Full Body Workout

Current Exhibition


Full Body Workout
Works by Paul Peng
July 27 - August 10, 2019

Opening Reception: Saturday, July 27, 6-9pm
Closing and Artist's Talk led by Leyla Çolpan: Saturday, August 10, 6-9pm

Gallery Hours: Sundays 1-4pm, or by Appointment 
About the show: Some cartoons to brighten up your body praxis!

About the artist: Working from both Cy Twombly’s mark-making legacy and those kids you know from high school who keep drawing pictures of themselves as Sonic the Hedgehog characters, Paul Peng’s drawings wrap around the furry-figured dream boys of his teenage DeviantArt upbringing with airy, light-filled linework, carved-out objects and spaces of domestic desire, and lush, goopy sprawls of shadings and masses. Paul equates the punch of a cartoon face with the concrete power of a single formal mark, rendering his dream boys not as dreams but instead as fully embodied boys in their own right. Everything Paul draws is real and exists in real life.

Paul Peng was born in 1994 and moved to Pittsburgh in 2012, being based there since. He has most recently shown work at Philadelphia's Little Berlin (Hickey, curated by Fred Blauth and Eric Anthony Berdis, 2018), the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust's 937 Gallery (Ten Futures, curated by Fred Blauth and Dave Zak, 2018–2019), Pittsburgh's PULLPROOF Studio (Fast Art for Fast People, 2019), and Seton Hill University's Harlan Gallery (Sister Wendy Beckett: Envisioning Art, curated by Graham Shearing, 2019). He is also good at programming things.
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