PETER GORDON
MARYLAND ARTIST COLLECTION
Peter Gordon, 35, is an artist and musician in his hometown of Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
In 2000, Gordon studied painting and
art history in Florence, Italy, for six months. In 2002, he received a BFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and in 2007, he earned his MFA from the University of Maryland, College Park. From 2002 to 2004, Gordon was active in the Storefront Artist Project, an arts initiative in downtown Pittsfield. From 2008 to 2010, he was a member of Sparkplug, a small group of artists supported by the District of Columbia Arts Center in Washington, D.C., where he also taught color theory, drawing, and graphic design at several colleges. As a practicing artist, Gordon is adept in collage, drawing, installation work, and conceptual work. Fall Turnover (2006) comes out of a series of works that focuses on the physical settings that our natural environment provides. The end result is a body of work that has a brooding quality with a tinge of darkness, as evident in the sober tones of Fall Turnover.
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