Artist Reception: The Junk Pirate | Oakland

Submitted by the Event Organizer

The roots of exhibitions in America rest deeply on the notion of collecting and collections. Pete Glover’s upcoming art exhibition, Junk Pirate, harks back to a time when Charles W. Peale’s American Museum began displaying a variety of items that were considered random objects of novelty.  By presenting seemingly disparate objects from everyday life, Glover manages to form a cohesive and amusing gaze into American culture.

Pete Glover is an artist, a curator, a thrift store employee, and a pirate of junk. Sifting through piles of discarded commodities requires a keen eye and an aesthetic for artistic relationships, and Glover is constantly curating his carefully selected boon. Collecting is a process that relies as much upon chance discoveries as it does on incisive gathering. Over the past half decade, “Junk Pirate” has manifested into a zine, a blog, a website, and a self-published book, all of which document and put various aspects of Glover’s collections on display.

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