Peter John Silvia

now we walk through this life almost
as if phasing into the next sphere to
become ghosts or the definition of
what an apparition could exhale into
the sea of voids…

it was not always like this as seldom
any things are so we live quietly apart
from each other together in union of a
name only and that aspect suits us
fine i guess but we don't talk about it…

become who you are has been my
feeling for years once I understood how
things work more closely it would not
have mattered that much but she never
notices what really matters moving
forward…

i do not place any blame on us though
for that does not help any part of any
desire or plan or part of the paths both
chosen or unchosen to give us the portion
of breadth required to get by during the
wonders and falsities we often acquire in
the during of our stay here…

that soft spot in my heart for artists and
lovers and how the whole process of life
sometimes consumes them beyond every
aspect of rationale behavior seems to give
sway to my comfort agents and begins to
sell me a moral fiber that in turn will always
prevent any commercial success that i once
aspired toward…

this is how i have become and growth in it
has made me accept the unproven designs
as only a true artist is capable of understanding
this force of nature that confides in us within
the deepest darkest of secrets we keep about
who we are but rarely admit to others for fear
of success which may render our purpose
impure upon all thoughts and regards…

so we walk unassuming really toward any
indifference held toward our still love for each
other as we care for the beings in our lives in
and out of this dwelling and subscribe to any
and most petty bickering because everyone
needs a hobby to escape to but i always
thought it would be just a little less empty in
feeling even taken all the years of various
pains and pleasures withstood and the all
mighty lessons i have learned to take back
with me to the source… i remain again...

Thursday, April 13, 2017

rEs Um Eeeeeeeee

Peter John Silvia, AKA Pete Silvia, AKA Pet Silvia

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2013
15th Annual Postcards From the Edge, Visual AIDS’ 25th Anniversary, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., NYC

2009
La Petite Mort, Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park NJ
black pop surrealism, The Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts, Longbranch NJ

2008
My Gay Eye 5, Werkstattgalerie, Berlin, Germany
Go Figure, Bullmarket Gallery at Diver, Wichita, KS
Seattle Erotic Art Festival, Seattle Center Exhibition Hall, Seattle, WA

2007
Mein schwules Auge (My Gay Eye), Werkstattgalerie, Berlin, Germany
Seattle Erotic Art Festival, The Fenix, Seattle ,WA
The Dirty Show, Detroit, MI

2006
Bowl-A-Rama, Asbury Lanes, curated by Kirsten Easthope / Jen Hampton, Asbury Park, NJ
Erotic Art Weekend NYC, The Center, New York City

2005
Postcards from the Edge, Robert Miller Gallery, NYC
Museum of Queer Visual Culture, CUNY Graduate Center/Leslie-Lohman Foundation, New York City
Seattle Erotic Art Festival, Consolidated Works, Seattle, WA
Erotic Art Weekend NYC, The Center, New York City
The Dirty Show, Tangent Gallery, Detroit, MI

2004
Can’t Pet This, Art @ Large, New York City, (Solo exhibition)
Seattle Erotic Art Festival, Consolidated Works, Seattle, WA

2003
How NYC Transformed Sex in America, Museum of Sex, NYC
The Decadence Art Show, Niagara, New York City
Open Studio, Video Presentation by Praxis, (Performance), Woolworth Building, New York City
Tom of Finland Erotic Art Fair NYC, The Center, New York City
Seattle Erotic Art Fair, Town Hall, Seattle WA

2002
Group Sex II, Art @ Large, New York City
Tom of Finland Erotic Art Fair NYC, The Center, New York City
Grand Opening, Art @ Large, New York City

2001
Body Language, Leslie Lohman Gallery, New York City
Tom of Finland Erotic Art Fair NYC, The Center, New York City
2000
GMSMA LeatherFEST 20th Anniversary Exhibition, The Center, New York City
1999
2 Bodies, Sacred Body Art Gallery, New York City (Solo Exhibition)
Transformatorium, 113 Ludlow, New York City
5th Annual Erotic Art Fair, Tom of Finland Foundation Los Angeles, CA;
Make 42nd Street Dirty Again, 111 42nd St, New York City;
Edge, the experience, Sacred Body Art Gallery, New York City
Extremities, Sacred Body Art Gallery, New York City
Erotica ‘99, Sacred Body Art Gallery, Jacob Javits Center, New York City
Projection Playground, Baktun, New York City
Tribeca Ball, The Muses, New York Academy of Figurative Art, New York City

1998
Flat-Out Better, Portrait Billboard, Sony Retail Entertainment, Sony Style Stores, 550 Madison Ave, NYC
Third Annual Benefit Auction/Exhibition, PS 122, New York City
Night of 1,000 Drawings, Artists Space, New York City
Sex Object, Sacred Body Art Gallery, New York City (Solo Exhibition)
Doris & Pet, SandBox Magazine Release, (Performance), Baby Jupiter, New York City
May The Force be With You, Doris & Pet, Downtown Arts Festival,
(Performance), Vision 21 series, Tunnel, New York City
BodyMods, Sacred Body Art Gallery, Mist. of Ceremonies, (Performance), New York City
CyberRecycling, SandBox Website Release, Piano Store, New York City
Plaything, Royal Fest ‘98, (Performance), Mother, New York City
Pet, Live from Vegas, (Performance), Treasure Island Casino & Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV
Projection Playground, Baktun, New York City
Sacred + Profane, Sacred Body Art Gallery, New York City
Homo Erotic Video Trash II, Leslie Lohman Gallery, New York City
BodyMods, Sacred Body Art Gallery, New York City
Portrait, Jorgensen Gallery, New York City
Open Video Call, (screening, ‘Original Sin’), Artists Space, New York City
Menage a’ 5, The Belmont Lounge, New York City
7th Photo Annual, Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation Gallery, New York City
Group Sex, Sacred Body Art Gallery, New York City
Open Video Call, (screening, ‘What Ain’t Art’), Artists Space, New York City
Culturemart’s 2nd Annual Emerging Artist, Here Gallery, New York City

