Discipline: Visual Art

Peggy Bates

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1999
More: www.peggybatesart.com
Peggy Bates is an American painter and visual artist living and working in New York. Bates, a graduate from Hunter College and the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, has had her work shown in several solo exhibitions at numerous venues, such as the Thomas Jaeckel Gallery in New York, the Neil Stevenson Fine Art Gallery in Brooklyn, and the Black & Herron Gallery in New York. Her work has also been featured in numerous group exhibitions, including “Almanzora” at the Fundacion Valparaiso in Mojacar, Almeria, Spain, the “Urban Process” at Kunst + Technik in Berlin, Germany, and featured in numerous publications, including Design Arts Daily, The Village Voice, Art in America, The New York Times, Zing Magazine, and Renegade Space. Additionally, Bates has received numerous awards from organizations such as Fundacion Valparaiso, The Hambridge Center, The Atlantic Center for the Arts, and the Pollack-Krasner Foundation. She has taught at Hunter College, and The City University of New York, and her work resides in several collections, including the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, Saks Fifth Avenue in New York and the Sony Corporation of America.

Studios

Cheney

Peggy Bates worked in the Cheney studio.

Cheney Studio was given to MacDowell by Mrs. Benjamin P. Cheney and Mrs. Karl Kauffman. Like Barnard Studio, Cheney is a low, broadly massed bungalow. Sited on a steep westward slope, its porches are supported on wooden posts and fieldstone with lattices. Although it still retains its appealing character, the original design of the shingled building…

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