His artwork has been exhibited in museums and galleries, has been featured in American Artist magazine, and can be found in private collections throughout the United States. In an era when we applaud the creative artwork produced by people armed with computers, it seems appropriate to remember that the human brain, assisted by a steady hand, is still the most astonishing apparatus of all. The artwork of Peter Silten provides such a reminder. As his artwork reveals a process of study and investigation, it prods the viewer to look closely at each piece to catch its nuance. The eye seems to play tricks, producing curved lines while denying their very existence.
Negative spaces move into relief.
Boxes vacillate between sitting flat and standing up on end. The mind struggles with the act of perception and is delighted with the struggle. And inevitably, because we are creatures who see elephants when we gaze at clouds, we are bound to find in his drawings suggestions of leaves, birds, schools of fish, towers, ships and stairs. The patterns that we observe in nature, as well as in constructed objects, draw on the same universal geometric principles that his work does. Silten admires and acknowledges a debt of gratitude to Escher.