Peter Steiner Exhibit
In November, the David M. Hunt Library in Falls Village (CT) will host an exhibition of paintings, drawings, and collage by Peter Steiner. Known primarily for his cartoons and his novels, Steiner’s paintings and drawings can be comic, surrealist, romantic, and fantastic—hence the title of the exhibition, “All Over the Place.” The artist recently said that he is “unschooled as an artist. The disadvantage in that is that I was never taught how to paint. I taught myself, and some of what I taught myself was wrong. Happily, that is also the advantage. I am disciplined about how I paint, but not about what or when I paint: I do it how and when I want.”
A reception for the artist will take place at the library on Saturday, November 2, from 4PM to 6 PM. In conjunction with the exhibition, Steiner will give an art talk on Thursday, November 21 from 5:30 to 7PM. These events are free and open to the public.
Peter Steiner’s life, echoing the title of his current exhibition, has been all over the place. After serving in the U.S. Army in Germany, he studied and received a PhD. in German, taught at Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA) and then left teaching to become an artist, painting and drawing and cartooning. Steiner eventually became a regular contributor to The New Yorker, most notably for a 1993 cartoon with the caption, “On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” His cartoons also appeared in The Weekly Standard, The Washington Times, and locally in The Lakeville Journal. His cartoons have been in exhibitions all over the place, including Washington, DC, Warsaw, Poland and Vienna, Austria. Peter Steiner has also published nine novels, all thrillers, beginning with A French Country Murder (2003, St. Martin’s Press). The New Detective, his most recent novel, was published in 2023 by Severn House.
David M. Hunt Library
63 Main Street
Falls Village, CT 06031
