Peter Opheim
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Born: 1969

Hometown: Landstuhl, Germany

Lives and Works: New York, NY and San Cristobal, NM

Education: BA, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN, 1983

Peter Opheim Bio

About The Artist

Often seeming to sculpt rather than to paint, Peter Opheim creates large-scale paintings characterized by their thick, incredibly tactile surfaces. The whimsical, colorful works evoke childhood sculptures and toys, albeit in monumental proportions. Opheim's artistic process is quite detailed, as he describes, "I like to think of them as paintings on top of paintings on top of paintings. An accumulation of different marks, lines, colors and forms, but also themes and temperaments, that creates an imagined space and a form of history."