RAiR | 1991

Peter Zokosky

Peter was born in California, growing up in Long Beach and Indio. He studied at the University of California at Riverside and at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles. He is now a Professor of Painting at the Art Center School of Design in Pasadena and lectures occasionally at the Getty Center. 

Peter has shown his work extensively in California. He is a painter who loves the old masters, especially in the Baroque era. He also has a taste for the macabre. One critic says of his painting:  “Zokosky’s works are a haunting treatment of some of the more traditional themes in art: death, sex, and our place in the universe. (He) mounts a gentle invasion of our psyches and plants a bomb upon arrival.” His one painting in the Anderson Museum is a small, finely-executed depiction of a dog- or wolf-like skeleton in a barren landscape, a searing and forceful image.