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Artist Statement:
WarpArt is dedicated to
chopping up your culture and
feeding it back to you! The
constantly mutating pop
culture of the late 20th and
early 21st centuries is served
in a spicy sauce of
juxtaposition, dopey humour
and contrived strangeness.
I've been cutting up magazines
and rearranging images for
over ten years now, and some
words to describe my collages
might be: surreal,
psychedelic, cute, weird,
lurid and wry. ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
SOLO SHOWS
'Untitled' - Vent Creative
Outlet, Port Chalmers NZ,
October 2006
'Scalpelicious' - ROAR!
Gallery, Wellington NZ,
September 2006
'Postcard From Cutesville' -
Cleveland Living Arts Centre,
Dunedin NZ, May / June 2006
'The Best of Both Worlds' -
Introspect Gallery, Dunedin
NZ, March 2004
Tangente Cafe, Dunedin NZ,
April 2005
The Strip Gallery, ...
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Artist Galleries:
Coming Soon!
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Artist Reviews:
Otago Daily Times, 1 June 2006
- 'Postcard from Cutesville'
show - by James Dignan
Peter Lewis's collages are
becoming a familiar sight
around Dunedin galleries. In
these works, images from
popular culture are taken,
reworked and layered into new
art. Cartoon and magazine art
sit alongside xeroxed and
scanned 19th-...
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Collections:
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Peter Lewis Biography:
| Biographical information for Peter Lewis can be found below. The artist may choose what information to display. Sometimes the artist chooses not to display personal information to the general public. |
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Age
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36
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| Gender |
Male
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| Status |
Married
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| Children |
1
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| Religion |
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| Education |
High School |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
art, music |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Collage
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Dadaism - (1916 - 1924)
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
Mark Ryden
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| Favorite Work of Art |
not provided
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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 Lewis is a paper collage artist based in New Zealand. He has been mutating, mutilating and reconfiguring popular culture and its images since 1990. Deftly slicing with his scalpel, he seeks to shock the viewer's eye out of its complacency with surreal juxtaposition and silly humour. His influences and inspirations include Winston Smith, Max Ernst, Mark Ryden and Robert Williams.
He intentionally uses nostalgic images and pictures taken from old children's books, not only because they appeal to his keen sense of personal nostalgia and revisiting the obsessions of his childhood (robots, monsters, rocketships, dinosaurs), but also because the visual language of childhood evokes memories of a time when magic was everywhere and you either hadn't heard of the 'accepted view of the world' with all its rules and limitations, or you were unwilling to accept it and preferred to make up your own, seeing mystery and intrigue everywhere.
The magic still exists, you just have to learn to turn the filters off, to really open your eyes and absorb the beauty of everything around you.
Peter's work has been featured on CD covers in New Zealand and the US, in San Francisco art magazine Churn, and recently in New York art and fashion magazine Fifth Avenue. He has exhibited pieces throughout New Zealand, in Germany, and briefly and unauthorised-edly at the Museum Of Modern Art in New York.
After many years of working exclusively on paper, he has recently begun collaging directly onto canvas, using mixed media colour wash backgrounds. These works have proved very popular and many have been sold. |
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