Peter Stephens: Love Potion, Rivalry Projects, Buffalo, NY, 2022

Peter Stephens (b. 1958) creates paintings and works on paper that are influenced by an interest in cosmology, physics, and the patterns that dictate our natural world. Marked by bright, bold color, and hypnotic interwoven grids, each work is a composition of solid or gradient patches of color, overlaid with meticulously hand-drawn lines on custom wood panels. Likened to equations or formulas, the quantities, sequences, and rhythms in his work are ruled by a system that is as much fixed as it is chance. The resulting works are multilayered, undulating landscapes of color that unfold as the eye moves across the work.

Stephens holds a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. He has exhibited widely across the US, with exhibitions at Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NuArt Gallery, Sante Fe, New Mexico, Zolla/Lieberman, Chicago, Buffalo AKG Art Gallery, and Burchfield Penney Art Center, among many others. His work is held in the permanent collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Burchfield Penney Art Center, the Brooklyn Museum, the Castellani Art Museum (Lewiston, NY), the Fenimore Art Museum (Cooperstown, NY), and numerous private collections. Peter lives and works in Buffalo, NY.

SELECT Exhibitions

You Are My Favorite Work of Art, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY, 2024
Rational & Emotional Interrelations: Peter Stephens and Rose Masterpol, Nüart Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, 2023
Love Potion, Rivalry Projects, Buffalo, NY, 2022
Dante’s Cardigan, David Richard Gallery, New York, NY, 2020
Elemental / Ornamental, Eleven Twenty Projects, Buffalo, New York, 2019
Elemental / Ornamental, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, New York, 2019
The Paris Years, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, 2018
Peter Stephens, William Campbell Contemporary Art, Fort Worth, Texas, 2018
At This Time, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, New York, 2018
Californians, R. B. Stevenson Gallery, San Diego, California, 2016
Amid/In WNY, Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York, 2015
American Masters, Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York, 2013
Surveyor, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, 2011