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Alien Invasion Painting

Todd Peterson

United States

Painting, Acrylic on Wood

Size: 24 W x 36 H x 0.8 D in

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This piece is done with Caran D' Ache Neocolor II water soluble crayons. I then stabilize the crayon then I use Golden's varnish with Ultra Violet light protection to finish the piece. I created this piece when I was the Vice President of AZ Gallery. I also was organizing and curating, the Annual Lowertown Art Show. I was very involved in the Saint Paul, Lowertown art community. This is a very compact downtown Art district consisting of five art dedicated buildings and a beautiful little farmers market. Then "THEY" came. It started when the city helped the Saint Paul Saints ( a minor league baseball team ) leveled an abandoned factory building and built a ballpark. The Saints worked with the artists, and worked to become a part of the art community. While a community art center might have been a better fit, the Saints were aware that the reason they even wanted to be in this particular neighborhood, was that the artists had rescued it, and had been drawing people to the downtown for close to fifty years. The BIG problem and the inspiration for this piece, came when the JAX building was sold to developers, who were going to offer "Market Rate apartments " in the exciting Art District. Somewhere around seventy five artists lost their studios. This was 2016, the JAX building sits boarded up and derelict to this day. The JAX had by far the most "work in " studios in the district, the other artist buildings are live-in studios. Baseball has also drawn more higher scale restaurants, etc. The same gentrification that has been and will continue to happen to art districts where ever they develop. The city could have done something for much less to enhance the art district. With politicians the visual arts always take a back seat to Sports teams. That all said, the Art Community has made adjustments. I hope that despite the inspiration, the feeling of love and fun that I have for the Lowertown Art Community comes through in the work

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Painting:Acrylic on Wood

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:24 W x 36 H x 0.8 D in

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Todd Peterson My earliest art memory is of my mother setting my four brothers and myself down at the dining room table on rainy days. She would put a record from the “home library of classical music” on the HiFi, set out paper and crayons ,and tell us to draw what the music made us think of. I still like to have music playing while I work. My father had attended two years of art school, and I received my first lessons from him. I was only able to take High School art classes my junior year, due in part to my family moving frequently during those years. I didn’t further my education, so I have no formal art training. There was my father, and any other artist I came in contact with that taught me along the way. Some of those artists were through books I would find in junk shops and garage sales. My early influences were Vincent Van Gogh, Gustaf Tengrenn, Franz Marc, and Oskar Kokashika. I work in several styles, and seldom work in a series of more than two or three, before switching. My work is inspired by my life in general, people I know, things they say, books I’ve read, stories from my childhood, movies ,dreams and current events. I quit producing artwork in my late twenties, and concentrated on learning the art of antique furniture restoration. I didn’t start expressing myself seriously through my art again until my mid fifties. At that time my granddaughters discovered some of my old work while “exploring” my basement, and urged me to start creating artwork again. Luckily a curator for the Soap Factory in North East Minneapolis saw my work on the Minnesota Artist website, and asked me to show a couple of pieces in an exhibit she was putting together…..I was hooked. I then became very active in the North East art community. I was the Artist’s liaison for a non-profit arts advocate : Altered Esthetics for six years. I had a short run as a gallery owner when I opened “Look Art Below” in 2009. After some health issues made me realize running a gallery by yourself is a lot of work, I applied for membership with the AZ Gallery artists and was accepted. I was the Vice President of AZ gallery until the spring of 2016 when once again for health reasons I stepped aside. In 2010 with the help of the AZ members I created the Lowertown Art Show, which yearly showcased the work of over sixty artists that made up the downtown Saint Paul art community. From 2010 to 2016 I organized and curated the Lowertown Art Show each fall.

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