Trebuchet Magazine | The Way I See It. Presence, Realism, and the Artist in Physical Space: Peter van Dyck
The work of painting faculty, Peter Van Dyck, is explored in Trebuchet Magazine's latest issue, Process.
Van Dyck’s process brings whoever is watching into soft afternoons and empty streets touched with the light melancholy of contemplative solitude. Our eyes, following the graceful curves of perspective, begin to subtly doubt the verisimilitude of what we see, forcing us to look at and feel more acutely our new world and what it means to be here.
“What I’m saying is that it’s easy to feel like there’s something wrong with the way things are or that the party, so to speak, is somewhere else. My point is that your experience is the party. But it takes effort and training and time to generate meaning and to animate the world. It’s not saying that nothing outside my experience exists, but that there are different ways available to experience your world. I want to offer one up that is full of surprise, luminosity, movement, rhythm, all the expressive qualities that painting has at its disposal.”
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