John Peralta’s Floating Masterpieces Reimagine the Inner Workings of Iconic Gadgets
By Jesse James
John Peralta has made a name for himself with his intricate, gravity-defying sculptures that expose the inner beauty of iconic technology.
John Peralta Explodes Historic Technology into Three-Dimensional Diagrams
By Kate Mothes
On individual strings of monofilament, John Peralta (previously) suspends every single component of historic gadgets, from Rollieflex cameras to Singer sewing machines. The Austin-based artist reinterprets iconic technology to create complex, three-dimensional exploded diagrams using real objects.
Floating musical instruments adorn lobby at new Virgin Hotels Nashville
John Peralta Reimagines the Music City with Major Art Installation Project for Virgin Hotels
Virgin Hotels Nashville reopens with innovative art installation in the hotel from artist John Peralta
As hotels become art destinations, Virgin Hotels partners with artist John Peralta to make their newest hotel in Nashville a must-see cultural landmark and cutting-edge art destination.
Virgin Hotels’ new property hits all the right notes in Music City
by Juliana Hahn
Unsurprisingly, music takes centre stage and is celebrated in every corner of the hotel. The jaw-dropping Music City Ensemble installation by John Peralta is the undisputed highlight. It features 12 artistically arranged country music instruments from top manufacturers such as A&F Drum Co, Fender Musical Instruments Corporation and Eastwood Guitars, suspended mid-air in the lobby.
Now Open: Virgin Hotels Nashville
A showstopping Music City Ensemble installation, designed by John Peralta, features a 12-piece ensemble of country music instruments - provided by some of the top manufacturers including A&F Drum Co, Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, Eastwood Guitars - floating weightlessly from the ceiling of the hotel lobby to welcome guests.
CLOT MAGAZINE design, interviews, robotics & kinetics
John A Peralta, The Fragmented Beauty Behind “Mechanations”
by Daniela Silva
By organising and suspending components of objects like sewing machines, typewriters, and old film projectors, Peralta creates a sculptural ode to some of our most historical innovations.
John Peralta’s Art Is In The Details - When engineering meets art
by Alexa Bouhelier-Ruelle
John Peralta’s new fine art installation Music City Ensemble is the centre piece of Virgin Hotel Nashville in a major collaboration with Virgin Group. The collaboration pairs the company’s cutting-edge venture with Peralta’s innovative vision for engineered marvels.
THE HIGH END
Diagram This
By Marlene Ridgway
John A. Peralta began taking things apart long before he was compelled to truly pursue art.
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See this art: A 1910 phonograph is disassembled, then strung together
by Michael Barnes
Some people take things apart. Others put them together. Then there are those who make rarefied art by doing both.
Market Art + Design Returns to Bridgehampton for its 9th Edition
by Alejandra Tenorio
Situated in the heart of the Hamptons, Market Art + Design will offer an interactive experience with exclusive installations and events that will exceed all expectations as the fair celebrates its ninth consecutive year. Designed in an expanded, museum-quality pavilion, the fair will highlight the industry’s most innovative makers including Wendy Letven’s “Flowtopia”, Kevin Barret’s “Scarlet” presented by C Fine Art, John Peralta presented by George Billis Gallery, David Datuna presented by Gilles Clement Gallery and Seek One presented by Aced Gallery and The White Room Gallery, among others.
POPULAR MECHANICS (RUSSIAN EDITION) JUNE 2019
3D Drawings of John Peralta
By Anastasia Shartogasheva
It all started with an exploded diagram of a bicycle the artist saw by chance. Charmed by its fragile beauty, he returned home and set to work recreating the vision in three dimensions. What became his hobby eventually became his life; forsaking a successful career in education and non-profit consulting, and after spending good part of his life living abroad, he settled back in the US and established himself in Texas, where he creates his 3D sculptures of vintage iconic objects.
By Megan Reed
John Peralta, an artist based in Austin, Texas, is here to remind us of the potency of human ingenuity, revealing the incredible and irrevocable human power behind mass mechanization. Peralta, in his artwork, dissects machines--literally... ; subverting the finished product by reversing the fabrication process. He takes machines apart and then offers all of their components in stunning, suspended schematic displays that reveal the inner workings of these often ubiquitous and utilitarian tools. The results are breathtaking: floating iPhones with microscopic screws and screens revealed, suspended amidst ghostly spaces in between, delicately hovering between these materials.
By Danielle McCloskey
On view at New York's George Billis Gallery from December 11th through January 19th is the work of sculptor John Peralta. Utilizing the "exploded-view" diagrammatic technique commonly employed by engineers, Peralta unveils the inner mechanisms and inner beauty of mechanical objects.
