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Los Angeles-based artist Jon Peterson (born 1945, Stillwater, MN) earned a B.S. in aeronautical engineering in 1968 from the University of Minnesota before earning an MFA at Otis Art Institute in 1976. Following his move downtown in 1976, he participated in Los Angeles’ thriving downtown art scene, as captured by Steven Seemayer’s film ''The Young Turks''〔Peter Plagens. “Gimme Shelter.”''The Art of Jon Peterson''. February 2013.〕 Peterson is best known for his bum (bad) shelters, which prompted critics to coin terms like art-at-large, participatory art, guerilla sculpture and guerilla architecture, as they were sited outdoors in the urban landscape, so as to attract hobos and homeless alike. In 1980, Peterson was awarded $10,000 from the National Endowment of the Arts. In 1983, Robert Mapplethorpe photographed body builder Lisa Lyon on the roof of his penthouse studio at the Continental Building. Like that era’s “site constructions”.〔Rosalind Krause. “Sculpture and the Expanded Field.” ''Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Myths''. MIT Press. 1985. 284〕 Peterson’s bum (bad) shelters blended architecture and landscape, further expanding sculpture into the realm of practical art, which Carrie Rickey recognized as dangerous territory in 1980.〔Carrie Rickey. "In Flagrante Derelicto." ''Village Voice''. January 7, 1980. 59.〕 Peter Plagens noted, “Practicality—actually, survival—obviously trumped aesthetics in the demimonde of the downtown homeless. Almost immediately someone yanked the sculpture out of its hole, laid it flat on the ground, and slept in it.” 〔Peter Plagens. "Gimme Shelter." ''The Art of Jon Peterson''. February 2013.〕 Envisioning a future where artists remade our world, Constance Mallinson responded thusly to his art in 1980: “In an over-populated, polluted, resource-depleted world, the visionary power of artists in environmental engineering, urban planning, industrial designing, sociology and behavioral psychology could help solve persistent social dilemmas.”〔Constance Mallinson. “Jon Peterson Newspace.” ''Art in America''. January 1980.〕 Soon after graduate school, he had solo exhibitions with Los Angeles gallery Newspace (1976, 1977, 1978, and 1979), Washington, DC gallery Protech-McIntosh (1980), Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (1985), and his work was included in group shows at Laguna Art Museum (1976), San Diego Museum of Art (1980), Washington Project for the Arts (1981), Cal State Fullerton Gallery (1981) and Foundation for Art Resources (1982). ==Wall Paintings and Sculpture (1975-1979)== Before exhibiting in the streets, Peterson exhibited paper paintings (1976) and wall drawings (1978) at Newspace in Los Angeles. Peterson’s 1977 sculpture show at Newspace featured brightly-colored, geometric, cage-like structures alluding to those absent bodies that would later occupy his bum (bad) shelters. Inspired by neighboring artists’ anonymous interventions in the street, as well as skid row's homeless occupants, he constructed Masonite and Fiberglass single-body shelters in his studio, which he inserted amidst downtown’s craggy terrain. In 1979, he exhibited photomontages documenting each shelter's installation, occupation and use, in editions of 10, so as to finance their demand. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jon Peterson (artist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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