San Pedro artist Peggy Reavey b/w “Are You Seeing What I’m Seeing?”
The poisoned wife, and the mechanical bull The courage to create art and the courage to display it Peggy Reavey with “Uxoricidel”. Photo by Bondo Wyszpolskiby Bondo Wyszpolski Sure, there are artists I admire, but San Pedro-based Peggy Reavey is, let’s just say, in the upper echelon of my favorites. Her latest exhibition was held at Solo, an art gallery on 7th Street, and just before the show came down Peggy and I sat down to chat. It was a singular body of work, combining an abiding interest in religion, humor, and the mysteries of life that dance around us. Ron Linden has recently described it as “idiosyncratic painting” while emphasizing Peggy’s “daring compositional inventiveness.” It may also appear, at first glance, as primitive or childlike, words that could be applied to the pictures of another San Pedro artist, the late Harold Plople, and also to outsider artist poster boy Henry Darger. Years ago, when Peggy was asked about her artistic statement she hesitated but then said, “Oh, it’s a marriage between William Blake and Ann Landers.” Peggy Reavey with “Cross the bad gyrle out” (2022). But you can’t: She’ll pop up again somewhere else. Photo by Bondo WyszpolskiWell…
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