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Year-End Sale! 25% off a carefully curated selection of 28 favorite paintings that never made it out of the studio. Buy now and I can get it to you in time for the holidays. www.peterwalshprojects.us/shop/year-en... or go to my website shop through the link in the bio.

Sold! A small gem riffing on Goya etchings - and Carl Sagan, too. "Star-Stuff,” 2025, Oil, Acrylic and Spray Paint on Panel, 14 by 11 inches.

This is the last week to see my show! I will be on site Tue, Nov 18, 2-5pm and Fri, Nov 21, 2-5pm. Come talk to me! Gallery Hours: Monday Friday, 10-5pm The Yard LES is at 85 Delancey Street in Manhattan. Ring the buzzer to enter. An elevator is available to those who would like to use it.

Also great to reconnect with Elizabeth Stuelke at my painting show. Thanks for dropping by Elizabeth! She was in town to show her new film “The Day Elvis Died” at @bigapplefilmfestival here in NYC. Congrats, Elizabeth! We go way back to the days of LINK magazine in Baltimore in the 1990s.

Great connecting with Hope Ginsburg to visit each other’s shows, just a few blocks apart! Hope’s talk with fellow artist Goldie Poblador at 601 Gallery was excellent. Handmade scents, underwater meditation, sea sponges, decolonization, the Philippines, glasswork, the Bay of Fundy, and more.

Some thought about my recent paintings.

I’ve been really enjoying giving tours of my exhibition, including to my Mom and artist Christopher Varmus! Lots of folks have dropped by but I don’t always remember to get a picture. I will be on site Tuesday, November 11, 2-5pm and Friday, November 14, 2-5pm. Come talk to me!

My show has been extended till November 22nd! I’ll be posting hours each week when I will be at the gallery. First up - this Friday, November 7, 2-5pm. The Yard LES 85 Delancey Street on the Lower East Side. Ring the buzzer for access. Gallery Hours: Mon Fri, 10-5pm or dm at [email protected].

Great discussions at the artists talk at MijaWorksNY in Williamsburg for the show “Femm Holy Waves.” Works by Emily Wisniewski, Elizabeth Condon, Vandana Jain, Rachel Kahn and Mija Jung. Visiting hours Tuesday-Thursday 12pm-6pm through November 13. 29 Montrose Avenue, Brooklyn, NY.

Made it to Ben Shahn's retrospective exhibit "On Non-Conformity" at the Jewish Museum in NYC. Very timely. And well-curated with historical documents, printed materials and some of his reference images. Closes Sunday, October 26. There's a book if you miss the show.

Lots of great conversations but but too busy chatting to take photos this time around! #sunsetparkopenstudios

No Kings! Times Square, October 18, 2025. Start of the march.

Making signs!

Great to meet @david.willburn and @steven_cabral36 in-person at their new exhibits at @thepaintingcenter last Thur night. Congrats! But I didn’t take enough pictures. Go see the shows. That's David in the first 2 pics and Steven's work in the other 2.

If you’re coming to see the exhibition “Dataset Hallucinations” at IFAC Arts at The Yard LES, don’t forget that the show is on both the 2nd and 3rd Floors! Artist Peter Walsh will be on site this Tue, Oct 14, 2-5pm. 85 Delancey St in Manhattan. Hours: Mon-Fri, 10am-5pm or DM for an appointment.

Friese Undine’s new exhibition is slyly, hysterically, funny. Cults of historical re-enactors, cannibals and naturists nostalgically jostle elbows with historical figures who may be different than we expect. At @thomasvandykegallery, Sunset Park Brooklyn, 434 39th Street, Thu-Sun, 1-6pm. Thru Nov. 7

Come see the IFAC Arts exhibition "Dataset Hallucinations" and meet the artist at The Yard Lower East Side. Artist Peter Walsh will be in the gallery this week: Tuesday, October 7, 2-5pm, and Friday, October 10, 2-5pm The Yard, LES 2nd & 3rd floors, 85 Delancey Street, NYC.

Meet the Artist: Peter Walsh During October, artist Peter Walsh will be in the gallery for select hours each week. Come see his IFAC Arts show "Dataset Hallucinations" at The Yard LES. Schedule: Fri, Oct 3, 2-5pm Tue, Oct 7, 2-5pm Fri, Oct 10, 2-5pm The Yard LES is at 85 Delancey St in NYC.

Famously, AI systems crunch text and images based on the datasets that humans feed them. To create this work, rather than using AI, I fed myself a dataset of images of dead men in iconic European paintings. The naked and clothed male body is a complicated signifier. The images carry the content.

I’m loving this beautiful zine put out by @worcesterportraitexchange from their recent event at JMAC in MA. Exchanging portraits seems to hold out the possibility of a utopian solution to the fraught ethics of visual representation. It’s not a perfect form, but it is so inspiring. Excellent!

Thanks to everyone for coming out to the opening last night! Here’s a first batch of photos. Special thanks to Chris Quirk for these images. "Dataset Hallucinations," 15 paintings, IFAC Arts at The Yard, 85 Delancey Street. M-F, 10-5 or DM to schedule a meet.

JOIN US! THURSDAY, 9/18, for the opening reception of PETER WALSH - DATASET HALLUCINATIONS: PAINTING PERCEPTION IN THE AI AGE! Opening Reception: Thursday, September 18, 6-8pm. The Yard LES is on the second and third floors at 85 Delancey Street on the Lower East Side in Manhattan.

