
Associate Professor, School of Art, CVPA - RETIRED
Contact Information
Campus: Fairfax
Building: Art and Design Building
Room 2050E
Mail Stop: MSN: 1C3
Biography
Peter works on individual projects and in collaboration with other artists. For twenty years, as a founding member of the collaborative group, Workingman Collective, and as a core member of the group, Art Attack, he has engaged in making pieces that question the domain and currency of personal authorship, the context of location and the creative process. The groups鈥 works have been exhibited/performed/intervened in settings as diverse as PS.1, Artist鈥檚 Space, parking lots, abandoned houses and public spaces, and in public and alternative galleries and spaces in Berlin, Prague, Slovakia, Marseilles, Warsaw, Krakow, Chicago, Washington, New York, Butte Montana and the North Carolina Museum of Art. Recent commissions include works for the US Embassy in Monrovia, Liberia and for Macerich鈥檚 development for Tysons Corner, Virginia. Peter has been a three time recipient of CEC Artslink grants. Peter鈥檚 personal work has ranged from forged steel, abstractly painted figurative sculpture, to 鈥渦narchitecture鈥 structures of conventional building materials, to compositions of painted, fallen branches. His work is in private collections throughout the United States. Peter reviews Washington area fine art exhibitions as a panelist on public television station WETA鈥檚 Around Town. He is also a Senior Advisor for Integrative Teaching International, a national group whose focus is on the development of visual art foundation programs for the 21st century.
Selected Reviews/Articles/Best Bets
New York Times, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, Village Voice, The Washington Post, City Paper, Sculpture, Boston Herald, Boston Phoenix, Boston Globe, Art and Antiques, Kunstforum, OO Nachrichten, Taglich Alles, Standard, NPR/All Things Considered, Slovakia Today, USIA/Voice of America, WRC/NBC News, Flash Radio
Gallery Representation
is represented by 1515 14th St., Washington D.C.
Degrees
- MFA, Fine Arts, Indiana University, Bloomington
- BS, Fine Arts, with a Concentration in Sculpture, Skidmore College
Specialist Areas:
- Sculpture
- Senior Project