Art Show: Selected Works Carolyn Pyfrom and Peter Van Dyck
Join us January 6th, from 5 to 7 PM, for the opening reception of Selected Works of Carolyn Pyfrom and Peter Van Dyck, here at MAC though January 29.
Carolyn Pyfrom
Born in 1971, Carolyn Pyfrom studied painting at the Florence Academy of Art in Florence, Italy, from 1998 to 2002 and at Troy University in Troy, AL from 1990 to 1995 where she completed majors in both studio art and mathematics. She spent a year abroad at Obirin University, Tokyo, Japan, 1993-94 on scholarship through Troy University and the America Japan Society and later went back to teach English in Japan from 1996 to 1998. She has been exhibiting and teaching since 2002, dividing the year painting between Elba, Alabama, where she grew up, and Philadelphia, PA, where she lives with her husband, Peter Van Dyck, and their son Sam.
Peter Van Dyck
Peter Van Dyck, Yard Still-life, 48 x 36, oil on linen glued to board, 2017, (Not for Sale)
My work is the manifestation of my most optimistic and positive feelings about the world and my experience in it. It is my attempt to generate meaning for myself and hopefully for other people. For me, painting is the act of reaching out to feel the world, of trying to organize and dramatize the existent into a painting. I take great pleasure in the tension that exists between the abstract nature of a painted surface and the possibility of that surface to evoke something beyond itself.
Bio:
Peter Van Dyck was born in Philadelphia in 1978. He studied painting and drawing at the Florence Academy of Art in Florence, Italy from 1998-2002. He returned to Philadelphia in 2002 and began exhibiting his work in group shows in Philadelphia, New York and San Francisco. He has had solo shows at John Pence Gallery, San Francisco in 2004; Eleanor Ettinger Gallery, New York, 2006; John Pence Gallery, 2008,The Grenning Gallery, Sag Harbor, 2010, Harrisburg Area Community College in 2020 and Sugarlift Gallery, New York 2022. In 2003 he began teaching at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts where he is currently an Associate Professor in the BFA program. In 2012 he was named one of 25 Important Artists of Tomorrow by American Artist Magazine. In 2013 his work was included in the book Painted Landscapes, Contemporary Views by Lauren P. della Monica. His work has also been reproduced in periodicals including, American Artist Magazine, American Arts Quarterly, Art News, American Art Collector, International Artist Magazine, Art and Antiques and Pratique des Arts and Trebuchet Magazine.