{"id":1206,"date":"2009-10-25T21:12:52","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T04:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/10\/mary_ann_peters_imitates_herse\/"},"modified":"2009-10-25T21:12:52","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T04:12:52","slug":"mary_ann_peters_imitates_herse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/10\/mary_ann_peters_imitates_herse.html","title":{"rendered":"Mary Ann Peters imitates herself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When cornered, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maryann-peters.com\/\">Mary Ann Peters<\/a> comes out drawing. Even when her resources are depleted and her imagination drained, she can count on the marks her hand makes. They&#8217;re beautiful, no question, but they&#8217;re also flaccid imitations of her work when it&#8217;s focused and intense. Allusions to remembered landscapes become allusions to upscale wine bars. I can imagine sitting beside one doing double duty as wallpaper as a waiter glides up to take my order. <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style15\"><em>and the edge becomes the center, <\/em>2009, Watercolor and gouache on clayboard, 96&#8243; x 120&#8243;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"maryannpetersbad.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/maryannpetersbad.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"373\" width=\"474\" \/>Besides the above painting, her exhibit at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesharrisgallery.com\/Previous%20Exhibitions\/maryannpeters102009.html\">James Harris Gallery<\/a> features a series of small drawings. They lack the turgid sense of empty overkill that ruined the painting, but even though fresher, they&#8217;re still Peters in a minor vein. <\/p>\n<p>Her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesharrisgallery.com\/Artists\/MaryAnn%20Peters\/peters.htm\">2006 exhibit<\/a> at the same gallery was superior in every way.<font size=\"1\"><font face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/font>Through Nov. 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When cornered, Mary Ann Peters comes out drawing. Even when her resources are depleted and her imagination drained, she can count on the marks her hand makes. They&#8217;re beautiful, no question, but they&#8217;re also flaccid imitations of her work when it&#8217;s focused and intense. Allusions to remembered landscapes become allusions to upscale wine bars. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}