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Welded and Painted Steel Sculpture
Peter Reginato studied at the San Francisco Art Institute from 1963 to 1966. Since
then he has had numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the country.
His work is represented in many public collections including the Allen Art
Center, Houston, Texas; Brown University; the Corcoran Gallery of Art; the Hirshhorn
Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; IBM
Corporation; the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art; the Mead Art Museum,
Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Mint
Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts and the Museum of
Fine Arts, Houston, Texas.
ăThe common wisdom in the art world today suggests that in order to make an
important statement an artist must take as much out as possible, thereby creating
something that is empty. I want to do the opposite. I want to make art as full as possible.
The only thing I took out of my work was realism. I saw greater possibilities in
abstraction. I believe that a new art will contain all the traditional elements÷line, form,
color, composition, drawing. I want to leave behind work that is for every generation, no
matter what the existing trends are, or the perceived opinion of good and bad. I would
like to think that my work will be enjoyed, talked about and maybe even seen as vital to
those times; I would like to think it will mean something to whoever is looking at it.ä
Peter Reginato
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