Faran Riley’s Curiously Rocky Inspirations
“There is something about the nighttime where your senses are more attuned, you’re hearing a lot more, and the shadow play is more imaginative. I like the washed-out colors at night. I was color-phobic for a long time and only worked in pen and ink.”
In The Studio With Faran Riley Peterson
A painter, sculptor, and accumulator, she works in acrylic and pencil on paper or panel. Peterson acts as a curator of the natural artifacts she collects. Rocks, shells, fragments of coral, these things find space in her pockets, installations, and in the paintings themselves as subjects.
Another Realm at Sulfur Studios
Savannah-born Faran Riley, graduated from Savannah Arts Academy before attending The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University. Her work displayed in “Another Realm” draws from two eras of her development as an artist.
Interview with Souljourn Yoga Foundation's Jordan Ashley
Drawing was never a hobby. It was something I did constantly, whether I wanted to or not. I knew early on that this was my career. I was constantly drawing in the margins of my papers at school and sometimes sneaking drawings into text books. I was always in trouble for drawing where I shouldn’t be. Each day after school I would draw for hours. I never left the house without a sketch pad and a bag of markers and pens. Even today, If I leave the house without a pen in my pocket, even to run to the bodega, I feel like I’m naked. Since about age seven I told everyone that I wanted to be a cartoonist for the New Yorker Magazine.