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Pete Goldlust

October 14, 2007, MALFLOURISHED (Press Release). a new cankerous installation. In Malflourished, a colony of feral art organisms infests and infects the clinical white surfaces of a formal gallery space. The installation approximates an overgrown floral arrangement that has sat too long, allowed to attract a swarm of sculptural pests.

Hanging strands of art-marrow (Meat Petals and Bruise Blossoms) form the focal point for this cankerous sculptural blight. These candy-colored suspended agglomerations, the blooming progeny of a mating between corpuscles and popsicles, fester and invite the attentions of a variety of secondary species. From the margins of the space, pustulant clusters of Gallery Pox (rash-like outcroppings of sculptural red wall dots) accrete like aggressive barnacles across the room. They protrude and burrow out of the gallery’s skin, to thrive in the warm, moist, germ hothouse environment of the opening-night reception.

These wall galls then diversify into variants that range across the plant/animal continuum. One strain grows into a crop of digitated strawberries. Others emerge from pupa to crawl and hover around the central arrangements like mutant fruit flies or malevolent spermatozoa.

"In 2005 their "Polyponesian Tuberfoil Mangrove” was a new approach to installation for the gallery & the artists. It was somewhat site specific in that it was inspired by a futuristic Chinatown (where the gallery was located) & included various ephemera found in the neighborhood shops.

Education

2001

School of the Art Institute in Chicago – MFA, Sculpture/ Art & Technology Studies

1991

Syracuse University, College of Visual & Performing Arts – BFA Painting

Selected Exhibitions

2006

Malfourished Gallery Revisited, Los Angeles, CA
“Inauguration 3" Gallery Revisited, Los Angeles, CA

2005

“Enter / Exit" – the uncommon landscape Bamboo Lane / Revisited, Los Angeles, CA
solo – “Doubled Over" Gallery 825 Bergamot, Santa Monica, CA
solo - “Plotters, Patsies & Plankwalkers” DiRT Gallery, W. Hollywood, CA

2004

“Environment Excursions” Subspace Gallery, Berlin, Germany
“Hung Jury…” Korean cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA Juror: David Pagel & David Moon
“Time Travel: Truth Beauty & Justice”, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Pareidolia” Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA Juror: Eleanor Antin

2003

“Open” Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA juror: Karen Higa JANM – Award of Merit
Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA
Claire Oliver Fine Art, New York, NY

2002

Amory International Fair of New Art, Carl Hammer Gallery, New York, NY

In addition Pete has exhibited multiple times in Chicago, New York & has shown in Texas, Minnesota & Wisconsin. His bibliography includes several catalogs for institutional exhibits and LA Times review of the Enter / Exit Show.

Press

Enter / Exit: the uncommon landscape – LA Times, August 26, 2005