calling on the unconscious mind

David Peters’ work is about the search for ways to visually express one’s reflective state of mind by employing color, shape, and scale. In his search for his own pictorial language, he discovered aspects of works by artists that resonated world over.  In particular, he was drawn to examine ways some artists in Rajasthan, India work on paper. By respecting what he gleaned and revising various meaningful shapes, he began to create his own personal meditative symbols. Obsessed with the ideas that were coming to him, he experimented with various painting mediums in his studio practice, welcoming unexpected results. Recognizing how color and shape affect our emotions, and how the activity of viewing paintings can lead one to a state of calm, he sought further to enhance certain qualities in his drawings and paintings for their spiritual resonance. He added large-scale formats, expanding their power and beauty. David Peters’ example of spontaneous inspiration permits viewers   to go within themselves and explore their own deep possibilities, without prediction in advance what shape they will take.

Peters attended University of Notre Dame for two years and graduated from Pomona College in Claremont, California with a degree in Economics and a master’s degree in IUrbanStudies from Occidental College.While having a successful real estate career, he stayed involved with community work. Meanwhile, he continued his education with classes in poetry and art. Later he pursued his pwn artistic interests, studying visual arts with the renowned artist Tom Wudl for the last 16 years. Influenced by Richard Diebenkorn, Ellsworth Kelly, Louis Bourgeois, Joseph Albers and Hilma Af Klint to mention a few, his works have been shown in a number of group exhibitions and will be on view on his first solo show this fall.