In Brief/Of Late
PETER G PEREIRA
Artist: Painter and Illustrator/Sculptor/Installations/Animations/Performance/Writer/Composer
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- Phone: 212 365-4114 - Email: Petergpereiranyc@gmail.com
PETER G PEREIRA
Born: Queens, New York(1962)
Education:
Creighton Prep and U of N @ Omaha(1980-81)
Visiting Artist: Summer 1981 - London (met Francis Bacon)and Paris (met Mona Lisa )
U of Lagos, Nigeria
Visiting Artist: Drawing, Writing, Sculpture and Textile Arts 1982-83
Returned to Montreal in 1983 following a violent military coup revolution in Nigeria.
*I was introduced to Dr. Max Stern founder of Dominion Gallery who was taken by my artwork (drawings and small paintings)
and introduced to Timothy Roberts Gallery who took me on as gallery artist...Most grateful to Max for helping launch me in the Arts and worth this mention.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Stern_(gallery_owner)
Timothy Arts Gallery Montreal (1984-86)
Galerie D'Art Contemporain de Montreal (1987-1991. 2005-Present)
http://galerieartscontemporains.ca/en/
PARADOX BOX PERFORMANCE ART 1990 - Present
(COLLABORATIVE)
CREATOR/DIRECTOR/ANIMATION AND MUSIC
1995
EVOLUTION F
at the Manhattan Ballroom 1995 - Amazons the Surreal Spectacle Musical (Laurie Fierstein Productions Gregory Hines and Script Master and Susan Sarandon - Hope Clark choreography from Twyla Twarp Dance - Costumes by Ronaldo from Tierry Muggler and a cast of hundrds of top woman Artist in this wonderful Musical written by Peter G Pereira and Laurie Fierstein. Music composed by Peter G Pereira with 45 Minute Animation Film )
http://petergpereira.blogspot.com/2011/12/brief-evolution-from-studio-canvas-to.html
https://www.backstage.com/u/peter-g-pereira/
https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/petergpereira
https://images.app.goo.gl/cTrGBjSPiEqpfi2L9
https://images.app.goo.gl/9xC8duiZxz9ERnQj7
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00043249.2000.10792034
https://books.google.com/books?id=7ySOZ7nRV7UC&printsec=frontcover
http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~thomas/ai/ai72.txt
https://images.app.goo.gl/C9QzntV4HHXGvjMj9
https://english.rutgers.edu/images/documents/faculty/ian-ja-2001b.pdf
New Museum - Amazons 1997 (Evolution F)
https://archive.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/343
https://nmwa.org/sites/default/files/shared/4.3.4.2_judith_stein_papers_1974-2001.pdf
Podgallery@Spectra Digital NYC 1999 and 2000
SHORTCUT CV
2008 – 2015 currently
The Trees of Life Sculpture and Multimedia Outdoor Installation Series
Creator/Director/Installation Artist – Commissions and Consultations
SEE: http://www.petergpereiratreesoflife.com
Trees of Life Series: Sculpture/Painting Multimedia & Performance Art (Peter’s Paradox Box) Curated with Figment Arts Festival (Venues: Governor's Island NY summer series 2007-2008-2009-2010-2011-2012, 2013-2014) Boston Commons MA 2013-2014, Rose Kennedy Greenway Boston MA, Clarks Park Philadelphia 2013-2014) St. Mark’s Abe Lebewohl Park New York NY 2014, Carl Schurz Park New York NY 2013-2014
Some Recent Press:
Recent MNN Interview on Decent Life on the Trees of Life with Artist Peter G Pereira
http://youtu.be/XLq1sLPaMRk?list=PLAFBAAFF0C906AEAD
http://petergpereira.blogspot.com/2014/12/my-fabulous-on-arts-interview-with-lou.html
https://plus.google.com/+PeterPereiraTreesofLifeSculptureMultimediaSeries
http://gothamist.com/2013/06/07/figment_returns_to_governors_island.php
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/07/nyregion/figment-nyc-at-governors-island-native-games.html?_r=2&
2008 – 2015 currently
SHUTTERSTOCK.COM
