Susie Langenkamp, gallerist
Text im Rahmen der Ausstellung 2007, Charlottesville, Virginia
About Barbara Peyer’s painting
The thing about Barbara Peyer’s work is that it satisfies my longing for magic and also for the real and solid parts of life. She manages to do this with her good, stout people who often stand very quietly but all the while there is something dreamlike going on in the corner or up in the sky. Why is that woman floating? Do pigs really graze among flowers? And why is that bird there while no one seems to notice? And also, how can these people be so serious, they, who wear fantastically colorful clothes? I could dream one of Barbara Peyer’s paintings, and I would wake up in the morning feeling quite wonderful.
Susie Langenkamp (gallerist)
Charlottesville, Virginia
USA
March 2007