Holyoke artist Peter Dellert will show recent collage and assemblage work in the West Gallery. Entitled "Personal Geographies," the exhibition includes samples of collage pieces from the last two or three years to create a continuum for those unfamiliar with his work.

Dellert makes his art using leaves, bark, flowers, onion skin and other botanical ingredients he collects or saves. These are combined with maps, old papers and text, and a minimum of ink, colored pencil and paint. In the past he has combined these ingredients around and juxtaposed with large pieces of perforated sycamore bark. Lately, these ingredients are combined on top of or behind a ground of found rusted metal. This canvas, as it were, can be anything from a rusted oil drum lid, jettisoned roadside metal, or gleanings from old can dumps.

Peter Dellert, born in 1951 in Connecticut, raised in Gardiner, Maine has been a Pioneer Valley resident for over thirty years. He is a furniture maker, sculptor and collage artist who over the last twenty five years has worked in a multitude of materials to refine his personal aesthetic.

Dellert has shown extensively in group shows around the country including shows at the Portland OR Museum of Contemporary Craft, The Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, The Norman Rockwell Museum and the Albany International Airport Gallery. He has had solo exhibitions at Springfield College and the Wistariahurst Museum.

Join us for an opening reception Friday, February 12 from 5pm-7pm. Regular gallery hours are 11am-4pm, Tuesday through Friday.