Peter Dubeau
Peter Dubeau is an artist, arts administrator and curator living in Baltimore City. He received his BFA in General Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). For 15 years, he was Associate Dean of Open Studies at MICA. Prior to that position, he was Director of School 33 Art Center in Baltimore.
His artwork has been exhibited in the Baltimore/Washington area including group exhibitions at Maryland Art Place, Goucher College, The Park School, Carroll County Arts Council, Loyola College, Arlington Arts Center, and Stevenson University. Internationally, his work has been exhibited in Japan and Nepal. Solo exhibitions include Catonsville Community College and Notre Dame of Maryland University
in Baltimore. He has served as curator and juried numerous exhibitions in the Baltimore/Washington area, as well as participated on exhibition panels for Flashpoint Gallery in Washington DC, the Bethesda Arts & Entertainment District and the Maryland State Arts Council.
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Education
Maryland Institute College of Art
B.F.A. General Fine Arts 1983
Selected Exhibitions
2019
School 33 Art Center 40th Anniversary Exhibition
2017
Thomas Segal Gallery, Baltimore, Online Gallery Representation
Juried Staff Exhibition MICA, Jurors Elissa Blant Moorhead and Lou Joseph
2015
Juried Staff Exhibition MICA, Jurors Rene Trevino, Stewart Watson,
Jeremy Stern
2013
NAMASTE – EMBRACING CULTURES, NEPAL AND AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP EXHIBITION, Nepal Academy of Fine Arts, Kathmandu Nepal, Curator Nancy Scheinman
2012
MICA Juried Staff Exhibition, group exhibition, MICA, Juror James Rieck
2007
ARTWORKERS, group exhibition, Villa Julie College, Stevenson MD
OFF SHOOT, solo exhibition, College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Baltimore
2006
QUIETUDE, group exhibition, Carroll County Arts Council
2004
52nd ANNUAL KEISHO ART EXHIBITION, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan
2003
BREAKING GOUND, group exhibition, Park School, Baltimore
2002
VARIATIONS ON A THEME, Patrice Kehoe and Peter Dubeau, 2-person exhibition, Loyola College, Baltimore Solo Exhibition, Catonsville Community College
1998
PETER DUBEAU AND GINA PIERLEONI, Tuttle Gallery McDonough School, Stevenson MD
1997
1996-1997 CRITICS' RESIDENCY/CRITICS' PICKS, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, selected by critic Barry Schwabsky
1996
ARTSITES 96: HOUSE BOUND (For Henri), Arlington Arts Center, Arlington,VA, organized by the Corcoran School of Art, Washington DC, Curator: Lee Fleming, independent curator, arts commentator and critic
1993
NEW WORK, A Group Exhibit at the Metropol Gallery, Baltimore
PETER DUBEAU/ MIA HALTON: NEW PAINTINGS, Towson University, Holtzman Gallery, Towson, MD
1990
NEW PAINTINGS: PETER DUBEAU, Vanguard Cafe, Baltimore
WORKS IN PROCESS: Creative Encounters By Artists, Therapists & Clients, The University of Maryland, College Park, Curators: Nancy Meyer,
Lenore Hoover
1989
CRYPTIC MESSAGES: Peter Dubeau and Madeline Irvine, The Mechanic Theater Gallery, Baltimore
MARYLAND ON VIEW, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, Curator:
Charlotte Cohen
GALLERY ARTISTS ' EXHIBITION, Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore
1988
INAUGURAL EXHIBITION, Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore
1986
MARYLAND BIENNIAL 1985, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Curator: Mark Rosenthal, then Curator, Philadelphia Museum of Art
INSTRUCTIONS, School 33 Art Center
Bibliography/Reviews
Honors
2013
Florence Thorp Memorial Award, MICA
1986
CityArts Grant, Baltimore
1985
Honorable Mention, MARYLAND BIENNIAL,
Baltimore Museum of Art, Awarded by Mark Rosenthal
Professional Experience
July 2003 – January 2019
Associate Dean
Open Studies, Maryland Institute College of Art
July 1997 – June 2003
Director
School 33 Art Center, Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts
(governing administrative organization since July 2002)
February 1988 – June 1997
Assistant Director
School 33 Art Center, Mayor's Advisory Committee on Art and Culture (MACAC), Baltimore
Additional Experience
Co-Curator with Rene Trevino, 2014
35-33-35 - School 33 Art Center’s 35th Anniversary Exhibit
Grant Review Panelist, 2017-2001
for Visual Art Organizations
Maryland State Arts Council
