Peter Everett — Hypnagogic

b. 1969, Provo, Utah

Lives and works in Spanish Fork, Utah

Peter Everett received an MFA from Pratt Institute and is a professor of art at Brigham Young University. He exhibits his work nationally and internationally with recent group exhibitions at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and The Momentary in Arkansas, the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, LSU Museum of Art, Michigan State University, Pratt Institute, HPGRP Gallery in New York City, Barbican Arts Group Trust in London, and the Spectrum Project Space in Perth, Australia. He has had solo exhibitions at The Torrance Art Museum in Los Angeles, The Urban Institute for Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids, MI, and The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art.

Peter Everett's work explores forms that have an immediate visual power, physicality, and a sense of urgency growing from a place just out of sight. The patterns and shapes are often derived from visual phenomena experienced in transitional periods--between sleep and consciousness or in a meditative state.

Marks and time build and accumulate in the work, which favors a physicality and directness of engagement. Patterns, forms, and structures mutate and grow taking on new identities and interacting with each other. The work is additive in nature and favors complexity leaning towards a hyper-stimulated visual experience.

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