PETER LODATO - IN DIRE STRAITS

My name is Ingrid Boon and in a recent visit to an old friend and wonderful human being, Peter Lodato, I found him in a terrible state: he is in dire straits. Peter is not well, and after a recent fall somewhat incapacitated. Peter is a beloved member of the Venice, CA art community and many of them may have no idea what is happening to him.

After I cleaned his apartment, I found numerous bills that had not been paid, some indicating that his utilities will be shut off in a matter of days, if not hours. 

I am trying to raise money to put into a "trust account" to help him pay these bills, such as his utilities and his living expenses.

For those of you, who may know Peter I have provided the following bio on him:

"Peter Lodato was born in the 1940's, in Los Angeles, California, has exhibited extensively and received significant acclaim throughout his art career. During the 1960’s and 1970’s, his art consisted of environmental works utilizing space, powerful lights, mirrors, shadows, and reflections. Soon after, Lodato realized he could make a similar statement by replacing the reflected light and shadow images with paint applied directly to the walls in large flat and glossy panels of color and black and white. These works were exhibited at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1972), PS1 in New York City (1978), the Whitney Biennial (1981), and the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art (1985). More recently, Lodato’s work has consisted of abstract paintings and works on paper that have the same perceptual quality as his early light and space installations. Lodato’s simple compositions are concerned with positive and negative space, and the pitting of shapes against edges and margins. He mixes geometric abstraction, in the vein of Ellsworth Kelly, with investigations of defined luminosity, similar to Mark Rothko"




Please, anyone who knows Peter, and even those who don’t, pass this on to anyone who can help him. As I stated previously, Peter is in dire straits and I do not want to lose him. Being able to do this, means so much to me, not only because Peter is a friend but because I appreciate Peter for being the great artist he is and all the wonderful art he has created. 

He has sold most of his art to live on and there is none left to sell.  Being emotionally over wrought and stressed prevents him from creating more and besides that, over the past few years the taste in art and shifting trends have changed drastically and the chance for him to make any money with his art in the future has evaporated.

Please help the man with whatever you can give and know it will be appreciated and hopefully we can put Peter back on track to be able to paint again.