Peter Max Lawrence is a content-maker. Born in Topeka; adopted soon thereafter and raised in Kansas City, Kansas. Over the course of his life, he has created a large and diverse body of work, exploring a wide variety of approaches, media, tools and themes. Lawrence’s works have been presented internationally in venues ranging from basement bathrooms to major museums. Currently he is the creator and curator for The One and Lid Off FIlm Festival as well as developing a slew of collaborations with other artists, musicians and writers.
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Peter Max Lawrence is a filmmaker, artist, and poet. His work has been shown at the de Young Museum, Legion of Honor, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SOMArts, He has work in the permanent collections of SFMOMA, UC Davis Library and KQED. Raised in Kansas City, Kansas(Wyandotte County), Lawrence currently lives in a van with his cat Trouble-Maker rotating time in San Francisco, Southern Colorado, Lucas, Kansas and Kansas City.
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The
Ink Of It All
For me, all work begins with a mark on a surface; drawing and
sketching equal existing. Drawing is at the heart of my engagements
as a maker; this is the case for painting, sculpture, performance
or video. I am fascinated with the magick ritual of completing gestures which provide parallels with my life experience;
marks which are able to express my feelings for form, space, light,
movement and play. I also consider drawing to be a personal and
private forum to explore a unique interior, a tool for documentation
of dreams, feelings and memories.
I am consistently exploring a gender-queer
vision of supposedly hetero-normative body ideals encompassed
through the lens of global myths, science-fiction and superhero
tropes. I fill my works with interchanging characters that inhabit
a fictional universe that is their unique domain. These "actors,"
as I call them, are manifested and take inspiration from a wide
array of media and themes, including but not limited to anthropology,
pop culture, religion and history.
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