Peter Max Lawrence
{{short description|American film director}}
{{BLP sources|date=July 2017}}
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| birth_place = Topeka, Kansas, U.S.
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| education = San Francisco Art Institute
| occupation = Artist, film director
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| website = [http://www.petermaxlawrence.com petermaxlawrence.com]
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Peter Max Lawrence (born March 19, 1977, in Topeka, Kansas) is a multidisciplinary contemporary artist, as well as performance artist, curator, filmmaker, and film director. He is known to work in painting, video installation, sculpture, photography and drawing.{{cite web|title=Peter Max Lawrence biography|url=http://www.americanartists.org/art/artist_detail_87.htm|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081101090947/http://americanartists.org/art/artist_detail_87.htm|archive-date=2008-11-01|work=The American Center for Artists|publisher=Americanartists.org|accessdate=October 29, 2008}}{{cite web|author=Jialin Luh|date=December 20, 2005|title=Artists Melding with Patrons|url=http://www.sfstation.com/localpatron-a1658|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180620024334/https://www.sfstation.com/localpatron-a1658|archive-date=June 20, 2018|website=SF Station|publisher=Sfstation.com|accessdate=October 29, 2008}} Lawrence has had art exhibitions in galleries throughout the United States and Europe. He has lived in San Francisco{{cite web|title=Peter Max Lawrence bio|url=http://equalaccessart.com/more/takahashilawrence.html|url-status=dead|publisher=Equalaccessart.com|accessdate=October 29, 2008|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081101055705/http://equalaccessart.com/more/takahashilawrence.html|archivedate=November 1, 2008|df=mdy}} and Kansas City, Missouri.
Early life
Lawrence was born in Topeka, Kansas in 1977,{{cite web|author=Sister Dana Van Iquity|date=November 16, 2006|title=The Gods Are Alive And Well at Magnet|url=http://www.sfbaytimes.com/index.php?article_id=5672&sec=article|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080216195842/http://www.sfbaytimes.com/index.php?article_id=5672&sec=article|archive-date=February 16, 2008|website=San Francisco Bay Times|publisher=San Francisco Bay Times|accessdate=October 29, 2008}} and was adopted soon thereafter by Barbra and Dennis Lawrence.{{Citation needed|date=October 2021}} He was raised in Western Wyandotte County in Kansas where he attended St. Patricks, Bishop Ward and Kansas City Kansas Community College.{{Citation needed|date=October 2021}} He has identified as being gay, which has influenced his art.{{cite web|last=Walker|first=Steve|date=February 8, 2001|title=Paint It Loud|url=http://www.pitch.com/2001-02-08/calendar/paint-it-loud/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20070925233948/http://www.pitch.com/2001-02-08/calendar/paint-it-loud/|archive-date=September 25, 2007|publisher=Pitch.com|accessdate=January 8, 2011}}
Lawrence received his B.F.A. in 2009 in new genres from the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI).{{Citation needed|date=October 2021}} He received the CAAC fellowship in 1999 and the Garber Grant in 2001. While he was a student, he worked under artist Ian McDonald at a De Young museum artist residency and they produced a film for the Truly CA series.{{cite web|title=Truly CA|url=http://www.kqed.org/arts/programs/trulyca/shorts/episode.jsp?essid=21900|website=kqed.org|publisher=|accessdate=October 29, 2008}}
He relocated to Kansas City, Missouri,{{When|date=October 2021}} and seven years later to San Francisco{{When|date=October 2021}} to take up performance, film and video art.{{Citation needed|date=November 2021}}
He lived and worked in California for 15 years.{{Cite web|title=BA of the Week Artist – Peter Max Lawrence|url=https://brokeassstuart.com/2014/01/10/ba-of-the-week-artist-peter-max-lawrence/|access-date=2021-10-28|website=Broke-Ass Stuart's Website|language=en-US}}
Career
His discography includes such music as Banana Blues, On Your Own Time, Queer from Kansas, and The Media.{{cite web|title=Peter Max Lawrence discography|url=http://www.purevolume.com/petermaxlawrence|url-status=dead|publisher=Purevolume.com|accessdate=October 29, 2008|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520063833/http://www.purevolume.com/petermaxlawrence|archivedate=May 20, 2011|df=mdy}}
One of his early showings of his art was The Man Who Was Too Loud (2001) at the Kansas City, Kansas, Public Library, about coming out publicly as gay. It was followed later in 2001, by a showing in Montreal. Lawrence also was in the art exhibitions, The Indelible Sulk (2013) a solo art installation at Mission: Comics and Art in San Francisco;{{Cite web|last=Abney|first=Andrea|date=2013-05-15|title=Bay Area weekend picks, May 16–19|url=https://www.sfgate.com/music/essentials/article/Bay-Area-weekend-picks-May-16-19-4519816.php|access-date=2021-10-28|website=SFGATE|language=en-US}} Ungodly: The Spiritual Medium (2020) a group exhibition at Oregon Contemporary gallery in Portland, Oregon;{{Cite web|title=Justin Hoover Ungodly|url=https://www.oregoncontemporary.org/ungodly|access-date=2021-10-28|website=Oregon Contemporary|language=en-US}} and At War (2012) with Truong Tran at SOMArts in San Francisco (as part of a curatorial residency).{{Cite web|title=Artists Peter Max Lawrence & Truong Tran discuss curatorial residency at SOMArts|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Jg7ERvOiAI|access-date=2021-10-21|website=YouTube| date=June 19, 2012 }}{{Better source needed|date=October 2021}}. Lawrence was the third artist in residence for Kalup Linzy's project Queen Rose Art House in tandem with Tulsa Artist Fellowship (2023) [https://www.tulsapeople.com/city-desk/layers-of-linzy-multidisciplinary-artist-creates-home-for-all-to-enjoy/article_0e79f9d6-e519-11ed-a435-8fe08e9abe9d.html ]
