Image: 2022 solo show at McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY.

"Formally, it encourages our attention to circulate around the painting and not fix on any form — to break down and reassemble the configurations, seeing what can be stretched and what resists. Finally, all the forms seem partial, cropped or squeezed into a corner. In this, Petersen recognizes that whatever dream of unity geometric artists once pursued is no longer possible. We lived in a shattered world.

- John Yau, June 16, 2022 HyperAllergic.

Gary Petersen

Gary Petersen