Contributing Artist, Animation, Illustrator and Photographer – Original DIGITAL ART: Math/Science/Nature Artwork – THE PRINT COLLECTIONS
See: http://www.shutterstock.com/g/petergepereira
See: Original Mathematics/Science Arts
Some Recent Publications:
http://deskarati.com/2012/11/04/particle-and-wave-like-behavior-of-light-measured-simultaneously/
http://earthsky.org/science-wire/new-discovery-about-neutrinos
1991-2015-currently
The Pear Tree Studios (Montreal, Tudor City NY, Spanish Harlem NY, Currently Yorkville NYC)
Oils, Watercolor, Mixed Media and Sculptures: Portraits, Landscapes, Still-Lives and Murals (Indoor and Outdoor)
Commissions and Consultations
Sculpture Lucretius – 60 Harlem Suite Sculpture Dioramas,
\drawings
SEE: http:/petergpereiraoilpaintings1995-2005.blogspot.com
MUSICAL COMPOSITIONS
Member of ASCAP
The Paradox Box - The Album- (writer/instruments/ lyricist/& composition)
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/petergpereira
First Performed Hammerstein Theater – Evolution F 1995
Female Voice for Ting-Ting reading from the I-Ching The vessel overturned and righted again: Kay Holosko- Male voice Erny Jackson reading from Stairs & the Holy Man (Pereira -1990, 2001,2013)
Harlem Suite(s) (Works for jazz/modern orchestra 2001-present works in progress)
2011-2015
– EPISCOPAL RESPONSE TO AIDS: ERA - Creative Director/Board Member Episcopal Response To AIDS of Greater New York City Area
AIDS WALK 2012 - May/2012 - 13- EPISCOPAL RESPONSE TO AIDS - AIDS WALK TEEZ
WORLD AIDS DAY - Nov/2011- 12 -13 – EPISCOPAL RESPONSE TO AIDS - Art - Print and Media
See: Creative ERA Projects - Creative Director - Peter G Pereira
P. Wayne Mahlke, Chair - Dina Mann, Vice Chair - The Rev. Michael Sniffen, Secretary - Treasurer
Peter G. Pereira, Creative Director/Board Member - ERA Communications
INSTALLATIONS AND MULTIMEDIA
2008 – 2015 currently
The Trees of Life Sculpture and Multimedia Outdoor Installation Series
Creator/Director/Installation Artist – Commissions and Consultations
SEE: http://www.petergpereiratreesoflife.com
PARKS
Curated by Figment Arts NY and Intl. – Peter G Pereira’s Trees of Life Sculpture/Painting Multimedia & Performance (Paradox Box) beginning on Governor's Island NY and Touring the Country and the World
-Governor's Island (Nolan Park and Colonels Row) NY Annual summer series (June 2007-2014)
-Boston Commons, Boston MA, (2013, 2014),
-Clarks Park Philadelphia (Oct 2013, 2014)
-Geelong Australia (May 2014, 2015)
Other Shows
-St. Mark’s Abe Lebewohl Park East Village New York NY - May 2014
-Carl Schurz Park New York NY Feb.2013, - July 4 2013, - May 2014 - July 4 2014
FUNDING
National Endowments of the Arts, New York Parks Department,
Some Recent Press:
Recent MNN Interview on Decent Life on thee Trees of Life with Artist Peter G Pereira
http://youtu.be/XLq1sLPaMRk?list=PLAFBAAFF0C906AEAD
http://petergpereira.blogspot.com/2014/12/my-fabulous-on-arts-interview-with-lou.html
https://plus.google.com/+PeterPereiraTreesofLifeSculptureMultimediaSeries
http://gothamist.com/2013/06/07/figment_returns_to_governors_island.php
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/07/nyregion/figment-nyc-at-governors-island-native-games.html?_r=2&
http://www.timeout.com/new-york-kids/things-to-do/figment-nyc-returns-to-governors-island-this-weekend-slide-show?intcid=leader
https://www.facebook.com/figmentphiladelphia/photos/a.362495370539163.1073741827.358980427557324/592960114159353/?type=1
http://petergpereira.blogspot.com/2014/03/part-1-geelong-australia-new-york-with.html
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=peter+g+pereira+trees+of+life+decent+life+on+youtube&qpvt=peter+g+pereira+trees+of+life+decent+life+on+youtube&FORM=VDRE
