ARTIST'S STATEMENT

I am a maker of objects, and the object itself is the main idea in my sculpture.

Simple shapes elaborate into complexity. Images (humans, animals, architecture, tools ) inevitably appear. I think that this is the projection of the warm subconscious onto the cool geometry of elemental forms. Since Marcel Duchamp in the 1930's, ideas about sculpture have proliferated in countless directions, from Andy Warhol to Nam June Paik. My own pursuit has been a continuing exploration of the formal attributes of sculpture: form, scale, negative space, composition. An advantage of sculpture is that ideas such as wholeness, beauty, timelessness can be expressed without words. One of the elements of this wordless expression is negative space. A doughnut is defined by its hole. If one accepts space as part of the doughnut, where does the doughnut end? Thus the doorways, windows, silhouettes of my sculptures can suggest an area larger than the sculpture itself. 

Solo Exhibitions

2009 Elements Converging, Boston Sculptors Gallery; Boston, MA
2007 Abstraction, Boston Sculptors Gallery; Boston, MA
2005 New Work, Boston Sculptors Gallery; Boston, MA
2002 Collections, Columbus College of Art & Design; Columbus, OH
1999, 2001 Peter DeCamp Haines, Boston Sculptors at Chapel Gallery; Newton, MA
1998, 2002 Recent Sculpture, Keny Galleries; Columbus, OH
1997 New Bronzes, Boston Sculptors at Chapel Gallery; Newton, MA
1996 Peter Haines Bronze Sculpture, Keny Galleries; Columbus, OH
1995 Objects and Narratives, Boston Sculptors at Chapel Gallery; Newton, MA
1994 Peter Haines Bronzes, Glen Street Gallery; Yellow Springs, OH
1993 Bronze, Boston Sculptors at Chapel Gallery; Newton, MA
1992 Peter Haines, Episcopal Divinity School; Cambridge, MA
1991 Peter Haines New Bronzes, Gallery on the Green; Lexington, MA
1990 Bronzes, Sally Windels Gallery; Columbus, OH
1989 Peter DeCamp Haines, Victoria Munroe Gallery; New York, NY
1986 An Archaeology, Laumeier Sculpture Park; St. Louis, MO
1982 Bronze, Sculpture Society of Arts and Crafts; Boston, MA
1979 Artifacts, Impressions Gallery; Boston, MA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009 Personal Icons, Capital University; Columbus, Ohio
2007 Recent Acquisitions, The DeCordova Museum; Lincoln, MA
2006 Recent Print Acquisitions, The DeCordova Museum; Lincoln, MA
2006 Figuratively Speaking, Art in Public Places; Stamford, CT
2006 Celebrating 25 Years, Keny Galleries; Columbus, OH
2005 Bronze, Vermont Gentlemen's Foundry Concord Art Association; Concord, MA
2004 Summer Show, Hammond Harkin Gallery; Edgartown, MA
2004 Collection, Connection Art Complex Museum: Duxbury, MA
2003 Lifeforce, The Schumacher Gallery; Columbus,OH
2000-2004 Summer Show, Nan Mulford Gallery; Rockport, ME
2001, 2002 Carincroft Gardens Sculpture Show, Carincroft Gardens; Dover, MA
2000 Cambridgeport in 3D, Stebbins Gallery; Cambridge, MA
2000 Sculpture Works, The Society of Arts and Crafts; Boston, MA
1998 October Show, Acacia Gallery; Gloucester, MA
1997 Spring Sculpture Show, The Happy White Gallery; Barrington, RI
1996 Sculpture '96, Virginia Lynch Gallery; Tiverton, RI
1994 Sculptures in the Landscape, Four Corners; Tiverton, RI
1992 Art and Context: Successful Integration, The Boston Society of Architects; Boston, MA
1991 Fourth International Shoebox Exhibition, University of Hawaii; Honolulu, HI
1990 Contemporary Sculpture, Chesterwood; Stockbridge, MA
1989 Creative Collaborations-Artists/Architects, Cambridge Art Association; Cambridge, MA
1989 Tools; Instruments; Implements; Utensils, San Francisco Airports Exhibiton; CA
1988 This is Your Garden, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston; Boston, MA
1987 Modern Forms/ Archaic Echoes, Victoria Munroe Gallery; New York, NY
1985 Sculpture the Language of Scale, Bruce Museum; Greenwich, CT
1985 Smart Art, Capenter Center Harvard University; Cambridge, MA
1984 The Human Form Explored in Sculpture, Fitchburg Art Museum; Fitchburg, MA
1984 Sculpture Trends, Lopoukhine Gallery; Boston, MA
1984 Do Touch, Society of Arts and Crafts; Boston, MA
1983 Interim 1, Chesterwood Studio; Stockbridge, MA
1981 Summer Show, Clark Gallery; Loncoln, MA
1980 Fellowship Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts; Boston, MA
1979 Summer Show, Ehrlich Gallery; New York, NY
1978 100 Years of the Museum School, Museum of Fine Arts; Boston, MA