1997
Night of 1,000 Drawings, Artists Space, New York City
Cupid’s Dream, Barocco, New York City (Solo Exhibition)
Homo Erotic Video Trash, Leslie Lohman Gallery, New York City
Pet Goes to SoHo, West Broadway and Prince Streets, SoHo, NYC
Charles Gatewood Parade, Grand Marshal, (Performance), Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY
Tampering with the Reel, (open screening, ‘X. Artist’), Artists Space, NYC
Is Nothing Sacred?, Sacred Tattoo, New York City

1996
Kinky Sex, Sixth Annual Erotic Exhibition, Rita Dean Gallery, San Diego, CA
Mannequins in Submission, (Installation), TES 25th Anniversary, Octagon, New York City

1995
Anything for Love, Ramada-University Hotel, Columbus, OH (Solo Exhibition)
ALT. SEX. PHOTO, Hellfire, New York City
Copy Art, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto , CA
First Miami Beach Erotic Art Expo, Griffin Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
Hiroshima: From Me to You, Fukuya Art Gallery, Hiroshima, Japan
Fashion of the Gods, Anything For Love ‘95 Fashion Show, MC, Ramada U. Hotel, Columbus, OH

1994
Copier Art Show, Organization of Independent Artists Gallery, New York City
Mailed Art, Uppsala Turist & Kongress AB/Amnesty Internat’l, Uppsala, Sweden
OIA Salon, The Prince Building, New York City
The Camera and Representation, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Hair: The Long & Short of It, Smithtown Township Arts Council, St. James, NY

1993
Exploding The Figure, Ramapo College Art Gallery, Mahwah, NJ
Multiculturalism, Bunker Hill Community College Gallery, Boston, MA

1992
Salon ‘92, Tribeca 148 Gallery, New York City
Eat, Russell Sage College Gallery, Troy, NY
The 1.5 Show, Tribeca 148 Gallery, New York City
By Any Means Necessary, Printed Matter at Dia, New York City
New Artists, Magna Gallery, New York City

1991
Electrografikak Groupe 91, Vasarely Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Window Show, Magna Gallery, New York City
The Contemporary Art Scene, The Emerging Collector Gallery, New York City
Summer Splash/Summer Styles, Montserrat Gallery, New York City

1990
Xerographics in Paint, Pleiades Gallery, New York City (Solo Exhibition)
New Yorkers in Barcelona, Cartoon Galeria, Barcelona, Spain
Xerographic Paintings, New Identities Gallery, Springfield, NJ
15th Anniversary Show, Pleiades Gallery, New York City
Iscagraphics, Nathan Resnick Gallery, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY

1989
Recent Paintings, J. August’s Cafe, New Brunswick, NJ (Solo Exhibition)
New York Art, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA
12 at 588, Montserrat Gallery, New York City

1988
Holiday Exhibit, Pleiades Gallery, New York City
The Indian and The Rock, The Art Gallery, Newark, NJ

1986
Metro Show, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ

1985
Tenth Anniversary Show, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ

1984
Metro Show, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
Newarkart, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
Ninth Anniversary Show, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
Contemporary And Historic Photography, Newark Public Library, NJ
Millburn Art Show, Millburn, NJ
Meet The Artist, South Orange Village, NJ

1983
Metro Show, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
Member Artist’s Show, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
The Nude/Egg Photo’s, The Art Gallery, Newark, NJ
James Street Commons, (First Place, Photography), Washington Park, Newark, NJ
Meet The Artist, South Orange Village, NJ

1982
Metro Show, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
Meet The Artist, South Orange Village, NJ
James Street Commons, Washington Park, Newark, NJ
Book Fair, Newark Public Library, NJ

1968
Student Exhibition, Board of Education, Newark NJ

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

The Kinsey Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Tom of Finland Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation, New York City
Newark Public Library, Print Collection, NJ

Purchased Prints through the I.S.C.A. Quarterly:
Atlanta College of Art Library
Bibliotheque d’Art d’Archeologie, Geneva
Brooklyn Museum Library
Chelsea School of Art, London
Garden Grove School District, California
Getty Center Library
ICP Library, George Eastman House
Metropolitan Museum, Print Department, New York
MOMA Library, New York
Mid-Manhattan Library
Musee National d’Art Moderne, Paris
New York Public Library, Print Room
Rhode Island School of Design Library
Ringling School of Art Library, Sarasota
Sackner Archives, Miami Beach
School of the Art Institute Library, Chicago
Tate Gallery Library, Philadelphia
Temple University Library, Philadelphia
University of California Library, Santa Barbara
University of Michigan Library, Ann Arbor
Victoria and Albert Museum Library, London
Yale University Art and Architecture Library, New Haven

