Peter Paizs

Born: 1957, Budapest

Artist, tenured associate professor

www.paizspeter.com

Studies

Doctor of Liberal Arts (DLA), Hungarian University of Fine Arts

International Validity of Diploma of Expertise in Color Dynamics

Color Expert, Budapest University of Economics and Technology 

Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts

Scholarships

Fulbright Grant, Hungarian-American Fulbright Commission

Eötvös Foundation of the Hungarian Ministry of Culture

Memberships

AIC, International Color Association

The International Kepes Society

Society of Hungarian Painters

Association of Hungarian Fine and Applied Artists

Association of Hungarian Creative Artists

Solo Exhibitions (selected)

Inspiration, Hungarian Institute, Tallinn, Estonia 

Illumination 3D, Kassák Museum, Budapest, Hungary

Colors in Black and White, Salone Gemma, Trieste, Italy

15+, Skanzen Gallery, Szentendre, Hungary

Hommage, Fészek Gallery, Budapest

Ten, Duna Gallery, Budapest

In Black, Gallery of Artists‘ Colony, Szentendre

15 Years, Műhely Gallery, Szentendre

Golden Stairs, Kempinski Gallery, Budapest

Paizs Péter’s Exhibition, Fészek Klub, Budapest

Twin Paintings, Duna Gallery, Budapest

Paizs Péter’s Exhibition, Óbudai Pincegaléria, Budapest

Web:

www.paizspeter.com

Paizs Péter, Lingua Spectra / A spektrum nyelve, Színtudatosság és fényérzékenység a kortárs absztrakt festészetben, Doctoral Thesis (Hungarian) / DLA értekezés, MKE, Budapest, 2012

http://www.mke.hu/sites/default/files/attachment/ertekezes_paizsp_0.pdf

Péter Paizs, Lingua Spectra

My Fulbright Experience III. Reports of Hungarian Grantees

Published on CD-ROM by the Fulbright Commission, Budapest, 2012

http://www.fulbright.hu/book6/paizspeter.pdf

Paizs Péter, A Pesti Főreál, ahol a főváros építészei tanultak...

Tudományos Közlemények, Budapest, 2006

http://www.absinthdesign.com/paizs/publikacio/hun_annual2006_08paizs.pdf

Paizs Péter, Colours in Black and White

Annual News, Budapest, 2007

http://www.absinthdesign.com/paizs/publikacio/eng-2007_06paizs.pdf

Paizs Péter, Illumination 3D, The Origin of Colours / A színek eredete

Catalogue / Katalógus előszó, Kassák Múzeum, Budapest, 2009, private edition / saját kiadás/

http://www.absinthdesign.com/paizs/publikacio/paizs_guide.pdf

Paizs Péter, Illumination 3D Exhibition

Kassák Múzeum, Budapest, 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viPMUawTNY

Peter Paizs

painter 

Fulbright Scholar, 2011

www.paizspeter.com

I have been working as a painter since 1980 in Hungary. My works can be found in public and private art collections in Hungary and abroad. I am engaged in teaching and academic activities in color studies. I live and work in Szentendre, Hungary. 

In 2011, I was a Fulbright Scholar in the Department of Art and Art History at Hunter College, City University of New York, under the supervision of Prof. Sanford Wurmfeld,
painter and color theorist. I focused on the similarities and differences in teaching color theory in American and Hungarian painting, contrasting the methodologies of the Munsell color system (R. Munsell, 1905) used in American and the classical Hungarian Coloroid system (A. Nemcsics, 2002). 

During the Fulbright program I met and collaborated with several colleagues in color theory as well as artists, critics, and connoisseurs, including Sanford Wurmfeld, Gabriele Evertz, Bob Swain, Matthew Deleget, András Böröcz, Kati Vilim, Miklós Müller, Edit András, George Peck, and John Hiigli.

I consider my works as direct sequels to the geometric-constructivist traditions. My earlier works attempt to resolve the contradiction between plane and space, black and white, color and non-color. 

My work Illumination 3D creates a re-emitted physical light, a ‘non-Newtonian spectrum,’ using the traditional painting techniques of pigment, canvas, and light.  This work was shown in Kassák Museum, Budapest, in 2009.

In 2012, I completed my dissertation on “color consciousness” in art and “color devotion” in painting, based on my Lingua Spectra project.