About the Artist | Peter C. Roell
Born June 13, 1948 at Green Point Hospital, Brooklyn, New York.
Attended All Saints Catholic School, Brooklyn, New York; P.S. 78, Bronx, New York; Sts. Philip and James Catholic School (Class of 1962), Bronx, New York; Cardinal Spellman High School (Class of 1966), Bronx, New York; University of California, Berkeley, California (BA degree in Fine Art, 1969, MA degree in Fine Art, 1971).
Selected solo exhibitions were held in California at the Jason Aver Gallery, San Francisco; Concord Gallery of Fine Art, Concord; University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara; The Stud, San Francisco; Lawson Gallery, San Francisco. Solo exhibition at the Kunstforum, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, West Germany.
Selected group exhibitions in California at the Richmond Art Center, Richmond; NCA Exhibition, Sacramento; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Oakland Museum, Oakland; University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara;Valley Art Gallery, Walnut Creek; The Stud, San Francisco; San Francisco Arts Festival, San Francisco; Lawson Gallery, San Francisco, and the Cascade Gallery, Seattle, Washington.
Selected reviews and citations:
San Francisco Chronicle review by Thomas Albright
Roell does vivid, brightly patterned interiors ... figures whose preening forms cut sinuous white or gray voids into the over-all conposition. The spirits of Aubrey Beardsley and John Altoon seem to be standing in the wings. Roell has evolved a bright, witty and articulate style ...
Sunday Times Herald by E.M. Polley
... Roell understands the use of pattern, and of climbing perspective, and his lively interiors with their areas of ambiguous space make the walls of the newly opened gallery sing. His figure grouping are thought provoking.
San Francisco Chronicle by Alfred Frankenstein
Peter Roell does pop-artist figures in sharp, brilliant virtuoso line, often made shrewdly garish with neon-lighted color.
Lectures in Art, Baylor University by George W. Neubert
Cited in the Regional Emphasis of the Oakland Museum's Permanent Collection series.