Facial recognition systems use different math techniques but an interesting one, visually speaking, is Eigenfaces, first used by computer scientists in 1991 to classify faces by using a system of vector math that reduced differences in facial characteristics to allow for quicker processing.

For fifteen years, as I’ve commuted to work and lived my life, I’ve gone down into my subway stop in Brooklyn and come back up latet. This is a portrait of the cameras that watch me. I see them, and they see me. Somewhere there are people watching. Somewhere there is an archive of my travels.

Artsy Announcement. “Dataset Hallucinations” opens at the International Fine Arts Consortium (IFAC) at the Yard on Thursday, September 18th, 85 Delancey Street on the LES in NYC. Shop on Artsy.

Paintings are up! Many thanks again to Brian Leo for being the install expert for the show. “Dataset Hallucinations” opens at the International Fine Arts Consortium (IFAC) at the Yard opens on Thursday, September 18th, 85 Delancey Street on the LES in NYC. Making progress.

Fifteen paintings picked up and delivered! Making progress. My show with the International Fine Arts Consortium (IFAC) at the Yard opens on Thursday, September 18th, 85 Delancey Street on the LES in NYC. More to come soon! Special thanks to Brian Leo for organizing this move and driving the van.

Packing up the paintings for a solo show with the International Fine Arts Consortium at The Yard, 85 Delancey Street, Lower East Side, NYC. The opening is Thursday, September 18 at 6pm, so save the date. More info to follow!

I just reread Hito Steyerl’s 2017 “Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War.” Still provocative. Göbekli Tepe, neural networks, “suicide cameras” mounted on missiles, art storage in extra-national freeports, Wikileaks, Hans Holbein paintings, game theory, and more. Thx for the tip, Dan.

I’ve been thinking about the ways that artists and writers connect and how that becomes apparent in archival materials. I knew about the connection between Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin but I didn’t realize that he also had a decades-long friendship with Henry Miller. All very satisfying.

“Facial Horizon; Facial Hallucination,” Oil, Acrylic and Spray Paint of Canvas, 12 inches by 54 inches, 2025.

Bigger isn’t necessarily better. Especially when you paint. But bigger is different. You measure a work with your body and a canvas that you can step into asks you to move differently and see differently. There’s a dance to be had. This canvas is the largest I’ve worked on in many years.

Noses are still interesting. And funny. Thank you Nikolai Gogol. “Abstraction with Noses,” 2025. "Selfie as Collegiate Assessor Kovalyov in Nikolai Gogol's 'The Nose,'" 2021. “Study for a Ceiling with Noses,” 2025. “Homage to Nikolai Gogol (nose in a roll),” 2023.

Happy 4th of July

I’ve posted a new arts newsletter riffing off some of my social media posts about archiving. It went out by email. If you’re interested, you can see it here: mailchi.mp/39d22103423d... Or dm me your email address and I’ll add you to my list. I don’t post too often and you can always unsubscribe.

“Red-Faced Hallucination,” Oil and Spraypaint on Canvas, 14 inches by 18 inches, 2025.

Need some summer reading material? jacobin.com/2025/06/summ...

A trio of paintings riffing on Goya etchings. “Hallucinatory Mash-Up,” 16 inches x 12 inches, Oil Acrylic and Spray Paint on Panel, 2025. “The Painter at Work,” Oil, Acrylic and Spray Paint on Panel, 11" x 14", 2025. “Star-Stuff,” Oil, Acrylic and Spray Paint on Panel, 14" x 11", 2025.

Cotton candy mixed with clip art. Not quite what I set out to do, but paintings take on their own life. Much flatter than I usually work, but I like how it accentuates the tooth of the canvas. “Stacked Crowd II,” 42 inches by 36 inches, Oil, Acrylic and Spray Paint on Canvas, 2025.

Conventional wisdom among the DC/NY press corps is that Trump is strong on immigration enforcement. But that isn't reflected in polling. People hate it. So tell me: Who's in the bubble? Bluesky users or mainstream media editorial writers?

The 2025 wave of urgent political activity has given me flashbacks to previous actions and sent me digging again in the archive. Here are four examples of Newsprint Takeovers - fake or parody newspapers. 4) 2025, The Onion, online newspaper.

The 2025 wave of urgent political activity has given me flashbacks to previous actions and sent me digging again in the archive. Here are four examples of Newsprint Takeovers - fake or parody newspapers. 3) “We’re Screwed,” Not an Alternative, 32-page fake NY Post, NYC 2009.

The 2025 wave of urgent political activity has given me flashbacks to previous actions and sent me digging again in the archive. Here are four examples of fake or parody newspapers. 2) “Sun Paper Caper,” BERN (Baltimore Emergency Response Network), Baltimore, Jan. 20, 1989, Bush I Inauguration.

The 2025 wave of urgent political activity has given me flashbacks to previous actions and sent me digging again in the archive. Here are four examples of Newsprint Takeovers - fake or parody newspapers . 1) “State Penitentiary Goes Condo,” Anne Fessler, Baltimore, 1986, 1989.

Archive 5: 1) 35mm Slides 2) Large format color positives 3) Audio cassette

Archive 4: 1) Cassette 1” video tape 2) reel to reel 1” video tape 3) Hi-8 Videotape 4) MiniDV Videotape

Archive 3: 1) VHS videotapes 2) Super VHS videotape 3) Little Betamax videotape 4) Big Betamax videotape

Archive 2: 1-3) 16mm film 4) Super 8 film

Archive 1: I’ve been digging in the boxes. Some possible gems, but certainly a lot of stuff past its use date. 2) 5 ¼” floppy 3) 3 ½” floppy 4) CD-ROM