 Self Portrait, 1999 duratran print and fluorescent lights 24"x 37" |
 Shadows of the American Dream: Image II, 1998 Cibachrome print, & Flourescent light 48"x 60" |
 Coversations at night: New York I, 2000 C type print mounted on aluminum 26"x 26" |
 Conversations at night : New York II, 2001 C type print mounted on aluminum 48"x 26" |
Wait, I hear you say.... I can think of a thousand useless tings in my neighbourhood, my social sphere, my apartment and my mind that do nothing but sit around, filling space and taunting my inability to dispose of them. But I am here to suggest that their survival is proof that you can find their ongoing function that has so far saved them from oblivion if you look a them, and your own motivations, a tad more obliquely.
From where i write I can see a staggering stack of magazines, some already read, some partially read and some I have never opened. they are almost all out of date, some by years.You could say they are useless, but only if you consider them as per their intended function - to provide me with information, entertain me, improve me. But the fact that here they sit, unrecycled , is a testament to them having developed another function which they do successfully fulfill. They assure me that one day I will have the time to really untangle the situation in Bosnia, that I will one day learn how to cook restuarant quality desserts, become a whizz at investing and have a garden to tend. In this one stack of magazines, or rather in my choosing to keep them, is the whispered promise that one day I will not only be fantastically rich, with servants to take care of my mundane tasks, but that I will, if I stop smoking and go daily to the gym, become immortal. Only if my time were trully unlimited, even by the death, could i possibly explore all the options promised in their aging pages.
Peter Hendrick's recent works take the form of sculptures that include, in most cases, photographs as a way of taking apart and finding the new functions in another species of preserved, by-and-large useless objects that fill many a drawer, box, attic, storage space. I speak of the souvenir photo, the ones of both people and places that we take in anticipation that we mmay desire at sometime in the future to be reminded of a place, feeling or time.. --- By Bill Arning (Introduction from catalouge intitled "Other World")
Peter Hendrick
260 East 10th St. East Studio
New York, NY 10009
tel: (212) 529-4626
email: pfsh@aol.com
websites:http://www.artistsown.com/hendrick
Education
| 1993 | Hunter College, NY |
| 1990 | Chelsea School of Art, London BA(Hons) |
| 1987 | Heatherley's School of Fine Art, London, Foundation Course |
Selected Exhibitions
| 2001 |
Gallery Wanda Michalak, Amsterdam Schroeder Romero, New York |
| 2000 |
"Lightness", Visual Arts Gallery, New York "At One", Gallery Bershad, Boston "Ireland/America", Studio 1019, Washington DC |
| 1999 |
"Architecture in Mind", Gallery Bershad, Boston "NY2K", A culural survival kit for the new millenium, Charas/El Bohio, New York "Other World", Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland |
| 1998 |
"In- Sites IV", Aborns Arts Center, Henry Street Settlement, New York "Take This Job And.....", HereArt Gallery, New York "Shadows of the American Dream", Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, Ireland |
| 1997 | " Artists in the Marketplace", The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York |
| 1996 | " Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland |
| 1995 |
" Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas", Beunos Aires, Argentina White Columns, New York |
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1994 |
"Stonewall 25", White Columns, New York "Windows on Gay Life, New York |
| 1990 |
"Art '90 International", New York "Action=Life ", London |
Scholarships / Awards
| Temple bar Project Studio in conjunction
with the FireStation Res.,Dublin 1996 |
Reviews & Publications
| 2000 | " The Somerville Journal (1/13) & the Cambridge Chronicle (1/12): Review by Gary Duehr |
| 1999 |
"The Boston Globe, December 2nd : Review By Cate McQuaid The Soerville Journal (11/18) & The Cambridge Chronicle (11/17) : Review Gary Duehr Peter Hendrick's Functional Romanticisms, by Bill Arning: Other World Catalogue published by Temple Bar Gallery |
| 1998 | The Irish Times , June 16th: Review by Mark Ewart |