Peter Kripgans: Freeing The Color Pencil
August 1st-16th, 2006
Opening August 3rd, 2006
Broadway Gallery is happy to announce the Solo Exhibition of Peter Kripgans titled “Freeing the Color Pencil”.
The intimacy of drawing is something that is felt immediately when looking through Peter Kripgans’ artwork. Kripgans works with colored pencils- an art form that has become nearly extinct in contemporary art. It sits there on the shelf next to watercolor and pastels, a league of artists almost invisible in the modern day art world. But Kripgans seems unphased. He creates worlds from mere lines, creates space with time- his time, spent there lending painstaking detail to every scene, every composition.
One is placed in an environment, a mood, by Kripgans’ drawings. I am looking through my window, lounging in solitude in pastures near a European cottage. The air is fragrant, the sun sparkling just beyond. It is poetry, or at least poetic, the artist’s deft touch. His creation of a scene for one to dwell within, linger, conversate, create.
The truth is his drawings look like emotive photographs. The gentleman obviously has an understanding of architecture and scale, but it is in his ability to allow emotions to seep into the work that sets these works apart from mere landscapes. And this is his signature: to create a composition that is aesthetically elegant, realistic and full of life.
