When I was a kid, I enjoyed three things that have informed my work today: 1. Hockey and drawing hockey logos 2. The halfway burned down geodesic dome designed by Buckminster Fuller for the 1967 Montreal World’s Fair 3. Trying to visualize infinity until it gave me a funny feeling. The word funny is often used when one is confronted by something that just doesn’t quite make sense, or is a little off, or isn’t, right.  Most of my work is centered on different iterations of these kinds of funny moments.

Funny moments are made when things (language, images, objects, ideas) don’t lineup, so one might be inclined to lean into those enigmas to try and figure out what’s going on. Attention is extended when things don’t exactly make sense. I’m fascinated by these funny moments because meaning making is not fixed but subverted, confused and ultimately freed from having to make too much sense.

Kyle Peets (b. 1984, Utah) is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator who has exhibited his work nationally and abroad. He received his MFA in Printmaking and Sculpture from the University of Iowa as well as a graduate certificate in book arts from the Iowa Center For The Book. He has had solo exhibitions at Platte Forum gallery (Denver, CO) the Ana Mendieta gallery (Iowa City, IA), and the Retzlaff gallery (Ashland, Or). Various group exhibitions and portfolio exchanges include Character Profile at Root Division gallery (San Francisco, CA), GET’CHA HEAD IN THE GAME at The Naughton Gallery at Queen’s University, Belfast, Ireland, Art Is Our Last Hope at The Phoenix Art Museum (Phoenix, AZ), and Art Shanty on the frozen White Bear Lake (Minneapolis, MN). His video, You, was shown at the 2015 Southern Colorado Film Festival (Alamosa, CO). His work was published in the periodical SPRTS by Endless Editions (New York, NY), archived in the Watson Library Special Collections, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and MoMA, Manhattan, Artists’ Books. His poetry has been published by various literary journals such as Interrupture, NOÖ, and Stolen Island. Kyle received an artist in residence Richardson-Spica fellowship for the spring of 2017 and 2018 at Interlochen (Interlochen, MI), SIF fellowship, and Wilhelm and Jane Bodine fellowship from University of Iowa.