Peter Maslow Paintings

Paintings dealing with Identity in Vienna, with Flak Towers and Secessionist Architecture.

I first visited Vienna in 1999 while on a Fulbright Scholarship in Krakow, Poland, beginning a multi-year exploration of Central European architecture, from the Baltics to the Balkans. Walking nearly every street of these city centers, I sketched and photographed the buildings from shifting vantage points. Today, I use these captured moving perspectives to break down and reconstitute the positive and negative forms of the urban landscape into my work.

Rather than traditional paintings, I view these pieces as "woven tapestries"—animated montages built from disconnected architectural fragments. My intent is to capture the psychological "feel" of a place, not its literal appearance. By avoiding recognizable imagery, I present a swirling mix of viewpoints that engages the viewer's mind. The work intentionally invites and resists resolution, mirroring the way our brains constantly construct a believable sense of reality out of fragmented, imperfect data.

Below is a gallery of early images of paintings from my first impressions of Vienna’s Flak Towers, 2004 - 2008:

Below is a gallery of images of paintings from 2008 - 2010:

I will be participating in the S.O.O.N Artist’s Residency in Vienna November 2 through November 22, 2026. I will post images of the paintings I make there as they are completed.

Here are some studio pics of Flak Tower paintings in progress, from left to right: from Oct, 2026, Schenectady, NY; early 2007, Chelsea, NY; 2008, Red Hook, Brooklyn; 2010, Industry City, Brooklyn.