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Peter LaBier, ‘Salon de Espera’
December 15, 2021 - February 15, 2022
STO LAT is pleased to present Salon de Espera, a survey of Peter LaBier’s drawing and the artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. Spanning several years and moving fluently between media, this body of work summarizes LaBier’s observational drawing practice.
Punctuated by curiosity and humor, the works on view are studies of the artist’s surroundings—skeptical encounters with his physical setting. Sometimes in painstaking detail and sometimes in gestural suggestion, cult iconography, canonical art historical references and banal life studies populate LaBier’s drawings. Art historical religious motifs—the expulsion, the agony in the garden, and the crucifixion—are venues for iterative experimentation. Familiar daily scenes, pickup trucks, anonymous rooms, and plastic decorations are rendered in alien vision. These subjects are what LaBier calls “stable images''; their authority derives from repetition and distribution, rather than meaning and substance. Viewers have encountered these pieces of inherited visual knowledge before, either because of their ubiquity, fame, or infamy. LaBier’s destabilizing process holds a mirror to these images, revealing the reinforcing processes underpinning recognition. The resulting works address the question of what it means to create pictures in a world not only saturated with images, but where filters, either deliberately placed or subconsciously inherited, are already coded into everything we see and experience.
If you are interested in purchasing the featured work or inquiring about additional works by Peter Labier, please click "Inquire" below to email our team. The exhibition will be on view in our Online Viewing Room December 15, 2021 - February 15, 2022.
Peter LaBier
Still Life with Confectionery (after Georg Flegel), 2013
colored pencil on paper
12 × 9 inches (30.48 × 22.86 cm)
Peter LaBier
The Age of Innocence, 2019
acrylic, colored pencil, watercolor and pen on paper
12 × 12 inches (30.48 × 30.48 cm)
Peter LaBier
Double Couples, 2020
colored pencil on paper
8 ½ × 11 inches (21.59 × 27.94 cm)
Peter LaBier
Found Organ, 2008
pen on paper
9 × 12 inches (22.86 × 30.48 cm)
Peter LaBier
Discontent, 2019
colored pencil, pen and acrylic on paper
12 × 9 inches (30.48 × 22.86 cm)
Peter LaBier
Horse Pair, 2020
ink and watercolor on paper
9 ½ × 9 inches (24.13 × 22.86 cm)
Peter LaBier
The Holy Trinity (after Masaccio), 2020
watercolor and colored pencil on paper
11 × 8 ½ inches (27.94 × 21.59 cm)
Peter LaBier
Spooky Inflatable, 2008
wax pencil on paper
17 × 14 inches (43.18 × 35.56 cm)
Peter LaBier
Bedroom (number one), 2020
pen on paper
11 × 14 inches (27.94 × 35.56 cm)
Peter LaBier
Blooming Riot, 2018
pen on paper
9 × 12 inches (22.86 × 30.48 cm)
Peter LaBier
Expulsion (after Masaccio), 2013
pen and watercolor on paper
12 × 9 inches (30.48 × 22.86 cm)
Peter LaBier
Heels and Shields, 2020
ink, acrylic, and watercolor on paper
9 × 11 inches (22.86 x 27.94 cm)
Peter LaBier
Wrestling Color Test, 2020
ink and watercolor on paper
9 × 12 inches (22.86 × 30.48 cm)
Peter LaBier
To My Knees, 2007
colored pencil on paper
9 × 12 inches (22.86 × 30.48 cm)
Peter LaBier
The Rat, 2019
watercolor and colored pencil on paper
11 × 8 ½ inches (27.94 × 21.59 cm)
Peter LaBier
Tophat, 2007
colored pencil on paper
9 × 12 inches (22.86 × 30.48 cm)
Peter LaBier
Glove Mold (with Blue Spills), 2009
pen on paper
9 × 12 inches (22.86 × 30.48 cm)
Peter LaBier
Indelible Lights, 2020
ink and watercolor on paper
12 × 9 inches (30.48 × 22.86 cm)
Peter LaBier
Masked Dream, 2016
pen, colored pencil and acrylic on paper
11 × 8 ½ inches (27.94 × 21.59 cm)
Peter LaBier
Lady V, 2018
crayon, silver pen and ink on paper
11 × 8 ½ inches (27.94 × 21.59 cm)
Peter LaBier
Sharpening Tiger, 2009
wax pencil on paper
14 × 17 inches (35.56 × 43.18 cm)
Peter LaBier
Falling/Dancing, 2019
pen, ink, watercolor and colored pencil on paper
16 × 12 inches (40.64 × 30.48 cm)
Peter LaBier
Wrestle, 2020
ink and watercolor on paper
8 ½ × 11 inches (21.59 × 27.94 cm)
Peter LaBier
Fractured Figments, 2008
pen on paper
9 × 12 inches (22.86 × 30.48 cm)
Peter LaBier
Kitchen Corner, 2020
pen on paper
11 × 14 inches (27.94 × 35.56 cm)
Peter LaBier
Empty Vessels, 2014
pen on paper
12 × 9 inches (30.48 × 22.86 cm)
Peter LaBier
Flag with Green Spills, 2008
pen and oil paint on paper
11 × 14 inches (27.94 × 35.56 cm)
Peter LaBier
Falling Man, 2019
watercolor and colored pencil on paper
30 × 22 inches (76.20 × 55.88 cm)
Peter LaBier
Marfa Monsters, 2020
pen, watercolor, and collaged drawings on paper
8 ½ × 11 inches (21.59 × 27.94 cm)
Peter LaBier
Mischievous Man, 2014
ink and watercolor on paper
9 × 12 inches (22.86 × 30.48 cm)
Peter LaBier
Inside Blue Touch, 2018
watercolor and colored pencil on paper
11 × 9 inches (27.94 × 22.86 cm)
Peter LaBier
Night Chamber, 2021
colored pencil, watercolor, ink and acrylic on paper
9 × 12 inches (22.86 × 30.48 cm)
Peter LaBier
Mickey Surprise, 2019
pen, pencil, colored pencil and watercolor on paper
12 × 9 inches (30.48 × 22.86 cm)
Peter LaBier
The Beginning of Nothing, 2011
pen and watercolor on paper
14 × 11 inches (35.56 × 27.94 cm)
Peter LaBier
Jugadores, 2018
pen, ink, acrylic and watercolor on paper
11 × 8 ½ inches (27.94 × 21.59 cm)
Peter LaBier
Burn it Down, 2021
ink and watercolor on paper
22 × 30 inches (55.88 × 76.20 cm)
Peter LaBier (b. 1980) Washington, D.C., lives and works in New York. He received his B.A. from Vassar College in 2003 and his M.F.A. from Columbia University in 2017. LaBier is an interdisciplinary artist working in drawing, painting, music and performance. In addition to his work as a visual artist, he is the founding member of the band Psychobuildings. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States, and internationally in Berlin and Hamburg. Past performances include NADA Presents: Peter LaBier, Mirror Portraits at Skylight Clarkson Square, New York, NY; Performa 17: Brian Belott, People Pie Pool at Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY; In Response: Unorthodox at The Jewish Museum, New York, NY. Recent group exhibitions include The Displaced Image at Ortega y Gasset Projects and All By Myself with Hesse Flatow, New York. Salon de Espera is the artist’s first exhibition with the gallery. You can find out more information about the artist here.