NEW YORK, NY.- Haunch of Venison Gallery is showing a survey exhibition of paintings by Peter Saul curated by Chris Byrne through January 8 2011. Twenty important paintings from the span of the artist’s career are exhibited alongside a selection of new works made especially for the exhibition. Early sketchbooks and a collection of the artist’s correspondences and personal artifacts are also exhibited. A catalogue with introductory essay by Eric Fischl accompanies the exhibition. The exhibition features significant works from each decade of Saul’s celebrated career. Highlights include: ‘Typical Saigon’ (1968), Saul’s response to the atrocities of the Vietnam War; ‘Oedipus Junior’ (1983), a shocking self-portrait in which the artist simultaneously pierces his eye with a paintbrush and castrates himself; ‘Columbus Discovers America’ (1992-1995), which rejects the fable of Christopher Columbus by depicting