photo: Liz Fischbach

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Recent exhibitions
Peter Shelton: dogstar
Skyroom
8 March - 17 May 2008
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Seven Rooms Seven Artists
L.A. Louver Summer 2006
13 July - 2 September 2006
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L.A. Louver at Art 37 Basel
The International Art Show
Messe Basel, Messeplatz
Basel, Switzerland
Hall 2.0 / Stand W5
14 – 18 June, 2006
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Group Show
31 March - 6 May 2006
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Peter Shelton: godspipes
6 January – 11 February 2006
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Peter Shelton, gogglelipsandgeogobals for Celebes
21 January - 19 February 2005
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Publications
sixtyslippers
Published by the University of California at Berkeley Art Museum, in collaboration with L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
4 December 1997 – 31 January 1998

floatinghouseDEADMAN
Republished by Louver Gallery, New York, NY; originally published by Wight Art Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 1987
6 January – 3 February, 1990

Artist's official Web site: petershelton.net

 

Selected works by exhibition

1980 - 1989 >>
1990 - present

                                                 
BIRDHOUSE, holecan
1980
Chapman College, Orange, CA, in conjunction with L.A. Institute of Contemporary Art "Architectural Sculpture" exhibition

 

Brownrooms, 1977-78
installation 1980
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE)

 

sweathouse and littleprincipals, 1977-82
1982
Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Forum, installation

  pipegut, waterseat and STANDSTILL
1984
Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, OR >>

      majorjoints, hangers, and squat
15 March – 14 April 1984
Malinda Wyatt Gallery (collaboration with LA Louver, Venice, CA) >>

  Peter Shelton: Recent Sculptures
28 November – 27 December 1986
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA >>

  HARDSTRETCH droop and Tub, tubes and pipes; Elements: Five Installations
1987
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY >>

      BLACKVAULT falloffstone: Sculpture Inside Outside, 1988
The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

  floatinghouse, DEADMAN, 1987 - 1990 >>

installation 1987
Wight Art Gallery, U.C.L.A., Los Angeles, CA

  installation 1989
Herron Gallery, Herron School of Art,
Indianapolis, IN

  1990
Louver New York

  Peter Shelton: Castings
27 May – 24 June 1989
LA Louver, Venice, CA >>

 


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