| Charles Wish | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Frederick Charles Peters |
| Born | March 18, 1971 |
| Nationality | American |
| Field | Painting |
| Training | Los Angeles Pierce College, University of Arizona, VSSC |
| Movement | Surregionalism, Pop-Surrealism, Lowbrow |
| Influenced by | Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, Robert Beer, Medieval-Tibetan Art (Menri-Karma Gadri styles) & Shakta/Tantra imagery. |
Charles Wish (born Frederick Peters, Los Angeles, California, 1971) is an American artist best known for visually fusing Regionalism imagery with 16th - 19th century South Asian, Tantra & Buddhist symbolism and motifs - debut show CPop Gallery, Detroit, Michigan, 2005.
Confronting the information age challenges of extreme cultural contrariety and cross-cultural interaction, as well as America’s own internal culture war, Wish draws from a diverse range of influences to deliver his style of "surregional" paintings. Citing various artists of the far-east along with American painters, including Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton, Wish thoughtfully combines the ontological symbolism of an esoteric philosophy with some of rural-America’s most selfsame figures and scenes.[1][2]
After spending four years (1999-2003) at a Ramakrishna, Hindu monastery, as a student of South-Asian symbolism/iconography and personal assistant to Swami Swahananda, Wish would return to the San Fernando Valley, California. It would be here, not far from where he spent his formative years, were he would set up his first studio and launch his art career. Wish now maintains two studios, the original in Southern California and one in Elk County, PA, where he and his wife are restoring and converting a large Federal-style building into a cultural center and community creative space.[3]
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