'Stumble On', fiber on retired sail, steel, wood, acrylic paint, 6.5 x 7.5 feet.
'Broken', ceramic, wood,mixed media, 36 x 50 x 48 inches.
Peggy Sivert
Born and raised in Los Angeles, a city rich in a culture of openness and diversity, Peggy Sivert was provided a solid foundation for her art practice. Her home & studio are situated adjacent to a nature preserve; part of an ancient landslide, reactivated by human causes. Overlooking the Pacific Ocean on the Southern edge of LA County, it is a haven for nature and wildlife and a devastating crisis of broken land.
Her work often explores the beauty of nature and the breakdown of the land from various perspectives: The beast of fractured hills, sinking roads, skewed houses, and warped property boundaries. And the beauty of open space, wildlife, the Pacific Ocean, and the peaceful, quiet darkness. She sees it as the good and the bad defining each other.
The breakdown is where she feels compelled to begin; to find meaning in the broken, through the artwork. Her art is characterized by shifts between abstract and figurative modalities and often includes discarded things. The horse is a symbol that recurs in her work, not only a recognizable form, but also a metaphor of lived experience, history, and a conduit of memory. Her work is layered, often taking many months or years to complete, valuing authenticity through exploration, and experimentation.
Modernist artists Susan Rothenberg and Alberto Giacometti have inspired her art aesthetic and artist Ben Zask is her best critic and provides unwavering support.
'Timing', acrylic on canvas, 18 x 30 inches.
Education: BA Art Education from CSU Long Beach / MA Humanities from CSU Dominguez Hills. Exhibitions: regular exhibits at Art galleries throughout Los Angeles and internationally in South Korea, Thailand, and Japan. Charity and Nonprofit work: Peace Corps Volunteer, Belize, Central America, high school Art teacher in Manhattan Beach, CA / founder, curator, director for several nonprofit art galleries in Los Angeles.
'Horse, Woman Book series', oil on canvas, 24 x 36 inches.
left to right: 'Burden', porcelain, 15 x 12 x 7 inches.,
'Horse Frontal', mixed media on wood, 48 x 30 inches., 'Halo', porcelain, 12 x 11 x 9 inches.
'Oregon', ceramic, cherry wood, 26 x 30 x 8 inches.
left to right: 'Krisna', ceramic and steel, 14 x 5 x 17 inches.,
'Equipoise', steel, 6.0 x 8.0 x 3.0 feet., 'Protect', ceramic and found objects on wood, 5 x 8 x 2 inches.
'Light Traffic', tire, found metal, acrylic, chalk on wood panel, 48 x 48 inches.
left to right: '4 Horses 2', oil canvas, on panel, 16 x 20 inches.,
'Broken Vase', mixed media on panel, 12 x 12 x 1 inches.,
'Rain', acrylic, ink on canvas, 6 x 4 inches.
'Range Shift', pigments, rabbit skin glue on rice paper, on wood, 12 x 12 inches.
left to right: 'I thought I Moved to Paradise', mixed media and collage on canvas, 16 x 20 inches., 'Converge', acrylic, mixed media on canvas, 37 x 55 inches., 'Be Desperate', acrylic, mixed media on wood panel, 12 x 12 inches.
'Nothing is Everything', mixed media on Polytab, 20 x 16 inches.
'Blue Egg', acrylic, mixed media on canvas, 30 x 40 inches.
left to right: 'Just a Moment', acrylic on canvas, 63 x 43 inches.,
'World', mixed media on panel, 10 x 10 inches., 'Tribe', mied media on canvas and panel, 60 x 60 inches.
'Black Horse Landscape', acrylic on canvas, 14 x 14 inches.
Story of the T House
Peggy Sivert: Artist / Oil, mixed media Paintings / Concept
Peggy Sivert was faced with a studio full of transformed paintings: Burned, drilled, torn, stitched, mud, plaster, paint, assemblage and collage. The war-torn paintings were disturbing and she decided to compress the series into one sculptural object. The canvases would be linked together to a create 5’ square cube with the imagery facing inward, just as we keep our most intense emotions inside ourselves.
The concept / aesthetic was to communicate her sense of apocalyptic fear, the need for humility, the sacred found in poverty and seeking harmony with nature. The T house was built using found and sustainable materials, minimal hardware and portable elements; bamboo, found wood scraps, old paintings, canvas and hand made ceramic cups. Each 5’x5’ wall was designed to also become a free hanging art-work.
The guest host and details of each performance in the T house are meant to reflect contemporary times and offer a quiet and humble refuge to experience what is sacred in our selves, and each other.
'T House', wood, canvas, oil acrylic paint, bamboo, ceramic.
POST Teaching, Gallery, Equine, 2023-current.
Student castoffs, shards, installation, Nomad 2021 ( Torrance Art Museum )
left to right: Range Projects, LA, Solo Show., Wall Shards, student ceramic castoffs., International Invitational Trienal, Baja, Mexico 2024-2025.
'Rain', acrylic, ink ceramic on canvas, 8 x 8 inches.
left to right: Detail, interactive installation, CA. 2023,
RAIN installation, Range Projects, LA 2023., Rain Sorak, South Korea.
(End of) Narcissa, Portland cement, plaster, steel mesh, asphalt, organic materials, wood, steel angle iron. 2024 Landslide.
left to right: 'Know the Enemy and Know Yourself', plaster and clay, 2024., '7 Precious Impressions', landslide fissure series,
1 - 2 inches, Portland cement at Range Projects, 2024.,
'3 Fissures', collage, Beyond LA at Gallery Western, 2024.
'Mother', collage,mixed media on canvas, 63 x 43 inches.
Peggy Sivert at Opening., Beyond LA, Gallery Western, 2024
'At Once', watercolor, graphite on paper, 9 x 12 inches.
Peggy Sivert, in her studio.
Peggy Sivert was born in Los Angeles and grew up in Palos Verdes Peninsula. She received a BA in Art Education from CSU Long Beach and an MA Humanities from CSU Dominguez Hills. She served as a Peace Corps Volunteer for two years in Belize, Central America, worked as a high school Art teacher in Manhattan Beach, CA and has directed and curated numerous art organizations / non profits in Los Angeles
www.PeggySivert.com / @PeggySivert2020 / FB: peggy Jo Sivert / She Her
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