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Email PageShow and Tell
March 2, 2006- April 15, 2006
Reception: March 2, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Peter Stanick
MW Gallery
240 9th AveNEW YORK CITY-Museum Works New York is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Peter Stanick. This installation represents Stanick’s first solo exhibition in New York. Museum Works will be hosting an opening reception for Show and Tell on Thursday, March 2nd from 6 -9 pm.
Peter Stanick combines traditional photography with vector based computer rendering, creating large scale paintings of a fantasy world inhabited by lingerie models and movie starlets. Each piece is based on a computer model rendered for the web using Flash illustration and then output digitally on canvas using UV ink. The resulting image has a cartoon-like playfulness but is delivered with clinical, almost photographic, accuracy. It is with this cutting edge technique that Stanick explores and often lambastes more time-tested, art historical pretensions. Get rich quick schemes and phony “do it yourself” talent tests abound. Stanick’s work is also charged with an unapologetic brand of voyeurism. Viewers encounter lithe, well contoured females in various stages of undress engaging in everything from poolside tanning to dinner preparations to laundry. For example in “Fridge” a brunette in underwear and stockings explores the contents of an icebox that appears to hold little more than beer and whip cream. There remains in these vignettes, however, an engagement with the male gaze that the female subjects of Fragonard or Ingres where never able to muster. The digitized women in Stanick’s work seem happy to include us, as well as the artist (who makes a few obvious cameos), in their activities. It is hard to know whether these exchanges simply poke fun at art-world stuffiness or are the liberties that such a computer aided process forgives.
Peter Stanick was born in Pittsburgh on May 27, 1953. He received a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 1975 and a MFA from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1977. Stanick’s first solo exhibition was at Mendelson Gallery in Pittsburgh in 1981. Stanick is included in the public collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Osaka Museum of Art, the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, the Continental Corporation, Westinghouse and Metropol in Pittsburgh, Novestra in Stockholm, and Spectrum in Tampa. Stanick lives and works in Florida.
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