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Artist Statement:
Thirty five years of seeking
the highlight.
Thirty five years of self
portraits.
Visual questions and verbal
images.
Always asking Why?
"How does a visual person
define his life and work in
words?”
The soul of the artist is held
in the negatives, every shot
is a self portrait.” -PJC
Why?
I have spent the last year or
maybe more reflecting on my
work over the thirty or so
years I have been shooting. It
is, at times, surprising and
then not surprising at all
that the actual images over
the last years have been
reflections. Why? I will let
you know when I am sure.
As a young artist there is so
much new information to learn
and teachers to please.
Accepting that an image is
cool is enough to make you
strive to create more. There
is no “Why”, just on to the
next assignment. At what point
do you become an artist? How
does one define the soul of an
artist? My work, I hope,
stimulates thought. I hope
that my writing does also. I
try not so much to offer
answers, but to offer
questions. Why? The more often
you ask Why, the more you will
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Artist Exhibitions:
GALLERY EXHIBITS & JURIED
SHOWS:
11/7/08 My Transparent Life
7-10 pm
ArtSpace Gallery 35 Chestnut
St Norwich Ct.
4/08-6/14/08 "A Life in
Stone: The Cape Verdean Stone
Masonry Tradition in Eastern
Connecticut, "A collaboration
among the Norwich Cultural
Arts and History Project, the
Cape ...
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Artist Galleries:
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Artist Reviews:
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Collections:
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Commissions:
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Peter J Crowley Biography:
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Age
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58
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| Gender |
Male
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| Status |
Single
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| Children |
1
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| Religion |
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| Education |
Professional Work |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
Cooking, Train travel and people watching.
Jazz. |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Photography Silver Gelatin
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Art Deco - (1920 - 1935)
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
Edward Weston, Walker Evans, Diane Arbus
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| Favorite Work of Art |
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
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| Your Personal Biography |
Peter was born in Worcester Ma. in 1950, currently living in Norwich Ct. He started photographing in 1970 after a year as a Fine Arts Major at Dean College.
Peter’s work is in numerous private and public collections including his documentary work for Brown Universities Rites and Reason Theatre which is in the permanent collection of The National Museum of History at The Smithsonian. He has published one monograph “All the Usual Subjects” a limited edition [500 signed and numbered] of life in an old New England Mill town. Current projects include a seven year documentation of the changing face of Norwich Connecticut “Faces and Facades.” Another documentary of small businesses deletion from the marketplace by big box corporate vanilla malls. Working totally with film Peter most current work uses the female form as a metaphor for possession replacing emotion. There is a second book perhaps a retrospective of his 37 years of visual and verbal commentary on the human condition.
The first thing to notice and assimilate to upon entering Peter’s private world is the lack of creature comforts. His home is a studio, first and foremost, lacking any conventional furniture, or hell-any conventions, period. Aside from camera equipment, a computer, a bed and a galley kitchen, there is not much in the way to suggest that this is a home. It is a canvas, displaying framed art by the artist himself {with the occasional political cartoon tacked to the fridge.} The photographs, paintings and sculpture by friends. A hanging plant. A radio/cassette player standing on end, all the better to receive a clearer signal of that great college station that plays jazz and old rock without commercials or Top Forty. You’d better check your materialism at the door. Here is a man who doesn’t compromise. Here is a man who is one of the very few who go the distance, who hand themselves over to the passion of realizing a calling. It’s art; it’s the naked eye, the rectangle. Walls lined with black and white prints of the naked form, of uncompromising woman and their uncovered selves. They’re not all nudes, but those are the ones that stick to me, not for any reason other than the fact that they seem a metaphor for Peter himself. Unflinching, uncompromising, they are images of him.
© Lauren Sarant McNeill
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