I am currently offering design development and project delivery services for artistic and promotional installations.
Using advanced, materially informed parametric 3D modeling, I can help you refine your concept and prepare it for rapid-fab iteration, full-scale mockups, and final production.
Drawing: Based on your design sketches, 3D model, or physical model, I can produce top-quality, construction ready drawings. Note: I do not provide any stamps or certifications, but I can manage that process for you.
Text: Do you need help describing you work or proposals? I can produce first-rate copy and layout.
I can manage your project from development to deployment, procuring and coordinating contractors and fabricators, ensuring a perfect final result.
Short Story
I am a designer, artists, writer, and strategic problem solver with three decades of experience working in the arts and architecture. My roots are in visual, sculptural and time-based arts. Through architecture, I have developed expertise in design for manufacturing as well as strategic narrative and graphic design for publication. I am someone who knits all these threads together and pulls them through project conception, explanation, development, and deployment.
Long Story
For the many things I've done, I've always been what I am. (Download my CV)
I was the child doing classwork very carefully wrong. “So much potential,” they ruefully said. Through high school I leaped between advanced and vocational classes, enjoying their cultural differences, while my real work was at home.
A portfolio of oil paintings took me to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. There I branched out into 3D and time-based art, learning to think on my feet and know my “Why.” Critiques were serious stand-up events where the unprepared or inflexible presenter was pinned to the wall and dissected or, worse, neglected.
Before graduating, I started working for my professor’s non-profit Experimental Sound Studio, where artists explored recording as a new medium. That led to a dreamlike career filled with strange noises and otherly music. I learned to listen, truly listen, not only to sounds but to ideas struggling for words as intelligent and creative individuals—my clients—expressed themselves in an unfamiliar context. That life, however, closed with violent damage to my inner ear. I no longer enjoy balanced stereo perception, but I’ll never forget the delight of helping artists hear what they could faintly explain.
My graduate degree in architecture, from the University of Texas, came ten years after my undergraduate degree. The architects I admired had an artful approach to material and making. Once in their studios, I quickly found myself on special projects. My time doing straight-ahead architecture was therefore brief but intense and informative. I learned exquisite drawing standards and how to maintain design ideals through competing interests and constraints.
As I began writing proposals and project descriptions, I realized that art school had trained me to craft narratives. As I worked with lead designers on new ideas, I noticed that the listening I practiced in the sound studio was and is the heart of collaboration. And as I developed new processes for transforming material, I understood that doing things “very carefully wrong” is not simply a childish distraction, but a method for discovery and invention. Now I am focused on applying everything I have learned to artwork in the public interest.
I believe that public artwork should be concerned with nurturing a conversational relationship with reality. Reality is too often mistaken for that which is probable, predictable, predetermined, or otherwise bound to collective expectation when in fact it is an endless unfolding that exceeds perspective. Conversation, the best kind of conversation, is an act of reciprocal curiosity. We draw one another into the present through conversation. Reality, as I see it, is continually inviting us to such a conversation. Thus, I believe that the truly vital work of art receives, responds to, and announces that invitation.
I live in Vancouver, British Columbia, the ancestral land of many peoples and a city in the throes of adolescence, awkward, charming, and full of so much potential.
I am always on the lookout for new collaborations. Please get in touch. Tell me about your project.
Peter M. Wenger, 2026
