PETER M. KRASK is an artist based in New York City whose practice is concentrated in photography and writing.
Krask has studied at the International Center of Photography and worked privately with photographer Carol Dragon, with whom he collaborated on the exhibition “life . . . still.” His black and white project, Ars Longa, was exhibited at Gallery Infinito in New York City. An excerpt from his photo and text based work-in-progress, Modern Devotional, was shown at the Superfine Art Fair sponsored by ArtHouse NYC. A selection from his project, Songs of Disaster and Forgiveness, received second place in the 22nd International Toy Camera Competition and was exhibited at the Soho Photo Gallery, New York’s longest-running co-operative photography gallery.
His non-fiction essay, The Question I Asked Him, opens the anthology The Man I Might Become and his memoir, The Way the Stars Come Home, was included in the anthology Wrestling with the Angel. He has written features and criticism for The Baltimore Sun, The City Paper, and The Boston Phoenix.
Krask is the librettist of the opera With Blood, With Ink, which received its acclaimed professional premiere at the Fort Worth Opera Festival, and has been twice featured on New York City Opera’s VOX festival, and produced by universities around the country; a recording is available on Albany Records. Other works include: The Language of Birds, commissioned by Sarasota Opera; Rendezvous of Light premiered in a production he also directed and designed; an adaptation of Calvino’s Invisible Cities; and From the Diary of Kaspar Hauser, The Child of Europe.
Peter M. Krask holds a Master’s Degree in Critical Studies from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University.
Additionally, for the past twenty years, he has been the President and Creative Director of PMK Floral Arts, a boutique floral and event design company based in New York City. Clients include NBC’s Today Show, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, Late Night with Seth Meyers, and select corporate and private clients. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Town and Country, The Knot Book of Wedding Flowers, and Martha Stewart Weddings.
Krask is the Founder and Creative Director of The Creativity Guide which was launched in 2019. He is returning as a Dedicated Mentor at the New Museum in New York City for their New Inc. Program. A frequent podcast guest, he has recently been heard discussing creative entrepreneurship on Queer Money and the intersections of LGBT spirituality and creativity as they connect with questions of personal and communal desire on The Forbidden Apple.
"Whether through images or words, my work is grounded in, and informed by, my love of the history of painting and language, often using that history as a point of embarkation. I believe that, either by drawing upon, or excavating and interrogating this heritage, new, and sometimes startling, connections and relationships can be discovered; content once hidden or stated in code can be transformed into unexpected and vital forms of communication, liberating the unspoken past to speak into the challenges of the present and beyond." - Peter M. Krask
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