Peter Gallo


Noche Oscura…| Volant qui…| empty cigarette crtns…| the eye of the whole world remains unsullied… | ….no, reading…| The present… 

(Plate 8, DAYTRTMNT), n.d. (ca. 1990), Typewriter, ink, tea, white-out on paper, 9 x 11 inches

(Plate 6, DAYTRTMNT), n.d. (ca. 1990), Typewriter, ink, whiteout on paper, 9 x 6 inches

(Plate 5, DAYTRTMNT), n.d. (ca. 1992), Typewriter, whiteout, collage on onionskin paper, 9 x 6 inches.

 n.d., (1989), typing, whiteout, on paper, 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches

(Plate 16, DAYTRTMNT), n.d. (ca. 1990), Typewriter, ink, whiteout on paper, 9 x 6 inches

(Plate 18, DAYTRTMNT), n.d., (ca. 1993), Typewriter, whiteout, ink, pencil on paper, 9 x 6 inches

Daytrtmnt book at Printed Matter

Untitled (Writing and Difference)

n.d. (1999-2015)
Oil, dental floss, book cover, kindling,
9 x 13 inches


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Peter Gallo, born 1959, lives and works in Hyde Park, Vermont

“To look at Gallo’s work, seemingly of an outsider aesthetic, against his doctoral history brings one to wonder if he is playing patient instead of doctor. Channeling Artaud, his work often gathers what material is immediately available to him; pencil and wine make desperate letters, illegible yet sobering in their urgency. However, to take the paintings as embodiments, as subjects themselves, is vital; they are skin and bone, skeletons etched with psychic charts. His supports—bedsheets, denim and burlaps—are stretched with an aching, poignant negligence across their makeshift frames.”

– Sadie Starnes, artcritical.com, 2015