Kids in the Fall. G-Spot, Baltimore, MD September 2004

Last Exit to Dreamland. An Exhibition of Artist Couples: Kathie Olivas & Brandt Elling Peters, Jim Houser & Rebecca Westcott, Liz McGrath & Morgan Slade, Lynn & John Whipple, and Plankton Art. Covivant Gallery, Tampa, FL. June 11-July 11, 2004

Sweet Dreams for Strange Bedfellows. Kathie Olivas, Brandt Elling Peters, and Michael Peters. Skeleton Art Gallery. Santa Fe, NM. March 2004

Madstone Theater exhibition, Tampa, FL 2004 - group show

Big Men in Little Cars. Tin Man Alley, Philadelphia, PA. January 2004

The Haunted Dollhouse. Curated by Liz McGrath. Copro Nason Gallery, Culver City, CA. October 2003

Rock & Robots. Orbit Art Gallery, Edgewater, NJ 2003 - group exhibition

Concerns of the Day. Catalyst Productions & Studio, St. Petersburg, FL 2003 - group exhibition

Innuendo. Kathie Olivas,Brandt Peters, Karen Peters, and Michael Peters. The Arts Center, St. Petersburg, FL. May 2003.

*"Slap Happy" Solo Exhibition at Covivant Gallery, Tampa, FL. April 2003

100 Flat 2002. C-Pop Gallery, Detroit, MI

Toys. Space 1300, Cleveland, OH 2002

Clean Monsters, Dirty Children. Tin Man Alley, Philadelphia, PA 2002

Vitale Brothers' Urban Swank. Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL 2002

Up the Dosage. 3 man show with Brandon Dunlap and Paul Pavlovich. Hyde park Fine Arts, Tampa, FL 2002

Starscape, Baltimore, MD Jume 2002

Anime House (in association with Takashi Murakami's "My Reality"). Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL 2002

The Circus Show. C-Pop Gallery, Detroit, MI 2002

Detour. Covivant Gallery, Tampa, FL 2002

4th Annual Valentine Peepshow. Hyde Park Fine Arts, Tampa, FL 2002

Medicophilia. Covivant Gallery, Tampa, FL 2002

Total Absence/ Total Presence. C-Pop, Detroit, MI 2002

No Show. Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL 2001

50/50. C-Pop, Detroit, MI 2001

Holiday Show. The Arts Center, St. Petersburg, FL 2001

Bam. Vitale Brothers, St. Petersburg, FL 2001

Toys in Babeland (Peters Family Exhibition)

Hyde Park Fine Arts, Tampa, FL 2001.

Octagon Arts Center, Clearwater, FL 2002

Belligerent Dreams. Hyde Park Fine Arts, Tampa, FL 2001

H20. The Arts Center, St. Petersburg, FL 2001

Starscape. Street Festival, Baltimore, MD 2001

Visitations. The G-Spot, Baltimore, MD 2001

The Really Big Show. Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL 2001.

The Orange Bolssom Quenn and Other Visions of Florida Madness. Covivnat Gallery, Tampa, FL 2001.

Odyssey. Fusion Gallery. St. Petersburg, FL 2001

3rd Annual Valentine Peepshow. Hyde Park Fine Arts, Tampa, FL 2001

Winter Salon. Hyde Park Fine Arts, Tampa, FL 2000

Hyperactive. Vitale Bros. , Pinellas Park, FL 2000

Pop(text)ure. Hyde Park Fine Arts, Tampa, FL 2000. Curated by Jim Beeler

Lost and Found. Hyde Park Fine Arts, Tampa, FL 2000

Last Exit to Dreamland (Co-Curator) Covivant Gallery, Tampa, FL 2004

Detour. (co-curator) Covivant Gallery, Tampa, FL 2002

The Orange Blossom Queen and Other Visions of Florida Madness. (Co-curator) Covivant Gallery, Tampa, FL 2001

Violent Violets: Kathie Olivas Solo Exhibition. Covivant Gallery, Tampa, FL 2000.

Artist Statement: Having grown up on the West Coast most of my life and coming from a family of uber ‘antique’ collectors and artists, my eclectic upbringing was filled with a wide range of ’Pop’ ephemera. Many of those inspirations now show up in my work and stem from the backdrop of my childhood.

The Subject of my paintings is a world of side-show icons, deviant Animalia, and ‘masked’ glorified cartoon alter egos. I utilize these icons and character cultures as antithetical counterparts to what we are lead to believe as being innocent and socially acceptable. Although misfits on the surface, a sense of relation is understood, secret from the public - we are all misfits; hiding behind animated personas, odd and beautifully unusual. Who is it that we relate to? The lonely little boy hiding in a bear suite, the evil lustful pool-hall wolf, the sexualized little girl who secretly wants more. The environment and its limited population are meant to conjure these questions, the viewers are confronted with finding their own answers.

Brandt Elling Peters is a self taught artist currently living in Tampa, FL with his wife, fellow artist, Kathie Olivas (who as well is exhibiting internationally) and their two dogs Bailey and Diego. He has been exhibiting in numerous galleries across the US & Canada.