Curator, 2008
HIDDEN AND REVEALED
Maryland Art Place, July 29 – September 6
Curator, 2006
HERE AND NOW
an exhibition featuring 27 artists for ArtSalute, in conjunction with the Maryland State Arts Council and the Maryland Citizens for the Arts
Exhibition Panel Member, 2005-2008
Flashpoint Gallery, Washington, DC
Juror, 2004
Trawick Prize, Creative Partners Gallery, Bethesda Arts & Entertainment District, Bethesda, MD
Curator, 2003
DECLARING SPACE: Recent Drawings by Baltimore Artists, 2003, at School 33 Art Center
Curator, 2002-2004
Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Recipients Exhibitions
Juror, 2002
Maryland Federation of the Arts, Juried Exhibition Spring 2002
Juror, 2001
Creative Alliance Annual Juried Exhibition, December 2001
Juror and Panel Member, 2001
Theatre Project Gallery, Baltimore
Co-Curator, 1996
1999 COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITION: Arlington Arts Center/ School 33 Art Center, brochure essay with Kristen Hileman
Juror, 1996
ANNUAL JURIED EXHIBITION, Greater Reston Arts Center, Reston, VA, essay
Committee Member, 1996
Baltimore Arts Advocates, assisted with the coordination and implementation of the symposium, ARTS AS A MAGNET FOR BALTIMORE, held June 1999 at the Baltimore Museum of Art
Curator, 1997
ARTSITES 98: BODY AND SOUL at School 33 Art Center, organized by the Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC, brochure essay
Juror, 1995
UMBC Undergraduate Juried Exhibition Lecturer, Docent Training, Baltimore Museum of Art
Juror, 1994
BAUhouse BEAMS Exhibition at the Howard County Center for the Arts
Juror, 1994
BAUhouse BEAMS Exhibition at the Howard County Center for the Arts
Film Advisory Panel Member, 1993
for Experimental Documentary category for the
Baltimore International Film Festival
Advisory Committee Member, 1987
Maryland Art Place Film Panel Member, School 33 Art Center
Artist Statement
My art is a harmony of forms. Most of my work includes natural, figurative, and architectural motifs as associations of beauty and memory. Ornate and decorative Eastern textiles are also sources. Whether boldly or obscurely, grid-like or lattice structures are also present and intertwine themselves with these elements.
Since Summer 2019, my recent body of work is based on gravesites located in the Père Lachaise and Montparnasse cemeteries in Paris. I am interested in the various styles and meaning of ornamentation adorning these graves and family mausoleums.
Over centuries, artisans created designs reflecting the interred’s religion, culture, and social status. Sculptural motifs symbolizing nature, religious affiliation and the supernatural are omnipresent. In addition, many graves are in disrepair and suffer from neglect, specifically where natural elements have become intrusive and have come to reclaim their space.
This new series represents both a synthesis and distillation of styles and symbolism extracted from these sculptural gravesites. Additionally, personal references and motifs are interjected, that refer to the passage of time, which for me reflects a strong bond to the past.
Bret McCabe, Visions of Excess”, City Paper, 8/20/08
Mike Guiliano, MAP-ing Out How We Figure In”, Columbia Flyer, 8/14/08
Bret McCabe, “Day Jobs”, City Paper, 1/16/08 (exhibition review)
Glenn McNatt, “Art Educators grace their works with touches of whimsy”, Baltimore Sun, 12/12/07 (exhibition review)
Glen McNatt, "OFF SHOOT", Baltimore Sun, 9/16/07
Jordan Bartel, “Exhibition Uses Peaceful Images to Create Restful Experience,” Carroll County Times, 10/13/06
Patrick Burns, “Simply Beautiful,” PEEKreview.net, 3/03/02
Barry Schwabsky and Dorothy Valakos, “Critics' Residency/Critics' Picks” (two essays in printed catalog - editorial supplement to the Washington Review April/May 1997)
Mike Guiliano, “Different Strokes,” April 9, 1997, City Paper
John Dorsey, “Critic’s Picks’ Full of Skill, Wit, Beauty,” March 25,1997, Baltimore Sun
F. Lennox Campello, “ArtSites 96,” Visions Magazine for the Arts
Suzanne S. Summers, “House Bound,” ARTICULATE, Summer 1996
Lee Fleming, “House Bound (For Henri)," Washington Review, June/July 1996
John Dorsey, “Springboard to Memory,” The Baltimore Sun, October 16, 1987
Helen Glazer, “Memory and Mind's Eye,” Goucher College, October 1987
Martha McWilliams, “Image/Identity: Self-Portraits of Maryland Artists,” MAP 1987