Fri 12/2 @ 5-8PM
Through 2/4/2023
Artist Robert Pelgrin was born in Cleveland, but spent most of his adult life as a printmaker in New Mexico. There he was inspired by the landscape of the surrounding desert and the plants and animals who lived there and also experimented with abstract images. Despite being inspired by nature, he mostly worked in the studio, giving his prints a dreamlike feel of memory, and most of his work featured a monochrome palette perhaps inspired by black & white photography. His work, he said, Pelegrin stated, “is about the land’s memory and the record that remains….the earth on which we walk provides an imprint of the past that is as alive today as it was millions of years ago.”
Pelegrin passed away in 2007 but his family continues to promote his artistic legacy. Now Deep Dive Projects in the Waterloo Arts District has joined with them to present Desert Vision, a show of his monoprints. It will open with a reception on Friday December w @ 5-8pm during the monthly Walk All Over Waterloo and remain on view through February 4, 2023.