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1977 MFA, Studio Art, University of California, Irvine
1973 BA in Art, California State University, Los Angeles
1971 AA in Architecture, Pasadena City College
Film Events & Curatorial
2002- Present
Rat Powered Films. Co-Curator. Santa Ana, CA
2000
ICU Show. Lead curator/ Four-person team. RAID Projects Gallery, Santa Ana, CA.
The Humor Underground Show. Southern California Artists Gallery, Pomona, CA.
1999 -2003
Popcorn; Short Film and Video Festival. Curator, Programmer, Organizer. Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
1999
Short Stuff, Short Film and Video Festival. Curator, Programmer, Organizer. Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA.
A Salute to Animation. Guest Curator, John Wayne Airport Gallery,Santa Ana, CA
1998
Facetious Portraits and Other Characters Assassination. Guest Curator- Irvine Fine Art Center, Irvine, CA
1997 - Present
Arizona State University Short Film & Video Festival. Juror, Programmer, Co-Organizer. Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
1997
Medicine Wheel Animation Festival. Organizer. Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA.
1995 - 2005
Associate Director/Curator. Fitch-Jones/Pece, Arieas/Pece Gallery, Santora Building, Santa Ana, CA
1994- present
Independent Festival Organizer; Events throughout Southern California
1994 -1997
Summer Film Series. Curator and Technician, Griffin/Linton Contemporary Exhibitions, Costa Mesa, CA
Our Own Filmmakers. Annual Outdoor Presentation of Local Orange County Filmmakers Works. Griffin Linton Fine Art, Costa Mesa, CA
Solo Exhibitions
2004
R.T. Pece: Films & Paintings. Seven Degrees, Laguna Beach, CA
2002
Definite Ambiguities, California State University Fullerton, Main Gallery, Fullerton, CA
2001
Flying Solo. Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
Peekers and Friends. California State University, Center Gallery, Fullerton, CA
1996
Fragments of Mystery. Griffin/Linton Contemporary Exhibitions, Costa Mesa, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2005
Regardless of Death Threats. Pop Salon, Pomona, CA
Twentieth Year Retrospective. Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
2003
Just One Word: Plastics. Square Blue Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA
2002
Last of the Red Hot Lovers. Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
Odd Drawings. Cypress College, Cypress, CA. Curator: Tyler Stallings.
2001
Rising Tide. Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
Something More. Southern California Artists Gallery, Pomona, CA. Juror: Patricia Correia.
2000
Shock of the New, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA Curator: Peter Frank
The Humor Underground Show. Southern California Artists Gallery, Pomona, CA
20/20: OCCCA. Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
The Spurgeon Experience I & II. RAID Projects, Santa Ana, CA
1999
Cutting The Edge: New Film/Video at the Grand Central. Inclusion of “The Legend Unlikely,” Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA
Wall Hung, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
1998
Open Show, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA Juror: Gronk
93rd Annual Open Show, Long Beach Arts, Long Beach, CA Juror: Jen Grey
Season Opener, Twenty-Nine Palms Art Gallery - Two-Person Show, Twenty-Nine Palms, CA
1997
Grins: Humor and Whimsy in Contemporary Art. Millard Sheets Gallery, Pomona, CA
Emphasis on Color, Long Beach Arts, Long Beach, CA Juror: Jae Carmichael *Second Place Award
Best Buy: A Survey of Orange County Contemporary Art, Edward Giardina Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
L.A. Current: A Media Fusion. Armand Hammer Sales and Rental Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Museum Sampler, City of Brea Gallery, Brea, CA. (Representing Irvine Fine Arts Center.)
Medicine Wheel Animation Festival, Inclusion of animated film “The Legend Unlikely.” Screening at Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA
1996
Gallery 825 - 1996 Open, L.A. Art Association, Los Angeles, CA Juror: Peter Frank
Group Hanging: The Annex Extended, Griffin/Linton Contemporary Exhibitions, Costa Mesa, CA
Medicine Wheel Animation Festival, Inclusion of animated film “The Legend Unlikely.” Groton, MA (National Tour.)
