Peter Dellolio

I often work in series (usually 3-5 pieces per subject), focusing on the theme of powerful, charismatic, famous people who led public lives cut tragically short either by assassination, illness, suicide, accident, or drugs. Many of these celebrities had untimely deaths at a relatively young age; some died later in life.

My works manipulate images of famous people from past and present headlines, blending everyday news with abstract visions of controversial deaths in all walks of life: politics, activism, movies, music, fashion, royalty, media, business, etc.

My subjects include Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Winehouse, Whitney Houston, Heath Ledger, Michael Jackson, Ana Nicole Smith, Prince, David Bowie, Lou Reed, Jimi Hendrix, Martin Luther King, John Lennon, Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Che Guevera, Kurt Cobain, Jean Harlow, RFK, Abraham Lincoln, Harvey Milk, Jim Morrison, Malcom X, Medgar Evers, Janis Joplin, Princess Diana, Brian Jones, John Belushi, Billie Holiday, and many others.

My most ambitious project is a 50 work series devoted to the 50th anniversary in 2013 of the JFK assassination. As in most of my works, the media and forms include collage, acrylic, water color, charcoal pencil, oil, assemblage boxes, diora...

Nazareth Regional High School
New York University
B. A. Cinema Studues
B. F. A. Film Production

Leonora Vega Gallery (Soho NYC)
8th Floor Gallery (Soho NYC)