We asked John to talk a bit about the process behind his work:
Sculpture Artist John Peralta Reveals Hidden Beauty in Mechanical Antiques (pgs 34-35)
by Belinda Cai
Vintage cameras, typewriters and computers may end up abandoned at antique shops, but what these items have produced — endless stories, memories and feelings — will never be lost. Fine sculptor artist John Peralta captures this concept by exploding and suspending mechanical antiques into unique disassembled sculptures. Like the objects once peering into the private lives of their users, one can examine the many layers and complexity of the inside of these artifacts. Peralta’s work is delicate and precise. Every fine piece of these intricate items shines, in a way that displays the object’s fragile beauty.
Flashbak
Mechanations: Historical Machines as Three-Dimensional Exploded Diagrams
by Paul Sorene
Do we open up digital devices the same way, or get the same joy and feeling of physical endurance from laptops and smartphone as we once did from pressing the button on a camera, hitting the keys on a typewriter or writing ball, seeing the words, a kind of visual art, appear on paper? The actor Tom Hanks prefers to use a typewriter. Why? Rod Serling, the screenwriter, explained the typewriter’s role in the creative industry: “Writing is the easiest thing on Earth. I simply walk into my study. I sit down. I put the paper in the typewriter and I fix the margins and I turn the paper up and I bleed.”
Colossal
Mechanations: Historical Machines Exploded into Individual Components in Sculptures
by Kate Sierzputowski
The sculptures break down the mechanics of the 20th-century devices, presenting a unique peek into the simplicity of objects before the Digital Revolution. Peralta dissects iconic machines in areas such as design, communication, and entertainment. This technique, which he has used for over a decade, was inspired by seeing a similar sculptural diagram on the back of a Chinese magazine in 2005. “I was inspired by its fragile beauty, and imagined a three-dimensional version with a real object,” Peralta outlines on his website. “Using only a ruler and simple tools, which I still use today, I developed techniques for suspension which expose the inner workings of these humble mechanical objects.”
VOYAGE LA
Art and Life with John A. Peralta
by Sarah Abrams
“I like to think these machines hold our secrets that we’ve long forgotten. They’ve watched generations pass; recorded every scene, love letter, and document. If you’re patient, and you look closely, you can see that each image, word, and note is permanently imprinted on them.”
my modern met
Iconic Objects of the Past “Dissected” Into Incredible Suspended Sculptures
by Jessica Stewart
Self-taught artist John A. Peralta has long been fascinated with the inner workings of everyday objects. As a child, he would take apart machines to see how they work and create inventions with the pieces. Now, the fine artist uses that curiosity to dissect iconic objects of the past, stringing up their internal workings to create incredible sculptures.
JUSTLUXE
Fine Artist John Peralta "explodes" our most beloved machines to create elegant sculptural works
by Carly Zinderman
Peralta’s passion for science and the arts has been explored through various career paths, which include serving as the Executive Director of International External Affairs at UCLA, and starting a small toy company. It seems there isn’t much that Peralta can’t find inspiration in, especially when it comes to creation itself.
Bellus Magazine
The Sum of Their Parts: The Vivisections and Resurrections of John Peralta
by Brittany Knupper
... “what if you could make a sculpture, where you took all of the pieces of an object and could suspend them, in air...?” Just like that, his muse was found.
“machina”
John Peralta works with early and mid-20th century machines that began the seduction of humans and their “bot”. Peralta dissects antiquated technologies like typewriters and sewing machines, painstakingly taking them apart and arranging them with new sculptural and aesthetic value.
Austin Chronicle
William Geisler + John Peralta at Wally Workman Gallery
By Wayne Alan Brenner
Peralta's deconstructed machines and Geisler's encaustic abstracts turn painstaking toil into patterns of brilliance.
aether magazine
Mechanations
By Rachel Stephens
John Peralta suspends our imagination. The objects he chooses to include in his series, Mechanations, strike a chord of nostalgia and wonder... there is something romantic about Peralta’s work. Frozen in elegant suspension, these objects are idealized and revered. Clean and impeccably constructed, Peralta’s work presents these objects without flaw.
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Scultori Di Suoni
By Alexis Paparo
Come John Peralta: secondo questo scultore, originario del New Mexico, la meccanica perfetta delle single parti era non meno affascinante del suo intero. Ecco perché l’opera Exploded Guitar, realizzata per I nuovi uffici Fender, a Los Angeles, è una Fender Telecaster.
la weekly
Fender Guitars Has a New Home in the Heart of Hollywood
By Matt Wake
Art installation “Exploded Guitar” by artist John Peralta on display at Fender's new offices on Gower Street.
DALLAS STYLE & DESIGN
Atypical Art
By Chase Wade
An assemblage of CINQ’s most intriguing new works comes from Austin artist John Peralta. Peralta’s pieces stem from the deconstruction of off-kilter items, ranging from a saxophone to a handgun. His meticulous craftsmanship magically brings life to once-lifeless goods.