Looking For Hope, 2025. Oil and silver leaf on canvas. 29 7/8 x 40 inches
Robert Peterson’s monumental yet deeply intimate portraits are luminous love letters to contemporary Black life. His sitters catch our gaze with striking immediacy, asserting their identity, dignity, and quiet power while inviting our sustained contemplation.
Through large-scale canvases, Peterson elevates everyday figures into inspiring, heroic archetypes—hardworking mothers, protective fathers, loyal siblings—and, in the process, expands the thematic parameters of classical portraiture.
May 26, 2026
