BY GRACE GLUECK
THE NEW YORK TIMES
MARCH 19, 1999
ANNE PERETZ, Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, on East 79th Street, (212) 879-6606 (through March 27). Vigorous structure and evocative moods inform these intense, well wrought landscapes of Cape Cod, where Ms. Peretz spends her summers, and of the coast of Spain. In several canvases devoted to Horseleach Pond in Truro, Mass., where she swims daily and knows every nuance of the pond and its woodsy setting, she shows the same patch of trees and water affected variously by slashing rain, a blazing sunset and the cool blue tones of evening. The steep and angled sides of a stone quarry in Tamarlu, Spain, are toned from white to robust ocher by the play of light upon them. And in several studies of feathery trees along the Spanish coast, with water visible between and behind them, she creates a feeling of time suspended by nature. It’s refreshing to see a style so unaffected by style.
