Loss Optimism: Selected Works by Peter Suprean. Opens September 3, 2011 at Cueto James Gallery.

Peter Suprean's latest work, the series entitled Loss Optimism, is a mixed medium installation that displays relics and artifacts from a culture and time that has not yet existed. The show will include life-sized human replicas, tools, weapons, art and religious artifacts from this conceived culture's daily life. The pieces in Loss Optimism are both darkly futuristic while also giving one the impression that they have come from an ancient time long passed, which gives this exhibit its striking nature. Suprean has essentially constructed a mythical world, and the pieces he has created act as a springboard for the viewer's imagination, capable of transporting them to another reality fashioned by both the viewer and artist.

This exhibition will be held at Cueto James Gallery in Houston and opens on September 3, 2011. 

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Biography: Artist Peter Suprean.

I was born in Houston, Texas, the day after Christmas in 1982, to complete a family of four. Before college, I received most of my schooling from home, bing taught by my parents or in small private schools. This slight removal from society, I believe, gave me a unique perspective on my surroundings; studying the way things happen. I believe this shows in my art, being able to effectively represent an idea or feeling but to also translate it into a visual metaphor that is stimulating to the senses without an overbearing biase on its interpretation.


I studied art at H.B.U. with a focus in painting, under the late Virgil Grotfeldt. In 2011, I graduated cum laude, completing my BFA. After school, I have slightly changed my focus in art from painting to a more mixed medium approach. I wish to carry my ideas across different planes of construction, combining elements of audio (music), visual (painting/video), and the tactile (sculpture), I intend to create an alternate reality for th perceiver to enjoy and be enlightened by.


My latest work, entitled Loss Optimism is a mixed medium installation that displays relics and artifacts from a culture and time that has not yet existed. This exhibition will be held at Cueto James Gallery in Houston, as part of a two month solo show. The show will include life sized human replicas, tools, weapons, art and religious artifacts from this conceived culture's daily life. In constructing this world, I wish to create a springboard for the viewer's imagination, and transport them to a reality fashioned by both viewer and artist.

Peter Suprean.