Joel D Valdez Main Library invites you to view an exhibit by local artist Peter Leue, on display until August 30, 2024.
Artist statement:
Peter Leue (pronounced Loya) (b. 1946) has worked in wood and mixed media for nearly six decades. He studied with Wendell Castle and Bill Keyser at the School for American Craftsmen at the Rochester Institute of Technology and received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1968 for furniture design and construction. An award-winning artist and craftsman, his work celebrates the connection between humans and art.
After spending 12 years teaching, Peter began full-time woodworking in 1981, and for over two decades, specialized in historic architectural reproduction woodworking, for which he won a Preservation Merit Award from the Historic Albany Foundation in 1984. In 2000, he began the restoration of an 1850's Gothic Revival cottage, which resulted in another Preservation Merit Award in 2004. In 2007, he sold his large shop and designed and built a 900-square-foot studio next to his home. Peter permanently moved to Tucson in 2019.
Though his work has ranged from architectural woodworking to fine studio furniture and cabinetry to whimsical sculptural pieces, Peter now concentrates on creating sculpture, studio furniture and interactive works of art.
For more information: peterleue.com, opens a new window
Images courtesy of the artist
