LewAllen Galleries is pleased to announce My song of the sea, a new solo exhibition by accomplished abstract painter Peter Burega (b. 1965), on view from October 31 through November 29, 2025. Burega is a master of absorbing impressions of the beauty present in the world. Devoid of represented object and using only the interplay of color and texture, he coaxes and distills onto his oil paintings on canvas the essences of his experience of this beauty that exists at the junction of memory and imagination to conjure his own magnificent “world within”. The new paintings in this latest LewAllen exhibition of Burega’s work emanate those vivid essences of breathtaking landscapes and seascapes observed by Burega into profoundly engaging and immersive qualities that transform them into meditations on nature.

From allowing himself to plunge visually and psychically into experiencing images of cloud-cloaked mountain ridges, blazing orange sunsets, and azure sea vistas, Burega emerges imbued with their essences and is remarkably able to infuse his impressions into his paintings on canvas. Especially in this new group of work, Burega’s unique combination of intellect and intuition - elemental to his process - is evident in the way he confers a highly personal vision of nature as a vibrantly intangible place of light and color into his work.

Also in certain of the paintings included in this new body of work, Burega divides his picture plane into two discernable parts allowing him to present a second iteration of the same experience on which the painting is based. One part may contain more information inherent to that experience and the other part may simplify or reduce that information and present it in an alternative way.

Using rich impressions from the earth’s greatest beauty, he masterfully applies layers of oil pigments, brushing and suffusing, scrapping and removing, producing dynamic rhythms of space and depth. The resulting atmospheric duality of his surfaces, between vaporous ethereality and affirmative physicality, serves to dematerialize the precipitating observations, interrupt time for the viewer, and gently express the essences of the beautiful that the artist has experienced in observing landscapes, being by the sea, and looking at the sky. The result is a vivacity of vision and an opportunity for a shared experience of an inner world.

While his contemplative paintings may take visual cues from landscapes and seascapes, Burega keeps any definitive allusions oblique and open-ended, dissolving specificity into an overall apotheosis of feeling. He distills the atmospherics of place into a weightless dance of elements: light, color, shadow, and temperature. Often the color range within a single work is restrained. In this exercise of aesthetic self-restraint, there is a sophisticated sense of elegance and grace that allows the work to border on feelings of the sublime.