{"id":3563,"date":"2011-05-11T12:14:58","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T12:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juiceskateboardmagazine.wordpress.com\/?p=3563"},"modified":"2013-03-21T16:54:20","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T21:54:20","slug":"circle-factory-opening-reception-altered-space-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/circle-factory-opening-reception-altered-space-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"CIRCLE FACTORY OPENING RECEPTION @ ALTERED SPACE GALLERY"},"content":{"rendered":"

IN HIS “SHRED GRIND CARVE” EXHIBITION, ARTIST GEORGE PETERSON CUTS, BURNS AND ABUSES DISCARDED SKATEBOARD DECKS INTO PRE-WHEEL PRIMITIVISM, SKATEBOARDING MAY NOT BE A CRIME\u2026BUT IT CAN BE AN ART.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Opening Night: June 3, 2011, 6-10 PM<\/strong><\/p>\n

Altered Space Gallery\u2028 | 1221 Abbot Kinney Blvd. | Venice Beach, CA<\/a> \u2028| 90291<\/p>\n

www.AlteredSpaceGallery.com<\/a> | 310-452-8121<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Regular Hours:<\/em>
\n Sun – Tues 12pm – 6 pm<\/em>
\n Wed & Thur 11am – 6pm<\/em>
\n Fri & Sat 11am – 7pm<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>(May 2011\u2014Los Angeles) Perhaps artist George Peterson summarizes both his methodology and aesthetics best–“I channel a lot of destructive energy into my art”. For his upcoming Shred Grind Carve<\/em> exhibition, opening June 3, 2011, at Altered Space Gallery in Venice Beach, Peterson cuts, burns, paints and even re-stitches old skateboard decks into post-functional masterpieces that more closely resemble African art than they do found commercial objects. Throughout his process, Peterson unearths a well of cultural history associated with the lifestyle his raw material hails from\u2014the celebration of physicality, the mystification of scarring, and a skate and destroy ethos that honors the destruction of both vehicle and terrain\u2014and yet the artist\u2019s finished product is an elegant, hand-crafted piece of wall art, more museum object than skatepark detritus.<\/p>\n

Peterson\u2019s North Carolina studio is loud as machines and music whir while the artist works. Peterson insists that he hears and finds formal inspiration from this blending of elements\u2014the harmonies between chainsaws and guitars or the polyrhythms produced by ax and drums. Peterson is likewise drawn to native cultures and the so-called primitive arts that express an intimate relationship, not unlike his own, between raw material, transformation, and finished product.<\/p>\n

The artist has utilized found and recycled materials since the beginning of his practice\u2014destroying them is a more recent development however. Born in the Southern California desert now living\/working in North Carolina, Peterson has long been drawn to the native hard woods found locally. Early in his career he would aspire to a formal perfection in his work\u2014turned wood bowls with an impossibly flawless finish\u2014yet once, while under a time crunch to keep up with demand, Peterson errantly used unseasoned wood\u2014and his first cracked appeared. He was instantly drawn to the warping and cracking, and was soon aggressively pursuing a new destructive, and ultimately creative, course that put his wooden pieces through a gauntlet of abuse that also includes scorching, painting and eventual re-construction. The result of this process is evident in Shred Grind Carve, opening June 3, 2011, at Altered Space Gallery in Venice Beach, CA. Peterson\u2019s works are included in celebrated collections internationally, including the Oval Office, Tom Ford, Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Boston Fine Arts Museum, and the Wustum Museum.<\/p>\n

MORE EVENT INFORMATION HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

IN HIS “SHRED GRIND CARVE” EXHIBITION, ARTIST GEORGE PETERSON CUTS, BURNS AND ABUSES DISCARDED SKATEBOARD DECKS INTO PRE-WHEEL PRIMITIVISM, SKATEBOARDING MAY NOT BE A CRIME\u2026BUT IT CAN BE AN ART. Opening Night: June 3, 2011, 6-10 PM Altered Space Gallery\u2028 | 1221 Abbot Kinney Blvd. | Venice Beach, CA \u2028| 90291 www.AlteredSpaceGallery.com | 310-452-8121 Regular […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4022,4044,4041],"tags":[5579,5580,14250,5479,3958,14255,14262,2712],"class_list":["post-3563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-2","category-calendar","category-skate-2","tag-abbot-kinney","tag-altered-space-gallery","tag-art","tag-circle-factory","tag-george-peterson","tag-juice-magazine","tag-skate","tag-skateboard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3563"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37027,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563\/revisions\/37027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}