PETER CARR: Artist for Survival, originally exhibited at the Cerritos College Art Gallery from August to December of 2024, was the first comprehensive art historical retrospective of the poet, activist, and fascinating outsider artist, Peter Carr (1925-1981), featuring a wide range of Carr’s large-scale paintings, frenetic drawings, and homemade political posters, as well as his own personal notebooks, intimate sketches and studies, self-published books, and other biographically-significant ephemera.

Includes historical/analytical essays by Karen Litfin (Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Washington), Andrew Tonkovich (Retired Lecturer of Composition at the University of California Irvine and Editor of the Santa Monica Review), and James MacDevitt (Professor of Art History at Cerritos College and Director/Curator of the Cerritos College Art Gallery)