DAVID ALLAN PETERS

"Behind his place are four covered open-air garages, and Peters moves among them with care and precision. He takes the plywood panels he paints upon and sets them flat on tables, variously layering acrylic-bound pigments in wide swaths, stripes, and slithery shapes until they are encrusted an inch high or more above the surface. He’ll often rake through the paint like a farmer in the fields at an early point in his process. It takes eons, it seems, but after many months roll forward and the paint finally dries, the artist draws his grids and patterns on top of the layer-piled panels, later chipping away to their rendered path with a curved linocut knife, unearthing the depths worth diving into—and growing a progeny of new work."

- Stephen Wozniak in "Chromatic Revelation: The Art of David Allan Peters"

"I ask Peters what he thinks about most frequently, even when he's not painting, which amounts to his work at hand. 'Even at home, I always think in color. When I think about the aspect of layering paint, I think in color,' he says. 'Like, This color will go with this. I want this color on that. I want that color to meet that color. I want all of it, even if I can’t always get it.' From what I see, he works diligently—and gets 'it' often."

- Stephen Wozniak in "Chromatic Revelation: The Art of David Allan Peters"

"As I leave Peters’s studio and step out into the high-noon sunshine, I think about two inescapable features that viewers readily see in his work: the cascade of color-riddled forms—rushing, relentless, free—and the gridwork that conveys a sense of stability in the face of chaos."

- Stephen Wozniak in "Chromatic Revelation: The Art of David Allan Peters"