September in the Mezzanine Gallery
Peter Williams - Individual Artist Fellow in Painting
September 5th-26th, 2008
Reception: September 5th, 2008

Working Space and Other Ideas

The works on paper are made from the Sunday comics from Detroit where I used to live. I discovered a box of them and forgot what my plans for them were. This started out in January as I prepared for the spring semester at the University of Delaware where I teach painting. At first I wasn't sure what to make of them, other than as a collection of images from the funny pages. But the more I worked on them, they began to develop into ideas about shape and color, and out of that they became little vignettes, small stories {for me}, with which to organize the cut pieces of paper. They represent a working space that exists for most artists in their notebooks, or sketch books if you prefer.

-Peter Williams