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Aquarian Weekly, Home of the New Movement, 12/07/05 (Interview by Barbara Wegner)
Art Business News, November 2002, “Art That Excites”, Claudia La Rocco, (Interview)
Art Now Gallery Guide, October, 1993, “From The Studio”, (Reproduction with quote).
Artspeak, May 1, 1990, “Soho Discoveries”, (Reproduction).
Azon, Gary, “Art Around Town”, Downtown, June 9, 1993, No. 320, (Reproduction).
Benjamin, Louis, The Naked and the Lens, 2009, Focal Press, Interview / Reproduction).
Ehman, Abby, Misplaced Modifiers, Resident, Vol. 9,#54, September 16 - 22, 1997, Page 12, (Photo).
EIDOS, Vol.8, No. 1, November, 1994, (Reproductions).
The Exhibitioner, Vol. 2, No. 1, Jan.-Feb. 1994, (Reproductions with quote).
Filler, Marion, “Parsippany Artist Gets Attention”, The Daily Record, Dec. 29, 1989. (Reproduction).
FOLHA DE S. PAULO, “Tudo por Amor”, Feb. 26, 1995, Sec. 6, (Reproduction and Interview).
Freedman, Diana, “How The Viewer Can See Clearly”, Artspeak, Dec. 16, 1988, (Reproduction).
Gay City News, July 5-11, Vol. 1, No 6., “Erotic Emporium”, by Aaron Krach, (Interview & Reproductions)
Grant, Will, “Pete Silvia Advances Xerox Art”, (Review), Artspeak, Jan. 1, 1990, (Reproduction).
Hall, Meredith, “New Artists Take Their Places In The Sun Of Group Shows”, Artspeak, Dec. 1, 1989
(Reproduction).
HX For Her, #036, September 10, 1997, Page 25, (Reproduction).
HX Magazine, #7.37, September 5, 1997, Page 60, (Reproduction).
Kinky People, Places and Things, Vol.5, No.6, Summer, 1996, (Reproductions).

The I.S.C.A. Quarterly, (International Society of Copier Artists):
Vol. 14, No. 3, Spring, 1996, (S/N Print);
Vol. 14, No. 1, Fall, 1995, (S/N Print- 11 x 17”);
Vol. 13, No. 4, Summer, 1995, Bookworks Issue, “TV Guide”, (8 pgs., S/.N);
Vol. 13, No. 3, Spring, 1995, (S/N Print);
Vol. 13, No. 2, Winter, 1994, (S/N Print);
Vol. 13, No. 1, Fall, 1994, (S/N Print);
Vol. 12, No. 4, Summer, 1994, Bookworks Issue, “Calendar Nymphs”, (28 pgs., S/N);
Vol. 12, No. 3, Spring 1994, (S/N Print);
Vol. 12, No. 2, Winter, 1993, (S/N Print);
Vol. 12, No. 1, Fall, 1993, (S/N Print);
Vol. 11, No. 4, Summer, 1993, Bookworks Issue, “Product”, (8 pgs., S/N);
Vol. 11, No. 3, Spring, 1993, (S/N Print);
Vol. 11, No. 2, Winter, 1992, (S/N Print);
Vol. 11, No. 1, Fall, 1992, (S/N Print);
Vol. 10, No. 4, Summer, 1992, Bookworks Issue, “Message in a Bottle”, (11 pgs., S/N);
Vol. 10, No. 3, Spring, 1992, (S/N/ Print);
Vol. 10, No. 2, Winter, 1991, (S/N Print);
Vol. 10, No. 1, Fall, 1991 (S/N Print);
Vol. 9, No. 3, Spring, 1991, (S/N Print);
Vol. 9, No. 2, Winter, 1990, (S/N Print);
Vol. 9, No. 1, Fall, 1990, (S/N Print);
Vol. 8, No. 4, Summer, 1990, Bookworks Issue, “Dead Artists Diary”, (16 pgs., S/N);
Vol. 8, No. 3, Spring, 1990, (S/N Print);
Vol. 8, No. 2, Winter, 1989, (S/N Print);
Vol. 8, No. 1, Fall, 1989, (S/N Print).

Le Suer, Claude, “Diverse Summer Pleasures”, Artspeak, Summer, 1990, (Review).
Lover of the Image, April 1993, Vol. 15, (Reproduction, with quote).
Masquerade, May/June 1998, Vol.7, No.3, Group Sex, (Interview of show curating).
Mein schwules Auge 4 (My Gay Eye 4), Edited by Rinaldo Hopf, (Konkursbuch Verlag, 2007).
Next Magazine, Vol.5, #7, August 29, 1997, Page 14,(Reproduction).
Norris, Charlotte, “This Is Xerox Art”, (Interview),Obscure Magazine, Fall 1989, Vol. 4, (Reproduction).
Norris, Charlotte, Obscure Magazine, Spring, 1990, Vol. 5, (Review).
Nugget, Vol. 39, No. 9, Dec. 1995, “Pete Silvia: Man/Woman, Artist/ Model”, (2 pages with reproductions ).
NY Blade, Men By Men, April 2, 2004 (Interview by Steve Weinstein)
Printed Matter 1996 Catalog, Marianne, pg. 42; ISCA Quarterly, pg. 80.
Photographers Forum Magazine, Annual, Summer, 1984, (Reproduction).
Prometheus, Winter, 1996, TES - Happy 25!, (Reproduction).
Prometheus, Fall/Winter, 1995, The Gallery, (Reproductions).
Prometheus, Summer, 1995, “Pete Silvia - Artist/ Model”, (Reproductions and Quotes).
REUTERS, Assets: Erotica, Stirs Art Market, 02/12/04 (Interview by Richard Chang).
SandBox Magazine #6, 1998, “Pet Process”, (Article and Photos).
SandBox Magazine #9 Spring 2001, “Vice/Versa”, (Article and Photos).
Seidel, Mitchell, “Newark Library Discovers Treasures...”, The Star Ledger, Mar. 4, 1984, (Reproduction).
S&M News, Vol. 3, No. 2, 1995, “Anything For Love”, (Reproduction and Biography).
Tom of Finland 6th Annual Erotic Art Fair Catalog, 2000, (Reproduction).
Transformation, Number 8, 1995, “Photos of Bountiful Beauty”, (Reproductions /Quotes).
Time Out New York, Muse d’Horn By Ashlea Halpern, Weds. May 7, 2008, (critiques).

