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Selected Group exhibitions
(2025) Our Point in Space
Acadiana Center For The Arts
Lafayette, LA
(2024) UnCommon
Basin Arts Gallery
Lafayette, LA
(2023) Cur Non
Acadiana Center for the Arts
Lafayette, LA
(2023) Passeport Pour la Louisiane
Centre des artes de Shawinigan
Shawnigan, Quebec
(2022) Introspection-Land Of Misfit Toys
Nunu's Art and Cultural center
Deux Bayou Gallery
Arnaudville, LA
(2021) Cancer: Never Give Up
Biafarin.com
Ontario, Canada
(2021) Open Studio Tours
Acadiana Center for the Arts
Lafayette, LA
(2021) Twenty Years of Marais Press: imprinting a Campus and Collection. Hilliard Art Museum.
University of Louisiana at Lafayette, LA
(2021) Deux Bayous Artists Group Show
Deux Bayou Gallery
Arnaudville, LA
(2018) Railroad Art
Prairie Arts Center
North Platte, NE
(2018) Every Woman
Deux Bayous Gallery
Arnaudville, LA
(2016) Baton Rouge Community College Faculty Exhibition
Magnolia Gallery
Baton Rouge, LA
(2014) Sketchbook Project
(Group) Miami Botanical Garden, Miami, FL
(2014) ARLIS/NA Members Art Web Exhibition
ARLIS/NA Conference
Washington D. C.
(2013) Lessedra Art Gallery World Art Print
Sofia, Bulgaria
group Exhibitions (Featured Artist)
(2011) 21st Mid-Atlantic Art Exhibition
D'Art Center
Norfolk, VA
(2010) America's 2010: All Media
Nortwest Art Center
Minot, ND
(2009) Battery Park Outdoor Art festival
Battery Park
New York, NY
(2009) The Southern Illinois Artists Open Competition and Exhibition
Cedarhurst center for the Arts
Mt. Vernon, IL
Artist Statement
My work explores the layered relationships between memory, composition, and non-verbal communication through mixed media and watercolor. Drawing from my background as both an artist and research librarian, I approach image-making as a form of inquiry—an exploration of how meaning is constructed visually, textually, and materially. I often use discarded book pages, legal texts, and archival materials as both substrate and subject, embedding fragments of history into portraits, plants, and machines.
Faces in my paintings are often quiet—deliberately withholding overt expression—yet they radiate presence. These subdued visages invite reflection on how we communicate emotion, identity, and connection without words. Similarly, my depictions of railroad locomotives are not just studies of engineering or nostalgia, but meditations on form, era, and cultural memory. The railroads I portray—weathered, patched, or pristine—evoke a tactile past and a fascination with how machinery embodies both purpose and poetry.
Plants, too, serve as vital figures in my work. Rendered with the kind of attention often reserved for human subjects, they assert their presence through color, gesture, and rhythm. When architecture or infrastructure appears in these scenes, it does so as background—subordinate to the expressive force of the natural world. This compositional hierarchy reflects my belief in the resilience and primacy of organic life within the built environment.
Through these interwoven themes, I seek to collapse boundaries between the archival and the aesthetic, the engineered and the organic, the personal and the historical. My art is not only a reflection of what I see, but of how I process, research, and remember. Each piece is a visual essay—layered, questioning, and reaching outward—inviting viewers to consider how we read the world, and how it, in turn, reads us.
Awards and Recognition
2024 Shrevport Regional Arts Council Kallenberg Artist Tower (KAT) Artist Residency
2023 Samuel H Kress Foundation International Travel Award
2022 International Visual Literacy Association (IVLA) Deborah Pratt Curtis Artist Scholarship Award
2003 3rd Place Award SIUC Athlete Portrait Competition
2001 2nd Place Viewers Choice Award Art Alley SIUC Student Center
Press
(2022, December 21). Cajun Creations. Daily Iberian, The (New Iberia, LA).
Peter klubek’s “I have one of those faces.” (2022, September 15). Country Roads Magazine. https://countryroadsmagazine.com/api/content/abd3063a-350d-11ed-8bb5-12274efc5439/
"Lafayette artist captures the pandemic stories behind those Zoom faces in online project." Wyatt, M. The Advocate February 2022 from https://www.theadvocate.com/acadiana/entertainment_life/article_4ed2f26a-89ff-11ec-be50-8f177c3d0aa4.html
WESTBROOK, S. P. B. L. (n.d.). ACA.zoomart.adv.002.JPG. NOLA.Com. February from https://www.nola.com/image_f83dcf71-fa33-52d1-9646-bb1b81f89e8a.html
"Deaux Bayou Collective Group Exhibit." Country Roads Magazine. November 2021
"The Canvas Project Exhibition Catalog." Art House LLC, Atlanta, Georgia
"Moods Without Limits." Islip Bulletin, July 9. West Islip, New York.
