Vera Sue Peters

www.vsuearts.com

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Artist’s Statement
My signature of art is a playful balance inspired by nature and my intuition. I am interested in the intrinsic characteristics of materials and the patterns I find in the environment. Like blades of grass in an open field, my work involves an abundance of repetition without using duplication. It is here in the subtle differences of each piece where the heart and soul of my work thrives. Gravity and balance are also factors of how I relate to three dimensional forms; these factors mediate emotions between my visual perception, my conceptual and my actual experience which is formed by my other senses, such as touch. Balance is in constant play with gravity, suggesting movement or feelings of stillness and tranquility. In my work I create successful designs and implement installations that combine and harmonize with all of these elements.

Artist’s Bio
Vera Sue Peters, a native of Wichita Kansas, is a unique and investigative artist whose collaboration with natural elements brings about a beautiful balance within her work. Using an ever growing range of medium combinations: cement, fabrics, yarns, porcelain, granite, stone, steel, and wood products - she transforms their inherent opposing qualities into sculptural forms that inspire a sense of harmony and unity. A graduate from the Wichita State University Fine Arts department in Sculpture, Peters made her mark in the Wichita area when her early years of artwork appeared in venues in and around the Wichita area, including solo installations of New Works at Project Gallery in Wichita and at Rutgers University in New Jersey. In March of 2005, she installed work in Aesthetica, an artist invitational at The Wichita Center for the Arts, and later that year, traveled to Oklahoma to install over five hundred cement and velvet spheres covering a lengthy sixty foot wall in the Myers Gallery at Living Arts in Tulsa. In 2006, Peters was involved in the XX Invitational at the Fisch Haus Studio and Gallery where she installed three large steel overhead frames that functioned as supports to a suspended grid of hand cast cement shells entitled Earth Belly. Included in a distant view were green cement circles hung on an adjacent wall, introducing a variable sense of viewer introspection that is often representative in her work.

In 2007, a new development of artistic evolution came when Peters traveled internationally for the first time. Studying Ashtanga yoga and meditation in India and Nepal, she continued to observe the natural world around her, absorbing art and culture in a totally new environment. During her year-long residence, she rediscovered a connection with mosaic patterns using tiles that she would find discarded on the streets. “The Indians must have thought I was crazy, digging through the trash piles to find just the right pieces...” Upon her return to the states, Peters was commissioned to design and install a tiled mosaic spa feature on a garden estate in the beautiful hills of southern California. Working with granite, travertine, and colorful porcelain tiles, she created a masterful art piece that continues to inspire a new direction of her professional art career. Now living in Lafayette Indiana, Peters continues her mosaic work with an installation in a residence master bath; a tub and shower surround that she created using refurbished slate and river rock. Most recently she has become a new member of Artists’ Own, a gallery co-op in downtown Lafayette Indiana. In addition Peters is slated in the Tippecanoe Artist Federation line up for October 2011 where she will have mosaics on display in an exhibition tiled “River Bed” in the West Gallery.

Whether in the garden, home, or commercial space, Peters offers a wide range of art and sculptural design services with a vast history of experience. “I understand how art and aesthetics influence the energy of space through our senses, and I am confident that I can help you achieve a beautiful surrounding wherever you desire.”