SELECTED PUBLISHED WORKS

1971
Zappa Buck (offset litho poster)

1979
Electric Pete Comix #1 - comic book, (B/W), 7” x 10”, 32 pages, Edition: 1,500 (NOTE: Approx. 1,000 + copies lost in flood damage, circa1984)

1980's
Cartoons in mini comix published by Clay Geerdes' Comix World, Berkeley, CA:
A Boy and His Dinosaur - solo, (B/W), 4 1/4” x 5 1/2”, 8 pages, Ed: 500
BabyFat #11 - Topless Female Marine Gets Order of the Boot
Babyfat #12 - Spuddering Mad
Babyfat #12 - The Hawkeye Fish
Babyfat #12 - J. Fred Muggs?
Babyfat #13 - A Boy and His Dinosaur, (1 page)
Babyfat #14 - Sounds Fishy
Babyfat #18 - At a Snail's Pace
Babyfat #19 - Monstrous Tale
BabyFat #35, (Cover)
Fried Brains #3 - Never Leave Home Again
Funny Organs #1 - Hey Boys and Girls -- Donate
Animal Bites #1 - A Boy and His Dinosaur #2, (1 page)
Cold Turkey #1 - Pity The Poor Astronaut
New Moon - Would You Care To
Organs On Parade #1 - The Penile Bros, (Back Cover)

1980
Panelular Modulationalism #1 - mini comix, (B/W), 4 1/4” x 5 1/2”, 8 pages, Edition: 250
Panelular Modulationalism #2 - mini comix, (B/W), 4 1/4” x 5 1/2”, 8 pages, Edition: 250
Electric Pete Comix #2 - comic book, (B/W), 5 1/2” x 8 1/2”, 32 pages, Edition: 250
Electric Pete Comix #3 - comic book, (B/W), 5 1/2” x 8 1/2”, 32 pages, Edition: 250

1981
Pan Mod number seven - comix and drawings book, (B/W), 5 1/2” x 8 1/2”, Edition: 250
Electric Pete Comix #4 - comic book, (Color + B/W), 5 1/2” x 8 1/2”, 32 pages, Edition: 250

1982
Mean Thin Lines - drawings, (B/W), 4 1/4” x 5 1/2”, 8 pages, Edition: 250

1983
Gibberish - drawings, (B/W), 4 1/4” x 5 1/2”, 8 pages, Edition: 100
Fran Mod - photographic portfolio, (B/W), 5” x 7”, Edition: 13
Line Drawings - photographic portfolio, (B/W), 5” x 7”, Edition: 22

1984
‘N Now A Senseless Waste of Paper - drawings, (B/W), 4 1/4” x 5 1/2”, 8 pages, Edition: 100
But I Like To Draw - drawings, (B/W), 4 1/4” x 5 1/2”, 8 pages, Edition: 100

1985
In Bed - photographic portfolio, (B/W), 8” x 10”, Edition: 7

1994
Life Drawings, drawings and poetry portfolio, (B/W), 8 1/2” x 11”, Edition: 100
Marianne, photo narrative xerographic artist book, (color + B/W), 4” x 5 1/2”, Edition: 110

1995
Little Black Book, xerographic print portfolio, (color + B/W), 5 1/2” x 8 1/2”, Ed: 76
Anything For Love ‘95, laser poster, (color), 11” x 17”, Edition: 100

2001
A Pet Odyssey, (color calendar)

2011
Who you gonna be with (music CD)

2013
Does The King in Power (book 1 - poetry, cover drawing)
The Echo Hunter (book 2 - poetry, cover drawing)
Nothing More (book 3 - poetry, cover drawing)
My Guitars Laugh At Me (book 4 - poetry, cover drawing)

2014
Strangers asking forgiveness (book 5 - poetry, cover drawing)

SELECTED TELVISED MEDIA

1999
The Malignant Muse, Weekly, Hostess, various characters, guest artists, half-hour shows,
MNN, Chan 67.

1998
The Malignant Muse, Weekly, 52 shows, MNN, Chan. 16.

1997
Eroticism, Segment for Argentina Television.
Sexy NYC with Joey B., MNN, Channel 17.
The Malignant Muse, Weekly, 52 shows, MNN, Chan. 16.

1996
The Malignant Muse, Weekly, 13 shows, MNN, Chan. 16.
1994

Reuters News Service, Sept. 4, 1994, “Wigstock”, (Interview).

1990
The Joe Franklin Show, Aug. 9, 1990, WWOR, Ch. 9, (Interview).

1989
MTV News, Dec. 7 1989, MTV, (Interview).

SELECTED VIDEO PROJECTS

1998
Art Video, 18 minutes, VHS
What Ain’t Art, 10 minutes, VHS

1997
Original Sin, 7 minutes, VHS
X. Artist, 10 minutes, VHS

FILMS

1996
Wigstock, the Movie, (Cameo Appearance).

PUBLISHED ESSAYS

2007
Carnivora, “Sex Machine”, (Barany Books, 2007)
Flash Dragons, The Art of Spider Webb, introduction, (Schiffer, 2007)

2006
Seattle Erotic Art Festival, Program introduction, Seattle, WA

2005
Frances Turner, 38 Paintings, Catalogue essay, (Art At Large, 2005)

SELECTED CURATORIAL EXHIBITIONS

2013
Paint By Number, Diver Gallery, Wichita, KS

2007
Erotic Signature Competition
Seattle Erotic Art Festival, The Fenix, (Guest Curator/Lecturer) Seattle, WA

2006
Seattle Erotic Art Festival, Consolidated Works, (Guest Curator/Lecturer) Seattle, WA

2006
Art @ Large, New York City:

Going Underground, June 15 - July 1
Tiny is Good! Tiny Fine Art Group Exhibition, February 18 - April 1
David Hochbaum, These Things Between Us, APRIL 20 - May 13
Ruth Waldman, Suspend, Jan 12 - Feb 4

2005
Seattle Erotic Art Festival, Consolidated Works, (Guest Curator) Seattle, WA
Manner of Solitude, Visual AIDS Web Gallery, October, 2005

