anne Peterson

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• Thursday, Sep 7, 2023  5pm - 9pm

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Capitol Contemporary Gallery is pleased to announce two new exhibitions for the month of August—Blooms by Karen Eastman and Echoes by Anne Peterson. Eastman will present contemporary flower paintings and Peterson will be revisiting a previous body of work and presenting it in a new way. In addition, we will be featuring sculpture by Gary Holt Peer in his “Disc-coveries In Wood.”

Please join us at the gallery on First Thursday, September 7th from 5:00 to 9:00 pm. The artists will be in attendance, and we will be serving wine by Vizcaya Winery.

The show is free, open to the public, and runs through September 30th.

Anne Peterson
Echoes

I am revisiting old methods and prior imagery and yet something new and fresh is taking hold. I am not pursuing any singular subject matter just letting the past fifty years of painting inform the work. My process includes painting on canvas and once again working on wood panels aggressively scratching through the surface to reveal the under-painting, what lies beneath. A metaphor for seeking truth? I am grateful art chose me.

Karen Eastman
Blooms

Karen is a contemporary fine art oil painter based in Boise, Idaho. She graduated with a BA in the arts from the University of Colorado, Boulder. She has shown her work extensively from large scale shows in San Diego, to galleries in Las Vegas and the northwest. Several of her projects have been creating work for the NIH, for boutique hotels, and for interior designers.

Eastman’s free flowing linear style evokes emotion and movement from her organic forms. Her use of bold color creates strong yet soothing compositions. She works to simplify her complex subject matter by breaking down each form into segments and close-up views. This leaves room for the viewer to engage and interpret her work in their own way.

“Blooms” showcases her use of line and shape in a stylized view of her subject matter. The aliveness of her florals is a tribute to her mother who always keeps fresh flowers in the house, and a nod to her favorite artist of all time, Georgia O’Keeffe.

Gary Holt Peer
Disc-coveries In Wood

I am interested in contrast. Our world confronts us with distinct contrasts: black versus white, right versus wrong, absolute truth versus truth by consensus, etc. In an increasingly relativistic society, such contrasts, like its people, lose their identity. With my sculpture, I try to represent this contrast by depicting order versus chaos, space versus negative space, geometric versus organic, etc. While my work appears abstract, it is quite representational from a conceptual standpoint. It represents the logical order of things, i.e., the steady decay of all systems over time - what in physics is referred to as entropy, or the "Second Law of Thermodynamics."