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Peg McCreary
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 Firebird 2 oil on canvas, 24 " x 24 " |
 Stravinsky IV acrylic on canvas, 24 " x 62 " |
 Reisenfalter #5 oil on canvas, 42" x 62" |
 La Valse oil on canvas, 66" x 84" |
 Till Human Voices Wake Us oil on canvas, 46" x 70" |
 The Four Seasons: Autumn paper collage, 18" x 24" |
 Prima Vera # 1 acrylic on canvas, 18" x 18" |
 Glissando acrylic on canvas, 30" x 48" |
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Artist Profile
For the past decade she has studied composition and color theory at the Art Students League with the abstract painter Frank O'Cain, winning a merit scholarship and prizes for her work. Peg McCreary belongs to Midtown West Art Associates, The West Side Arts Coalition, Metropolitan Artists, Pro Arts Jersey City and the National Collage Society. Her works have been reviewed and reproduced in Art Business News, The Jersey Journal, The Jersey City Reporter, Gallery&Studio, ArtSpeak and Manhattan Arts International. McCreary spent the first half of her life involved in the classical music that would eventually find expression in her abstract paintings. She has played double bass with several orchestras, including the Cleveland Philharmonic, she has been a music critic and a program annotator, has played the viola da gamba with an early music performing group and continues to study classical piano privately. The artist explains: "I believe we all sense a deep resonance between the compositions, colors and spaces on a canvas and the rhythms, moods, and conflicts of our lives and it is this connection that I seek to express as a painter. I bring to this task a musician's sensibility and draw equally from both worlds in the visualization of emotional structures and processes: as a musical theme may be split into chromatic shards, so may an image be broken into multiple views; shifts in harmonies, as with colors and shapes, express transitions of feeling; lines and forms convey a sense of organic growth, of a relationship evolving, a thought taking shape, a juggling of options, moments of doubt, and the assertion of resolve." Among her many achievements is being featured as an emerging artist in Art Business News, and winning the "Best in Show" Red Dot Award at the Art Students League exhibit this year. She recently had solo shows at the Cornell East and West Side Medical Galleries and a two-woman show at the historic Bishop House, in Saddle River, NJ. Another solo show is currently scheduled for next summer in Princeton.
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