Peter Tunney

PETER TUNNEY IS A NEO-POP ARTIST WORKING WITH LANGUAGE AND TEXT. HIS LARGE-SCALE PAINTINGS ARE CREATED FROM COLLAGED PACKING MATERIALS AND NEWSPAPERS. DRAWING IMAGERY AND PHRASES FROM POPULAR MEDIA SOURCES, HE CREATED BLOCK-LETTER APHORISMS SUCH AS “DON’T PANIC” AND “THE TIME IS ALWAYS NOW.” THIS TECHNIQUE REFERENCES THE LANGUAGE-BASED WORKS OF BOTH CHRISTOPHER WOOL AND MEL BOCHNER. BORN IN 1961 IN NEW YORK, NY, THE FORMER WALL STREET EXECUTIVE, AND FRIEND OF PETER BEARD CURRENTLY LIVES AND WORKS BETWEEN NEW YORK, NY AND MIAMI, FL.