Going to all the wrong places

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Peter Frederiksen. Going To All The Wrong Places, 2024. Freehand machine embroidery on linen, 12 x 9 inches (30.5 x 22.9 cm)

Peter Frederiksen. Falling Victim To Old Patterns, 2024. Freehand machine embroidery on linen, 10 x 8 inches (25.4 x 20.3 cm)

Peter Frederiksen. Not Taking Any Chances, 2022. Freehand machine embroidery on linen, 6 x 8 inches (15.2 x 20.3 cm)

Peter Frederiksen. Not Yet Sure Of The Lengths To Which I Would Go, 2021. Freehand machine embroidery on linen, 8 x 6 inches (20.3 x 15.2 cm)

Peter Frederiksen. Feeling Like A Win, But It’s Yet To Be Determined, 2022. Freehand machine embroidery on linen, 5 x 7 inches (12.7 x 17.8 cm)

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Steve Turner is pleased to present Going to all the wrong places, a solo exhibition by Chicago-based Peter Frederiksen that features embroidered works depicting people at the edge of a precipice. His colorful embroideries highlight an instant in time, right before or right after an action. One shows a foot at the starting line for a footrace and another presents feet at the edge of a cliff. In the title work, the fingers of someone who is not visible are desperately clinging to the top edge of a building. The works are inspired by the Golden Age of animation and they elicit both nostalgia and a sense of foreboding.

Peter Frederiksen (b. 1987, Chicago), attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2006-2008) and has had solo exhibitions at UNION Gallery, London (2020); Galleri Urbane, Dallas (2020, 2021, 2023); Massey Klein Gallery, New York (2022); Moosey, Norwich (2023) and at The Flat, Milan (2023). This is his first exhibition with Steve Turner.