Peter Thiebeault
A Flaneur’s Bricolage
01. Choice: Turquoise, 2011, mixed media, 12.375 x 11.875 inches, $1800.00
02. Choose Chartreuse, 2011, mixed media, 12.375 x 11.875 inches, $1800.00
03. Election Day Stress, 2022, collage, 15.75 x 12.5 inches, $1300.00
04. Water & Fire, 2020–22, collage, 15.3215 x 13.0625 inches, $1300.00
05. Excavating the Rift, 2020–22, collage, 16.375 x 13 inches, $1400.00
06. You Go Your Way & I’ll Go Mine, 2020–22, collage, 16.125 x 13.625 inches, $1400.00
07. Andy’s First Toys, 2016, mixed media, 5.5 x 5.5 inches, $600.00
08. The Urge to Protect, 2020–22, collage, 20.75 x 16.25 inches, $1800.00
09. Future Lost, 2016, mixed media, 12.125 x 8.875 inches, $1200.00
10. Truckin’ to the Homeland, 2016, mixed media, 26.875 x 20.875 inches, $2000.00
11. Brokeback Mounties, 2016, mixed media, 12.25 x 17.875 inches, $2000.00
12. Saints of the Modern Age, 2016, mixed media, 12 x 18.25 inches, $2000.00
13. Hat Check, 2017, mixed media, 18.875 x 18 inches, $2000.00
14. I Sack Newt N’Game, 2020–22, collage, 14 x 10.875 inches , $1200.00
15. An Ordinary Day in the Country, 2020–22, collage, 14 x 11.5 inches, $1200.00
16. Seaside Swap Meet, 2020–22, collage, 14 x 11.375 inches, $1200.00
17. Sbaseball, 2020–22, collage, 14.25 x 12.25 inches, $1200.00
18. Addictions Song, 2020–22, collage, 8.875 x 10 inches, $900.00
19. Mythology Bridge, 2020–22, collage, 9 x 10.5 inches, $900.00
20. Gone Fishin,’ 2020–22, collage, 10.5 x 8.875 inches, $900.00
21. The Mystery of Schroon Lake, 2020–22, collage, 5.375 x 7.875 inches, $200.00
22. Braviary (Beware of Imitations), 2016, mixed media, 18.125 x 23.25 inches, $2000.00
23. Livin’ on the Edge, 2020–22, collage, 11.375 x 9.25 inches, $950.00
24. Sittin’ & Sippin,’ 2020–22, collage, 11 x 9 inches, $950.00
25. Self Centered, 2020–22, collage, 11 x 9 inches, $950.00
26. C’est Une Pipe Plastique de Pluto, 2017, mixed media, 8.875 x 10.875 inches, $600.00
27. First Date, 2020–22, collage, 11.625 x 9.125 inches, $950.00
28. Milk Made, 2016, mixed media, 19.5 x 17.875 inches, $2000.00
29. Web Spite, 2020–22, collage, 14 x 11.375 inches, $1200.00
30. Buzz Feed, 2020–22, collage, 13.875 x 11.125 inches, $1200.00
31. When Life Gives You Lemons, 2020–22, collage, 14 x 11.375 inches, $1200.00
32. Something Is Happening Here But..., 2020–22, collage, 12.25 x 10.375 inches, $1000.00
33. I’ll Show You How to Walk the Dog, 2020–22, collage, 12.375 x 10.75 inches, $1000.00
34. The Cutback of Saint Cadillac Jack, 2020–22, collage, 12.125 x 9.75 inches, $1000.00
35. A Poppin’ Fresh New Year, 2016, collage, 6.375 x 4.375 inches, $150.00
36. Samarkand, 2016, collage, 6.375 x 4.375 inches, $150.00
In the Vitrine
37. Jasper’s Johns or I Gotta Go to the Can, 2017, mixed media, 5.625h x 6.375w x 8d inches, $2300.00
38. Transparents, 2017, mixed media, 10.5h x 12.375w x 12.375d inches, $1900.00
Peter Thibeault Bio
Peter Thibeault earned his BFA at Rhode Island School of Design and his MFA at The Art Institute of Boston now at Lesley University. He has worked in many 2D and 3D disciplines as well as taught these disciplines at RISD, MassArt, Northeastern, Wentworth, NESAD, and UMass Dartmouth. He lived and worked in Boston for over 41 years and has recently relocated to the Portland, Maine area with his wife, Frances Hamilton.
A Flaneur’s Bricolage
After working in an Art Library shortly after getting my BFA, I became a lifelong collector of printed ephemera. A short time later, I caught the flea market bug and started accumulating dimensional collectibles as well. When the pandemic hit, I began to seriously use my archives as raw materials for collage as I had been doing with the dimensional assemblage boxes for several years.
The pandemic pushed a lot of us inward and limited our social contacts; a perfect atmosphere to reflect and reassess. For me, it was a time in my life to decide on what exactly was I interested in and motivated to make going forward.
Having watched the “art world” morph in so many ways in my lifetime, it was time for me to decide what aspects of my work were most important. In the face of the larger art worlds aesthetic interests, I began to see that the direction it was taking was progressing toward something akin to a “Museum of Wall Text”!
And so what you see here is the birth of my conclusions: materiality, craft, color, composition, concept and most necessarily: humor! If “ART” cannot be fun and occasionally devoid of seriousness, pretentious or otherwise, I want no part of it.
As the viewer, I ask only that you immerse yourself in my celebration of marginally useful objects, replete with superficial articulation!