PETE HOCKING has joined AMZehnder Gallery and we are thrilled to be working together towards a beautiful show of new paintings in September. Pete’s new work will be accessible and viewable leading up to the show. Pete is a painter & writer working in Provincetown MA. His work is concerned with personal narrative, place, poetics, and political consciousness. Over the past decade he has developed a body of work in dialogue with landscape of Wellfleet, Truro and Provincetown — focusing on the elemental and natural forces shaping the coastline. He teaches painting workshops focused on landscape, the queer male figure, and the painter’s embodied relationship to practice. From 2003-2021 he taught in Goddard College’s MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts program. He taught at Rhode Island School of Design from 1997-2023 and was director of RISD’s Office of Public Engagement (2007-11). He was Associate Dean of the College & Director of the Swearer Center for Public Service at Brown University (1988-2005). He's a founding board member of Provincetown Commons, an economic development center for the creative economy.

“I fell in love the with the Cape Cod landscape when I was a kid and it’s been at the center of my spiritual life ever since. People are sometimes surprised to learn walking is a fundamental part of my painting practice. Long hikes allow me to experience the landscape’s elemental forces, which I then bring to my studio. I frequently return to the places I’m painting, allowing a sense of time to be layered in the work. I make landscape paintings because I believe that we’re culturally disconnected from our environment and, like Transcendentalists who’ve come before me, I believe it’s from a relationship with the more-than-human world that we come to actualize our full humanity. My paintings allow people to live with an echo of our world’s sublime power and to be reminded daily of its ultimate fragility.”