Peter RICHARDS

Résumé du projet de recherche

I propose to study the intersection between the waters of the Mediterranean Sea and the land that defines its shores in the Marseilles area.
I want to explore the differences and similarities between this Mediterranean region and the Bay Area of California. Both share comparable climates, industries which were once or still are, maritime based, a strong science and research community and cultures which are defined by migrations of people throughout their respective histories.
My study would include studying the intersections of cultural, ecological and environmental processes. Ultimately, I would want to find ways of physically expressing some of the commonalities between life in Mediterranean regions and the Bay Area in a manner that could lead to some shared understandings of the global aspects of the rapidly evolving nature of the physical world from a laymen’s point of view.

Selected Installations & Commissions

2008, La Sombra Danza, Phoenix, AZ: Permanent installation of a kinetic shade structure for Valley Metro Rail System
2006, Wave Wall, LIGO, Livingston, LA: Permanent installation of 85’ long by 25’ high wind driven kinetic façade of a new education center run jointly by MIT and CalTech. Collaboration with Shawn Lani, Charles Sowers, and HPD, Boulder, Co
2004, Sky Sweeps, Aberdeen, WA: Permanent installation of three 85’ high kinetic oars (collaboration withSue Richards)
2002, Wind Riders, Washington State University, TriCities Campus, Richland, WA: Permanent installation of bicycle wind vanes (collaboration with Sue Richards)
1999, Arbor Vitae, Coolbaugh Hall, Colorado School of Mines: Exterior/interior work employing branching patterns as a metaphor for learning (collaboration with Ted Prescott)
1998, Wind Ride, Kunst in Der Landschaft IV, Güt Gastëil, Prigglitz, Austria: Created a trio of bicycle windvanes (collaboration with Sue Richards)
1997, Crapper Obscura, Deep Creek School, Telluride, CO: Converted existing privy into a camera obscura
1995, Clapotis (Lake Music), Le Bouveret, Switzerland: Installed a floating acoustic sculpture on Lake Geneva in conjunction with Le Project Léman Animations Chimériques, June – September (collaboration with Sue Richards)
1994, A Companion Place, San Francisco General Hospital: A permanent addition to an existing comfort garden for hospital staff and AIDS patients, commissioned by S.F. Arts Commission.
1994, Le Pont Romain, Vaison La Romaine, France: With students from Ecole D’Art Aix-En-Provence, created a temporary installation on a two thousand year old Roman bridge
1991, Byxbee Park , Palo Alto, CA: Developed master plan for 140-acre landfill park and completed a 45- acre portion (collaboration with Michael Oppenheimer and George Hargreaves & Associates)
1989, Percival Creek Bridge, South Puget Sound Community College, Olympia, WA: A covered bridge done in collaboration with George Gonzales
1989, The Spring, Art Park, Lewiston, NY: Spring restoration and refuge for park visitors
1988, Ice House, Aughinbaugh Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA: Temporary installation,
1987, Reflections on Light, Crandon Park Sculpture Garden: Temporary installation, March 16 - May 30, sponsored by Art-in-Public Places, Miami, FL (collaboration with George Gonzales)
1986, Wave Organ: The permanent installation of a wave activated acoustical sculpture in San Francisco Bay, sponsored by the Exploratorium (collaboration with George Gonzales)
1984, Cascade Flume, Mill Valley, CA: A flume reconnecting a 150-year-old sawmill to its original source of power, a temporary installation sponsored by InterArts of Marin
1981, Sky Art, Battery Park: Floating luminescent sculpture, sponsored by Creative Times, New York, NY

Selected Exhibitions

2007, herbert bayer earthworks, a group exhibition celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Herbert Bayer earthworks at Mill Creek Canyon, Kent, WA
2007, Homage to a Mentor, an exhibition honoring Salvatore Scarpitta, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
2006, Breeching Boundaries: An interdisciplinary Approach, Aughinbaugh Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA
2004, Art Seattle Urban Parks Art, an overview of artwork being done in Seattle’s park system, City Space Gallery, Seattle, WA
2003, Water In A New Way, an exhibition exploring water use and environmental impact, SomArts Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001, RE-TIRE, an exhibition addressing issues of tire recycling, The Gallery at Carillon, Charlotte, NC
2000, Trouble Shooting Gun Violence, a community exhibition of works examining gun violence during NRA’s annual meeting, Charlotte, NC
1999, Drip, Blow, Burn: Forces of Nature in Contemporary Art, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
1996, Wind Works, an exhibition of wind-related artwork, Davis Art Center, Davis, CA (temporary installation with M. Oppenheimer)
1995, Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
1994, Old Glory, New Story: Flagging of the 21st Century, Capp Street Project, San Francisco, CA
1994, Le Project Leman Animations Chimeriques, Association L.A.C., Montreux, Switzerland
1994, Color in the Shadows: Bay Area Cyberart, California College of Arts, Oakland, CA
1987, Twenty Summers Past, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colo.
1985, Valentines_Group_Show, San Francisco Art Institute, February
1984, All_Ears, Civic Arts Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
1983, Audio_Eyes, Artspace, Sunny Hills, Australia

