Peter Jalesh

Artist name: Peter Jalesh, born 1942, Bucharest, Romania. A comprehensive set of my drawings and paintings could be viewed on by entering Peter Jalesh on the SEARCH engine. I exhibited drawings and paintings in numerous group exhibitions. I held the following major one-man art exhibitions: Quasi Still Life Series, 56 abstract paintings and drawings, Deep Space Gallery, 11/1996, New York, Abstract Endings on Large Canvases, abstract paintings on oversize (11 ft. to 25 ft.) canvases, Pearl Gallery, 02/2000, New York, A Retrospective of Quasi-Action Painting, 82 old and new abstract paintings, Mercedes-Benz Showroom Gallery, 02/2003, New York, New Abstract Paintings, 26 abstract paintings 60X48, Mercedes-Benz Showroom Gallery, 12/2004-02/2005, New York.

Extract from a catalogue: "Peter Jaleshs paintings, after all, remain unmistakably traditional abstract and bound up to a manner of painting which maintains the richness and frailty of the sentimental discourse. The polemical-excess that became part of any new direction in contemporary painting is present in his drawings. Also in his drawings one could see the spectacular gesture, be it mechanical or automatism-like. They compete in beauty and audacity with the best drawings ...

PETER JALESH, born Boris Musteata in Romania. In 1960 he graduated from the School of Cinematography. In 1965 he received a MS degree in Nuclear Physics from the Polytechnic Institute, Bucharest, followed by two MA degrees: in Linguistics in 1970 and in Philosophy in 1974, both from University of Bucharest. He began his artist career in 1958. He published several volumes of poetry: Menuet (1968), Poema (1970), Poemele Marii (1975), Cintul Etern and Poema Dacica (1977), Luminile de dimineata (1978, a novel - Vinzatorul de memorii (1978), a volume of modern poetry translated from Russian, other translations from universal symbolist poetry. From 1970 to 1979 he wrote scenarios for animation and documentary features, commentaries for radio and television shows. In 1978 he translated B. Malinovsky's Cultural Anthropology. In 1972 he became a political dissident and spent the next years under the surveillance of the Communist Secret Police (Securitate). Before escaping to U.S. he was subjected to numerous coercive interrogatories and tortures. In 1979 he asked for political asylum. He became an American citizen in 1988. Since emigration he published seven books on subjects related to IBM computer software, two novels, Temple of the Origi...