Peter Tunney’s practice spans text, photography, painting, installation, and performance, drawing from the aesthetic of Pop art to comment on the uniquely American obsessions with consumerism and media. Tunney mines imagery from newspapers, magazines, and artist’s books, recontextualizing the original works with such bold headlines as “Don’t Panic,” “Fear Less,” and “Gratitude”; in doing so, he references both the language-based work of Christopher Wool and Mel Bochner and skewers the platitudes of advertising copy gleaned during his time in advertising. Tunney has shown internationally including at venues in New York, Miami, Basel.
Peter Tunney
WISH YOU WERE HERE, 2021
Acrylic paint and extensive collage of Basquiat book pages. Signed lower right by the artist in scraffito
48 x 60"
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