Friday, July 21 at 4:00 PM
25 years of the life work in art, music, film, and Science of Dr. Peter Tatum, DO, CAPT, USAF
This show features the life work of Dr. Peter Tatum, DO, CAPT, USAF. Peter Tatum‘s life story was featured on the front page of the Boston Globe in March 2022, which highlighted his path from an orphan and foster child with a troubled youth to becoming an award-winning artist and musician, based in New Jersey and New York City, to now through the military becoming a neurologist at Dartmouth Hitchcock medical center. This is a very multifaceted show with work created by Peter "HYPHENONE" Tatum over the past 25 years, that varies from rap albums to graffiti to charcoal drawings to children’s education, to music albums that have high level ratings, comparable to all your favorite, hip-hop, Classics, and associated, videos, and film. The multimedia and breakdown of series are as follows.
HYPHEN-ONE
MUSIC : about two dozen single releases, 2 solo music albums. Two albums as the lead singer of a 10 piece Funk fusion band
VIDEO - music video for his recent single Jelly, which was shot at Rucker Park in Harlem New York City, and features, the world renowned missiles, roller dance crew. There is also a fast speed process video of graffiti being created on a wall.
ART: graffiti - selected photos of Graffiti, lettering, sketches, and streetart murals created through the years. Recent shots include the Neurology mural created in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 2022, which was featured in the UP magazine, a portrait of the president of Ukraine, on the streets of boston which was created at the beginning of the war, and a well-known photograph of a three dimensional graffiti piece that says “boston”
ART: charcoal and pencil - selective portraits, landscapes, and abstract art creative through the years will be on display. Recent portraits created include George Floyd and AOC.
ART: Ocean City sand series: this is a series of acrylic paintings on canvas, where sand is mixed into the primer, and then scenes are dry, brushed on top of under painting, so the texture of the sand add an element to the art, which is not only visually captivating, but also allows viewers to bring the beach home with them in a non-messy way. Since the early 2000s PETER TATUM has been known at the beach of Ocean City New Jersey for these paintings and has won awards as well as commissions from the city
ART: large portraits - This is a series of 4‘ x 4‘ acrylic on canvas, portraits with various scenes overlying the face transparently.. the first three were self portraits used for music album covers. The fourth one features his wife created for their wedding. These paintings utilize a opaque shapes with hard edges and may be more aligned with surrealism in style. Abrand new portrait of Benjamin Franklin has been completed in 2023 and will be unveiled at this show.
OG NEURO
This is a series that was created during first year of residency when Covid pandemic had begun. It started out as a frontliner shirt that was drawn by TATUM and put onto a shirt which was sold around hospitals and benefits, went to families of people who died from Covid. From there a company called OG Neuro was created which is considered to be a collective of high-level scientists and street artists connecting to perform creative science, which ranges from abstract, art, music and film to educational materials for people, studying neuroscience or medicine.
OG NEURO: CYCLOHEXANE SERIES - cyclohexane is one of the basic hydrocarbons that is a building block for life. Organic chemists represent the various forms of cyclohexane with a Newman structure, which is a way to draw the molecule on paper. While studying this, TATUM found that the cyclohexane Newman structure looks like a combination between a Stick Figure and a peace sign. These figures are put into a plane with acrylic paint on canvas to represent family and friends. A song and one page reference sheet embodies the fourth semester of organic chemistry one in college and was created and used to get 100% on the final.
OG NEURO SONGS AND FILM include a music video, called STROKE CODE is a song which loosely uses the blood vessels of the brain to tell a story about a female man, character walking around different cities, meeting people who tip their mask to her as a salutation during the times of Covid as part of a magical journey, she experiences, when picking up the pager of a Neurology resident, who is homeless. At the end of the study, she puts the pager down on the street in the homeless scientist picks it up and metamorphosizes into a physician. This show will also Premier a short new video on synucleinopathies.
OG NEURO: INSPIRATION SERIES - artists that inspire series begins as Peter Tatum’s Neurology Notes used to study for the Neurology boards. What I have learned is that incorporating as much sensory modalities into studying embeds, neuroscience material into my brain more efficiently. So I write information repetitively on computer paper to do so. Once the computer paper is full and then put an OG Neuro tag in the center. These notes have been sent to artists throughout the country, who then returned them to me some of which are seen here in this show. There are also examples of color-coded notes used to study and side-by-side examples of how rejection is communicated in the professional world versus on the street and in hip hop culture.
WULLY BULLY BUMBLE BEE is a childrens, fun and educational project, which creates short, educational videos about things, including how to plant flowers and cross the street safely. A new video on bus safety will be released for this show. The main character is woolly bully. Bumblebee and the website sells a sticker that donates money to honeybee conservation. A few selected pieces of collaborative art with children will be shown, including this scene of New York City Times Square during New Year’s Eve.