Art @ Large, New York City:

Winter Invitational, December 8 - 30, 2005, featuring: H.R. Giger, Sorayama, John John Jesse, Carolyn Weltman, Skip Williamson, David Hochbaum, Niagara, Brian Viveros, Gidget Gein, Michael Kirwan, Ross Johnston,
Carolyn Weltman - Fresh Girls, Nov 10 - 30
John John Jesse - Idol Worship, Oct 13 - Nov 5
HR GIGER - Gigerotique, Sep 8 - 30
FRANCES TURNER (1965 - 2003) Jun 10 - 25
CHARLES GATEWOOD - GATEWOOD, May 13 - 28
TOM of FINLAND / ETIENNE / LUGER, Exhibition & Auction Apr 7 - 23
CRAZY SEXY HOLLYWOOD, Carlos Batts, Dave Naz, Rick Castro, Estevan Oriol, Patrick Hoelck, Steve Diet Goedde, March 10 - 26
LEYBA & GARRETT - SEX & THE MUSE, Steven Johnson Leyba and Rik Garrett, Feb 10 - 26
RINALDO HOPF - SUBVERSIVE Jan 13 - 29

2004
Art @ Large, New York City:

X-mas, gallery group show, Dec 9 - 22
BARBARA NITKE, Illuminata: Are You Curious?, NOV 11 - 27, 2004
Brian Viveros, Smokin’ Babes, OCT 14 - 30
JOHN JOHN JESSE - Punk Electrique - SEP 9 - OCT 2
L.A. WILLETTE - THE POWER OF WOMEN May 6 - 22
ETIENNE, LUGER, KIRWAN, DeBAUCH, HANSON, MEN BY MEN - Apr 8 - 24
SPIDER WEBB - THE GIRLS OF NINE-ELEVEN Mar 4 - 20
PET SILVIA - CAN’T PET THIS Feb 5 - 21
BILL FOGARTY - IRREVERENCE Jan 8 - 24

2003
Art @ Large, New York City:

CAROLYN WELTMAN - Ohhhh Baby! December 4 - 27
DAVID HOCHBAUM - Below Us is the Sky November 6 - 29
ANNIE SPRINKLE - Photographs September 4 - 27
FRED HATT - LifeForce July 10 - August 2, 2003
Frances Turner, Flesh in Oil, May 29 - June 21
Ducky DooLittle, Fan Mail, April 24 - May 17
Steven Johnson Leyba, Skin Walker, March 20, - April 12
Sonja Wagner, Ruby Legs, February 13 - March 8
Andy Kane & Anonymous Folk Art, Kane & the Somewhat Able, January 16 - February 7

2002
Art @ Large, New York City:

Group Sex II, 43 artists group show, December 5 - January 4, 2003,
John John Jesse, Catholica Erotica, October 30 - November 24
Of Quentin Crisp, Photographs from the Quentin Crisp Archives, Sept 28 - Oct 19
Barbara Nitke, Twenty Years, July 10 - Aug 3
Michael Rosen, Lust & Romance, June 7 - 29
Charles Gatewood, Wet Dreams, May 3 - 25

1999
Sacred Body Art Gallery, 365 Canal Street, New York City:

Unseen, January, Gallery Artists Group Show
Bambini does the Tattoo Parlor, February 4 - 27, Vincent Bambini
Industrial Reincarnation, March 4 - 27, Frank Pawlowski
2 Bodies, April 1 - 24, Pet Silvia
Wet Dreams, May, Charles Gatewood
Extremities, June - July, Non-Photo, Gallery Artists Group Show
Edge - the Experience, August - September, S/M Photo Gallery Artists Group Show

1999
Erotica ‘99, Jacob Javits Center, New York City
Sacred Body Art Gallery Installation, Gallery Artists

1998
The Belmont Lounge, 117 East 15th Street, New York City:
Menage a’ 5 - Group Show, June 1 - July 1

1998
Sacred Body Art Gallery, 365 Canal Street, New York City:

Sculptures, Drawings, Collages, etc..., Dec 3 - Dec 26, Morrie Cramer
The Phallus as an Artistic Motif..., Oct 29 - Nov 21, Richard Foster
Sacred + Profane, Oct 1 - Oct 24, Gallery Artists Group Show
PinUps, PinDowns, Sept 3 - Sept 26, Jason Freeny
Body Mods, July 9 - Aug 29, Summer Gallery Artists Group Show
FleshLight, June 11 - July 4, Fred Hatt
Synthetic Skin, May 14 - June 6, Ann Marie Auricchio
Sex Object, April 16 - May 9, Pet Silvia
Reliquary, Mar 19 - Apr 11, Leslie Samuels
Group Sex, Feb 19 - Mar 14, Gallery Artists Group Show

EDUCATION

1967-1971 Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art, Newark, NJ.
Major: Fine Arts; Minor: Mechanical Drawing

SELECTED LINKS

Printed Matter Artist Books
https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/artist/4074

Seattle Erotic Art Festival
http://www.seattlepi.com/ae/article/Seattle-Erotic-Art-Festival-just-keeps-growing-1170925.php

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17819862/ns/health-sexual_health/t/artwork-goes-groin/

ask ART
http://www.askart.com/AskART/S/pet_silvia/pet_silvia.aspx?ID=124874

Kinsey Institute Gallery, Indiana University
http://www.iub.edu/~kinsey/services/gallery/jeas/2008/jurorbios.html

Sex TV
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2877935/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1129739/?ref_=ttep_ep4

Visual Aids Gallery, Curator
http://www.thebody.com/visualaids/web_gallery/2005/silvia/statement.html

HR Giger
http://www.hrgiger.com/gigerotique.htm

http://www.giger-dvd.com/en/interview/

Museum of Sex
http://www.villagevoice.com/2003-10-14/people/marital-bondage/

Leslie Lohman Foundation
http://www.leslielohman.org/PermColl/queermuseum/MQVC4.jpg

http://www.ecrater.com/p/867738/a-boy-and-his-dinosaur-mini-comic

Tom of Finland Foundation
http://tomoffinlandfoundation.org/foundation/Events/ev_2007_03_18_SeattleEroticArtFestival.htm

http://tomoffinlandfoundation.org/foundation/Dispatch/Dispatch2001Aug/NYCfair.htm

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart/moment-of-zen-the-malignant-muse-1656076/

Friday, March 31, 2017

bioGrApHy

Reverend Peter John Silvia, a.k.a. Pete Silvia, a.k.a. Pet Silvia, born December 7, 1953, is an american poet, artist, and musician.

