Painting press release:  “In personal revelation I believe there can be universal identity,” states Josh Peters. And indeed, Peters reveals much about universal identifiers:remnants of process, reductive shapes, and objectified material. Through Peters’ personal development of an expressive painterly language, he touches on greater issues. His richly textured canvases are fearlessly painted and exposed to a number of painterly processes. Always evident is a continual exploration that keeps his surfaces unpredictable. He crosses the expressionist techniques of modernism with neo-expressionist techniques like those of Gerhardt Richter. Peters, a self-taught artist, enters the language of painterly abstraction through an investigative reworking of surfaces. The rich patina of time worn metal and enamel paint appears an inspiration. Peters’ work reflects the same beauty in its arbitrariness and randomly occurring wonder. His surfaces are a rich built up of processes.  But his work offers more than beauty through a controlled chaos; there is structural complexity, depth and bold color contrasts.