SAMMY PETERS
American (1939 – )
Sammy Peters is one of Arkansas’ most prominent abstract painters. Peters has made a name for himself far outside its borders and is known in national circles for his unique style and expertise with the encaustic painting technique which incorporates beeswax as a medium in painting. Selected solo exhibitions include The Arkansas Arts Center, the Historic Arkansas Museum, and Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York. Corporate and private collectors of note include the Arkansas Arts Center, Stephens Inc, The McDonalds Corporation, and the Estate of Winthrop Rockefeller, UAMS Hospital, Little Rock, AR and the Windgate Art & Design Building at University of Arkansas at Fort Smith.
Rampart: fire-wind-earth No. 2 (2019)
oil and mixed media on canvas, 48 x 36 inches
Displacement: returning; notion (2012)
oil and mixed media on canvas, 48 x 60 inches
Appearance: neglected; existence (2017)
oil and mixed media on canvas, 60 x 48 inches
Rampart: fire-wind-earth No. 4 (2019)
oil and mixed media on canvas, 60 x 48 inches
Constellation: justified: displacement (2019)
oil and mixed media on canvas, 60 x 48 inches
Separation: mannered; quality (2016)
oil, wax, mixed media on canvas, 60 x 48 inches SOLD
Ceasing: decoded; allegory (2015)
oil and mixed media on canvas, 48 x 60 inches SOLD
Determined: illusory; opposition (2017)
oil and mixed media on canvas, 48 x 36 inches
Temporal: negotiating; experience (2015)
mixed media on canvas, 16 x 12 inches
Question: justifiable; paradigm (2020)
oil and mixed media on canvas, 30 x 40 inches
Articulated: awakened; metamorphosis (2016)
oil and mixed media on canvas, 48 x 36 inches
Manifest: lyrical; fragment (2018)
oil and mixed media on canvas, 40 x 30 inches
Enhanced: illusory; delusion (2018)
oil and mixed media on canvas, 12 x 12 inches
Unequivocal: necessary; manifest (2018)
oil and mixed media on canvas, 16 x 12 inches
Manifest: practical; emphasis (2018)
oil and mixed media on canvas, 30 x 40 inches
Liberation: enduring; contradiction (2018)
oil and mixed media on board, 14 x 11 inches
Lyrical: imaginary; perception (2018)
oil and mixed media on board, 14 x 11 inches
Initial: converging; fragments (2018)
oil and mixed media on board, 14 x 11 inches SOLD
Implied: merging; fulfillment (2018)
oil and mixed media on board, 14 x 11 inches
Reflection: arbitrary; necessity (2012)
oil and mixed media on canvas, 40 x 40 inches
Revalued: system; response (2013)
oil and mixed media on canvas, 48 x 60 inches
Declared: structural; enigma (2017)
mixed media on canvas, 40 x 30 inches
Encompass: ceasing; infallibility (2017)
oil and mixed media on canvas, 12 x 12 inches
Emergence: shadow; memory (2015)
oil and mixed media on canvas, 60 x 48 inches
Essence: inseparable; illusion (2015)
oil and mixed media on canvas, 72 x 60 inches
Tentative: underlying; spaces (2013)
oil and mixed media on canvas 60 x 72 inches
Relation: determined; paradigm (2012)
oil and mixed media on canvas, 48 x 48 inches
Foundation: enticing; rendition (2017)
oil and mixed media on panel, 14 x 11 inches, SOLD
Reconciled: poetic; context (2016)
oil, wax, mixed media on canvas, 60 x 48 inches
Universal: fundamental; depiction (2016)
mixed media on canvas, 40 x 30 inches
Pragmatic: determined; paradigm (2012)
oil and mixed media on canvas, 30 x 40 inches
Binding: preservation; dissemination (2010)
mixed media on canvas, 48 x 72 inches
Odyssey: perceptive; encounter No. 1
oil and mixed media on canvas, 14 x 11 inches SOLD
Determined: escapist; appearance (2007)
mixed media on canvas, 48 x 48 inches
Question: articulation; experience (2007)
oil and mixed media on canvas, 48×60 inches
Origin: dependent; certainty (2005)
mixed media on canvas, 48×48 inches
Declare: impulse; reconstruction (1992)
mixed media on paper and canvas on board, 38×50 inches
Thought: resistant; content (1995)
mixed media on board, 50×38 inches
