Salina Art Center

Artist at Work: Jason Peters

Thursday, July 23, 5:30 pm
at the Salina Art Center

                                 
SALINA, KANSAS – The Salina Art Center invites you to an Artist at Work program presented by the Art Center’s current artist-in-residence, Jason Peters, at the Salina Art Center, 242 S. Santa Fe, on Thursday, July 23, at 5:30 pm.

Artist at Work is free and open to the public. Through this program, the Salina Art Center promotes discussions among Kansas artists that engage professional visiting artists with their artistic peers. The Art Center has designed this program in response to addressing artists’ need for more professional development and interaction and to gather and grow as an arts community. In this Artist at Work program, Peters will discuss his development as an artist, his artist residency experiences, and the work in his current Salina Art Center exhibition.

During his Salina Art Center residency at the Warehouse, Peters has made art with objects we use every day: plastic buckets, tires, chairs, and surprise materials found in Salina industry and agribusiness. Some of these objects became modules of larger forms relating organically to the Art Center’s exhibition space and are on view in his exhibition, Open And as Pointed as Possible, in the Art Center galleries through August 16, 2009. 

Peters’ sculptures have been called dystopic, futuristic, spectacular, and just plain beautiful.  They undulate, twist, and climb up and over eachother, seemingly with energy of their own. He aims to first create an emotion or an impact, which the viewer can later analyze and perhaps remember when using a bucket to wash a floor.

Currently living and working in Brooklyn, NY, Peters received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture and a Minor in Asian Art History from the Maryland Institute College of Art.  Since then, Peters has participated in residencies at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE and the Mattress Factory, Pittsburg, PA. His most recent work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO, at Slowdown, Omaha, NE, and at the Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. Peters’ work was also featured as part of The Light Project at the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis, MO.

The Salina Art Center’s Artist-in-Residence program is made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the R.C. Kemper Charitable Trust, UMB Bank, n.a. Corporate Trustee.