Medium(s) Worked in:

Painting
Printmaking
Paper/Book
Pen/Pencil

Artist CV:
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Available for Commission: Yes

Represented by: Gosia Koscielak Gallery, Chicago, IL; Wroclaw, Poland

HPAC Exhibitions

2006, Cosmic Hostess)
2006, 2007, Just Good Art

Artist Statement

My paintings are landscapes of both the exterior world and an interior space of dream, desire, hope, and memory.

By combining various painting languages including recognizable imagery, signs and symbols, and painterly abstraction, I attempt to mimic and reconcile how information comes to us, and how meaning is made, bit by bit - real life alongside memory, poetry next to prose. My images of plums, pears, and even cupcakes, and most recently chandeliers, commingle the language of 17th century still life painting with the pop imagery of lightning bolts, puffy clouds, painted lips, rainbows, strolling legs, swans, daisy chains, and ominous blackbirds.

Lisa Wainwright, Dean of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Professor of Art History, wrote in 2006 about my work: “Here are worlds aqueous and cosmic, airy and verdant. The paintings glow with uncanny resonance and optical sheen. And then Peltz interrupts the dreaminess to cast a range of signs into ethereal spaces. Myriad symbols in their speech bubble niches hint at a narrative that unfolds from picture to picture. Both of nature and from culture, her icons speak to the polemic between essentialism and social construction that still grips feminist discourse. ….. the mix of aesthetic delight and conceptual reading makes …. Peltz’s strongest work to date.”

Artist Bio

Born in Brooklyn, New York, I received my MFA from the University of Chicago and my BFA from the State University of New York at New Paltz. I’ve had numerous one person shows and been included in many group exhibitions including the Hyde Park Art Center, Galerie Piltzer in Paris, Arden Gallery in Boston, Olga Dollar Gallery in San Francisco, Carrie Secrist Gallery in Chicago, Printworks Gallery in Chicago, the Rockford Art Museum, the Renaissance Society in Chicago, the Herbert Johnson Museum at Cornell University, and many others. My most recent exhibition “Chandeliers, Starbursts,etc.” opened at the Gosia Koscielak Gallery this September. I live and work in Chicago and teach at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.