Fay Peck
Languid Time
Intense, brash color and a clean, confident line.
Bozeman, 2021
Fay Peck, an illustrious American Expressionist artist, is well-loved for her bold expressive work. In her silkscreens, the juxtaposition of intense, brash color and heavy pattern with a clean, confident line are impactful visually, but also evoke a nostalgia for a more tactile, languid time.
The silkscreens presented in this show are some of the most passionate of her figurative work. In an era of over-sanitized imagery and defect-less marketing trope, Peck's is a breath of fresh air.
A balm for the social isolation of the pandemic.Invoking the incredible, bold personality that was Fay Peck on our gallery walls is, to us, the most apt way to emerge from the jarring year we just faced and embrace the spring and its promise of new life.
Installation views
American Expressionist, innate genius for color and line.
Fay Peck was an internationally known painter who spent much of her life in Lake Forest, Illinois and Aspen, Colorado. In her later years, she followed her children to Bozeman, Montana. Over a long and prolific career she mastered multiple mediums: large, lush landscapes laid on in thick blobs and heavy swashes; figurative drawings — nudes, enormous and unabashed, yet intimate; prints that explore the dynamics of human interaction with admirable clarity; and wood cuts that are incisive, intense, and absorbing.
She has been described as “a painter who combines three rare qualities: painter's instinct, extraordinary color sense, and undaunted perseverance… Her exuberant work communicates an immediate sensual and spiritual experience of nature.” — Fay Peck: American Expressionist, edited by Robin Steele.