Peter Stegall has been exhibiting his work for over thirty years. He attended Fresno City College in the early 60’s where he studied with Walter Witt who introduced him to the European moderns’. “My mental image of painting at that time consisted of dull, drab landscapes. When I saw the powerful forms of Picasso’s Cubism and the incredibly designed color compositions of Henri Matisse, I was instantly reborn”.

In 1970-1972 Stegall received his BA and MA at California State University, Sacramento. He met the Chicago painter Jim Nutt who was teaching at CSUS at the time. “Nutt got me interested in the small scale. Today, as I continue to work on the relationship between color and shape, I feel the small scale has given me a personal perspective on painting that continues to work on the relationship between color and shape, I feel the small scale has given me a personal perspective on painting that continues to challenge me in an era where large scale painting (since the late forties) is still considered the norm in many circles.

In 1971 Stegall met Phil Linhares, chief curator of exhibitions at the Oakland Museum who at the time was director of the art gallery at the San Francisco Art Institute. Linhares showed Stegall’s work in the 1975 open studio exhibition at his studio. A review appeared in the January 1976 issue of ArtNews under “California Artists” by Thomas Albright. In 1979, when Linhares was director of the Mills College Art Gallery, Stegall was included in a three-person exhibition, “Color and Geometry”.

While living in New York in the mid 80’s, Stegall received grants from the Pollack-Krasner and the Adolph and Ester Gotlieb Foundations.

Stegall has taught courses in drawing and color theory at the college level and is currently teaching in the State of California’s Art in Corrections program at a women’s facility in Stockton, CA.

Stegall’s work is in numerous private collections. He has been renting and selling his work at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s “Artist Gallery” for the past 10 years. He has been represented by JAYJAY for the past three years.

EDUCATION
1970-72 M.A. in Art, California University, Sacramento, California.
1967-70 B.A. in Art with English minor, California State University, Sacramento, California.
1963-65 United States Army.

WORK EXPERIENCE
2003-2004 Art Instructor, “Drawing”, Sacramento State University, Sacramento, CA
1984-89 Messenger, AJG Messenger Services, New York, New York.
Art Instructor, Omega House, Reno Nevada, a program for children with Learning disabilities.
1984 Art Instructor, “Color Theory and Fundamentals in Composition and Design,” and “Drawing”, Truckee Meadows Community College, Reno, Nevada.
1981-84 Scenic Artist, M.G.M Grand Productions, Reno, Nevada.
1977 Art Instructor, “Drawing” and “Painting”, Children’s Summer Art Classes, Nevada Art Gallery, Reno, Nevada.
1975-1980 Art Instructor, “Drawing”, University of Nevada, Reno.
1971-75 Arts and Crafts Instructor, Department of Parks and Recreation, Sacramento, California.

EXHIBITIONS

2004  “NEOMOD” Recent Northern California Abstraction
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
“Kabuki” JAYJAY, Sacramento, CA

2002  Solo Exhibitions, “The Square Revisited and Other Things”,JAYJAY, Sacramento, CA

2001  “Sutter Club Invitational”, Sacramento, CA.

2000  Solo Exhibition, “Positive Negative”, Gallery 8, Sacramento, CA.

1998  Solo Exhibition, “Quantum Leap”, McGuire Center For Art, Sacramento, California.

1996  Solo Exhibition, Breaking the Symmetry”, J. Maddux Parker Gallery, Sacramento, California.
Artists From The J. Maddux Parker Gallery, Encina Art Gallery, Sacramento, California.

1995  Gallery Artist Group Exhibition, J. Maddux Parker Gallery, Sacramento, California.

1994  Solo Exhibition, “Small, Medium and Large”, The Paintings of Peter Stegall, J. Maddux Parker Gallery, Sacramento, California.

