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Peter Waite’s large-scale paintings consider places that embody public sentiment or ideological concerns. Empty architectural monuments and spaces provide the recurring theme of personal and social memory. His paintings therefore invite the viewer to examine how well we know our own habit of looking, remembering and being certain.
Waite’s multi-panel works are installed directly onto the wall via numerous small nails, giving each painting a site-specific, muralistic-type quality. The locations he paints are often ones that viewers can easily identify, triggering personal memories of public space. The spaces are empty but there is a sense that people have just left or will soon arrive. With this latent energy, Waite’s work depicts not only architecture but also the feeling of being present within it.
