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The main development in my work in recent years has been to give greater volume to the shapes I use in my paintings. The main reason for this is a reaction against a flatness in abstraction that denies illusionism and reduces the painting to an object. By modelling the shapes, I am able to give them a sense of being three dimensional entities, akin to figuration. The pictorial element in painting is what I find fascinating; the ability of the image to possess presence without literality and to have spaces and shapes that are tangible, yet are also mysterious. - Peter Pinchbeck c. 1995 Education Twickenham College of Art, Twickenham Polytechnic Art School, London, England Solo Exhibitions 2009 Luise Ross Gallery, New York Gary Snyder/Project Space, New York 2001 Greene Naftali Gallery, New York 1991 G.R. N'Namdi Gallery, Birmingham, MI 1989, 87 June Kelly Gallery, New York 1986 55 Mercer Gallery, New York 1971 Paley & Lowe Gallery, New York Selected Group Exhibitions 2001 Painted in New York City: Viewpoints of Recent Development in Abstract Painting, Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 2000-01 Mondiale Echo’s, Mondriaanhuis Museum, Amersfoort, Netherlands 1998 Group Show, OK Harris Gallery, New York 1997 X-Section, Marymount Manhattan College, New York 1996 Pioneers of Abstract Art: American Abstract Artists, 1936-1996, Baruch College, NY 1995 Mindscapes, organized by the Organization of Independent Artists, Marine Midland Bank, New York 1994 Shaped Color, Esvandam Gallery, New York Drop Dead Painting, Reade Street, New York 1993 Necessary Fictions, Wadelon Powers Gallery, Pennsylvania Incidence of Passage, Art Initiatives, New York Presence and Absence: A Vision of the Unseen, Esvandam Gallery, NY 1992 Temporal Surfaces, Davidson College Gallery of Art, Davidson, NC 1990 Primal Denouements, Center Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA 1989 Twining Gallery, New York 1987, 86 Condesco Lawler Gallery, New York 1985 Advanced Abstraction, Burk Gallery, New York 1984 Drawings: New Dimensions, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, New York 1983 Modernist Trends, 22 Wooster Street Gallery, New York Newcastle Salutes New York, 75 American Artists, Newcastle Polytechnic Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England 1982 Arteder ’82, International Exhibition of Graphic Arts, Bilbao, Spain 1981 Painting Up Front, Johnson Museum, Cornell University, NY Painter’s Choice, Race Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 1980 Two-person show, Ericson Gallery, New York 1979 American Painting: The Eighties, Grey Gallery, New York 1966 Primary Structures: Younger British and American Sculptors, The Jewish Museum, New York Fellowships and Grants 1995 Pollock / Krasner Foundation 1992 Gottlieb Foundation Grant 1981 National Endowment for the Arts 1980-1982 Albee Foundation Selected Collections Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC The Sydney and Frances Lewis Foundation, Richmond, Virginia Mutual Benefit Insurance Company, Newark, New Jersey Sammlung Hoffmann, Berlin Selected Bibliography Appearances Magazine, “The Laws of Coincidence,” Spring, 1990 Cover Magazine, “Mass of Field” by Claudia Rowe, April 1989 Issues, “Perceiving the Infinite: The Art of Burgoyne Diller,” April 1985 ARTextreme, “Believing is Seeing,” Spring-Summer issue, 1982 Artforum, “Space and Subjectivity,” by Anita Feldman, September 1979 Artforum, “Pictures of Art,” by Joseph Maschek,” May 1979 Arts Magazine, review by Frank Bowling, 1979 Review Magazine, reproductions, 1979 Appearances Magaize, painting, Vol. 1, January 1977 Arts Magazine, “Structures of Reality in Word and Image,” April 1972 Art News, review by Carter Ratcliffe, 1971 Art International, review by James Mellow, 1968