PeteFromAcrossTheStreet

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/179/394047910_e216b9eff6_o.jp g http://www.myspace.com/petefromacrossthestreet http://farm1.static.flickr.com/179/394047910_e216b9eff6_o.jp g"A man who works with his hands is a laborer; A man who works with and his brain is a craftsman; But a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.Selected Solo Exhibition2005 Coming Home Revisited, ARTredSpot LLC Gallery, Westport, CT 2004 Big Bobby Duvall and his Many Minions, Las Vetus ,Faifield, CT 2003 Abstracts Big and Small, Art and Community, New York, NY 2003 Weaver of Paint, Covenant of the Scared Heart, Greenwich, CT 2003 Paintings 2002-03, Rainy Faye Gallery, Bridgeport,CT 2003 One Weeks Casualties, Bridgeport Com. Center, CT 2003 Paint by Numbers, Darien Gallery, Darien,CT 2003 One Weeks Casualties, Stratford Community Center, Stratford, CT 2002 Gigantic Abstracts and Petite Portraits, Chase Bank,New Canaan, CT 2001 Some People I Know, Art.a.Whirl, Minneapolis, MN 1999 Works on Paper, Hennepin Center for the Arts, Minneapolis, MN 1999 Buy Art Not Bonds, First Bank, Minneapolis, MN 1999 Small Square Paintings, Jump Start Gallery, Minneapolis, MN 1999 Puddle Portraits, Art.a.Whirl, Minneapolis, MN 1998 On a Balcony in the Cheap Seats, Jump Start Gallery, Minneapolis, MN 1998 Art in the Dark, Art.a.Whirl, Minneapolis, MNSelected Group Exhibitions 2006 City Lights Gallery, black Rock Group Bridgeport., ct 2006 Real Art Ways Group show, Hartford, CT 2005 Artview, Art + Community, City Museum of Wash. D.C. featuring art of Christo, Miro, Wyeth, Rauschenberg, and Indiana 2004 Group Show, ARTredSPOT LLC Gallery, Westport, CT2004 Art, Spirituality, and Faith, Park City Gallery, Park City, CT 2004 Four from the Rock, International Performance Center,Bpt, CT 2004 Group Show, Nurture Art, Brooklyn, NY 2003 Open Studio Tour, NEST Building, Bridgeport, CT 2003 Carnegie Mellon Exhibit, Washington D.C. 2002 Group Exhibit, Betty Barker Gallery, New Canaan, CT 2001 Juried Art Exhibition, Plains Art Museum, Juror: John Christakos Fargo, ND 2001 One Weeks Casualties, No Name Exhibitions, Minneapolis, MN 2001 Juried Art Exhibition, Northeast Religious Art Show, Minneapolis, MN 2000 One Weeks Casualties, Art Attack, Minneapolis, MN 2000 Foot in the Door, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN 2000 Juried Art Exhibition, Center for the Arts, Bloomington, MN 1999 Puddle Portraits, Deronda Gallery, Amery WI 1997 Group Exhibit, No Name Exhibitions, Minneapolis, MNAwards2005 rePublic Art Award, New Haven, CT 2001 Honorable Mention, Northeast Religious Art Show, Minneapolis, MN 2001 Lead Artist, Art.a.Whirl Campaign North East Minneapolis, MNPRESS & Publications2005 ABC NEWS, 20/20, John Stossel Give Me a Break segment March 11th 2004 New York Times Sept. 12th,2004 2004 Fairfield Weekly Jan. 19th,2005, March 27th,2003 1998 Star and Tribune May 21st,2001Appointments2004 Demonstration Artist, NEST Open Factory, Bridgeport, CT2004 Visiting Artist, SoNo Arts Festival, South Norwalk, CT 2003 Visiting Artist, Covenant of the Sacred Heart, Greenwich,CT 2001 Featured Artist, Spin Art Demo, NEMAA, Minneapolis, MN 1999 Visiting Artist, Plymouth Christian Youth Center, Minneapolis, MN 1998 Visiting Artist, Marcy Open School, Minneapolis, MNArt Related Events2005 Video assist for Oly Benders Performance of Mr. Softy 2004 Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Preparator; disassembly and installation of art exhibition; In To My World New British Sculpture. Installed Micheal Reess sculpture Pluto 4 x 4 2004 Leased art for film A NEW Wave (Jason Carvey) starring Lacey Cabert (Mean Girls, Party of Five) 2004 Adjunct Professor; University of Bridgeport Intro to Art History 2001 Charles Schultz Tribute, Louisiana Spin, St. Paul, MN 1999 Metropolitan Museum of Art Sculpted close-celled styrofoam into seven foot freestanding scroll for exhibition. 1995 Mall of America Designed and sculpted, and painted six mythical creatures out of closed-celled foam, and covered with a hard plastic called Elasimer for grand opening of a restaurant. 1994 Rain Forrest Cafe Sculpted, welded and painted forty foot mushroom for bar, fourteen foot giraffe, painted gorilla sculpture. 1992 The Mighty Ducks Feature Scenic Painter; painted street scene, store fronts, built atrium for movie theater location.Education2004 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York 1991 BFA Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN Daytons Award of Excellence