Tigermedia - Between Flesh and Brick (Peter Pacheco)
Between Flesh and Brick (Peter Pacheco)
Date: May 30th, 2019
Duration:
6m:47s
Artist's Statement
First of all, let me make one thing clear: I do not have a foot fetish and I am not looking for a rich podiatrist as a client. I started painting feet as a way of reintroducing the figure into my paintings, which up until then had been almost exclusively abstract. I do not want to paint a figure study; but I also do not want to tell a story as much as paint a mood or the experience of being in the world.
I have always been drawn to American abstract expressionism, for me closely connected with jazz from the same time period, which I love. In some way, this still informs my work.
My paintings are not meticulously planned, but come from a stream of consciousness and controlled accidents. Subject matter/motifs come from memories of personal experience, like my grandmother's hands (she was a secretary as was my mom) or the experience of living in a rich cityscape like New York. Some come from classic motifs, as in The Three Graces or pop culture such as Bambi. In a way these motifs have much the same function as the standard has in jazz. They are jumping off points.
Some paintings I work on for months or a year. I will paint image upon image until something grabs me and I can flesh it out. Images suggest other images, other paintings I may finish in days.
I paint with oil, egg tempera and sometimes wax emulsions. At times I draw directly into the wet paint with charcoal.
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Between Flesh and Brick
Peter Pacheco
Hosted at the QCC Art Gallery
May 30, 2019 through July 14, 2019
Curator
Faustino Quintanilla
Filmed and Edited by
Victor Peņa
Music
Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Parting of the Ways - Part 1" by Kevin MacLeod
(https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Project Supervisor
Phillip Roncoroni
QCC Art Gallery Executive Director
Faustino Quintanilla
QCC Art Gallery Assistant Director
Lisa Scandaliato