Photograph of Artist PETER ILLIG
PETER ILLIG
Denver, Colorado - United States



Original Artworks (5)

Peter Illig; Submersion, 2012, Original Drawing Charcoal, 72 x 42 inches.
Peter Illig
Original Charcoal Drawing, 2012
72 x 42 inches (182.9 x 106.7 cm)
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Peter Illig; Dangerous Ideas, 2006, Original Drawing Charcoal, 42 x 80 inches. Artwork description: 241 A young woman stands before technological symbols....
Peter Illig
Original Charcoal Drawing, 2006
42 x 80 inches (106.7 x 203.2 cm)
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Peter Illig; Crisis Of Painting, 2005, Original Painting Oil, 104 x 49 inches. Artwork description: 241 Images from science fiction and pop culture combine to form a comment on the state of painting on the 21st century. ...
Peter Illig
Original Oil Painting, 2005
104 x 49 inches (264.2 x 124.5 cm)
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Peter Illig; The Logic Of Dreams, 2006, Original Drawing Charcoal, 112 x 42 inches. Artwork description: 241 A drawing made up of layered images, surreal and mysterious: communication and the logic of dreams. ...
Peter Illig
Original Charcoal Drawing, 2006
112 x 42 inches (284.5 x 106.7 cm)
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Peter Illig; Shadows Of A Dream  7, 2004, Original Drawing Charcoal, 84 x 42 inches. Artwork description: 241 Layered images form a dream- like situation. ...
Peter Illig
Original Charcoal Drawing, 2004
84 x 42 inches (213.4 x 106.7 cm)
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Artist Statement

I look for images that are metaphors for our life experiences: love, desire, and making art. These paintings and drawings contain narrative content and ask questions about social issues and the swirl of images we are surrounded by.

Once, the task of the artist was to portray and interpret the ‘real world.’ Now it is to determine if there even is a reality behind the appearance of things. It appears, more and more, that reality is created by observation. This search through the ‘stuff’ of the world, matter and flesh, is inherently erotic. So is the act of painting.

The material world pulls at us and it seems we are always troubled with desire for it. It is our essence; we seek the spiritual through it. The visible world is the key, the path, to the invisible world. But it is ‘desire’ that clouds the seeking. I don’t renounce matter but immerse myself to find the spiritual behind it.

The edges of things and places interest me, the transition areas. I have been thinking about the ‘inter-connectedness’ of things, the Uncertainty Principle, the fact that there may be no 'deep reality' underneath the appearances of objects, that traces of distant stars are passing through us at this moment, that the charcoal (carbon) with which I am drawing was
once a living thing.

What is still worthwhile to paint? Language. Drawings and paintings can consist of signs forced from one context into another. Some of my drawings and paintings are a jumble of images -- meaning must be deciphered. They are a crisis of interpretation. One must be willing to "juggle" contradictions and seemingly conflicting views because of the overlapping meanings present in the work

As analogies, these drawings and paintings can communicate timeless ideas -- mixing the conceptual, the figural, and the formal as one mixes primary colors.

Peter Illig
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