Pamela Parker Peterson Art Exhibition at Art Center

CENTER, Texas - August 6 - Fort Worth's Pamela Parker Peterson will exhibit her paintings at the Lakes Area Arts League Art Center, 305 Nacogdoches Street, beginning Thursday, October 1 through Saturday, October 3, 2009 from 10:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. each day. The public is invited to attend the opening reception and meet the artist at the art center on Sat., Sept. 26 from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Lancaster works with the Fort Worth Independent School District (ISD) as an elementary art teacher and began painting abstract pieces in 2005, but she has painted and created art all her life. She currently practices her oil abstract painting skills as a continuing education student at Tarrant County College and in her home studio in Fort Worth.

Lancaster received honors for her paintings and has participated in various art shows. In the spring of 2008, she received first place for her painting, Full View, in Tarrant County College North West (TCCNW) Visual Arts 33rd Annual Student Art Exhibit. In the summer of 2008, Lancaster was awarded fourth place for her painting, Third, int he Texas Art Coalition Juried Members Show. She also sold two works of art to TCCNW for the permanent collection. Lancaster has participated in other shows, such as Arts Google 2007, Forth Worth Community Arts Center (CAC) Biennial, CAC's 2008 Sight and Sound, Fort Worth ISD Art Educators Show, 2008 Imagination Celebration Art Teacher Nurturing Student Art Show and the Hunting Prize Show of 2009.

Lancaster derives many of her abstract paintings from photographs she finds captivating from images found during her travels. She observes beauty in the relationship of the organic forms discovered within various impressions. According to Lancaster, the photographs are the jumping off point for the paintings, but once completed there is little to no resemblance between the painting and the original photograph. Lancaster adds she is not responding to the content of an image, rather to finding the meaning in its form.

Lancaster graduated from the University of Oklahoma with an Education degree. She then pursued an Art Education Post-Baccalaureate degree from the Texas Woman's University. She is the daughter of Patti Parker Peterson of Fort Worth, and granddaughter of Doris and the late F.E. Parker of Center, Texas.

Details for the Lancaster Art Exhibition can be obtained by contacting Karen Thompson 936.590.0070 or Carolyn Lamb 936.598.2421.

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