= Collaborations =
Paper Waster Press was a collective project with Lawrence, he first engaged with Amy Whitehead,{{When|date=October 2021}} and later with Nico Peck; the duos collaborations continued until 2011.{{Citation needed|date=October 2021}} Lawrence was part of, The Cries of San Francisco: Saturday Market #2 (2011), a group project by Allison Smith at Southern Exposure, San Francisco, California.{{Cite web|date=2013-05-07|title=The Cries of San Francisco: Saturday Market #2|url=https://soex.org/events/cries-san-francisco-saturday-market-2|access-date=2021-10-14|website=Southern Exposure|language=en}}{{Cite web|last=Smith|first=Heather|date=2011-06-08|title=Cries of San Francisco|url=http://missionlocal.org/2011/06/cries-of-san-francisco/|access-date=2021-10-21|website=Mission Local|language=en-US}} Lawrence was part of the art event, Breaking My Spell (2011) at Reykjavik Culture Night, Reykjavik, Iceland; working with fellow SFAI students Michelle Morby, Kirk Wilder, Jenalee Harmon, and Melkorka Helgadottir.{{Cite web|title=Peter Max Lawrence|url=https://breakingmyspell.wordpress.com/tag/peter-max-lawrence/|access-date=2021-10-28|website=Breaking My Spell|language=en}}{{Cite web|date=August 2, 2011|title=The Invasion Has Begun|url=https://korkaart.wordpress.com/tag/performance-art/|website=Korka}}{{Better source needed|date=October 2021}}
= Performances =
Live performances include collaborations and a trilogy of performances in Athens, Greece, that were the cumulative work of an extended residency at Sub Rosa Space{{Cite web|title=Sub Rosa|url=https://www.subrosaspace.net/|access-date=2021-10-14|website=Sub Rosa|language=en-US}} including Beyond Say: An American in Athens (2018),{{Cite web|title=Beyond Say|url=https://www.subrosaspace.net/beyond-say-an-american-in-athens|access-date=2021-10-14|website=Sub Rosa|language=en-US}} The Umpire Strikes Back (2018),{{Cite web|title=The Umpire Strikes Back|url=https://www.subrosaspace.net/the-umpire-strikes-back|access-date=2021-10-14|website=Sub Rosa|language=en-US}} Return of the Yeti (2018).{{Cite web|title=Return of the Yeti|url=https://www.subrosaspace.net/return-of-the-yeti|access-date=2021-10-14|website=Sub Rosa|language=en-US}} Lawrence performed, I Miss America (2018){{Cite web|title=I Miss America {{!}} Peter Max Lawrence|url=https://www.cheapart.gr/product/419/archive-i-miss-america-%7C-peter-max-lawrence-/|access-date=2021-10-20|website=www.cheapart.gr}} at CHEAPArt gallery in Athens.{{Cite web|title=CHEAPART 2018|url=https://www.cheapart.gr/product/428/archive-cheapart-2018-/|access-date=2021-10-20|website=www.cheapart.gr}}{{Cite web|title=CHEAPART {{!}} 83 ΔΕΘ|url=https://www.cheapart.gr/product/415/archive-cheapart-%7C-83-deth-/|access-date=2021-10-20|website=www.cheapart.gr}}
Lawrence performed Whimper (2014), The Stud bar in San Francisco.{{Cite web|date=2017-03-07|title=elbo room|url=http://quietlightning.org/elbo-room/|access-date=2021-10-27|website=quiet lightning|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|date=2017-01-10|title=The Stud|url=http://quietlightning.org/the-stud/|access-date=2021-10-27|website=quiet lightning|language=en-US}} He performed at 4WAVES: 40 Performances for the Hole (2019) in the group event in San Francisco.{{Cite web|last=Rosario|first=Dara Katrina Del|date=2019-08-21|title=Press Release: 4Waves: 40 Performances for the Hole|url=https://somarts.org/4wavespressrelease/|access-date=2021-10-28|website=SOMArts|language=en-US}}
Filmography
Lawrence has also directed music videos such as Krystle Warren's[http://culturemob.com/events/143482-krystle-warren-ca-berkeley-94705-starry-plough-the]{{dead link|date=March 2014}} I've Seen Days{{cite web|date=October 29, 2008|title=I've Seen Days|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yHq0T7ISGQ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131217040943/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yHq0T7ISGQ&feature=related |archive-date=2013-12-17 |url-status=dead|publisher=YouTube|format=video}} and On that First Day of Autumn;{{cite web|last1=Ford|first1=Nancy|last2=Dieckman|first2=Eric A.T.|title=Review: Krystal Warren & The Faculty: Diary|url=http://www.outsmartmagazine.com/cms-this_issue/200709--GrooveOut+Shorts.html|publisher=Outsmartmagazine.com|accessdate=October 29, 2008}}{{dead link|date=January 2017|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}} Carletta Sue Kay's, The Lady and the Creature From the Black Lagoon, For the Birds, and Just Another Beautiful Boy; Pookie and the Poodlez's, go go away from me; and The Centauros{{Cite web|title=Centauros|url=https://centauros.bandcamp.com/|access-date=2021-10-28|website=Centauros|language=en}} featuring AL-V, Calavera in Barcelona, Spain.
