- Charles Wish
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Charles Wish 
Birth name Frederick Charles Peters Born March 18, 1971 Nationality American Field Painting Training Los Angeles Pierce College, University of Arizona, VSSC Movement Surregionalism, Pop-Surrealism, Lowbrow Influenced by Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, Robert Beer, Medieval-Tibetan Art (Menri-Karma Gadri styles) & Shakta/Tantra imagery. Charles Wish (born Frederick Peters, Los Angeles, California, 1971) is an American artist best known for visually fusing Regionalism imagery with 16th - 19th century South Asian, Tantra & Buddhist symbolism and motifs - debut show CPop Gallery, Detroit, Michigan, 2005.
Confronting the information age challenges of extreme cultural contrariety and cross-cultural interaction, as well as America’s own internal culture war, Wish draws from a diverse range of influences to deliver his style of "surregional" paintings. Citing various artists of the far-east along with American painters, including Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton, Wish thoughtfully combines the ontological symbolism of an esoteric philosophy with some of rural-America’s most selfsame figures and scenes.[1][2]
After spending four years (1999-2003) at a Ramakrishna, Hindu monastery, as a student of South-Asian symbolism/iconography and personal assistant to Swami Swahananda, Wish would return to the San Fernando Valley, California. It would be here, not far from where he spent his formative years, were he would set up his first studio and launch his art career. Wish now maintains two studios, the original in Southern California and one in Elk County, PA, where he and his wife are restoring and converting a large Federal-style building into a cultural center and community creative space.[3]
Contents
Collections
- Gary Pressman
- Tom Thewes
- Nederlander Organization
- Debi Jacobson
- Greg Escalante
- Lee Ving
- Vedanta Society of Southern California
- Topher Crowder
- Dead Meadow
- Robert Evans (photographer)
References
- ^ "Charles Wish Solo Exhibit at CPop is Full of Odd Twists on Symbols, Images". The Detroit News/Arts & Entertainment. http://detnews.com/. Retrieved 2005-07-02.
- ^ "Between Art & Life". Adrian College/News & Info. http://www.adrian.edu/news/stub_btwn05.php/. Retrieved 2005-08-26.
- ^ "California Couple Revives Local Land Mark". The St, Mary’s Daily Press. http://www.smdailypress.com/. Retrieved 2007-08-17.
Sources
- The Detroit News Joy Hakanson Colby (Art Critic, jcolby@detnews.com), July 2, 2005.
- St. Marys Daily Press, July 7, 2007.
- Charles Wish Bio: "Charles Wish and “Surregionalism” Unbound", Kristy Raine (Librarian/Archivist, Mount Mercy College, IA, kraine@mtmercy.edu) May 18, 2006.
External links
Categories:- 1971 births
- Living people
- American painters
- University of Arizona alumni
- Los Angeles Pierce College people
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