Peter Fasano

After decades of living in NYC and on the east coast, Peter and his wife moved to Santa Fe where he is back in the studio, returning to who he was 50+ years ago.

Of his many inspirations are Agnes Martin, Jackson Pollock, Cy Twombly, Sol Lewitt, just to name a few. With regard to Martin’s work, Fasano shares, “I love the quiet discipline of what she does”. As Fasano returns to his own individual work and returning to the studio, this time just for himself. Fasano remarks how Martin comes up again as an influence, “I was told she kept drawing lines to keep herself from going crazy, and I was inspired by that knowledge to flip the switch and return to drawing. It was in 2019 and I remember feeling it was time to go back to my first love, a maker. The next morning I sat down at my table and got out my pencils, paper and ruler and I started drawing lines, which is something I did in the 1960s and 1970s. I felt an instant reconnection to who I was a long long time ago. ”