Experience

2007 - 2008, Principal Investigator – NSF funded Outdoor Exploratorium Project
2007 Adjunct Professor, Standford University
2006 Visiting Artist, Messiah College, Granthom, PA
2002 – present, Exploratorium, Senior Artist
1998 – 2001, McColl Center for Visual Art, Creative Director
1997 – 2004, Board of Trustees, Alliance of Artists Communities, past Chair
1971 – 1998, Exploratorium, Director of Art Programs
1981 – 1982/83, Lecturer, Center for Experimental and Inter-disciplinary Arts, San Francisco State
1994 – 1995, Visiting Artist, Ecole d’Art, Aix-En-Provence
1996 – 2005, Adjunct Professor, San Francisco Art Institute
1996 – 2001, Research Fellow, STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, College of Fine Arts, Carnegie Mellon U.
1997 – 1998, Visiting Artist, Deep Creek School, Telluride, CO, in conjunction with ASU, Tempe

Selected Awards

2007, Penny Stamps Lecture Series, University of Michigan
1993, Honor Award, American Society for Landscape Architecture, Byxbee Landfill Park
1994, Outstanding Achievement, US Conference of Mayors, Byxbee Landfill Park
1988, Artist Fellowship, California Arts Council
1988, Eureka Fellowship, Fleishhacker Foundation, San Francisco
1980, NEA, Art in Public Places Planning Grant
1970, Purchase Award, Tenth Annual St. Jude Competition, Santa Clara University, CA
1969, Rinehart Prize, Rinehart School of Sculpture, Maryland Institute College of Art

Education

1969, Rinehart School of Sculpture, Baltimore, MD; MFA, 1969
1966, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO; BA, Art, 1966

Selected articles and publications

Hazelrigg, George, ASLA: DUMP + ART = PARK, Landscape Architecture, August, 2006, VOL.96 – NUMBER 8
Horton, Paula: Art headed for the Aberdeen waterfront:, The Daily World, Aberdeen, Washington, 8/4/04
Stich, Sidra: art-SITES San Francisco, The Indispensable Guide to Contemporary Art-Architecture-Design; 2003, art-Sites, San Francisco, CA
Brown, Patricia Leigh; One Of A Kind: San Francisco Wave Organ, New York Times, 11/17/02
Wilson, Steve: information ARTS: intersections of art, science, and technology, 2002, The MIT Press, MIT, Cambridge, Mass.
Snell, Patricia, Ed.; The Future of Creativity – What role will artists, thinker, and visionary citizens play in building the communities of the future, a narrative report on a symposium organized by The Alliance of Artists’ Communities, 2001
Like a Prayer: A Jewish and Christian Presence in Contemporary Art, exhibition catalogue sponsored by Tryon Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC, 2001
Richards, Peter; Fusion: Art & Science, essay for exhibition catalogue, Wake Forest University Fine Arts Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC 1999
Morgenroth, Lynda, Waterworks, Orion, Winter, 1998
Beardsley, John, Earthworks and Beyond, 1998, Abbeville Press, New York
Snell, Patricia, Ed.; American Creativity at Risk – Restoring Creativity as a Priority in Public Policy, Cultural Philanthropy, and Education, a narrative report on a symposium organized by The Alliance of Artists’ Communities, 1995
Oakes, Baile, editor, Sculpting With The Environment, 1995, Van Nostrand Reinhold, NY
Heartney, Eleanor, Landfill Projects, On View, Journal of public art and design: Vol.I,#I 1995
From Refuse Dump to Public Park, The Alchemy of Byxbee Park, Paysages, 1994
A Curious Alliance: The Role of Art in a Science Museum, The Exploratorium, 1994
The Headlands Journal, Peter Richards: Water and Weather, 1990
Richards, Peter; Ice House, The Exploratorium Quarterly , Summer 1989, pp. 28 - 29
Crinkshank, Jeffery L., Korza, Pam, Going Public: A field guide to developments in art in public places, Visual Arts Program, National Endowment for the Arts, 1988
Cullen, Sandy, "Sculptor's art is his environment," Sunday Patriots News, Harrisburg, PA. March 13, 1988
Brechin, Gray, "Cityscapes: New Wave Organ", Focus, June 1986
Snyder, Ruth, "San Francisco Bay Ready to Premiere Its Musical Work," Los Angeles Times, May 30, 1986
Gibbons, Ann, "Bay's all-new music," Peninsula Times-Tribune, March 3, 1986
Macnamara, Mark W., "Symphony in Sea," Image, The San FranciscoChronicle and Examiner, January 19, 1986
Pontious, Susan, "Art in Public Places, a priority for our times," Marin_Arts, April 1984
Lewis, Tony, "The Issue of Art in Public Places," The Mill Valley Record, Volume 84, Issue 47, November 21, 1984
Wendt, Carol, 360 Sculpture, City Arts Monthly, August 1982
Cole, K.C., "Hers," The New York Times, April 27, 1982
Dackman, Linda, "The Artist and the Sea: Sky and Water, Ft. Point," The Exploratorium Magazine," Summer 1982
Foley, Suzanne, Space Time Sound Conceptual Art in the San Francisco Bay Area: The 70's, 1981
Stofflet, Mary, "Peter Richards, 80 Langton Street," Art Forum, April 1980
Betts, Michele, "Marking Time," ArtWeek. Volume 11, #11, March 1980

Richards, Peter, "Ice House", Artist's Note, Leonardo, Vol.25, N°2, pp. 167-168, 1992.

Richards, Peter, "The Greater Good : Why We Need Artists in Science Museums", ASTC Dimensions, July/August 2002