- Glitter (2005)
- Negative Space/Jane Sommerhauser (2006)
- Poor Pandora (Spring 2008)
- Something to Trade (2008)
- Queer in Kansas (2008), an autobiographical film.{{Cite web|title=QUEER in KANSAS {{!}} Frameline35 {{!}} Peter Max Lawrence {{!}} USA|url=https://history.frameline.org/festival/film/detail.aspx?id=2331&FID=48|access-date=2021-10-25|website=history.frameline.org}}
- Warholics{{Cite web|last=|date=2012-02-16|title=Artist Profile: Peter Max Lawrence|url=https://www.gaytravel.com/gay-blog/artist-profile-peter-max-lawrence|access-date=2021-10-25|website=Gay Travel|language=en-US}}
- De Young (2017), an experimental documentary as part of the Truly CA series,{{Citation|title=Truly CA, De Young|url=https://www.pbs.org/video/truly-ca-de-young-truly-ca/|publisher=PBS|language=en|access-date=2021-10-27}}
Curator
- 2019 – THE ONE{{Cite web|title=THE ONE|url=http://www.paperwasterpress.com/theone.html|access-date=2021-10-28|website=www.paperwasterpress.com}}{{Failed verification|date=October 2021}}
- 2015 – Lid Off Film Festival, alongside the Grassroots Art Center, Lucas Area Community Theater, Lucas, Kansas{{Cite web|date=2015|title=Lid Off Film Festival|url=https://www.gbtribune.com/news/life/lifestyle/entertainment/lid-off-film-festival/|access-date=2021-10-27|website=Great Bend Tribune}}
- 2014 – The News with Kolmel WithLove at SOMArts, San Francisco, California{{Cite web|last=Staff|first=Sasha Chebil {{!}}|date=2013-06-06|title=Queer artists encourage booing at SOMArts show|url=https://www.dailycal.org/2013/06/06/queer-artists-encourage-booing-at-somarts-show/|access-date=2021-10-28|website=The Daily Californian|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|title=The News 3 Year Anniversary Performance {{!}} in San Francisco|url=https://www.timeout.com/san-francisco/things-to-do/the-news-3-year-anniversary-performance|access-date=2021-10-28|website=Time Out San Francisco|date=July 22, 2015 |language=en}}{{Cite web|date=2014-12-27|title="The News" 3 Year Anniversary: Fresh Queer Performance Series {{!}} SoMa|url=https://sf.funcheap.com/the-news-fresh-queer-performance-series-soma-2/|access-date=2021-10-28|website=Funcheap|language=en-US}}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.petermaxlawrence.com }}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20030331073058/http://www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/m/maxlawrence/artist_reviews.html Absolute Arts reviews of Peter Max Lawrence]
- {{IMDb name|4320720}}
- [http://www.learningtoloveyoumore.com/reports/60/lawrence_peter.php Learning to Love You More: Hard Drive to Heaven]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20081221205705/http://www.authentic-sf.com/sanfrancisco/NoPa.html authentic-sf.com, April 23 2008, San Francisco Guide]
- [http://monologging.org/ghost-conference/ Monologging - Ghost Conference]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uha8ftij7k That Name - Miranda July]
- [https://www.oregoncontemporary.org/ungodly Oregon Contemporary - Ungodly]
- [https://verticalgallery.com/collections/peter-max-lawrence?page=2 Vertical Gallery]
- [https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/6091386/an-essay-by-monica-jane-peck-peter-max-lawrence Why Peter Paints]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Jg7ERvOiAI SOMArts San Francisco - At War]
- https://www.queenrosearthouse.org/residencies
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