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The scene of the crime is littered with dusty footprints, several lines of police tape bar entrance into enclaves, and hot, red halogen lights brighten an otherwise dim room.
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Peggy Cyphers has put on a show of startling originality at the Proposition, located nearby the New Museum on the Lower East Side.
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By the time I realized that I should look into buying the small Man Bartlett drawing I had seen at "BYOA" the first night, it was gone, and I hadn't
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Peggy Cyphers (b.1954 Baltimore,MD) received an MFA in Painting from Pratt Institute and a BFA in Painting from Towson University, Baltimore, MD.
Animal Spirits is a series of abstract paintings which reflect on mental and physical spaces of weightlessness and expansive consciousness. The images focus on predatory birds and wild animals for inspiration - their colors, patterns, and a sense of gravitational, emotional and mental freedom.
Peggy Cyphers’ work reflects her interest in the theories of Charles Darwin, specifically the interconnectedness of all living species. He was one of the earliest proponents of animal rights and did studies of emotions in animals, which led to the founding of the Anti-vivisection Society in England.
Cyphers’ paintings use abstract characters that weave into vibratory spaces which calm sensory perception. The process is an automatic writing streaming between cultural, geological and primordial time, with roots in Eastern, Native American and Modernist traditions.
Cyphers has had one person exhibitions nationally and internationally since her first show in the East Village in 1984. Her exhibitions have been reviewed in the New York Times, New York Observer, Art in America and San Francisco Chronicle, Brooklyn Rail, among others. Selected recent exhibitions include "Animal Spirits" The Proposition, NYC (2012),"Occupy Wall Street, People are Talking" Creon Gallery, NYC (2011), "Animal Spirits," Noma Gallery,SF,CA ( 2009) "Animal Spirits, Creon Gallery, NYC (2009),"Animal Spirits," Kleinert James Arts Center, Woodstock, NY(2009)
Recent two person shows include "Early East Village Abstraction," Roger Smith Hotel, NYC (2014), "Earth, Air, Fire, Water," Gridspace, Brooklyn,NY (2014).
Peggy Cyphers lives and works in NYC.
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art
