David Peters

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b. 1949, Los Angeles, CA



SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Kamm Teapot Foundation, Sparta, NC


SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2005-11   Hot Tea! del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010        Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Exposition WEST, Santa Fe, NM
2009-10   Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Exposition, Chicago, IL
2007-08   Teapots!, Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2007        Beyond The Basket, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006-07   Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Exposition, Chicago, IL   
2005-06   Show and Tell, Zimmer Children's Museum, Los Angeles, CA


ABOUT THE ARTIST

BFA Ceramics, Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA 1972
Currently resides in Venice, CA.

David Peters has had the opportunity to live and travel in many countries around the world.  His widely varied life experiences have included stints as a stevedore in the middle east, a farm worker in Israel, an art director in South Africa and a deckhand on a research vessel sailing from the southern tip of Africa to the artic circle. 

He worked for many years as a freelance commercial illustrator and taught a variety of courses at Otis College of Art & Design in Los Angeles.

Clients have included Air & Space Smithsonian Magazine, Time, Forbes Magazine, the Hollywood Reporter, Los Angeles Magazine, Los Angeles Times, ABC TV, NBC and 20th Century Fox and the Reno Air Race Association, where Peters designed and produced 5 posters for the National Air Races in Reno Nevada.

His current professional life includes that of a product and aviation photographer, illustrator, 3-dimensional sculptor, travel writer and airport bum.

His collage and sculpture have been in shows in Tokyo, New York, Chicago, Santa Fe and Los Angeles.  His teapots and photographs are represented by del Mano Gallery in Los Angeles, Ca. (delmano.com)

He is a private pilot who owns and fly’s a 1950 Ryan Navion, a 4 place canopy model complex aircraft.  He recently published a book of photographs documenting a 6 year association with the B-25 Bomber Heavenly Body, based at Van Nuys Airport.


ARTIST'S STATEMENT

I am reminded of a conceptualist art credo of the 70’s, “art is junk and junk is art”!  Which basically deals with the idea that art is in the eye of the beholder, for me it is a matter of seeing things out of their original context and creating something new from that.

Being involved in the aviation world has exposed me to lots of interesting materials and processes, constructions both large and small and all manner of mechanical things that have become the source for my inspiration, a recycling of sorts.
 
I am most intrigued by the act of creating right brain art out of left brain objects.  And the serendipity, the magic if you will, that is part of combining disparate parts to realize a new work.

David Peters
3.6.11