Early life

Raised in Newark New Jersey by his maternal grandparents since age two, Silvia grew up during a time when truth, freedom, and love seemed more abundant. That would be the 1960's. He began drawing, writing, and playing guitar at an early age and had an equal desire and talent for all three.

He attended Arts High School, (Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art), in Newark, a vocational school for art and music and excelled at his art classes and gradually failed miserably at all other academics, except English literature. He dropped out in his senior year growing weary of school authority, and the novelty of a first name basis with the vice-principal, whom he was sent to almost daily, wore off after awhile. He loved all his art teachers, and his mechanical drawing teacher, who said he had taken the curriculum farther than anyone else in the schools history.

Careers

Beginning a professional music career in the late 1960's, Silvia was a finalist in the WABC radio "Big Break" talent show at Carnegie Hall in New York when he was sixteen. He performed at many venues during the 1970's including a few nights at the legendary CBGB's in downtown Manhattan. He left the music business after being fired from a nightclub on his birthday in 1978, though he did perform during the mid eighties for a time.

He worked at the Newark Public Library, which lasted for nearly 15 years, starting out as a 'book stack boy', to head clerk of the U.S. Government Documents Division, and graduating to the manager of Photographic Services five years prior to the time of his leave in 1985.

Silvia was a member of the Newave comix movement which was mostly organized, published and inspired by Clay Geerdes and his Comix World newsletter out of Berkeley California. There were many works both self-published and cartoon pages published by Geerdes of many important mini comics artists during the late seventies and early eighties.

His self published Electric Pete Comix, and other mini comix and books were done between 1979 and 1984. Other books and photographic portfolios were made during the 80's, 90's and more recently several books of selected poetry since 2013.

Begining in 1985, he lived off of his meager pension money for a while, living with his mother, half brother and half sister for the first time for several years. He came into the employ of several printing reproduction houses in Morristown N.J. on the night shift and rose to position of manager within six months on both accounts, about five years each.

His radical paintings which incorporated transferred xeroxed images and paint on canvas, were shown in various galleries in New Jersey and New York. His works and interviews were featured on the Joe Franklin Show, and an MTV News segment introduced by Kurt Loder in 1989.

Between 1989 and 1996 he had many of his works published in the I.S.C.A. Quarterly, (The International Society of Copier Artists), where the art of the copier/Xerox print was elevated to fine art status years before the advent of digital Giclée fine art prints. These works of original signed and numbered limited edition artist prints were hand collated and sent to many prestigious museum collections world wide. I.S.C.A. was the brain child and labor of love published by Louise Neaderland, one of the great unsung heroes and champions of art and printmaking.

He met his future wife in Columbus Ohio in early 1995, and lived with her in a tiny apartment in Manhattan for over ten years. During this time, he did commercial work painting murals, constructing architectural models, and designing murals with wide digital format printers.

He had a television show, The Malignant Muse, on Manhattan Cable Network, which gained a cult following in 1997-1999. Performing on the show in drag, and interviewing unknown artists to promote their work, he poked fun at the well known artists because, "they deserved it". This was the period when he went by the name, Pet Silvia. He also had another character named Art Larck, who did a 3-5 minute segment each week called Instructional Painting the Post-Modern Way with your host Art Larck. Silvia donned a black soul patch, shades and reversed cap with a look that combined elements of Beat, Hippie, and Hip-Hop cultures.

He started to curate art exhibitions of many of these artists starting out in the basement of a tattoo shop on Canal Street in NYC, Sacred Body Art Emporium, and then in a gallery that him and his wife ran in Mid-town Manhattan, called Art @ Large. Many prominent underground and erotic artists exhibited there including: HR Giger, Annie Sprinkle, Charles Gatewood, Spider Webb, John John Jesse, Carolyn Weltman, Steven Johnson Leyba, Frances Turner, L.A. Willette, Andy Kane, Sorayama, Gidget Gein, Tom of Finland, and even a horse who painted with a brush in his mouth from Nevada named Cholla.

He has been interviewed in many magazines, newspapers, videos and TV shows within his capacity as curator, and also worked closely with such organizations as the Tom of Finland Foundation, Seattle Erotic Art Festival, the Leslie Lohman Gay Art Foundation, and many other venues. He has written for books published on the works of artists whom he had working relationships with.

Most occupations in no particular order: artist, musician, writer, printer, draftsman, model maker, fine art photographer, sports photographer, yearbook photographer, wedding photographer, portrait photographer, archivist, library clerk, model, limo driver, guitar inspector, insurance clerk, delivery boy, muralist, porn actor, xerox operator, cartoonist, exhibitor, display installer, prop builder, graphic designer, drag queen, TV host, webmaster, gallerist, curator, mat-cutter, picture framer, deli counter worker, poet, diorama builder, performance artist, print shop manager, business manager, actor, bookkeeper, painter, sculptor, fine art print maker, book stack boy, vocalist, bass player, guitarist, sound engineer, director, blueprint operator, artist representative, lecturer, publisher, cook, home repairer, carpenter, ordained reverend.

