HIVE MIND: Featured works by Peter Barnitz - DIBOLL GALLERY - Loyola University of New Orleans (Open through March 17, 2019)

Peter Barnitz, Genesis, Mixed media, spiral shank nails through wooden panel, 2016
(Formation Series)

Barnitz Art @ STUDIO WAVELAND (11/17 - 1/5)

Honored to be selected into this amazing exhibition and excited to share a new painting with the world......

Peter Barnitz

Venus at Rest

48 x 36 inches

Mixed media on canvas

2018

S t u d i o   W a v e l a n d 

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G a l l e r y

PHOSPHORESCENCE & FLUORESCENCE EXHIBITION

Curated by opto-kinetic geometrical abstract painter, James Flynn.

Artwork includes 2D, 3D, video and performance under black light.

Opening Reception November 17th, 5:30-10 pm

November 17- January 5, 2019

Exhibiting Artists:

Sergio Alvarez, Gayle Andersson, Steve Barney, Jolene Barkley,

Peter Barnitz, Corrine Barreca, Brian Borello, Marcus Brown, Hunter Cole, Dodie Connor, Rick Dobbs, James Flynn, Silas Fortuin, Mitchell Gaudet, Ryan Gianelloni, Jack Gunter, Cheryl Hayes, Scharonne Herrington,

Brent Houzenga, Christina Juran, Erica Larkin Gaudet, Cameron Lartique, Lisa Loth, Ann Madden, Donna Martin, Steve Martin, Miro Hoffman,

Kelly Mueller, Janelle Mullen, Katherine Norman, Nonney Oddlokken,

Keith Perelli, Dominic Pitts, Francesca Pumilia, Sally Richards, Dan Rule, Solange Ledwith, Ember Soberman, Bonnie Vallery, James Vella,

John Isiah Walton Wendo, Barbara Zitzmann

S t u d i o   W a v e l a n d

228 Coleman Avenue, Waveland, MS, USA

Peter Barnitz- Defining the Art of Change @ The Center for Contemporary Political Art (Washington D.C.)

DEFINING THE ART OF CHANGE

MATHER STUDIOS

The Center for Contemporary Political Art

916 G STREET NW

Washington D.C.

Peter Barnitz
The Wall: Good Fences Make Good Neighbors 

DEFINING THE ART OF CHANGE

September 30 - November 14

Defining, the first open-call exhibition presented by Washington’s new Center for Contemporary Political Art (CCPArt), invited artists from all fifty states and Puerto Rico to submit original work, challenging the artists to respond with art as powerful as the times are dangerous, to help Americans understand what’s at stake—and why it’s their duty to vote—in the November 2018 midterm elections.

With more than 500 submissions by almost 300 artists, CCPArt hopes that the Defining exhibition will lead to a redefinition of the role artists play in our society; identify the country’s leading practitioners of political art; and demonstrate why political art should be recognized as a valued genre of American art in the twenty-first century.

As the nation’s first research institute and exhibition space devoted exclusively to the study and strategic use of the Art of Civic Engagement, the Center will provide a means for the nation’s artists to create and exhibit art that will enrage, engage, and better inform We The People about the most important and contentious issues facing the country today.

Charles Krause, Founder  
Robin Strongin, Co Founder

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2018 Covington White Linen Night (Saturday, August 18th) @ STAA

Peter Barnitz- Presence- 2018

COVINGTON WHITE LINEN NIGHT
53rd Annual Summer Show

August 18, 2018

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STAA - The Summer Show

The St. Tammany Art Association presents the 53rd National Juried Artists Exhibition, also known as The Summer Show. 

The show opens July 14, 2018 with an artists' reception and presentation of awards, and continues through August 18 with a closing event coinciding with Covington White Linen for Public Art, held 6-9 pm that evening.

ABOUT THE JUROR: Katie Pfohl, Ph.D.

Katie Pfohl is the Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Pfohl previously served as a curator at the Louisiana State University Museum of Art, and possesses a wide range of academic and curatorial experience, having worked in three of the premier art museums in the country—the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In 2006, she completed the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York, a widely respected contemporary art residency program that invites curators, artists and scholars from around the world to participate in a year-long seminar on pressing issues in contemporary art and culture. Modern and contemporary art was also a major focus of Pfohl’s Ph.D. at Harvard University, which she completed in 2015.

