Apollo 4 on 1 Bird Motif Circa 1993 Pentium CMYK
Gold Leaf IC1 Ochre Chips One Small Chip
P-200 Radiant Cross Tangram Green Technology: The Circuit Board Seventh Inning Stretch Painted Circuit Board

Peter Macara:

With "Painted Circuits" Peter Macara continues his examination of computers and electronic components as subject matter for paintings. New works focus on circuit boards, supporting computer chips like those represented in related works. Gold circuits create maze-like patterns on the green boards that are often beautiful in surprising ways. In these and other works, CPU chips, circuit boards and abstract paintings employ intricate, repeating designs, and other elements to create an interesting dialog between pictures in the exhibition.

Other paintings by Macara are being shown in Portugal. By invitation from the Washington DC Art in the Embassies program, Peter Macara has just sent three artworks to the American Embassy in Lisbon. The artworks by Peter Macara -- Cairo, Black Diamond and Honeycomb -- are being loaned to the embassy as part of an exhibiton that will be there for a period of three years.

Macara is a lifelong resident of Provincetown and grew up surrounded by an artistic environment. Macara's first summer job was as a model for Henry Hensche, and while in college, Macara developed a friendship with artist John Grillo, a student of Hans Hofmann. “My early experience was self-taught, but I was critiqued by the artists who lived around me." Macara entered college at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, as an engineering student, but changed his major to Fine Art and graduated with two BFAs. Macara is the Assistant Director/Registrar of PAAM.