Peter Wegner

Bent

It’s tough to escape the grid. So I bought a roll of chicken wire and went at it with pliers, tin snips and a mallet. I bent it & folded it, pulled it & pried it. Those distorted fragments of fencing became my studies for this series of paintings.

Bent 3 pigmented gesso on gesso over artist's MDF panel, 60" x 42" x 2.25", 2016

Bent 3 (detail) pigmented gesso on gesso over artist's MDF panel, 60" x 42" x 2.25", 2016

Bent 1 pigmented gesso on gesso over artist's MDF panel, 60" x 42" x 2.25", 2016

Bent 1 (detail) pigmented gesso on gesso over artist's MDF panel, 60" x 42" x 2.25", 2016

Bent 4 pigmented gesso on gesso over artist's MDF panel, 60" x 42" x 2.25", 2016

Bent 2 pigmented gesso on gesso over artist's MDF panel, 60" x 42" x 2.25", 2016

Bent 2 pigmented gesso on gesso over artist's MDF panel, 60" x 42" x 2.25", 2016