Peter Stanick (born May 27th 1953) Peter Stanick is an American pop artist.
Art career: Peter Stanick's first solo exhibition was at Pittsburgh's Mendelson Gallery in 1981, but it was his second exhibition there in 1983 that really started a buzz. He was branded Pittsburgh's hottest artist by art critic Donald Miller and he soon landed a showing at the Carnegie Museum of Art the following year.
Other US exhibitions include the Frank Bustamante Gallery in New York, the Jaffe Baker Gallery in Boca Raton, the Joel Kessler Gallery in Miami, the Joy Horwich Gallery in Chicago, the Linda Hayman Gallery in Detroit and the MW Gallery in New York.
His first exhibition in Japan was at the Triennale in Osaka, and he made his Tokyo debut in 2016. He's also been around Europe, featuring at the likes of the Carling Dalenson in Stockholm, Davies and Tooth and the Saatchi Gallery in London and Lumas in Cologne.
He has been compared to such contempories as Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol.
In 1998, he released a digital paintings series called 'Interface Images'.
He co-authored 2001's 'New Masters of Photoshop' and 2012 saw the iTunes publication of three separate books about his work.
His work is featured at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Osaka Museum of Art in Osaka, the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Continental Corporation in New York, Contact Music and Neil Hughes Associates in London, Grasitel in Los Angeles, Westinghouse and Metropol in Pittsburgh, Novestra in Stockholm, Connova in Motala, Sweden and Spectrum in Tampa.
Personal life: Peter Stanick was born in Pittsburgh and attended Carnegie Mellon University where he earned a BFA and Indiana University where he got an MFA. He moved to Florida in 1990.
Biography by Contactmusic.com
