 | Peter Agostini
Bronze Swell, 1962
Bronze 17" X 8 ½ " X 8.5" |
 | Peter Agostini
Saracen, 1959
bronze, 31" X 27" X 17"
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 | Peter Agostini
Feet of Apollo, 1980
plaster, 18" X 12" X 14" |
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From New York City, Peter Agostini is basically a self-taught sculptor but spent a year at the Leonardo da Vinci School of Art in New York City. His early work was influenced by Elie Nadelman and Alberto Giacometti, but by the 1950s, he had his own distinct style which was humorous and surrealistic in which he molded found objects, often quite large, in plaster.
Many of his works suggested turbulent themes such as hurricanes and action horses and riders, and he also explored the everyday world with "frozen life" pieces such as clotheslines, pillows, and squeezed inner tubes. In the 1970s, he turned to figure pieces in clay and also did watercolors and monoprints.
Agostini taught at the University of North Carolina for almost twenty years and at the New York Studio School. He received a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 1964. His first one man exhibition was held at the Galerie Grimaud in NYC. His work was exhibited at the Jewish Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art; Claude Bernard, Paris, Art Institute of Chicago, and the Sao Paulo Biennial, VII. His work is included in collections such as the Hirshhorn Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Collections:
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Cleveland Museum of Fine Arts, Cleveland, OH
Hirshborn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Museum, Washington, DC
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Union Carbide
The University of North Carolina, Greensboro
The University of Southern California, Los Angeles
The University of Texas at Austin
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