Peter Mcclard

I have been creating mixed media artworks and software since the early 1980's. My background is one that embraces music, art, philosophy and science in equal measures, informing my process. In 1989, I invented pixound, a program that translates color into music"”that was a fun discovery. I also created Hyperchord where the user could draw riffs and listen to them in any scale and key, at any speed. Over the last twenty years I've been (slowly) developing custom "mathematical paint brushes" which allow me to explore an imaginative frontier in a manner I believe was never before possible. The works on this site are a small fraction of what I've created.

My art is mostly conceptual and not so much about creating beautiful things as it is about beautiful ideas for things. My main medium is not pigment suspended in oil, but artful algorithms, liberally redirected by chance. I create by exploring a realm that lies beyond my imagination and my physical skills, using mathematics and computers as tools. When these abstract ideas take on a final physical form it can't be dull and mechanical. The object needs to have a surface and feel that does justice to the visual discovery I've made. I continue to experiment in this area using all sort...

St. John's College, Santa Fe, NM

Feb 1 – Feb 28, 2010: Library at Fairleigh Dickinson, Florham, NJ
Transformations: A Visual Ode to Black History in America

Oct 10 – Oct 24, 2009: Mitchell Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

Aug 24 – Sept 26, 2009: Mona Lisa Gallery, Maplewood, NJ: Brushes of the Mind

June 7, 2009: Artist Studio Tour, Maplewood-South Orange: All works

September - October, 2008: Mitchell Gallery, Santa Fe, NM: Shakespeare

June 12 - July 5, 2008: Los Angeles Center For Digital Art: New and Improved

June 1, 2008: 161 Maplewood Ave., Maplewood-South Orange Studio Tour, NJ

April 25 - July 15, 2008: Westport, CT: Picasso Riffing Posters

August 31 - Sept 15, 2007: Mitchell Gallery, Santa Fe, NM: Fibonacci Series

June 26 – July 7, 2007: Mona Lisa Gallery, Maplewood, NJ: Works on Canvas

Past

February 2006: Window Installation, Nyack, NY

Summer 2006: Window Installation, Maplewood, NJ

1994: Cover Bomb Magazine

Throughout 90's: Various video Installations and Performances in New York including at: The Kitchen, Roseland Ballroom, The Warhol Factory, Knitting Factory and Palladium

Summer/Fall 1992: À Visage Découvert, Cartier Foundation for Modern Art, France