Figure + Motion Drawings

<BODY BGCOLOR="#330033" TEXT="#F7F7FF" LINK="#0099CC" ALINK="#80759A" VLINK="#FF0000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#111111" FACE="Tw Cen MT Condensed" ><B>[out</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#555555" FACE="Tw Cen MT Condensed" ><B> </B></FONT><FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#444444" FACE="Tw Cen MT Condensed" ><B>of</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#555555" FACE="Tw Cen MT Condensed" ><B> </B><B>the</B></FONT><B> </B><FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#777777" FACE="Tw Cen MT Condensed" ><B>corner</B></FONT><B> </B><FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#888888" FACE="Tw Cen MT Condensed" ><B>of</B></FONT><B> </B><FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#AAAAAA" FACE="Tw Cen MT Condensed" ><B>the</B></FONT><B> </B><FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#BBBBBB" FACE="Tw Cen MT Condensed" ><B>eye]</B></FONT></div> <div> <I><B>selected figurative works on paper by artist Barry Peterson</B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#888888" FACE="Eras Light ITC" ><B>The title of the series, </B></FONT>"[<I>out of the corner of the eye</I>]"<B> </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#888888" FACE="Eras Light ITC" ><B>comes from a quote by artist Andrew Wyeth who said of his work that he was after "that abstract flash--the moment caught off balance, out of the corner of the eye...."  The following are very different manifestations of that very same pursuit. </B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>"Charcoal and paper--two very simple wood products--and the naked human form.  Often I am drawing with my hands directly on the paper with out the aid of a charcoal stick.  I am looking for as direct of a response as can be recorded and for as simple and powerful a grammar as can be uttered.  The shortest distance between the human form and the surface of the page.  There comes, from this approach,  a kind of "rough-hewn" honesty of response and that is really what I am after in both art and in architecture".  </B></I></div> <bR> <div> <B>These are drawn with wet or dry compressed charcoal on hot press drafting vellum--sometimes on the back of used CAD plots.  A couple of these images are ozalid blueprints of the sheets, where the blueprint machine forces the figure drawing and the CAD plot together into one image.</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B>   <IMG SRC="12c048f0.jpg" border=0 width="260" height="399" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <div> <I><B>1</B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>     </B><FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#888888" FACE="Eras Light ITC" ><I><B><IMG SRC="1b310690.jpg" border=0 width="272" height="361" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></FONT></div> <div> <I><B>2</B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>   </B></I></div> <div> <I><B> </B></I><I><B><IMG SRC="30f42a40.jpg" border=0 width="322" height="420" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <div> <I><B>3 (blueprint)</B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>    </B><FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#888888" FACE="Eras Light ITC" ><I><B><IMG SRC="12905680.jpg" border=0 width="261" height="360" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></FONT></div> <div> <I><B>4</B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B> <IMG SRC="30d045d0.jpg" border=0 width="260" height="349" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <div> <I><B>5 (Blueprint)</B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>  <IMG SRC="13104a40.jpg" border=0 width="260" height="420" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <div> <I><B>6</B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>   </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#888888" FACE="Tw Cen MT Condensed" ><I><B><IMG SRC="1b107780.png" border=0 width="263" height="376" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></FONT></div> <div> <I><B>7</B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>   <IMG SRC="1c2147e0.jpg" border=0 width="276" height="382" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <div> <I><B>8</B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> </B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="35f5f750.jpg" border=0 width="351" height="373" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <I><B>9</B></I></div> <div> <B>  </B></div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="architects_for_northern_california.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Studio 300A Architecture"><U>Home</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </BODY>