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Barnitz Art - Nature of Daylight Series @ Ballet Apetrei Studios (The ARTWALK)

Peter Barnitz, With Vigor, 2017 (Nature of Daylight Series)

Art Walk:  Inspirations of Dance, Music and Movement

Opening Reception:
Saturday,  August 11th
(6 - 9 PM)

Honored to be selected into the 53rd Annual National Juried Summer Show: (July 14 – August 18, 2018) Opening reception July 14th, 6 pm-9 pm - St. Tammany Art Association

53rd Annual Summer Show

July 14 - August 18, 2018

Opening Reception:

July 14th

(6 - 9 PM)

For more information visit:

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STAA - The Summer Show

The St. Tammany Art Association presents the 53rd National Juried Artists Exhibition, also known as The Summer Show, its annual competition of contemporary art exhibiting a variety of media from artists across the United States. (A total of 336 works were submitted by 121 artists representing 22 states, with 28 selected for exhibition.)

The show opens July 14, 2018 with an artists' reception and presentation of awards, and continues through August 18 with a closing event coinciding with Covington White Linen for Public Art, held 6-9 pm that evening.

ABOUT THE JUROR: Katie Pfohl, Ph.D.

Katie Pfohl is the Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Pfohl previously served as a curator at the Louisiana State University Museum of Art, and possesses a wide range of academic and curatorial experience, having worked in three of the premier art museums in the country—the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In 2006, she completed the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York, a widely respected contemporary art residency program that invites curators, artists and scholars from around the world to participate in a year-long seminar on pressing issues in contemporary art and culture. Modern and contemporary art was also a major focus of Pfohl’s Ph.D. at Harvard University, which she completed in 2015.

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Politico Pop Up 3 - @ ArtSpace 3116 - New Orleans, LA

Peter Barnitz - Indivisible With Liberty and Justice For All

ARTSPACE3116 IS HOSTING THE THIRD ANNUAL POLITICOPOPUP 

3116 St. Claude Ave., New Orleans, LA 70117

When: June 9th 2018 6-10pm, June 10th 2018 12-4pm
What: PoliticoPopUp3 - A two-day event!

Who: Over 30 established and emerging artists from New Orleans and beyond!

Curated by Leona Strassberg Steiner

ART E - WALK

ART E-WALK

WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2018

Here and There in New Orleans

Figurative, abstract, ..., paintings, videos, ..., the diversity of works and the number of artists represented by the galleries transform a tour from Magazine, Julia and the St Claude neighborhood into a welcomed challenge for the viewer's eyes and taste. Trying to find connections between the exhibitions becomes a futile endeavor. There are no limits to artistic expression as shown by the displays and one may just decide to enjoy the adventure while wandering from place to place.  

This month is particularly fertile, starting Uptown at TEN Gallerywhere Peter Barnitz's solo show reveals his latest works. The painter gets inspired by various artists to create his very personal compositions built layers after layers. The resulting meditative abstract landscapes evoke Australian Aboriginal art with their maze of dots as illustrated by the piece Neutral Ground, 2018, which gave its name to the show. New black and white pieces combine the distinctive web-like graphics with drips. They also incorporate a portrait in Dream, 2018, and silhouettes in Reunion, 2018. Two sculptures reflect Barnitz's concerns regarding current events.
Just a few blocks away, Cole Pratt Gallery also features a solo show, Polymorphs from Marianne Desmarais. The collection of three dimensional wooden wall sculptures made of laser cut basswood on sheets of colored linen is an interplay between shapes, colors and shadows. Sophisticated in their simplicity, the geometric constructions reflect the background of the artist who is also an architect.
The galleries on Julia Street in the CBD offer a diversity of style from figurative to abstract. Starting at the Arthur Roger Gallery, John Alexander's oils on canvas exude romanticism featuring birds or flowers on tormented backgrounds. Beautiful and doomed, nature engenders strong emotions.  Benjamin Chamback's series of day lilies at LeMieux Galleries are painted on copper. The flowers are attractive and also dangerous, festive or deadly according to the backgrounds' colors. Abstract is represented by the minimalist sculptures from John Henry at Callan Contemporary and paintings from Deborah Pelias at Boyd Satellite while abstract expressionism is found at Octavia Art Gallery with Kikuo Saito's works.

