Jungle Oculus Tondo - Private Painting Commission, 76 in. diameter, Acrylic on canvas over panel w/ custom frame. 2017-2018. Private Collection (Culver City, LA)
Jungle Oculus Tondo - Private Painting Commission Installation View
Jungle Oculus Tondo (Detail) - Private Painting Commission, 76 in. diameter, Acrylic on canvas over panel w/ custom frame. 2017-2018. Private Collection (Culver City, LA)
Jungle Oculus Tondo (Detail) - Private Painting Commission, 76 in. diameter, Acrylic on canvas over panel w/ custom frame. 2017-2018. Private Collection (Culver City, LA)
Jungle Oculus Tondo (Detail) - Private Painting Commission, 76 in. diameter, Acrylic on canvas over panel w/ custom frame. 2017-2018. Private Collection (Culver City, LA)
Jungle Oculus Tondo (Detail) - Private Painting Commission, 76 in. diameter, Acrylic on canvas over panel w/ custom frame. 2017-2018. Private Collection (Culver City, LA)
Jungle Oculus Tondo (Detail) - Private Painting Commission, 76 in. diameter, Acrylic on canvas over panel w/ custom frame. 2017-2018. Private Collection (Culver City, LA)
Jungle Oculus Tondo - Ceiling Installation View. Footnote: While currently installed on the wall, "Jungle Oculus Tondo" was conceived of (and engineered) as a ceiling-mount painting. Inspired by Rome's many breathtaking ceiling frescoes, this commission reimagines the ceiling fresco as a portal to a tropical, jungle canopy frontier. The tondo will eventually transition to the ceiling in its next chapter...
View the full process behind creating "Jungle Oculus Tondo", a large-scale painting commission for a private collector in Los Angeles, CA. For more context on this project & the commissioning process, join Art and Seeking for an in-depth conversation between the artist and collector: https://youtu.be/e8hXhsP_uBI
Join Art and Seeking Founder, Lizy Dastin and artist Peter D. Gerakaris for an in-depth dialogue with one of his LA-based art collectors. In this interview, they discuss everything from why the artist loves the tondo format to the artist-collector dynamic, plus an intimate behind-the-scenes glimpse of the “Jungle Oculus Tondo" commissioning process: https://youtu.be/CknsjrPgQL0
Jungle Oculus Tondo - Amazona Versicolor Reprise, Hand-Embellished, unique print w/ gouache & acrylic over archival pigment on paper, 24.5” x 24.5” w/ frame (21” x 21” unframed), 2020. Private Collection (San Francisco, CA). Exhibited at David Zwirner NYC for Friends Seminary Benefit
Jungle Oculus Tondo - Amazona Versicolor Reprise, Hand-Embellished, unique print w/ gouache & acrylic over archival pigment on paper, 24.5” x 24.5” w/ frame (21” x 21” unframed), 2020. Exhibited at David Zwirner NYC for Friends Seminary Benefit
Jungle Oculus Tondo - Amazona Versicolor Reprise — Detail