"Art in the City" volume 1, issue 4. Minutemen Press Falls Church, Virginia.
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Selected Solo exhibitions
(2025) Weathered, Patched, Heritage
Springfield Albany Public Library
Springfield, LA
(2025) Weathered, Patched, Heritage
Peter Klubek Art Galleries
Lafayette, LA
(2022) I Have One Of Those Faces
Nunu's Art and Cultural center
Deux Bayou Gallery
Arnaudville, LA
(2021-2022) zoomface2020.com
Online Virtual Exhibition
Worldwide Web
(2019) At face Value + Trains of Thought
LeCoin Gallery Nunu’s Art Collective
Arnaudveille, LA
(2018) Recent Works
Firehouse Gallery
Baton Rouge, LA
(2012) Recent Works
Museum Without Walls
Islip, NY
(2012) All about Pipes
Museum Without Walls
Islip, NY
Works in permanent collections
Brooklyn Art Library Brooklyn, NY
Hillard Art Museum University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Selected Publications
"Art institute of Chicago online collection." (n.d.). ARLIS/NA Multimedia & Technology Reviews. April 2022
"Beyte Saar: Call and Response Review"Multimedia and technology Reviews. December 2020
"Claude Monet: The Water Lilies and Other Writings on Art Review" Multimedia and Technology Reviews. August 2019.
"Faces of Frida Review" Multimedia and technology Reviews October 2018.
Presentations and Speaking events
2025 "Weathered, Patched, Heritage" Artist Talk
2024 "Drawing Connections: The Workshop" Artist Workshop
2024 "Drawing Connections: Art, Libraries, and Visual Literacy" Artist Talk
2023 "Information At the Crossroads of Art and Record." Ways of Seeing: IVLA Conference
Co-presented with Brian Kelly and Benjamin Hickey 2023 51st Annual ARLIS Conference "Outside the Library with The Marais Press: Printmaking Collaborations at the University of Louisiana- Lafayette
Co-presented with Tiffany Ellis 2022 LUC “Outreach, Creativity, and You: Based on the True Life Story of Dupre Library and an Arts and Culture Collective
W/Marty Miller Art Librarian Louisiana State University. Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) Southeast Chapter Conference 2021 “Opening Up the Arts: Experiences with the LOUIS Interactive OER for Dual Enrollment”
W/Marty Miller Art Librarian Louisiana State University. International Visual Literacy Association (IVLA) 2021 Annual Conference “Open Access to Visual Literacy: Coordinating Creation of Pilot OERs in Visual and Performing Arts”
About Peter Klubek
Peter Klubek is a Louisiana-based visual artist whose practice blends layered watercolor, collage, and book arts to explore the convergence of memory, identity, and place. His artwork delves into the cultural and historical significance of text and image, often incorporating pages from legal codes, archival documents, and discarded books into expressive portraits, evocative landscapes, and textured railroad imagery. Through this fusion of media, Peter treats information not just as content, but as material—creating visual narratives that examine the layered nature of knowledge, heritage, and story.
Exhibited both nationally and internationally, Peter’s creative work reflects a lifelong commitment to visual storytelling and artistic experimentation. His distinctive use of mixed media reveals the deep connections between libraries and art, turning research, texts, and visual literacy into immersive, sensory experiences. His aesthetic sensibility captures the weathered richness of his subjects while probing the personal and collective narratives that shape them.
As Head of Research and Access Services at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s Edith Garland Dupré Library, Peter brings his artistic perspective into his role as an art research librarian. He fosters interdisciplinary learning through visual literacy instruction, research guidance, and programs that bridge creative practice and academic inquiry. He has presented widely on these topics at conferences such as LILAC and has published reviews and articles in Reference & User Services Quarterly (RUSQ) and ARLIS/NA Multimedia & Technology Reviews.
Peter’s artistic achievements include participation in juried exhibitions such as the Battery Park Outdoor Art Festival in New York, the Southern Illinois Artists Open Competition at Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, and the Iowa Sculpture and Fine Arts Festival. His portraits of college athletes have received special recognition, and he has completed several artist residencies—including two international study programs at Hospitalfield House in Arbroath, Scotland—and an internship at the Birmingham Museum of Art in Alabama. In 2022, he was awarded the IVLA Deborah Pratt Curtiss Artist Scholarship in Jyväskylä, Finland, supporting his continued exploration of art as layered, informational practice.
Deeply committed to cultivating creativity within the academic and local community, Peter is currently developing the Dupre Library Undergraduate Fellowship for the Arts, a program encouraging students to respond to library collections through original, interdisciplinary artworks. He also holds the Drs. Gloria S. and Robert W. Cline/BORSF Endowed Professorship, which supports his ongoing research and creative initiatives. As an active member of the NUNU Arts & Culture Collective in Arnaudville, LA, and a planning member of the LUC Committee, he continues to promote creative placemaking, cultural exchange, and the vital role of the arts in education and community life.