1995
Gallery 825, L.A. Art Association, Los Angeles, CA Juror: Kent Twitchell
All Media ’95, Irvine Fine Arts Media, Irvine, CA Juror: Peter Frank *First Place Award
Southern California Currents, Chapman University, Orange CA Juror: Jay Belolli
A City Dreams of Art, Inclusion in mural project, Santa Ana, CA
1993
Medicine Wheel Animation Festival, Inclusion of animated film “The Legend Unlikely.” Groton, MA (National Tour.)
1983
Five Years of Art 1978-1983, Saddleback College, Mission Viejo, CA
1979
Our Own Artists. Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
Michael King, R.T. Exhibition. Saddleback College, Mission Viejo, CA
All California Art Exhibition, National Orange Show, San Bernardino, CA *First Place Award
1978
Sixteenth Annual Purchase Prize Competition, Riverside Art Center, Riverside, CA
Eyes and Ear Billboard Competition, Los Angeles, CA *Honorable Mention
1977
Fifteenth Annual Purchase Prize Competition, Riverside Art Center, Riverside, CA
1976
Thirteenth Annual Purchase Prize Competition, Riverside Art Center, Riverside, CA
1975
California State Fair Art Exhibition, Sacramento, CA *First Place Award
Southern California Print and Drawing Exhibition, Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA
1973
California Small Images Exhibition, California State University at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Southern California Print and Drawing Exhibition, Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA
Short Films
Artrector Assembly Instructions, trt. 13:55
Pseudo-documentary in which sculptor R.T. Pece introduces a line of model kits of his sculptures thus presenting 1950’s America “cutting edge art at a cut-rate price.”
UFO’s on Your Doorstep…An Alien in Your Cupboard, trt. 10:17
R.T. Pece is now researching alien encounters and making animated re-enactments based on eyewitness drawings and accounts.
Fossils ‘n Stuff, trt 10:57.
A mostly live action pseudo -documentary about fossil hunter R.T. Pece, his quest for the three legged dinosaur, and later forays into amusement parks.
*Summer Film Series, Griffin/Linton Contemporary Exhibitions.
*From the Sea to the Desert, ASUAM Short Films and Video Festival.
The Legend Unlikely, trt. 09:39
The story of a fictious figure in the history of filmmaking, starting with “archive” footage of early experiments and continuing persistently to present day projects.
*6th Annual Medicine Wheel Animation Festival
*Summer Film Series, Griffin Linton Contemporary Exhibitions.
*From the Sea to the Desert, ASUAM Short Films and Video Festival.
What About People, trt: 00:30. A public service announcement.
Think About It, trt: 00:30. A public service announcement.
Video Projection Projects
2005
Bridges, Venice Art Walk, Venice, CA
2004
R.T. Pece: Films & Paintings, Seven Degrees, Laguna Beach, CA
2002
Definite Ambiguities, California State University Fullerton, Main Gallery Fullerton, CA. “The Movie of the Paintings.”
2000
The Spurgeon Experience II, Raid Projects, Santa Ana, CA
Bob Pece is a local Orange County visual artist and an original tenant of the Santora Building in the Santa Ana Artists Village. He completed a bachelor’s degree in Fine Art at CSU Los Angeles and a Master’s degree in Studio Art at UC Irvine. Bob is a native Californian ad has exhibited in Southern California for many years. His classroom experience includes working as a teaching assistant at UC Irvine and teaching animation classes at Saddleback Community College and to various youth groups. He has organized and conducted a number of film festivals in California and Arizona for college events, art galleries and community events. His own animation work transfers his enigmatic characters from canvas to screen as short videos.
The images used in my work are inspired by a variety of everyday life sources. The outward similarity to some Pop Art is unmistakable, yet these are not instantly recognizable icons of pop culture. Despite the bold presentation, the characters remain enigmatic and mysterious. The anonymity of the image has become an important idea to me. Presented in a flat comic book style the characters usually appear somewhat cartoonish. Precise clean edges give the paintings a machine made appearance- yet closer inspection reveals that this is hand done work. Humor, ambiguity, image placement on the canvas as well as in the context of the art world – the irony of making such silly, doodle-ish figures the subject of “high art” are my main concerns.