My work is visionary in style, I prefer a primitive style that evokes simplicity and directness.
Artist’s Bio Peter LoCascio MFA
While living in Boston in 1981, Peter LoCascio started painting. He liked going to the Boston Museum and made friends at the museum school. Having seen some of Peter’s drawings, one friend dared him to paint something from one of them. This led to the first in a series of acrylic paintings on canvas board showing Martians observing our world and the crazy things humans do. The paintings became a hit with other artists and were traded for rent to his landlord.
Little by little Peter became better and started to exhibit professionally. An art curator told him in the spring of 1987 that he should apply to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He went home and sent some slides to the school thinking he may get a shot at the Bachelor’s program even though he was self-taught.
During the summer of 1987 he went to visit the school and had an interview with Christina Ramberg who was impressed with his work. They talked for an hour or so before he hopped on a train back to Boston. He thought nothing of it until he received a call the weekend before Thanksgiving in 1987. The call said he had been offered a full-merit scholarship to the MFA program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Peter left Boston in January 1988 with just a futon and began his journey as an artist in a new city.
After art school Peter began to show with the Carl Hammer Gallery in Chicago. This led to a solo show and a few sales. Peter now had a family to raise so decided to get training as a therapist at De Paul University. He kept painting and working full-time for the next 27 years. He is now retired and wants to devote the rest of his life as a full-time artist. He has much more to give as an artist and believes his best works are ahead of him.
