BIOGRAPHY: A. D. Peters is an artist who has been working in a mode where medium and content are strangely interlinked – antithetical and correlated at the same time. Peters’ concerns for the natural world and his fascination with post-industrial materials play off one-another in a picturesque, poetic, and intellectually intriguing conversation. He uses the stuff of the industrial past – steel and copper – and attenuates it in concert with the forces of nature – rust and corrosion, typically a marker of waste and decay, but in Peters’ hands, a noble patina, a ground upon which the drama of his magic unfolds. From the emerging patterns of these natural processes Peters teases suggestive imagery of a pre- or para-industrial world, a wholesome world – landscapes, bucolic idylls, introspective moments of otherworldly light, and poignant declarations of eco-consciousness that resonate beyond the confines of the edges of the work. Robert Thurmer Director, Art Gallery Cleveland State University A.D. Peters was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the youngest son of an inventor and electrical engineer; creativity was valued and encouraged in his family. After winning an art scholarship to further his education after high school, he attended The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts to be educated in classical materials and techniques. He then attained his BFA in painting with a minor in filmmaking at Kent State University. After completing his degree he traveled Europe to explore museums and paint. He returned to America and lived and worked in Kent, Ohio and Key West, Florida. For 18 years Peters spearheaded an award winning art program for hospitalized veterans at the VA in Brecksville and Cleveland, Ohio. He also taught evening school at the Cleveland Institute of Art and Environmental Art at Hiram College. A.D. continues to paint at his studio farm nestled in the heart of Amish country in Northeast Ohio. Peters’ work has been included in numerous exhibitions, and has been collected both nationally and internationally including the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Progressive Collection and the Hugo and Carla Brown collection in The Hague.

BIOGRAPHY:

A. D. Peters is an artist who has been working in a mode where medium and content are strangely interlinked – antithetical and correlated at the same time. Peters’ concerns for the natural world and his fascination with post-industrial materials play off one-another in a picturesque, poetic, and intellectually intriguing conversation. He uses the stuff of the industrial past – steel and copper – and attenuates it in concert with the forces of nature – rust and corrosion, typically a marker of waste and decay, but in Peters’ hands, a noble patina, a ground upon which the drama of his magic unfolds. From the emerging patterns of these natural processes Peters teases suggestive imagery of a pre- or para-industrial world, a wholesome world – landscapes, bucolic idylls, introspective moments of otherworldly light, and poignant declarations of eco-consciousness that resonate beyond the confines of the edges of the work.

Robert Thurmer

Director, Art Gallery

Cleveland State University

A.D. Peters was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the youngest son of an inventor and electrical engineer; creativity was valued and encouraged in his family.

After winning an art scholarship to further his education after high school, he attended The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts to be educated in classical materials and techniques. He then attained his BFA in painting with a minor in filmmaking at Kent State University. After completing his degree he traveled Europe to explore museums and paint. He returned to America and lived and worked in Kent, Ohio and Key West, Florida. For 18 years Peters spearheaded an award winning art program for hospitalized veterans at the VA in Brecksville and Cleveland, Ohio. He also taught evening school at the Cleveland Institute of Art and Environmental Art at Hiram College.

A.D. continues to paint at his studio farm nestled in the heart of Amish country in Northeast Ohio. Peters’ work has been included in numerous exhibitions, and has been collected both nationally and internationally including the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Progressive Collection and the Hugo and Carla Brown collection in The Hague.