Peter Bregoli

Peter Bregoli is a contemporary visual artist and textile designer based in Brooklyn, NY. Born and raised in Boston, MA, Peter received a BFA in painting and printmaking from Parsons School of Design, New York, NY, and an MFA in painting and printmaking from Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT. Notable group exhibitions include Artist in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; American Prints, Gallery Oh, Nagoya, Japan; and In the Steps of folly’s Cove: Artist Print Invitational, University of Vermont. Notable two-person shows include Peter Bregoli and Fred Fleisher, Mckinney Arts, New York, NY, and Peter Bregoli and Wendy Edwards: Themes of Garden, Landscape, Experience, and Memory, Russell Janis Exhibitions, Brooklyn, NY.

Themes such as abstraction vs representation, depth vs surface, and interest in the play of art-historical allusion have remained consistent in Peter’s art. Since 2012, his work has also been influenced by his work as an urban gardener in the yard of his Brooklyn townhouse. In creating a garden, Peter realized the distinction between ‘garden’ and ‘nature,’ that is that a garden is not simply an extension of nature but is a simulation of it with the intention to contain and control it.

In Peter’s still-life watercolor paintings, the flowers are the motifs that are considered first and set the tone for the rest of the painting. The patterned fabrics and pottery are secondary players in the compositional drama that either compliment or contrast with the particular flowers. Each element is considered as a piece in a collage. The medium may be paint, or in the case of the garden plants, but the concepts used are the same one would use to create a collage or painting - texture, color, structure, rhythm, and spacing.