ABSTRACT-ART-PETER KUTTNER

       
 

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PETER KUTTNER  

ABSTRACT AND CONTEMPORARY 

 

MIXED MEDIA PAINTINGS

 

ON

 

CANVAS AND PAPER   
 

 

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"Life Span" Acrylic on Canvas

50" x 50" $4700.00

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 PETER KUTTNER  -   ABSTRACT  AND  CONTEMPORARY  MIXED  MEDIA  PAINTINGS  ON  CANVAS  AND  PAPER

 

PETER KUTTNER - ARTIST INFORMATION 

 

  Peter Kuttner

 Peter Kuttner was born and raised near Boston Mass.

 and on the rugged coast of Maine. He earned

 his BFA from Ringling School of Art and Design in

 Sarasota, Florida. He became Art Director for

 New Life Films and headed the graphics department

 of the National Museum of American Illustration.

 While he enjoyed the creativity of these dynamic

 institutions he always found the most satisfaction

 in making his own, personal artwork. Peter relocated

 to Arizona and with the turn of a new century,
 he bravely embarked on a career as an artist. The

 time that Peter spent living near the beach influenced

 his subtle palette of cool blues, warm gold's and

 rich reds. Hues that are complicated by the

 atmospheric clarity he finds in the arid southwest.  

 

 

 

 

 

 PETER KUTTNER - HIS ART AND THE PROCESS

 His excellent training as an illustrator is evident in the dimensional aspects of
 his paintings. He approaches each canvas with a keen technical acuity while
 yielding to the spontaneous development of the work. His attention to detail
 is of primary concern. He hand-finishes each canvas, resolving every
 painting to a very particular level of complexity. His technical skill, paired
 with an organic style, and neutral palette captures the tension between city
 life and the inevitability of the quiet moments to be found there. Kuttner's
 works include three types of paintings: cityscapes, still life's and abstractions.

 

 In his cityscapes he invites the viewer to linger in he memory of their own
 encounter with cities where we have lived. He often populates the painted
 plane with text scribbled in pencil and imposed on the surface in incomplete
 phrases. These evoke inscriptions suggestive of a distant, personal archive. 
 Sometimes the writing appears as a broken and abandoned street sign,
 pointing the viewer in the direction of their own past. The text fragments
 ask us to remember a time when we wandered the city or recorded our
 memories of walking on a deserted street in the rain.
 

 Kuttner's still life's capture those inevitable moments to offer us a suspended,
 contemplative look at familiar yet abstracted natural details. Blossoming
 trees, a single flowering stem, or intersecting wire all reveal the thriving
 poetics of our surroundings.

 His abstract paintings achieve depth through their highly textured surfaces
 and many layers of compelling rich colors. He has developed a complicated
 hand-finished treatment of the canvas surface. This resonates with the
 intricacies of human experience and relationships. Kuttner prompts us to
 pause and consider the spaces that defy architecture, history, emotion and
 perception.  
 

 We are pleased to have artist, Peter Kuttner, showing at LKG Contemporary in

 Scottsdale, Arizona.

 


          Please contact us at 480-945-1209 or lkg@leonakinggallery.com for information and availability of the art.    


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