Peter Brauch: Urbane Sense (Detail)

STATEMENT

I am an Artist. My primary visual language is site specific mixed media installation. I generally use discarded industrial materials, including paint, as the basis for my work. I recycle these elements in each piece I make. My work is completely improvised and unique to the location in which it is made. The nature and final realization of the work is dictated by the material chosen and the environment in which it is created. No two are the same. None will be duplicated. The temporal nature of the work is a reflection of existence.

BIO

Peter Brauch was born and raised in the Suburbs of Northern New Jersey to a absentee alcoholic father and a public school teaching mother. Though creative since he could put a pencil to paper, he did not realize his calling as an Artist until his late twenties after a catastrophic, life changing event. Having escaped a house fire by jumping from a second floor window, then being told that had he not jumped, he would have been carried out dead, dramatically shifted his perspective. It was shortly after this time that he decided to pursue an undergraduate degree, attending Bard College and studying with several notables in the field.

This move allowed him greater exposure to Art, the world at large, and, particularly, an area that he has deemed beneficial to his creative development; The Hudson Valley. It is in this location that he has found his voice as an Artist, and allowed him to cultivate and materialize his ideas. He has shown his work both in traditional and nontraditional settings in the US and Slovakia, preferring raw, abandoned industrial space as the ideal venue for his work. It is within this environment that he feels he is able to connect with his roots and abstractly evoke a dialog with the working history of his home state, New Jersey. This connection is ever-present in his creative being.

He lives among the trees in Southern Columbia County in The Hudson Valley in New York State, though he still calls Jersey Home.

SHOWS

'Up From The Cracks'
SICA Asbury Park, NJ

'Hidden In Plain Sight' -Paper City Studios Holyoke, Mass.

'BOOK = OBJECT' -Paper City Studios
Holyoke, Mass.

'Paper Works' - Paper City Studios
Holyoke, Mass.

'AEONA'- Installation
North Adams, Mass.

'Paper Moon'-Gallery Aferro
Newark, NJ

'Sneak Peek'-Studio No. 9
Peekskill, NY

'In Williamsburg'-Fleetwing Gallery
Brooklyn, NY

'100 Halos'-KMOCA-Kingston, NY

Gallery Aferro-Art Shop-Newark, NJ

Cities Without Walls-Benefit Auction-Newark, NJ

Cannonball Factory Installation-Artswalk-Hudson, NY

The Out of Towners-Paper City Studios-Holyoke, Mass.

Streets 2k9-New Brunswick, NJ

Concrete Alchemy-Northeast Graffiti Tour
(Consultation)

Fresh From The Streets-Mikhail Zakin Gallery-Demarest, NJ
(Consultation)

Sputnik-Brooklyn, NY

Laila Lounge-Brooklyn, NY

Red Fusion Lounge-Asbury Park, NJ

The Stone Pony-Asbury Park, NJ

Art of the Northeast-Silvermine Art Center-New Canaan, CT

Cannonball Factory-Artswalk 2008-Hudson, NY

Streets 2k5-New Brunswick, NJ

Albus Cavus Gallery-Highland Park, NJ

3rd Rail Gallery-New Rochelle, NY

Street Artist Space-Bojnice, Slovakia, EU

Loft Space 1028-Los Angeles, CA

Down Street Art-28 Eagle Street-North Adams, Mass.

Senior Project-Bard College-Annandale, NY

The Rotunda-Philadelphia, PA

Go North Gallery-Beacon, NY

MUSIC

I am a longtime underground DJ and music collector with a creative sensibility. I have played numerous known and unknown venues.

CBGB's 313 Gallery-NYC

Laila Lounge-Brooklyn, NY

The Rivertown Lounge-NYC

Katonah Museum of Art

The Building-NYC

Limelight-NYC

The Pyramid-NYC

Loft Space 1028-Los Angeles, CA

3rd Rail Gallery-New Rochelle, NY

Bulldog Studios-Beacon, NY

Spire Studios-Beacon, NY

Black Betty Lounge-NYC

The Black Swan Pub-Tivoli, NY

Pratt School of Art-Brooklyn, NY

Yoga Vayu Studio-New Brunswick, NJ

Streets 2k8 Graff Jam-New Brunswick, NJ

WXBC-Radio Guest

WRPI-Radio Guest

WRSU-Radio Guest

Cafe Ole-Trenton, NJ

If interested, contact me for a mix CD.

Peter Brauch

Urbane Sense (Detail)

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