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Peter Bill is an Artist, Activist and Educator. He has, since learning photoshop v. 1.5, been interested in connecting under-represented communities with digital tools so their voices may be broadcast. He has been involved with large scale video projections, guerrilla art actions, and community building since the 90s.

Peter Bill's award winning paint and video landscapes have shown in such diverse venues as The Kitchen(NYC), the Henry Art Gallery(Seattle), FILE Festival(São Paulo, Brazil), and other international venues. He continues in his Oil paintings and video work to weave the painterly with the digital, pixels and paint, indigo and 191970 blue. He envisioned and realized the first time-lapse film festival in North America, the Gila Timelapse Film Festival and has curated and directed shows on three continents. "Art must be realized on the streets, as an agent of change and progress."
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Much of my art has been about creating a vessel, a space for meditation. Through my painting and video installations I hope to create a moment of quietude, a contemplation of this world we have built.

In my mural and documentary film work I have balanced a certain transcendentalism in my heart with my didactic scots-yankee bones. In the public sphere arts role is to inspire and provoke. Therefore in my mural projects I have attempted to involve the local community in the conception and realization of my projects. In my animations and short films I have attempted critiques of the bathetic apocalyptic culture we live in, the false utopia of the California landscape, the contested landscape of New Mexico, and tried to get to the situation on the ground in war torn Bosnia, among other subjects. The world is a complicated, granular place. We cannot oversimplify with our stories, but we can in their telling change opinions, and thus change the world for the better.

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1 Times Square
Looking down from 40 Worth
2003
oil on Linen
~1.25'x3.5"

1 Times Square Looking down from 40 Worth 2003 oil on Linen ~1.25'x3.5"

Hudson River Conservancy
Acrylic on canvas
~14'x8'
Commission for Hudson River Conservancy 
2003

Hudson River Conservancy Acrylic on canvas ~14'x8' Commission for Hudson River Conservancy 2003

polaroid photo of plein aire painting in Times Square.

polaroid photo of plein aire painting in Times Square.

Broadway Boogy Woogy
oil on Linen
~6'x4'
2003-4

Broadway Boogy Woogy oil on Linen ~6'x4' 2003-4

Looking down from 40 Worth
2003
oil on Linen
~1.5"x2.5"
Commission for Anita Durst

Looking down from 40 Worth 2003 oil on Linen ~1.5"x2.5" Commission for Anita Durst

This City has Legs
oil on Linen
~3'x4.5'
2003-4

This City has Legs oil on Linen ~3'x4.5' 2003-4

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