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Acrylic paint, hand-pulled silkscreen, and collage of mixed media on archival museum board, signed lower right by the artist in ink and floated in a hand-hewn driftwood frame.
Artist: Peter Tunney
Title: James Dean from his Hollywood Series
Year created: 2015
Medium: Hand-pulled silkscreen with hand coloring on museum board
Edition: original
Height (inches): 40
Signed by the artist
Signed Area: front
Width (inches): 32
Depth (inches): 1
This piece is unframed
Description of piece:
The Hollywood series had him take the highly acclaimed Hollywood photographer of the 1939-1964's who photographed most all the Hollywood stars from James Dean to Marilyn. Tunney took the images of his Hollywood series and superimposed using a stretched pulled silk screen technique where he paints over the image very much like Andy Warhol did. Frank Worth photographed James Dean in 1953 which Peter Tunney used as the backdrop to his painting. It is signed on the lower bottom right hand by Tunney. The New York-based art world legend Peter Tunney whose Miami studio doubles as a de facto emporium in the middle of the ever-popular Wynwood Walls, is one of those rare breeds who not only sees the forest and the trees, he sees both as spectacular signs of an increasingly robust reason for being. To Tunney, doom and gloom is for the half-empty set, and he's all about that glass being full.
Artist bio:
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. He creates in almost every medium: paint, collage, wood, photography, found objects, and discarded materials. His nontraditional life, cache of extraordinary experiences, and countless wild adventures serve as the foundations for his work.
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