1993  Sight Bytes, Abstraction Continuing into the 90’s, Archival Framing, Sacramento, California.

1992  New Art 3, Group Show, The Bean Sprout Factory, Sacramento, California.

1989  Open Studio Exhibition, 14th Street Painters, New York, New York. Solo Exhibition, “A Question of Values,” Dice/Truckee Meadows Community College, Reno, Nevada; three day Artist-in-Residence Program (with honorarium).

1984  Participant in monthly slide exhibition, The Emerging Collector, New York, New York.
New Work on Exhibition, Nevada Gallery Gannett Publishing, Reno, Nevada.

1983  Exchange Show, university of Washington, Seattle, Washington and the Chan Elliot Gallery, Sacramento, California.

1982  Faculty Exhibition, Sierra Nevada Museum o f Art Reno, Nevada; Group Exhibition, Nevada Contemporary, Sierra Nevada Museum of Art.

1981  Three Person Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery;
Four Person Exhibition, Open Ring Galleries, Sacramento, California;
Solo Exhibition, Main Street Art Gallery, Napa, California.

1980  Solo Exhibition, Sierra Nevada Museum of Art;
Group Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery.

1979  Three Person Exhibition, “Color and Geometry”, Mills Art Gallery, Oakland
California.

1977  Faculty Exhibition, University of Nevada, Reno;
Church Fine Arts Gallery, Reno, Nevada;
Holiday Exhibition, “Art for Giving and Collecting”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California.

1976  Nevada Annual Group Show, Nevada Art Gallery, Reno, Nevada;
Group Exhibition, Pinion Gallery, Reno Nevada.

1975  Open Studio Exhibition, exhibited at the studio of Philip Linhares, Director of Exhibitions, San Francisco Art Institute (review appeared in January 1976 ARTNEWS under “California Artists”);
University of Nevada Faculty Show, Church Fine Art Gallery, Reno, Nevada.

1974  Two Person Show, Los Olmecas Gallery, Sacramento, California.

1973  Christmas Exhibitions, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art;
Group Show, Suzanne Saxe Gallery, San Francisco, California;
The Biggest Show of Little Paintings, Louisville, California;
Group Show, Jennifer Pauls Gallery, Sacramento, California.

1972  Delta Show, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco California;
One Person Exhibition and Group Exhibition, Candy Store Gallery, Folsom, California;
Kingsley Annual, Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, California.

1971  Painting Biennial, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California;
Stockton Art League 21st Spring Exhibition, Pioneer Museum, Stockton, California (honorable mention – Juror Wayne Thiebaud);
Graduate Show, California State University, Sacramento, California;
Group Exhibition, Candy Store Gallery, Folsom, California;
“Seduced and Abandoned” Exhibition, The Art Company, Sacramento, California.

1970  Kingsley Annual, Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, California.

1968  Northern California Arts Annual Open Exhibition, Sacramento, California.

GRANTS
1989-90 Pollack-Krasner Foundation Inc., New York, New York.
1989-90 Adolf and Esther Gotlieb Foundation, New York, New York.

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Marcia Tucker, Founding Director, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New York.
Philip Linhares, Director, Chief Curator of Exhibitions, Oakland Museum, Oakland, California.
John Lowell Jones, Collector and member of SECA Foundation, San Francisco, California.
Walter McNamara, Curator, Shepard Fine arts Gallery, Reno, Nevada.
Shepard Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada.
Donald Albrecht, Curator of Exhibitions, American Museum of Moving Image, New York, New York.
Marrie Morris, Sacramento, California.
Nancy and Quinton Duval, West Sacramento, California.
Jeff Winger, Jan Grateau, and Cort Chambers, Collector and proprietors of the J. Maddux Parker Gallery, Sacramento, California.
Katie Thomas and Richie Lawrence, Sacramento, CA
Mark and Katera Emerson, Sacramento, CA
Steve and Beth Jones, Sacramento, CA

CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
NCG Porter Novelli, Sacramento, CA
Bongo Bob Post Productions, Sacramento, CA
Merill Lynch, Sacramento, CA