Leif Peterson
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Contact Information
contact name: Leif Peterson
email: leiftimber@gmail.com
Experience
In making artwork a part of myself, and in making that art reflect who I am, I have gone through many questions about what my senses of art and self are and should be. What makes me who I am? What do I value? What is my complexion? What drives me as a human being? These are the essential questions which I answer for myself through art.
As man I find beauty in the female figure. But along with desire, it invokes an uncertainty, a foreignness that brings fear and all of its inherent reactions. These conflicting emotions are who I am. And they are manifest in my work. I've struggled with the seemingly single-mindedness of my work, but I can't get away from the fact that these are the thoughts and feelings that drive me through a life which seems to lack purpose.
Through my artwork, I am able to give meaning to the basic instinctual processes that course through the passages in my body and mind. My artwork is a reflection of my sense of self as a reproductive organism assaulted by psychological imperfection. The canvas or the page becomes this part of me.
My artwork describes desire, beauty, love restrained by fear, anger, anxiety, aggression. These are the dominant forces that inhabit my psyche.
~Leif Peterson
Galleries
Your Art's Desire-June 30 thru August 25, 2008
Biographical Information
Country of Citizenship:
United States
Birth Place:
Minneapolis
Birth Date:
August 10, 1982
Gender:
Male
Active Place:
Hopkins
Minnesota County:
Hennepin
