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Artist: Peter Scala
The Gallery Guide, Charleston SC
“While the influence of Picasso, Matisse, Miro, Klee
and other modernist masters is clear, his creative energy and forceful
imagination are very much his own. Peter starts each day with spontaneous
sketches or doodles and he has accumulated thousands of them. His finished
paintings are often elaborations of one or another of these impulsive
seeds. Titles he has added hit broadly at the nature of the individual
painting they describe and reflect the wit that permeates his work…a
sophisticate with a body of work full of humor and pain. No one else
in contemporary Charleston’s artistic circles is painting with
such a nimble imagination and sure professional touch”
- Denny Stiles
Hatfield 2 Fine Art Gallery…Features
Surreal Works by Peter Scala
Carolina Arts “As with the majority of Scala’s work, his titles
lead the viewer back to the painting time and again to ponder and
think; to follow the story line and interpret his work as you see
it…Always thought provoking, Scala’s work invites you
to spend time looking at his work; to think and follow the lines
and figures through the painting …Before moving to the Charleston
area 5 years ago, Scala lived and painted in Asia and Africa. Accompanying
his wife, Pat, who worked for an international organization, Scala
developed his egg tempera technique. He often tells the story that
after having difficulty finding eggs during their two years in
Zanzibar resulted in their only criteria for future postings was
the availability of fresh eggs…”
Post and Courier, Preview, Charleston, SC
“Peter Scala, surrealist artist, will have a solo exhibition
titled “My Mind Projected on a Flat Surface”... will
open his studio to local art students this month with an event
funded (by)the Lowcountry Quarterly Arts Grant program….The
solo exhibit at the Hatfield 2 Gallery…featuring six completed
during the grant period.”
Art by the Harbor
The Post and Courier, Charleston SC
Dottie Ashley
"A 20-year retrospective of Peter Scala's surrealist-style
paintings is on exhibit for the first time in the United States...
The artist explains that he does not seek out subjects but finds
them by a happy accident or experience. He points out that his
artwork requires study in order to find the human component. Scala
paints in an ancient medium of egg tempera on gesso panel...His
motivation to work in this medium was influenced by a visit to
Siena, Italy, where he studied 13th century tempera panels…"
The Island
Alison Humphrey, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Scala’s semi-abstract paintings have a dreamlike quality...The
compositions are satisfying in proportion and witty, challenging
and provocative in content."
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