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/us/photos/view/620/artist-peter-g-pereiras-trees-of-life-wrap-sculpture-installation-during-today/18235210
http://www.wunderground.com/wximage/petergpereira/0
Indoor Installations: Wrap Sculpture Designs
Epiphany Church 2008, 2009, 2011,2012
PAINTING/SCULPURE/MIXED-MEDIA
1991-2015-currently
The Pear Tree Studios (Montreal, Tudor City NY, Spanish Harlem NY, Currently Yorkville NYC)
Oil, Watercolor, Mixed Media Portraits, Landscapes, Still-Lives and Murals (Indoor and Outdoor)
Commissions and Consultations
Sculpture Lucretius – Harlem Suite Dioramas,
\drawings
SEE: http:/petergpereiraoilpaintings1995-2005.blogspot.com
Collections Include: Canadian War Museum, Timothy Roberts Gallery, Azzuri Israel, Gourdji, Pfeiffer, Schroeder, Groot and Mislove, Reverend Mullins, Gallery Dart Contemporain, Phillips Family, Greenbergs Family, Steinbergs, YMCA Headquarters NYC, POD/Spectra Gallery, Knickerbocker Gallery Collection NYC
2007- 2015presently – Senior Artist and Co-Founder KHAM - K Hall Arts Management LLC.
2015-08 – SHUTTERSTOCK – Search Peter G. Pereira - DIGITAL ART- MATH/SCIENCE Artwork – THE PRINT COLLECTIONS
2015-11 – WORLD AIDS DAY – EPISCOPAL RESPONSE TO AIDS - Print from OIL.
2011- YORKVILLE GALLERY AT THE CREPERIE (NY) - Curated Retrospective of Oil Paintings and Paradox Box Performances - 9/11/2001 to 11/2005.
2010 - 2013– PHILIPS/PEREIRA DESIGNER WINES – Launch of Wine Bottle Painting/Sculptures – Ongoing Limited Editions
2009 – LOGOS BOOKSTORE & GALLERY – The Hydrangea Series – Inspired by Schurz Park NY - Digital Photographic Paintings
2009 – SURTEX INTL. LICENSING SHOW – KHAMNYC – Featured Artist – 12 Lines Ranging From Fine Art Paintings, Drawings, Digital Art to Textile Designs (Jacob Javits Center NY)
2015– Trees of Life Sculpture/Painting Multimedia Outdoor Installations with Wrap Sculpture Dance Performance (Peter’s Paradox Box) Governor's Island NY – Curated by Figment Arts NYC and New York Parks Department with generosity of National Foundation of the Arts.
2014 2015 – Trees of Life Sculpture/Painting Multimedia Outdoor Installations with Wrap Sculpture Dance Performance (Peter’s Paradox Box) Governor's Island NY – Curated by Figment Arts NYC and New York Parks Department with generosity of National Foundation of the Arts.
2013 – Trees of Life Sculpture/Painting Multimedia Outdoor Installations with Wrap Sculpture Dance Performance (Peter’s Paradox Box) Governor's Island NY – Curated by Figment Arts NYC and New York Parks Department with generosity of National Foundation of the Arts.
2012 – Trees of Life Sculpture/Painting Multimedia Outdoor Installations with Wrap Sculpture Dance Performance (Peter’s Paradox Box) Governor's Island NY – Curated by Figment Arts NYC and New York Parks Department with generosity of National Foundation of the Arts.
2011 – Trees of Life Sculpture/Painting Multimedia Outdoor Installations with Wrap Sculpture Dance Performance (Peter’s Paradox Box) Governor's Island NY – Curated by Figment Arts NYC and New York Parks Department with generosity of National Foundation of the Arts.
2010 – Trees of Life Sculpture/Painting Multimedia Outdoor Installations with Wrap Sculpture Dance Performance (Peter’s Paradox Box) Governor's Island NY – Curated by Figment Arts NYC and New York Parks Department with generosity of National Foundation of the Arts.
2009 – Trees of Life Sculpture/Painting Multimedia Outdoor Installations with Wrap Sculpture Dance Performance (Peter’s Paradox Box) Governor's Island NY – Curated by Figment Arts NYC and New York Parks Department with generosity of National Foundation of the Arts.