A few years ago, Silvia moved from New York to Kansas, and endures through this life questioning the insanities of this world and the motherfuckers who would own it.

Sunday, November 20, 2016

holidaze 2016: of thee i sing

of thee i sing...

…the flesh has a pleasure in mind but
if we let go and allow that simple truth
evolve by accepting these manners for
wholesome endure being much greater than
any adverse political folly brought to bear fruit
from the tree of conquer, swindle, rape and
suffer, which is the solid legacy of what he
spoke to me, as if to provoke my more than
thorough and to give a soft or hard repose or
perhaps what thought

I listened and recall, thus, my children…

(quote…),

"amerika the exceptional amerika the crossed
fingers behind it's back amerika the bloody
witness who begs foregivness, lier amerika with
smallpox infested blankets of relief, amerika
the hoodwinked bearing trust in god forced upon
ab-originals original being here and what did
they ever do to deserve this, amerika the empire
of white land owners who stole and now author
a piece of paper to keep it all proper and justified
and legal for gens to come amerika with it's
rifles and bulldozers amerika the always
ready to sign away your rights amerika your
land is our land amerika we will take what our
God has granted us - safe passage and approval
to pilfer from your grandfathers' grandfathers
amerika incorporated and stolen as was always
intended amerika the banks have spoken from over
the other side of the vast waters from within the
monarchs' vagina and through the patriarchs' penis
and their sons' penis's penis' as was their god's chosen
people's penises to take as they please due to cunning
smear and deceit because they fuckin' can amerika and
keeps it's dirty secrets of gain hidden in shadows of
every soul taken in bloody wrath amerika the forefathers
intent being rich white sons of bitches to keep their
heirs in peanuts and cotton and oil and land rights
taken forever and forever and prize your guns amerika
because we have all the bigger guns and all the plenty
guns and all of our god's guns as our lawyers make it
so and all of the well OIL'd machine to press you until
you've understood amerika all bought and paid for
congress all bought and paid for politicians all bought
and paid for legislative bodies in robes like the KKK'deluxes
who still drive that engine of despair for all those brought
to bare both black and brown the corporate revolving door
shills of my country tis of thee amerika pockets deepest
all bought and paid for in the most EVIList, EVIL supreme
court amerika the presidential representative puppet whose
strings are pulled by ages old monies gens of bankers amerika
so keep the illusion alive and vote, for it is not who votes
it's who counts the votes amerika and there will never be a
time that you forget the name of your jailer amerika that
is where we rule you amerika the New World Order and
now the only world for Full Spectrum Dominance say it's
name on your knees bitch, SHOUT IT! amerika pick my
cotton work my fields DO MY WILL BE DONE build
my railroad drill my oil do as I say or you will know pain
beyond words amerika for I am your true WHITE DEVIL
and I will burn down your house with your children within
amerika and I will rape your wife and her mother's mother's
mother until I get my MONEY and I will spit on your every
generation amerika set my table amerika cook my meals
amerika taste my food that makes you ugly and obese and
then gives pause to buy more insurance and pay for much
expense in medicines to rot in stink of my inc. hospitals' slabs
and pay your debt to me pay your debt pay your insane interest
to me always always and always will you pay of thee i sing
amerika pay me back through your soul if not then rot ever
after in my cells of woe with all the other filth that you
deserve a part of as for me to stand my ground upon
you would otherwise not need amerika light my cigar
from your hands ablaze from working in my slave labor
corporations amerika give me your interest payments as
debt is the slave that pays me very well amerika my rules
forever posted on the walls of my many mansions amerika
wash my feet as you genuflect amerika wash my balls
as you yell you rebel dog scum amerika and wash my ass
amerika suck on my prick of freedom amerika lick my
boots make them shine amerika lick my flag and give sweat
to me your taxes amerika bust all the unions for me and steal
your pensions amerika destroy all articles in the bill
of rights what rights, not yours - Mine amerika well you
gave us these gifts didn't chew didn't you didn't ya'll
- and now we have given our plan to you our version
of the utmost perverted form of democracy ever
devised by RICH WHITE MEN and will evermore be
Empire that is amerika and if you act now all your
land can be ours if the price is right and the price paid
is what we will freely take for it is rightfully ours
IN GOD WE TRUST that bestowed upon us what is
and will always be rightfully ours or so our army
of slaughterers and mercenaries and Lawyers has granted
us on this day as our daily bread amerika so help me god
Amen you heathen savage brown-skined mother fuckers
to just go die in your puddles of shit and blood and
eugenic waste while we can live our lives in golden towers
built without guilt gated and army'd by paid butchers
amerika from every mountainside of thee i sing…"

(unquote…),

this he told me…

and I walked away un-nerved, but I keep Love close
with me always, in my heart, for my fear is none, just
knowing how inept his Time is both here and in the after…

keep Love with you always, my children, as it will guide
you and protect you.

of thee I sing…

Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Embrace your yearns

Embrace your yearns
for the bravado played by elites to
get the Him in was played beautifully
(if such a word can be described in this
un-holy context).

Yo, don, may your dick be hard and your
accountants free of jail forever as you
ejaculate on bill/hill faces of death to
prescribe the one the owners wish given.

And may the owners ever own, and all
who join them in their orgy of our pain,
my pain, your pain, forever to rule over
our sorry asses for we left the what gives.

May the zionistas revel in their cause
as suffering gives supreme justice
and may we all remember how this
will bring it all down when children ask.

Tuesday, November 8, 2016

election day 2016

Embrace death...
accept the royal bitches con

marvel at the script played by
the joker of new yorkie city
and the money the R&R's will
bequeath him for his service as
the boxer who takes the fall.

He will surely pass.

And accept the royal queen bitch
of Mutually Assured Destruction
as they fuck in their bunkers while
we, the proletariat writhe in pain.

