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BIOGRAPHY
Peter Walsh
b. 1962 - New York, New York, USA
Peter Walsh is an artist living in New York City.
Impressed by the volatile ways in which
art can reveal the economic structure that underlies human interaction,
Walsh has held a crab-feast on a Manhattan rooftop as an investigation
into the relationship between community-building and gift economies
(Wall Street
Crab Feast, 2000), re-enacted a P.T. Barnum advertising stunt
as a scale model of the world’s economy (Brick
Man, 2001) and created an imaginary public works project that
reversed the flow of New York City’s drinking water as a way
of looking at capital and resource control and allocation (Reversal
of the Croton Aqueduct, 2001).
In 2006 as part of this ongoing examination of
economics, Walsh began Drawing
Water: Who Makes Art Valuable?, a complex multi-year drawing
project that entails drawing portraits of everyone involved in the
making, showing and purchasing of the portraits themselves - from
the meticulous craftsperson who makes a sheet of drawing paper to
the high-flying collector who lays down her cash, from the worker
who digs a pigment out of the earth to the gallerist who promotes
the work and sets the price. With “Drawing Water” Walsh
will bring together the philosophical concerns of his earlier performance
work with the beauty and meaning of making objects by hand.
As a co-founder the Baltimore-based arts magazine Link (1996-2006),
Walsh was an editorial board member who wrote several feature
articles. From 2000-2002 he was President of the non-profit Board.
Link produced 10 book length arts journals beore ceasing publication in 2006..
Walsh has received numerous awards including a National
Endowment for the Arts Artist Fellowship (1995), two Maryland
State Art Council awards (1996 and 1993) and an Artists
Space Independent Project Grant (2001).
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