George Peck
George Peck was born in Hungary, his work has appeared in exhibitions across the United States and Europe, and his work is represented in such museums as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York City, High Museum of Art in Atlanta, The Museum of Fine Arts Budapest, Kiscelli Museum in Budapest, and Museum of Modern Art in Sweden.
George Peck
- Name
- George Peck
- Born
- 1941
- Birthplace
- Budapest, Hungary
- Education
- City College of New York (1964-1966) Hunter College(1966-1967)
- Spouse
- Mary Miss
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- artist · painter
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Key facts
• Name — George Peck • Born — 1941 • Birthplace — Budapest, Hungary • Education — City College of New York (1964-1966) Hunter College(1966-1967) • Spouse — Mary Miss • Website — http: www.georgepeck.net
Early life and education
Early life and education
Peck was born in Budapest, Hungary; he attended City College of New York, studied Interaction of Color with Josef Albers, and studied with Tony Smith, Ron Gorchov, and Doug Ohlson at Hunter College. He has been living in the United States since 1957.
Notable work
Notable work
Since the early part of his career in the 1970s, Peck has been known for his monochromatic paintings. He has a number of abstract paintings in the collections of museums around the world, including "California Painting" at Brooklyn Museum. His "Composite Pictures" (1994–95) combined the mediums of paint and collage, and appeared in New York and Budapest. His show "Layered Time, Layered Paint" appeared at Kiscelli Museum in Hungary in 2002. In 2005, Peck's exhibit Projected Paintings appeared at the Ernst Museum in Hungary.
Selected solo exhibitions
Selected solo exhibitions
2013. DREAMSTATE Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany 2009. Ladies and Gentlemen… Little Synagogue Gallery, Eger, Hungary 2005. Ernst Museum, Budapest, Hungary 2003. Florence Lynch Gallery, New York, NY 2002. Layered Time Layered Paint, (Selected Paintings Spanning Thirteen Years), Kiscelli Museum, Budapest, Hungary 2000. Varfok Gallery, Budapest, Hungary The Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary 1999. Kate Ganz Gallery USA, Ltd, New York, NY Trans Hudson Gallery, New York, NY 1998. Trans Hudson Gallery, New York, NY. 1997. Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest, Hungary. 1996. Trans Hudson Gallery, New York, NY. 1995. Kunsthalle (Mücsarnok), Budapest, Hungary. Törökfürdõ (Turkish Bath), Budapest, Hungary. Fine Arts Museum, Budapest, Hungary.
Selected group exhibitions
Selected group exhibitions
2018. Bridging Boundaries, Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, Washington, DC 2016. Debate Box, Manhattan Bridge, New York, NY 2016. GAMEclip, MODEM Centre for Modern and Contemporary Arts, Debrecen, Hungary 2016. Nature Art - Variations, Műcsarnok / Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary 2010. Dash Gallery, New York, NY 2010. Mediating the Message, La Maison Francaise, Columbia University, NY, NY 2009. Mélyvíz, Applied Arts Museum, Budapest, Hungary 2008. Random Utterness, Hungarian Cultural Center, New York, NY 2007. The Black Madonna, Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Birmingham, AL 2003. Hunter College / Times Square Gallery, Seeing Red, Part II: Contemporary Nonobjective Painting, New York, NY 2002. Color - A Mind Of Its Own, Kunsthalle (Mücsarnok), Budapest, Hungary 2001. Monochrome/ Monochrome?, Florence Lynch Gallery, New York, NY. 2000. Directions, Janos Gat Gallery, New York, NY. 1999. Acrylic/Plastic, Trans Hudson Gallery, New York, NY.
Current projects
Current projects
Peck met filmmaker Hugo Perez in 2005 when Peck was in Budapest for his exhibition of Projected Paintings at Ernst Museum and Perez was making a documentary film about Miklos Radnoti, a Hungarian poet who was murdered during the Holocaust. Together, Peck and Perez began a collaboration on the project BOOKBURN / Library of Books Burned, a multimedia installation dealing with the cultural phenomenon of burning books. From October 4 to December 3, 2018, BOOKBURN / Library of Books Burned appeared at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Manhattan.
Personal life
Personal life
Peck is married to American artist Mary Miss. They reside in New York City, where Peck has a studio.
Life and career
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Life and career
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1941
George Peck born at Budapest.
Selected public collections
Brooklyn Museum of Art; Brooklyn, New York. Budapest Museum of Fine Arts; Budapest, Hungary. Cincinnati Central Trust; Cincinnati, Ohio. Kiscelli Museum, Municipal art collection, Budapest, Hungary Grey Art Gallery, New York University; New York, NY. High Museum of Art; Atlanta, Georgia. Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum; Germany. Metropolitan Museum of Art; New York, NY. Moderna Museet; Stockholm, Sweden. Museum of Applied Arts; Budapest, Hungary. Best Products; Richmond, Virginia.
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- 1.Biography, George Peck, "Artnet". http://www.artnet.com/artists/george-peck/biography
- 2.Brooklyn Museum. "California Painting".
- 3.Raynor, Vivien. "Art; Images Made by Slicing and Reassembling" The New York Times.
- 4.Peck, George. "Layered Time, Layered Paint", Catalog of Municipal Picture Gallery, Kiscelli Museum, 2001
- 5.Peck, George - Projected Paintings 2004-2005. Mucsarnok. http://mucsarnok.hu/exhibitions/exhibitions.php?mid=56294b4802fc9&tax=
- 6.Hermann, Katia. "BOOKBURN - Library of Books Burned by George Peck & Hugo Perez"
- 7.Baldwin, Deborah. (September 20, 2001). "It's Going to Take More Than Elbow Grease". The New York Times.
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