Fall 2026 Visiting Artist ColloquiumPeter Shear with Talk Facilitated by Dr. Erica DiBenedetto

Peter Shear is best known for small-format canvases that resist classification, fixed formulae, or repetition. As a painter, he has staked out a position that uncouples abstract painting from the inheritance of established idioms, offering an exploratory approach and an alternative to dogma and orthodoxy. Working with essentials—planes of color, schematic marks, loosely defined shapes, provisional geometries—his paintings inhabit the space between abstraction and legibility.