Peter Krashes
Sprouting Seed Bomb
2019
Gouache on paper
30 x 40 inches

Painter and activist Peter Krashes’ work juxtaposes immediate human interactions with visual evidence of separations -- fences, walls, police lines and banks of cameras. “Sprouting Seed Bomb” captures a discrete community initiative in which over twelve hundred seed bombs were thrown over fences into empty lots created to make way for what eventually became a long delayed construction project.

Krashes says, “I respond to the beauty I see in my community as it works to maintain its identity, especially in a context where change has knocked it out of balance.”


Peter Krashes lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He is a graduate of the University of Oxford (1987) and Middlebury College (1985). Solo exhibitions include The James Gallery, Graduate Center CUNY, New York, NY; University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL; Theodore: Art, Brooklyn, NY; Coop, Nashville, TN; Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY; Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY; and White Columns, New York, NY. Group exhibitions include He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China; Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, NY; and Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, France.

He has taught in numerous places such as Cooper Union School of Art, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and American University. Krashes is a recipient of a Marshall Scholarship and a Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant. Reviews of his work have appeared in Hyperallergic, the New York Times, Time Out New York, the Huffington Post, and the New Yorker. For the last sixteen years his community organizing has focused on a wide-range of issues in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn.

Learn more at
peterkrashes.com