Peter Root

Peter Root has been making art all his life though until recently, this was a parallel passion to his career as an architect and his work in facilities management at private colleges and universities including the University of Southern California, Stanford University and Amherst College.
Born in Florida and raised in southern California with periods in Paris, France, he now lives with his wife and dogs in Vermont.
His interest in painting and making art and his background in architecture come together in his sculpture paintings. These sculpture paintings are layered, not unlike an architect’s topographic map is layered- discrete segments roughly corresponding to their relative elevation or relief are cut out of plywood, assembled with a variety of structural elements and then the whole is painted. The current body of work is mainly (life size and larger) portraits however he doesn’t see himself strictly as a portraitist. “People are endlessly fascinating to me although for my art, I’m not trying to represent a specific individual so much as depict a gesture or expression to convey both a sense of a real person as well as a casual emotion that many people might connect with in themselves.”
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BA Design, Master of Architecture; University of California at Los Angeles

'Simple Pleasures' National Show juried by Jen Mergel; South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA. Prize Winner!
'Blue 2019' juried by Sarah Montross at Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA. Prize Winner!
New England Collective X Group Show, Galatea Fine Art Gallery, Boston MA
Santa Monica, CA Palisades Part Art Fesitival
Tiffany & Co., Costa Mesa, CA, Window Display
Beverly Hills, CA Art Fair
Paradise City Arts Festival, NHam, MA (accepted into show)
Open Studios with Kestral Land Trust Festival, MA