Peter Shear Listing, 2025
Oil on panel
11 x 14 inches (27.9 x 35.6 cm)
Signed, titled, dated, and inscribed verso
“I’m not alone in questioning what could be necessary about making another painting, given the urgency of our moment. Studio work can be meandering, and turned-inward, and on an altogether different timeline than this unrelenting, bleak news cycle. With LGBTQ+ people and institutions which support them under renewed threat, the Ali Forney Center, with its robust, holistic approach and long history of service to a vulnerable community, is an ongoing success story. A beautiful example of what will grow from tragedy if it is met not with despair and resignation but with hope and love. If my studio work can in some small way help to fortify such an organization, the necessity of that effort couldn’t be made any more clear.” —Peter Shear
Peter Shear (b. 1980) is a self-taught painter who lives and works in Bloomington, Indiana. His work has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at Mendes Wood DM in Germantown, New York (2025), BLUM in Los Angeles (2024), Cheim & Read in New York (2023), and KOKI Arts in Tokyo (2021). His work has been featured in group exhibitions at the Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation, New York; Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp; Cheim & Read, New York; Venus Over Manhattan, New York, among many others.