Peter Wegner

Color Wheels

I spend a lot of time looking at relationships between colors. A conventional color wheel organizes complementary colors across from one another. I ignore all that. I just like the wheel because it's an irreducible form and a tough critic. I try to do right by it.

Color Wheel 32 acrylic & alkyd gloss enamel on aluminum composite panel, 59″∅ x .25″, 2022

Color Wheel 32 (detail), 2022

Color Wheel 28 acrylic & alkyd gloss enamel on aluminum composite panel, 47″∅ x .25″, 2022

Color Wheel 31 (detail), 2022

Color Wheel 29 acrylic & alkyd gloss enamel on aluminum composite panel, 59″∅ x .25″, 2022

Color Wheel 29 (detail), 2022

Color Wheel 11 acrylic & alkyd gloss enamel on MDF artist's panel, 59″∅ x 2.125″, 2015

Color Wheel 6 alkyd gloss enamel on MDF artist's panel, 59″∅ x 2.125″, 2015

Color Wheel 7 alkyd gloss enamel on MDF artist's panel, 59″∅ x 2.125″, 2015

Color Wheel 24 acrylic on MDF artist's panel, 47″∅ x 1.75″, 2016

Color Wheel 24 (detail), 2016

Color Wheel 16 acrylic on MDF artist's panel, 47″∅ x 1.75″, 2016

Color wheels going into the rack in my studio