There are always surprises and fresh ideas in the St. Claude Arts District's galleries. The 101 views from Mt. Fuji, screen captures from video games collected over five years and then edited by Ashley Anderson, are one of them at The Front. The tribute to Hokusai, who made 100 prints of the famous mountain, rejuvenates the symbol through new technologies. Coincidence? The installation from Ann Schwab in the back of the gallery is also about Japan, meditation and spirituality. The visit includes a boisterous show from Thomas Friel who unleashes his energy to create patterns or random designs in loud colors along the walls, adding a live performance (or not) to help us "better hear the voices in your head" and the melancholic black and white photographs from Jared Ragland shot in New Orleans, inspired by The Moviegoer from Walker Percy. Group shows can be overwhelming. Birds of a Feather curated by Tony Campbell at Barrister's features the works from thirty artists, best summed up by the sobering installation from Pippin Frisbee-CalderCanceled Addition about disappearing bird species. The New Orleans Art Center and Antenna present exhibitions with themes related to the 2018 Wetlands Art Tour.

For the number of galleries or artists I did not mention... I'll be back

Thrilled to ANNOUNCE: NEUTRAL GROUND - Opening Reception: FRIDAY, May 4th (6 - 9 PM)

Peter Barnitz - Friendship (Neutral Ground Series), Mixed media on canvas, 36 x 48 inches, 2018

NEUTRAL GROUND
Peter Barnitz

PRESS RELEASE

(New Orleans, LA):  TEN GALLERY is pleased to present, NEUTRAL GROUND, an exhibition by New Orleans based artist Peter Barnitz.  For his fifth solo exhibition at the gallery, Barnitz reveals his latest medley of contemplative mixed media works that encourage a dialogue between organic form, geometric structure and abstract landscape.  Inspired by nature, light and life,  Barnitz creates visually complex , deeply meditative abstractions that combine the notion of movement with the appreciation of the schematic.

Delicately rendered, merging the familiar with his personal dialect of abstraction, Barnitz finds inspiration in the work of numerous canonic artists, such as Agnes Martin, Jasper Johns, Frank Stella, Marcel Duchamp, Antony Gormley, Brice Marden and Pablo Picasso.  Through a blueprint of interwoven and playful geometric clusters, Barnitz explores the passage of time, the mesh of nature and poise of the human spirit.  Neutral Ground provides a meeting ground for dialogue, compromise, contemplation and dreams.  

The exhibition opens May 4 and runs through May 30.  An artist reception will be held from 6 - 9 p.m.  on FRIDAY, May 4, 2018.

Peter Barnitz on NEUTRAL GROUND........

"Neutral Ground refers to the space between or middle ground, where communication and understanding transpire.  Neutral Ground can be defined as an area of compromise or possible agreement between two extreme positions.  In a world filled with the constant bombardment of distraction and confrontation, we must all find a venue for acceptance, connection and peace.  By merging the familiar with a personal vocabulary of abstraction, my work focuses on bringing people together through dialogue, contemplation, compromise and dreams.

As we celebrate the tricentennial of New Orleans, there are many things which make our city special.  "Neutral Ground" is a unique term to our area that can be defined as something more than just a grassy median between two streets.  It represents a place where strangers ascend to stake claim to a prime space for Mardi Gras, then leave as friends and family.  Neighbors look out for each other, sharing friendly conversation, food, drink, ladders and chairs.  It is a place that truly brings people together.  

What does it mean to you?"

For further information, press or sales inquiries please contact Peter Barnitz (pbarnitz@yahoo.com) or visit our website (www.barnitzart.blogspot.com)  

Please join us on Facebook (@ Peter Barnitz Art), Twitter (@BarnitzArt), and Instagram (@barnitzart) via hashtags #peterbarnitz, #barnitzart, #NEUTRALGROUND,  and #tengalleryNOLA.

