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Peter Gallo’s interests are literary as well as painterly, frequently if not always including words or phrases in his eccentric but enjoyable
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Up at Columbia’s LeRoy Neiman Gallery MFA student Nora Griffin – well-known already downtown and before her enrollment as a writer on the Brooklyn Rail
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DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum announced the 21 New England-based artists and collaboratives selected for The 2013 deCordova Biennial
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Up at Columbia’s LeRoy Neiman Gallery MFA student Nora Griffin – well-known already downtown and before her enrollment as an editor on the Brooklyn Rail
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Peter Gallo received a BA from Middlebury College in Vermont and an MA from Concordia University in Montréal. He is currently a doctoral fellow in Art History at Concordia where he is also a part-time member of the faculty, and is completing a dissertation titled Medicalisation and its Discontents: The Artist as Case History. Gallo is also a member of the Grass Roots Art and Community Effort (GRACE) of Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom. Selected exhibitions include White Columns, Sunday L.E.S., Steven Kasher Gallery, and Horton Gallery in New York, Wendy Cooper Gallery in Chicago, Francis Reynolds Gallery in London, and Goff + Rosenthal in Berlin. He is represented by Horton Gallery in New York. Peter Gallo lives and works in Hyde Park, Vermont.
Peter Gallo’s art embraces literature, art history, politics and music, drawing from each to create something innovative. Scavenging through the works of creative minds like Freud, Hölderlin and Roland Barthes, as well as popular music, advertisements, and news reportage, Gallo is able to comment on important contemporary issues. Gallo’s painterly style and loose brushwork provides an aesthetic beauty to works that also include bones, dental floss and found paper. His use of found photographs and posters provides another layer of cultural and social depth. His practice also includes the production of texts and photography-based works. For example his on-going diaristic work Daytrtmnt combines writing and drawing and recounts his day to day experiences as a social worker in rural Vermont and has been compared to the works of Guyotat and Artaud; a selection of pages were published in a handsome catalogue by Amandla Press in 2002. Gallo finds ideas and objects, and like a bricoleur brings them together in provocative ways that are confrontational and reflective of the modern situation. Matthew Higgs, writing in Frieze Magazine, likened his approach to the legendary post-punk British band Joy Division and the text and assemblage works of Ree Morton. James Yood, writing in Artforum, describes Gallo’s art as “a kind of grunge arte povera,” and celebrated the artist’s “breath-taking ability to evoke issues of great import.”
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art
