{"id":1115,"date":"2013-02-19T05:27:24","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T05:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/?p=1115"},"modified":"2013-02-19T05:27:24","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T05:27:24","slug":"collages-of-professor-peeke-go-on-exhibit-at-whitman-college-and-grace-cover-of-new-gambling-the-aisle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/news\/collages-of-professor-peeke-go-on-exhibit-at-whitman-college-and-grace-cover-of-new-gambling-the-aisle\/","title":{"rendered":"Collages of Professor Peeke go on exhibit at Whitman College and grace cover of new Gambling the Aisle"},"content":{"rendered":"

LA GRANDE, Ore. (EOU)<\/strong>\u00a0 \u2013\u00a0\u201dI\u2019m a collage-maker for much the same reason I\u2019m a curator \u2013 I love images,\u201d says Cory Peeke, associate professor of art and director of Nightingale Gallery<\/a> at Eastern Oregon University.<\/p>\n

Peeke\u2019s collages\u00a0go on display at the\u00a0Sheehan Gallery<\/a>\u00a0at Whitman College, Feb. 22-Apr. 12. He\u2019ll\u00a0also\u00a0give an artist talk at 5:30 p.m. Mar. 29 in Olin Hall, Room 130 at Whitman.<\/p>\n

This upcoming show follows Peeke\u2019s recent guest appearance at the\u00a0Saranac Art Projects<\/a>\u2018 exhibition in Spokane and the debut of the winter issue of\u00a0Gambling the Aisle<\/a>, featuring his artwork on the cover and an in-depth interview on page 16.<\/p>\n

Peeke often creates his collages utilizing discarded black and white images as a focal point.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe largely ignored and\u00a0seemingly inconsequential bits of ephemera that once had a purpose, still have\u00a0a presence, but now idle in disuse. I combine, layer, juxtapose, glue, tape and\u00a0re-contextualize these bits and pieces of detritus in order to reincarnate and\u00a0recharge them,\u201d the artist says.<\/p>\n

\u201cThrough the process of collage, these snippets of the past\u00a0combine to become at once something fresh and familiar. They both exemplify\u00a0and explore the duality that is the transient, disposable nature of our culture, as\u00a0well as the necessity to create tradition and solidify a cultural continuity.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to his studio practice and duties as gallery director, Peeke teaches art and art history at EOU and is a contributing writer for\u00a0Kolaj Magazine<\/a>. He\u00a0is represented by\u00a0Gallery IMA<\/a>\u00a0in Seattle.<\/p>\n

Peeke received his bachelor of fine arts from Kendall College of Art and Design and a master of fine arts from the University of Idaho. He has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibits throughout the U.S. and abroad, and his collages have appeared in multiple publications.\u00a0His works are included in the permanent collections of EOU, Lockhaven University, the Solara-Simpson Housing Group and the International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LA GRANDE, Ore. (EOU)\u00a0 \u2013\u00a0\u201dI\u2019m a collage-maker for much the same reason I\u2019m a curator \u2013 I love images,\u201d says Cory Peeke, associate professor of art and director of Nightingale Gallery at Eastern Oregon University. Peeke\u2019s collages\u00a0go on display at the\u00a0Sheehan Gallery\u00a0at Whitman College, Feb. 22-Apr. 12. He\u2019ll\u00a0also\u00a0give an artist talk at 5:30 p.m. Mar. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":1116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[43,159],"class_list":["post-1115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-collage","tag-visiting-artist"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}