The artistic practice of Peggy Buth assumes truly existential dimensions when the artist grinds and burns wounds into the durable material of wall-to-wall carpeting or covers and seals surfaces with tar, then cuts them open…
ed carpet, black tar! Material and form! This is the fabric of Peggy Buth’s work. She appropriates symbols of public representation like the red carpet or the monument in order to overwrite them by her subjective emotional gestures…