Kirk Pedersen Urban Landscapes Author:Peter Frank KIRK PEDERSEN: URBAN LANDSCAPES. 56 pages, 9 x 12 inches, 40 color reproductions (many full-page images), Edition 2000. Los Angeles art critic Peter Frank writes of Pedersen's paintings... Abstracted verism denotes the tension Pedersen establishes between seeing and knowing, between informational and aesthetic perception, between what appears to... more » be familiar and certain and what appears to be hallucinatory and ephemeral...« less