And when it's all done, they emerge
with sword and champagne in hand
to begin their begin again.

To what end is the real mystery.

I guess they really think they
are the chosen ones.

So, embrace death... for our only hope
and escape, is back to the source for
yet another sphere.

Sunday, October 30, 2016

Also won, also lost was a Time for

Also won, also lost was a Time for
give and take among our lovers in
freedom and chosen purpose of
In Kind with heaps of do-goodery.

Saturday, October 22, 2016

What convictions?

What convictions?
politicians
don't cause frictions
in any jurisdictions
our afflictions
from their dictions.

Make our wishes
like the fishes
free from dishes
not duplicitous
not fictitious
all delicious.

Sunday, October 9, 2016

Floating now, forever brisk

Floating now, forever brisk
in movements like skating
on ice… Ah winter, my
favorite season of discontent
or dat - content, but all-ways
counting tracks in the snow
of Time's descent captures
annulment as summer's index

… What joy we had there
what frolic and mirth
to add a so-on to the
visions of corduroy girls
and pea-coated boys… By
spring, we await New
saviors and honey.

Monday, September 19, 2016

Fuck your fReEd0m

Fuck your fReEd0m
fuck your flag and fuck your
sister on your porch texting
her stupid in iraq about how
much her vag-J-j aches for
his riches full of come and
dumb is what you are.

Fuck your h0lIdAzE of burnt
meat and hollow values shown
about what bravery is when it's
only cowards who follow orders
to invade sovereign nations to
rape their women kill their
children steal their resources.

Fuck your günZ and gAmEs
and fly overs of weapons
amassed beyond your understand
of the games unleashed for profit
in your kept unclean serious for
your solace is not without merit
as the owners profit on our divisions.

Fuck your mOthErfUckIng cEos and
tax free billionaire douchebags with
their fake tax break philanthropy evil,
vile, despicable men like bros Cock
and rock-o-fell and all the other little
eichmanns and their submissive who
tow lines for suckles on their gods tit.

Sunday, September 11, 2016

And remember...

http://www.ae911truth.org/

Friday, September 9, 2016

Never Forget...

September 9 - 13, 1971

http://dissidentvoice.org/2016/09/legacies-of-attica/

Sunday, September 4, 2016

too much hate between the tribes in

too much hate between the tribes in
-side with masses for context here
could be virtue that rarely happens.

color matters none we stand together
divided we fall make peace with each
all us in this kettle hand in hand.

should elite swine ever face us on our
home standings they will perish at
the hands of only fates allowed.

gather your neighbors from near and
far to offer the way of understand for
if not the risk is greater than you bear.

Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Nothing More

Nothing More

1.

Nothing more repugnant

than a man made of gold

who's slippery tongue and tower

of glass shades the world in

aspects of power that lasts

forever or so it would seem

as I lift spirits inward today

and tomorrow both never to

borrow of his files we spit and

we curse them till death do we stand.

2.

Nothing more gracious

than a man made of wood

who's hospitality and favor

for our well being asks but a

pittance to savor this life

as I rush toward the spiral

and cheer in his passions

so dear is the planning and sowing which

on solid built platforms never stops growing to

hold us together as one with his art.

3.

Nothing more hollow than

a man made of steam

who's sputtering and spurting

pushes empty promises forward

to another day flirting his flaws

in scattered echoes that

remind us how he was

such a bountiful ocean does

courageously, now evaporated

and shallow in all purpose.

4.

Nothing more timeless than

a man made of stone

who's cold stare at our mistakes

forgets his grieving muse and

what lays bare to his soul

should it cast a shadow on our

desire recites over time what

we knew would transpire with

then and learn from his wisdom

to become who we are.

5.

Nothing more stoic

than a man made of blood

who's hands are blistered from

toil for his family's well being

and never resisted any seeing or calling

to speak truth for it is his

power begins beyond any god

made by man who will rise

as the flesh holds all

precious contents within.

6.

Nothing more heinous

than a man made of lead

who's deceit with all living

gives uneasy decisions for

gain under orders and leaves

the mind queazy as he rains

down his harm to those who would

not hear his lies for the

thunder of empire he

gathers all our dust in trade.

7.

Nothing more balanced

than a man made of salt

whose firm ethics are moral

with whomever he waits with

no matter to consequences how great

as they are freely awarded to

him as he ponders what

next journey wonders hold

for all of our days

spent healing each other.

Sunday, August 21, 2016

Trip talkin Boys - Headin

Trip talkin Boys - Headin

to the Delta where the

Blues is the life and more

for me to play with in this

sphere - who causes that

Time change to be so real

that the few white boys

who understand search out

the kings of the genre while

they still reside on our wave-

length - That's a curious

piece of Mojo I got me and

I always have it with me

where I go and How I live

- yo, the man said it, "I'm

a voodoo child, Lawd Knows"...

Thursday, August 18, 2016

How many WHENS ARE

How many WHENS ARE
there in this TIME?
WHERE Do they reside on
my drive? Seems like
A good use of space
But can we proceed as
planned with our pickle
in the envelope pushed
AND this TIMe is only
as good as it gets
while forever is only
as long as it lasts.

Sunday, August 14, 2016

Time has a firm grip

Time has a firm grip

and a strong handshake

it calls the past - what

has happened remains with

us for many conclusions with

few rewards but many hours

of enjoyment if your brain

has a fertile hold on skill

and concept - what once

was is only revoked in

the original reality it was

assembled within - the

delay sequence varies, but the

details can and often do get

edited depending on your

circumstances, recall ability

or belief system. Some may

challenge this against you

should passion come into

play or other factors without

regard to solemn script or

construct - But do keep in

mind that Time has very

few rules and can break

them as it sees fit when

it deems the program needs

prescription - Time can do

whatever it pleases when

it structures memory past.