Peter Eide is a multi-disciplinary artist that lives and works in New Windsor, Maryland. With communication through text and form, my work arouses sensation and potential appeal in a viewer that could otherwise remain silent. Neon light is provocative, sexy, and assertive, a material that needs to be seen. Drawing from my experience with digital communication for sexual pleasure, I negotiate power dynamics through an overt yet coded language found in contemporary queer culture. I desire physical, bodily validation that stems from personal history as a child model. When I was a kid I loved collecting discarded items like small toys, cheap jewelry, and anything brightly colored, and something about that has stuck with me ever since.
My sculpture works are discrete groupings of found and collected objects this work is concerned with consumption and the emotional value we place on inanimate objects. My painting explores color theory, perception, and how information is represented in our physical and digital worlds. The hyperbolic maximalism of my subjects suggest extreme states of being, transforming the works into an ontological reflection of my own queerness, humanity, and personal identity. Moons, candles, palm trees, swords, and other subjects contained within my personal lexicon are anthropomorphized, and placed next to gender-fluid, demonic and human subjects, all engaged in various stages of love, torture, sex, and mayhem.
Invented figures are subsequently juxtaposed with visuals sourced from exterior subject matter. I mine internet search engines, often with a general concept or reference in mind, and then select subjects not based on my personal attachment or relationship to them, but rather seek as objectively as possible, for themes, motifs, and images that contain strong resonance and psychic potency. I explore themes related to the human body I often invent figures that are placed in proximity to images culled from both popular, and esoteric culture. Gender-fluid, demonic love, torture, sex, and mayhem Explore the human body and psychic potency
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