2008– Trees of Life Sculpture/Painting Multimedia Outdoor Installations with Wrap Sculpture Dance Performance (Peter’s Paradox Box) Governor's Island NY – Curated by Figment Arts NYC and New York Parks Department with generosity of National Foundation of the Arts.
2007 First Year of Figment Arts – Trees of Life Sculpture/Painting Multimedia Outdoor Installations with Wrap Sculpture Dance Performance (Peter’s Paradox Box) Governor's Island NY – Curated by Figment Arts NYC and New York Parks Department with generosity of National Foundation of the Arts.
2007/08 – YMCA NYC HEADQUARTERS - KHAM (Kay Hall Arts Management) – Artistic Director – 150 years of an American History through the History of the YMCA through Photography and Arts from the Civil-War, Reconstruction, Sports, through Women's Rights, Civil Rights to Present in Pictures and Art...The Children...
2006 - THE MAKOR GALLERY – 92 Street Y Manhattan, New York - Group Show – Israel-Is Real – On War/Peace.
2006 - SANCTUARY GALLERY - 92 Street Y Bronx, New York – Group Show.
2004-2000 – THE PEAR TREE STUDIO – Manhattan, New York Solo and Ensembles. The Harlem Suites. Painting/Sculpture/Music
2000 – 2004 POD\Spectra DIGITAL GALLERY – Gallery Artist - 2001 - Group Show - NY– (First New York Gallery to host show of Artists' Digital Paintings) Pereira-The Banana Series 1994-97
2002 – NORTHERN STAGE – Paradox Box Performances – Vermont, Peter’s Paradox Box with Jack Healey HRAC, friend and Former Head of Amnesty International USA
2001 – The NEW MUSEUM – SoHo, NY – Evolution F and the Paradox Box The Amazons
http://www.amazon.com/Picturing-Modern-Amazon-Museum-Books/dp/0847822478
2002 - KNICKERBOCKER GALLERY NY - Solo Show & Retrospective of Contour Epiphanies& amp; Field Paintings - Oils & Drawings 1989-95
1991-Present - PETER's THE PARADOX BOX - The Artist's Studio on Stage with various casts and venues including Montreal, Northern Stage Theater...Hammerstein Ballroom, New York City with Figment Arts 2008-2015...Creator/Director/Composer - Period Ensembles) - Multi-Media Performance Art, Live Painting Dance Sculpture & Music.}
(Various Performances Multiple Casts & Venues including Eugene Patin The Terminal, Montreal, Northern Stage, Vermont, The Hammerstein Ballroom, New York, SALOON STAGE NY.)
2004 - 1998 - THE PEAR TREE STUDIO SHOWS - Harlem, NY
- CHOKED ECHOES SERIES: Oils, watercolors, Glass/enamel 3-d Painting series, Sculptures/Dioramas: Pre-Post September 9/11 2001. {Performances Self-Portraits /City Scapes/Still-Lifes
-The Harlem Suites -
1997-98 - 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE UNVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS – THE U.N. - Artist & Artistic Director With Jack Healey (Head Amnesty Intl. USA) and Frontier Media.
1997-98 – THE CONCERT FOR BURMA – New York Artistic Director with Rhino Records (Wembley Stadium) With San Suu Kyi Nobelist for Peace (Under Arrest since 1995 - present) & with Jack Healey (Head of Amnesty Intl USA) and Frontier Media.
1995-96 - EVOLUTION F / THE MUSICAL – The AMAZONS – with Legal Counsel of Woman Rights NY – as Co-Writer - Artistic Director – Musical Composer with Dave Barrett Hammerstein Ballroom NY with Gregory Hines Laurie Fierstein Production Twila Twarp/Hope Clark Acrobats, Actors, Fashions by Betsey Johnson/Renato.
1997 – EVOLUTION F – The FILM
1995-93 - PGP ARTS GALLERY SOHO NEW YORK 685 East Broadway – Director and Principal Artist in Oils, Mixed-Media, Sculptures
1993 - MOMENTUM ARTS (AIDS BENEFIT) Puck Building SoHo New York Oil Paintings - The Puck Building Soho, New York.
