Gallery: Peri Schwartz (CFA’73)
Bottles & Jars XXX (2012), oil on canvas, 22 in. x 36 in. Photo by Julia Featheringill
Gallery: Peri Schwartz (CFA’73)
A solo exhibition of works by the late artist Peri Schwartz (CFA’73) ran last spring at Gallery Naga on Newbury Street in Boston. The show, Reverberations: Fifty Years of Still Lifes, included the last etchings and watercolors Schwartz made during her lifetime. She died in 2021. “Making things up bored Schwartz; she wasn’t interested in recording the imaginative associations of her own mind,” writes Cody Upton, executive director of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, in the introduction to the show’s catalog. “She craved the sustained attention required of direct observation. It is a marvel, almost a contradiction, that the finished work appears so spacious and free, like an improvisation. Within the rules she imposed on herself, Schwartz found creative liberation.”