Pete Gardini: Collage Artist I was born on April 15th, 1977, in New Hyde Park, NY, the son of Peter and Roseanne Gardini. After moving around Long Island from place to place in the 80s we moved to Santa Fe, NM in 1990. I had started skateboarding a few months earlier which made it easy to make new friends, most of which still remain close friends to this day. In 1997, I moved to Boston to pursue my love affair with skateboarding. I worked as a valet for 7 years and during that time (and kind of by accident) I collaborated with friends Jahmal Williams, Ben Colen and Sean Keanan in an Art Show entitled "Four" at The Berwick Institute in Dorchester Mass. In 2003 I showed a piece entitled 'Mass Confusion' at the New Bedford Art Museum in a show called "From the Ground Up": Art of the Skateboarding Culture which supposedly was inspired by our first show. Jahmal, Ben and Sean were also featured as well as many other talented skateboarding artists. In October of 2005, I had the opportunity to show 11 pieces of my work at the Reel Bar in Allston Mass. This week long solo show was called "One Man". Thanks to the success of those art shows I have sold many of my pieces. If you are interested in buying a piece please feel free to contact me at petegardini@petegardini.com or if you have any questions, comments or hate mail you can send that too. Enjoy the artwork. Take me to the Gallery * Note: You can click on the artwork to view the next piece or click next or previous. * Note: When you click to zoom image the files are large and may take a while to download especially if you are on dial up.