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Peter Smuts
The Human Pixel Project

Exhibition 01-13-07

The Human Pixel Project

The Human Pixel Project is an art project, open to anyone, made up of thousands of 2x2 inch works in all media donated by artists from around the world.  Over 1500 artists and over 15000 pixels so far.  These thousands of pixels will be continuously used and re-used as elements in larger, aggregate works.  The work of thousands of individuals become the underlying palette and media for future work, each pixel engaged in a continual process of formation and reformation as a component of a larger whole, existing as both an expression of an individual vision and as an element in larger, themselves temporary and contingent, works of art.  This process of assembling new works from the pixels is a fundamental element of the project and extends its core idea, namely that of a democracy of artistic creation defined by a broadly shared willingness to participate in an effort that transcends the individual and to discover through that process new modes of expression and new understandings about what it means to be a creator, viewer, and 'consumer' of art.

Peter Smuts

Born 1966 in Pittsburgh, Pa.  Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA 

Solo Shows:

2006 The Human Pixel Project, Three Columns Gallery, Harvard University, Boston, MA
2005 Peter Smuts at Three Columns, Three Columns Gallery, Harvard University, Boston, MA
2005 All Fun and Games, Pepper Gallery, Boston, MA

Group Shows: 

2006 Going Ape! Confronting Animals in Contemporary Art, Decordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
2006 Summer Salon, Pepper Gallery, Boston, MA
2006 The Big Show, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA
2005 Contemporary Art Fair, Chelsea Piers, New York, NY
2004 Contemporary Art Fair, Chelsea Piers, New York, NY
2004 Summer Salon, Pepper Gallery, Boston, MA
2004 Juried Annual Members Show, The Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA
2003 Annual Competition, The Photo Review Magazine, Philadelphia, PA
2003 New England Photographers 03, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA

Bibliography:

2006 Review and Feature Photo, The Boston Globe, September, 2006
2006 Review, Christopher Millis, The Boston Phoenix, September 12, 2006
2006 Review, Mary McCoy, Art New England, November/December 2006
2006 Review, by Charles Giuliano, Maverick Arts Magazine, September 20, 2006
2006 “Sidekick”, Boston Globe, by June Wulff,  August 11, 2006
2006 “Exhibition Yearbook” by Leslie Brown, In the Loupe, Photographic Resource Center July | August, 2006
2006 “Getting Lost in the Digital Wallpaper” by Alexander Fabry, The Crimson, April 22, 2006
2005 “Year Brought Prolific Creativity; Cultivated and Raw” by Cate McQuaid, Boston Globe, December 30, 05
2005 Arts Review, Boston Globe, by Cate McQuaid,  January 27, 2005
2005 Review, by Charles Giuliano, Maverick Arts Magazine,  January 2005
2005 Review, by Kate Ledogar, The Weekly Dig, January 28, 2005
2005 Featured Arts Photo, The Boston Phoenix, January 13, 2005
2004 “Weekly Dig”, The Weekly Dig June 24, 2004
2004 “Trunk Show – Picks of the Week,”  The Boston Phoenix  June 18-24, 200
2003 Annual Competition, The Photo Review Magazine Vol 26 No. 3, Philadelphia, PA