Peter Illig

Peter ILLIG is known for his complex paintings that walk a line between post-modern semiotics and traditional illustration. Involved in Denver's art scene, producing thought-provoking oil paintings composed of layered images mixing color with black-and-white. Dubbed by the press as a "neo-pop surrealist," and "one of Denver's best artists." Peter Illig's works are analogies for human emotions and experiences, American psychological landscapes reflecting how we think of several things at once. He layers images borrowed from film, TV, cyberspace, and his own experience like a coded language of symbols to express his ideas and feelings. This search through the stuff of the world, matter and flesh, is inherently erotic. And so is the act of drawing and painting. These meanings and objects intersect and overlap in life, and in Illig's art. Where does one object end and another begin? Where does one idea end and another begin to form? Can theory become visual? These and other questions are presented in Illig's work.

EDUCATION: Master of Humanities, University of Colorado, Denver, USA. *Course work in painting, art history, sculpture, film, literature.
Bachelor of Science, Art Education, Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY, USA.

'Paradoxical Terrain', Spark Gallery, Denver, USA 2025
'Evocation', Walker Fine Art, Denver, USA 2023.
'Matter of Time', Walker Fine Art, 2021.
"Layers of Existence", Walker Fine Art, 2019.
"Metaphors", Walker Fine Art, 2017.
"Figuratively Speaking", Walker Fine Art, 2016.
"New Works", Walker Fine Art, 2015.
"Mysteries of Babylon", Spark Gallery, Denver
"Full Fathom 5", Plus+Gallery, Denver, CO, USA.

Logic of Dreams Redux, Hinterland Gallery, Denver USA.
'Popular Mechanics', Pirate - Contemporary Art, Denver, Colorado USA.
'DIALOG: 21' Spark Gallery, Denver, CO, USA.
'The Logic of Dreams', Pirate - Contemporary Art Denver USA.
'First Person Future Tense', Plus+Gallery, Denver USA.
'Life on Earth' - Pirate - Contemporary Art, Denver CO.
"Proximity" - Pirate, Denver.
"The End of History" - Pirate, Denver.
"The Secret Life of Men" - Pirate, Denver.
"American Inverse", Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
"Man Woman Image Text" CORE New Art Space, Denver.

Selected Group Shows:
2025 Art of the State, state-wide juried show, Arvada Center for Arts & Humanities, Arvada, Colorado
2023 Inaugural Exhibition, Spark Gallery, Denver, Colorado

2022 Dreaming My Dreams, Redline, Denver, Color...