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Peter Cordova

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  • Animal Human
  • Bee Gees
  • Larry Harvey
  • Mask
  • Mouse
  • Native Americans
  • Six Faces
  • Two Birds
  • Untitled
  • Willie Nelson

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Peter Cordova
Peter Cordova

Peter Cordova was born in the Philippines in 1966. He has been working at Creativity Explored since 1996.

Cordova often uses marker and acrylic or watercolor to depict images from his memory of growing up in the Philippines which he combines with scenes from his imagination. Cordova also has an abiding interest in Native American culture and often creates detailed imagery, accompanied by explanatory text, of various aspects of this vanishing way of life. He uses lines of varying weight to outline the objects and figures in his complex compositions, and gravitates toward earth tones when adding color.

Cordova also works with ceramics, carefully etching lines into his clay forms, which echo the line quality found in his drawings. He is a prolific artist and is very involved in marketing his work to gallery patrons.

Selected Exhibitions

  • 2010

    • Santos y Otros Creatures, Creativity Explored

  • 2009

    • “Science” Fiction, Creativity Explored
    • A Night at Findlay’s Dance Hall, Creativity Explored
    • TV and Me, Creativity Explored
    • Legend: Myth and Memory, Creativity Explored

  • 2008

    • Hair-Doozy, Glama-Rama!, San Francisco
    • Tasty, Creativity Explored
    • Quarter Century, Creativity Explored

  • 2007

    • Naked, Creativity Explored
    • Seeing Memory, Creativity Explored
    • SF Notables Potrait Auction, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco
    • Shadowshine, Creativity Explored

  • 2006

    • Digital Exhibition, De Young Museum, San Francisco
    • The Beat Goes On, Creativity Explored
    • Music in the City, mural, Mission District, San Francisco

  • 2005

    • In Passing, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery

  • 2004

    • Radiant Spaces: Private Domain, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine
    • Dialogue Project, Funabashi Cure Gallery, Funabashi, Japan
    • Psst, Hey! Be Mine?, Chatterbox Gallery, San Francisco
    • Outside Insight, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA

  • 2001

    • Exploring Purple, Arts Benicia Center Gallery, Benicia

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