ANTHONY PESSLER earned his M.F.A. at the University of Wisconsin—Madison in 1991, and his M.A. from St. Cloud (Minnesota) State University in 1989. Along with an active and impressive exhibition schedule, Pessler authors critical articles on the visual arts and has been a guest lecturer at museums and schools. Currently, he is Professor of Art at Arizona State University in Tempe.

During the 1980s, various trips into rural Wisconsin reminded PESSLER of his childhood: the woods and prairies of North Dakota, where he was raised, were his first refuge. The then-trendy concerns of art schools were set aside, and landforms, sky and animals began again to inhabit his work.

Today, PESSLER'S feelings for place are realized through the Arizona environment where he resides. His continual exploration of peaceful locations provides the basis for an art that is wholly personal from conception to resolution. The romantic wilderness in his paintings and drawings submerge the viewer in his study of wild places, wild creatures, and wild weather.

Edges and boundaries, shifts from darkness to light, from light to darkness are expressed in every precise mark.