Easton Nights

Peter Ydeen

VIEW THE EXHIBITION Ι 9/14 - 10/15.2020

SYKES GALLERY ι BREIDENSTINE HALL (1st Floor)
Reception ι  09/14.2020 from 5:00 - 7:00 pm 

Gallery Hours ι  Standard business hours for Swift Gallery are Monday - Friday from 8:00 am - 4:00 pm. Hours are subject to vary in accordance with University established holidays (below) and the reception, gallery talk/s or awards ceremony.

About the Exhibition ...

A Busy Yard by Peter YdeenEaston Nights is a story about small town America as told by Peter Ydeen’s night time photographs. The Lehigh Valley, where Easton lies, has close to a million people. There is no downtown, but instead a sea of small towns which have grown together. It has its own personality, serving as a living museum of small town Americana. 

About the Artist ...

Peter Ydeen currently lives in Easton, Pennsylvania and works in New York City. He studied painting and sculpture at Virginia Tech, under Ray Kass, (BA), Brooklyn College under Alan D'Arcangelo and Robert Henry and Phillip Pearlstein, (MFA Fellowship) and at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (Scholarship) with visiting artists, Francesco Clemente, Judy Pfaff, William Wegman, Mark Di Suvero and others.

After his studies were completed, Peter made his way in a variety of jobs, including set construction, lighting, technical illustration, architectural modeling working in architecture, staging, advertising and film. Later, after marrying his wife Mei li, they opened a gallery in New York City selling African, Chinese and Tibetan antique sculpture.

Over the last several years Peter has concentrated on photography where he is able to use the many years spent learning to see. Inspired by the poetic works of George Tice, he wandered into the area of urban landscape, finally landing in the surreal and romantic realm of Easton’s Nights. Here he has become obsessed with the stage like places, which are at once animated, silent and cathartic; all acting as reflections of our uncommon world.