Peter Wiehl
2021Arrowcatcher
Peter Wiehl
Peter Wiehl
At venues such as Southern Exposure in San Francisco and Some Serious Business in Venice, California, Wiehl performed Arrowcatcher, creating a sculpture through shooting arrows into a rectangular structure that would visibly suspend their movement in time. He explored variations of form and multi-layer, parallel panes of material – cloth, Plexiglas, and glass with mirror base. Filmed with a high-speed military camera, the slow-motion film Arrowcatcher (1978) was screened prior to his live performance at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The sculpture remained on view as part of Exposures, one of the group exhibitions presented within the major overview The Floating Museum: Global Space Invasion II (1978). The Floating Museum (1975-78), founded and directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson, worked with Wiehl on his site-specific project A Month Becomes An Hour at The Foothills Community Planetarium in Los Altos, California.
Arrowcatcher
Cardinal Fires
Peter Wiehl
Peter Wiehl
Peter Wiehl: Artwork 1975-2018 (2018) featured Cardinal Fires and Arrowcatcher, among other digitized films, paintings, and sculptures. The exhibition was held at the Mark W. Potter Gallery, Taft School, Watertown, Connecticut. Arrowcatcher was the subject of a 2007 spotlight presentation by the non-profit screening space Oporto, Lisbon, Portugal. After a couple of years in the San Francisco Bay Area, Wiehl moved and worked in the film industry. Wiehl has performed and exhibited at such venues as La Mamelle, San Francisco, Exile Art Gallery, Los Angeles, Spokane Art Center, Washington, Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York City, Albright Knox-Museum, Buffalo, New York, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, among others. Wiehl currently lives and works in Bridgewater, Connecticut.
Cardinal Fires