TEN GALLERY
4432 Magazine St.
New Orleans, LA

The Wall: Good Fences Make Good Neighbors @ ARTFIELDS 2018 - Crossroads Gallery - Lake City,SC (April 20 - 28)

Peter Barnitz - The Wall: Good Fences Make Good Neighbors
Crossroads Gallery
124 West Main St.
Lake City, SC

ARTFIELDS 2018
(April 20 - 28)

VOTE:  # 817010

Opening Reception - (Friday, May 4th) - Peter Barnitz (Solo Exhibition) - NEUTRAL GROUND @ TEN Gallery (6 - 9 PM)

NEUTRAL GROUND
Peter Barnitz

PRESS RELEASE

(New Orleans, LA):  TEN GALLERY is pleased to present, NEUTRAL GROUND, an exhibition by New Orleans based artist Peter Barnitz.  For his fifth solo exhibition at the gallery, Barnitz reveals his latest medley of contemplative mixed media works that encourage a dialogue between organic form, geometric structure and abstract landscape.  Inspired by nature, light and life,  Barnitz creates visually complex , deeply meditative abstractions that combine the notion of movement with the appreciation of the schematic.

Delicately rendered, merging the familiar with his personal dialect of abstraction, Barnitz finds inspiration in the work of numerous canonic artists, such as Agnes Martin, Jasper Johns, Frank Stella, Marcel Duchamp, Antony Gormley, Brice Marden and Pablo Picasso.  Through a blueprint of interwoven and playful geometric clusters, Barnitz explores the passage of time, the mesh of nature and poise of the human spirit.  Neutral Ground provides a meeting ground for dialogue, compromise, contemplation and dreams.  

The exhibition opens May 4 and runs through May 30.  An artist reception will be held from 6 - 9 p.m.  on FRIDAY, May 4, 2018.

Peter Barnitz on NEUTRAL GROUND........

"Neutral Ground refers to the space between or middle ground, where communication and understanding transpire.  Neutral Ground can be defined as an area of compromise or possible agreement between two extreme positions.  In a world filled with the constant bombardment of distraction and confrontation, we must all find a venue for acceptance, connection and peace.  By merging the familiar with a personal vocabulary of abstraction, my work focuses on bringing people together through dialogue, contemplation, compromise and dreams.

As we celebrate the tricentennial of New Orleans, there are many things which make our city special.  "Neutral Ground" is a unique term to our area that can be defined as something more than just a grassy median between two streets.  It represents a place where strangers ascend to stake claim to a prime space for Mardi Gras, then leave as friends and family.  Neighbors look out for each other, sharing friendly conversation, food, drink, ladders and chairs.  It is a place that truly brings people together.  

What does it mean to you?"

For further information, press or sales inquiries please contact Peter Barnitz (pbarnitz@yahoo.com) or visit our website (www.barnitzart.blogspot.com)  

Please join us on Facebook (@ Peter Barnitz Art), Twitter (@BarnitzArt), and Instagram (@barnitzart) via hashtags #peterbarnitz, #barnitzart, #NEUTRALGROUND,  and #tengalleryNOLA.

TEN GALLERY
4432 Magazine St.
New Orleans, LA

CACNO Sweet Arts 2018 Auction

Peter Barnitz - Traces (Nature of Daylight Series)

In the Gallery: CACNO Sweet Arts 2018 Auction

💖 Proceeds go to the @cacnola

#SweetArts2018 #celebrateatthecac

"Building a PEACEable Community" - @ New Orleans Art Center

Honored to be part of the Grace Cares:
Building A Peaceful Community International Juried Exhibition.

PEACE BE WITH YOU, along with four other #barnitzart works will be featured at the New Orleans Arts Center


(On View through February 4th)

Barnitz Art: Building a Peaceful Community International Juried Exhibition, New Orleans Art Center (January 2018)

Peter Barnitz - The Wall:  Good Fences Make Good Neighbors - 2017


Honored to be part of the
Grace Cares: 
Building A Peaceful Community International Juried Exhibition.

The Wall:  Good Fences Make Good Neighbors, along with four other #barnitzart works will be headed to the New Orleans Arts Center (January 2018)

OPENING RECEPTION:
Saturday, January 13th (5 - 10 PM)