Peddie Events Calendar

Frank Rivera: 25 Years of Selected Paintings 1999-2024

Peddie Arts Center, The Peddie School

Frank Rivera relates his paintings to the secretive practice of journal writing, where “people, places, and things warp under scrutiny, fulfilling the writer’s very human need to re-invent the world.” Rivera populates his paintings with such images as gesturing hands, mechanical birds, puppets, chairs and household appliances linked to particular events in his life. Like […]

Student Reception with Q&A — Frank Rivera: 25 Years of Selected Paintings 1999-2024

Peddie Arts Center, The Peddie School

Frank Rivera relates his paintings to the secretive practice of journal writing, where “people, places, and things warp under scrutiny, fulfilling the writer’s very human need to re-invent the world.” Rivera populates his paintings with such images as gesturing hands, mechanical birds, puppets, chairs and household appliances linked to particular events in his life. Like […]

Public Reception — Frank Rivera: 25 Years of Selected Paintings 1999-2024

Peddie Arts Center, The Peddie School

Frank Rivera relates his paintings to the secretive practice of journal writing, where “people, places, and things warp under scrutiny, fulfilling the writer’s very human need to re-invent the world.” Rivera populates his paintings with such images as gesturing hands, mechanical birds, puppets, chairs and household appliances linked to particular events in his life. Like […]

Opening Reception with Q&A — Kathryn Almanas

Peddie Arts Center, The Peddie School

Kathryn Almanas’s photographs and sewn work investigate destruction and healing within the body and the terrors and pleasures of embodiment, often drawing ideas from the medical world.

Kathryn Almanas

Peddie Arts Center, The Peddie School

Kathryn Almanas’s photographs and sewn work investigate destruction and healing within the body and the terrors and pleasures of embodiment, often drawing ideas from the medical world.

Elizabeth Duffy, Wearing Opening Reception

Peddie Arts Center, The Peddie School

Trained in sculpture, painting, drawing, jewelry and textile conservation, Elizabeth Duffy is an artist whose compulsive process and love of material culture drives her to mine the revelatory in the ordinary. Her work is influenced by feminist art, an itinerant way of life and the confluence of art with everyday life. About her practice, Elizabeth Duffy writes, […]

Deborah Kapoor, Light as a Feather

Peddie Arts Center, The Peddie School

Borrowed from childhood, the title Light as a Feather references the game played by children at slumber parties in which they levitate a friend. It questions the borders not just between life and death, but also between magic and banality, between the serious and the childish, between the power of the individual and the power of the […]

Opening Reception with Q&A — Deborah Kapoor, Light as a Feather

Peddie Arts Center, The Peddie School

Borrowed from childhood, the title Light as a Feather references the game played by children at slumber parties in which they levitate a friend. It questions the borders not just between life and death, but also between magic and banality, between the serious and the childish, between the power of the individual and the power of the […]

Boundless: An Exhibition of Book Art

Peddie Arts Center, The Peddie School

Curated by artist and former Peddie faculty member Madelaine Shellaby, this group exhibit explores the form and conceptual possibilities of the book, including printed and linear, hand-crafted and tactile, abstract and questioning, edition and one-of-a-kind interpretations of what a book is and can be.

Opening Reception — Boundless: An Exhibition of Book Art

Peddie Arts Center, The Peddie School

Curated by artist and former Peddie faculty member Madelaine Shellaby, this group exhibit explores the form and conceptual possibilities of the book, including printed and linear, hand-crafted and tactile, abstract and questioning, edition and one-of-a-kind interpretations of what a book is and can be.