1993-94 - GROOT & MISLOVE DESIGNS Garment District - Silk/Textile series - Group Shows (New York)
1993 - GALLERY IYAD - (Montreal) - 3-D Paintings - The Pinocchio Series
1991 - ARIEL GALLERY - Group Show (New York)
1989-92 GALLERY D’ART CONTEMPORAIN DE MONTREAL
(The Montreal Gallery of Contemporary Arts) - Oils on canvas & Mixed Media - 3 solo shows:
1989 GALLERY D’ART CONTEMPORAIN DE MONTREAL – Solo Show – Blue Field Paintings
1990 GALLERY D’ART CONTEMPORAIN DE MONTREAL – Solo Show - Synaptic Realities
1991 GALLERY D’ART CONTEMPORAIN DE MONTREAL – Solo Show – The Epiphanies
1986-89 TIMOTHY ROBERTS GALLERY - Gallery Artist - GROUP SHOWS - Oils on canvas – Portraits - The Black Paintings and The Blue Fields
,
Dr. Max Stern of the Dominion Gallery discovered my work on the return from Nigeria and recommended me to Timothy Roberts director of his namesake a
ART AND ILLUSTRATON
2008 – 2015 currently
SHUTTERSTOCK.COM
Contributing Artist, Animation, Illustrator and Photographer – Original DIGITAL ART: Math/Science/Nature Artwork – THE PRINT COLLECTIONS
See: http://www.shutterstock.com/g/petergepereira
See: Original Mathematics/Science Arts
Some Recent Publications:
http://deskarati.com/2012/11/04/particle-and-wave-like-behavior-of-light-measured-simultaneously/
http://earthsky.org/science-wire/new-discovery-about-neutrinos
MUSICAL COMPOSITIONS
Member of ASCAP
The Paradox Box - The Album (Itunes, cd Baby, Amazon.com)- (writer/instruments/ lyricist/& composition)
First Performed Hammerstein Theater – Evoltuion F 1995
Female Voice for Ting-Ting reading from the I-Ching The vessel overturned and righted again: Kay Holosko- Male voice Erny Jackson reading from Stairs & the Holy Man (Pereira -1990, 2001,2013)
Harlem Suite(s) (Works for jazz/modern orchestra 2001-present works in progress)
FILM/TV
Because Why 1991 Actor, Co-writer and Prop Art Direction
Directed by Arto Paragamian
Evolution F – The Film
The Surreal Amazon Musical at Hammerstein Ballroom 1995
Written by Laurie Fierstein and Peter G Pereira
with Gregory Hines and Suzanne Sarandon
Theater New York 2hrs
Dis Moi Dis Moi by Mitsou
Music Video
Art
Molly Cheshire
Extraordinary People
Lou
MNNs a DECENT LIFE on the Trees of Life Sculpture and Multimedia Series by Peter G Pereira
Paula GLORIA
RABBIT HOLE The Paradox Box Performances and Interviews
SCRIPTS/SHORT STORIES
Evolution F (Musical co-writer with Laurie Fierstein)
First Performed at the Hammerstein Ballroom 1995 with full cast
The Sandal-maker (script)
The Teddy Atlas Mike Tyson Story
The Expeditor
Omaha surreal tales from the heartland
Collections of Plays (12 Doors, Le Napoleon Negre or the Black Napoleon – Tales from Haiti, The Girl who spoke to the Moon… )
and Short Stories
and Poetry available on Request
ARTISTIC DIRECTORSHIP(s)
2011-2015
– EPISCOPAL RESPONSE TO AIDS: ERA - Creative Director/Board Member Episcopal Response To AIDS of Greater New York City Area
AIDS WALK 2012 - May/2012 - 13- EPISCOPAL RESPONSE TO AIDS - AIDS WALK TEEZ
WORLD AIDS DAY - Nov/2011- 12 -13 – EPISCOPAL RESPONSE TO AIDS - Art - Print and Media
See: Creative ERA Projects - Creative Director - Peter G Pereira
P. Wayne Mahlke, Chair - Dina Mann, Vice Chair - The Rev. Michael Sniffen, Secretary - Treasurer
Peter G. Pereira, Creative Director/Board Member - ERA Communications
KHall Art Management LLC
Surtex
YMCA
Fashion Silk and Textiles Groot and Mislove 1993-5 European textile 2002
PERFORMANCE AND THEATER
1991 – 2015currently
The Paradox Box Troupe Performance and Multimedia Series (Montreal, Vermont, Boston, New York, and Philadelphia) – Creator, Director, and Performer – An intimate Musical Modern Operatic Art Show: Indoor and Outdoor Surreal Wrap Dance Sculpture, Painting, Animation/Film and Original Music
EVOLUTION F
Northern Stage
BLOGS
2015-10
– ART APPRECIATION BLOG by Peter G Pereira – Unique Perspectives on Current and not so Current arts of New York City and Other Times and Places – Includes Museum and Local Art Field Studies, Interviews, Photography, Comic Book Realties Series Animations…much more.
