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Maria Stracke
June 28 - Aug 2, 2025
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 28 | 4-6 pm
Second Thursday Reception: Thursday, July 10 | 6-9 pm
Open Saturdays from 12-5pm or by appointment
[Show Blurb] Peep is pleased to present an installation of new monotypes by artist Elisabeth Meyer, NONFICTION; the art of the peaceable kingdom: Part I. These poetic, disorienting prints explore her personal experiences with nature and compromised relations between people. It is fitting, Meyer notes, to be showing these works for the first time in Philadelphia, considering the lifelong connection she has felt with the many iterations of Edward Hick’s 19th-century painting The Peaceable Kingdom.
Maria Ah Hyun Stracke (b. Busan, South Korea) is a Philadelphia-based artist and educator. Stracke creates complex, layered structures through the mending, reconfiguration, and reuse of hanji, silk, graphite, and paper. As each composition evolves, varied surfaces, shapes, and seams emerge and interact with one another to develop an intuitive material language. These process-oriented works evoke the general and the specific, from oceanic terrains and abstracted landscapes to Korean folk-art motifs and architectural forms. Stracke received her PhD in Literature and Criticism from The Graduate Center - City University of New York and her MFA in Painting and Drawing from Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University.