Peter Hildebrand

Red Hook

http://www.peter-hildebrand.net

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Artist Statement

My work involves a narrative that is centered around the American futurist Buckminster Fuller as symbolized by the geodesic dome as a an ideal structure. That ideal is one of American Utopianism and its relative failure, particularly since the the mid 20th century.

The disturbed psychological states referenced by images of hospitals and mental institutions, to punk rock, extreme subcultures of heavy metal, and other forms of anarchic but idealistic, anti-conformist expression also figure prominently in my work as I continue to expand the narrative of the United States as a complex and contradictory set of impulses.

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