See: Art Appreciations by Peter G Pereira
Current & Archival Materials Blog(s):
Self-Descriptive Entries
http://petergpereiracv.blogspot.com
http://petergpereiraanimationshorts.blogspot.com
New and Archival Art Works and Animations
http://petergpereira.blogspot.com
http://petergpereiraartappreciations.blogspot.com
Musica
http://petergpereiraphotographymixedmedia.blogspot.com
http:/petergpereiraoilpaintings1995-2005.blogspot.com
Chair
2013-2010 – PHILIPS-PEREIRA DESIGNER WINES – Artistic Director/Co –Creator/Owner - Launch of Wine Bottle Painting/Sculptures – Ongoing Limited Editions
See: P&PDESIGNERWINES.COM
2015-1995 – ANIMATION and SHORT FILMS - Artist/Writer/ Director/Composer - to Abstract Art, Observational Art, Art and Physics, Art Humor..,and much more.
See: Original Animations and Short Films
ARTS/Multi-Media/Performance EXHIBITIONS
GRAPHIC Novel ARTS/ANIMATION
2012- 95 - Animation Shorts/Films – Animation /Art & Music
- EVOLUTION F – The FILM
- PARADOX BOX – The Performances
- The Metronome with Dave Barrett and Jodi Bonet
- 3 Epiphanies -The Amazons -The Paradox Box
- Quark-Proton Dances
- Quantum Flowers
- Higgs Boson Fields I
- Higgs Boson Field Ext. Version
- After the Fall
- Glass and Stone Series Part I
- Glass and Stone Series Part II
- Self- Portraits
- The Banana Series Part I
- The Banana Series Part II
- Dark/Matter Energy
- Paradox Box Revisited
- Paradox Box – the Album Part I
- Paradox Box- the Album Part II
EDUCATION
1975-1979 Creighton Preparatory School Omaha
1979-80 University of Omaha Nebraska – Psychology
COLLABORATIONS
1981-82 Lagos Nigeria Africa- Fine Art .Mathematics of Art, African sculpture, botany architecture. Yoruba, Ibo and Hausa cultures
1984-7 University of Concordia Montreal Canada
TEACHING EXPERIENCE(S)
2003-6 Worked as Instructor for the Pear Tree Studio
Duties: Focus on Drawing Painting and Sculptures and live performance
Working in the field as a Director for Evolution F- I taught and choreographed about 50 performers to get them stage ready.
Many Students were clients in Professional Settings.
I have collected a group of private students over the years in a curriculum that has spanned principles Architecture, Drawing, Geometry, Perspective, Oil Painting, Collage, Acting, Choreography, Film Studies, Script-Writing, Story Writing, Music, Musicals, Fashion/Textile Design to CAD design.
Private courses in watercolor, portraiture, abstraction, surrealism and thinking like an artist.
PETER G. PEREIRA Artist/Painter/Composer
Tel: 212-365-4114 - PetergPereira@yahoo.com - PetergPereira@blogspot.com PAGE 5
PUBLICATIONS(short List)
Gallery & Studio, Village Voice, America Magazine, New York Times, Shutterstock, New York Observer, Science Times, Northern Stage Press, Montreal Gazette, Montreal Mirror, Art Buyer, Surtex Intl, GQ Magazine, Newsweek, The Amazon Book, Ms. Observation nyc, Marshall Blonsky and Caligarus on “Evolution F”.Type your paragraph here.