Peter J Maltz is a multidisciplinary artist exploring the boundaries of painting, drawing, sculpture, and writing as one continuum of search and transformation.
- A key characteristic of his work is the fusion of the mythical and metaphysical with the mundane, using the material as a gateway to the transcendental.
For Maltz, art is not merely a visual representation but a liberating force. A way to touch the human essence, to deconstruct and reassemble both the personal and the collective.
Maltz seeks to reveal another layer of existence, to expose the vulnerability and strength embedded in the creative process itself.
- Maltz sees himself as a person on a journey creating a chronicle and a guide sharing stories and lessons .
- The work is related to his personal life, the culture and the society around him.
- Maltz combines a variety of abstract and narrative expressive modes.
He has been researching for twenty five years the relation between the visual language and structures of narrative, such as – Diary writing, Storytelling, How to? books and Allegorical literature.
- Many of his sculptures are reliefs made in the traditions of assemblage casts and modelling . The reliefs create “contemplation walls ” or “sculptural photographs” of an event, situation or adventure, which occurred in his life.
- Maltz`s drawings are created as an intentional series. Many times they are exhibited like a storyboard or bound together to create artist books.
- The drawings and sculpture are created from an urge to reach a moment of enhanced consciousness and out of a conviction that art has the ability to transform oneself and others to live a meaningful life .
Years of teaching, developing educational methodologies, and engaging with communities have shaped his identity as an
artist–educator. For Maltz, the studio and the classroom are parallel spaces—both invite dialogue, discovery, and shared creation.
Maltz believes art can be not only
testimony but also action: an act of change, an expansion of vision, and a
- renewal of our capacity to dream.