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Peter Nagy BIOGRAPHY
Born 1959 Bridgeport, Connecticut. Known for: Abstract industrial, sculptor, pop art, conceptualism.
By most accounts the artist Peter Nagy was one of the few intellectuals of the notoriously anti-intellectual East Village scene of the mid-1980s in New York City. With Canadian artist Alan Becher, he... Read full biography
By most accounts the artist Peter Nagy was one of the few intellectuals of the notoriously anti-intellectual East Village scene of the mid-1980s in New York City. With Canadian artist Alan Becher, he cofounded Nature Morte, which along with Meyer Vaisman's International With Monument was one of the... Read full biography
By most accounts the artist Peter Nagy was one of the few intellectuals of the notoriously anti-intellectual East Village scene of the mid-1980s in New York City. With Canadian artist Alan Becher, he cofounded Nature Morte, which along with Meyer Vaisman's International With Monument was one of the few galleries at that time that specialized in conceptualist, Post-Modernist work. His own art -- graphic museum floor plans marked with corporate logos -- perfectly articulated the period's... Read full biography
By most accounts the artist Peter Nagy was one of the few intellectuals of the notoriously anti-intellectual East Village scene of the mid-1980s in New York City. With Canadian artist Alan Becher, he cofounded Nature Morte, which along with Meyer Vaisman's International With Monument was one of the few galleries at that time that specialized in conceptualist, Post-Modernist work. His own art -- graphic museum floor plans marked with corporate logos -- perfectly articulated the period's awareness of the corporate capture of culture. Then, after a few shows in SoHo, which were notable for applying a kind of black-and-white Ben-Day "cancer" to Pop imagery, Nagy grew his hair long and moved to India. Many firsthand observers of the 80s art... Read full biography
By most accounts the artist Peter Nagy was one of the few intellectuals of the notoriously anti-intellectual East Village scene of the mid-1980s in New York City. With Canadian artist Alan Becher, he cofounded Nature Morte, which along with Meyer Vaisman's International With Monument was one of the few galleries at that time that specialized in conceptualist, Post-Modernist work. His own art -- graphic museum floor plans marked with corporate logos -- perfectly articulated the period's awareness of the corporate capture of culture. Then, after a few shows in SoHo, which were notable for applying a kind of black-and-white Ben-Day "cancer" to Pop imagery, Nagy grew his hair long and moved to India. Many firsthand observers of the 80s art scene cite first and foremost the sheer numbers of young artists attempting to break into the gallery scene during the de... Read full biography
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By most accounts the artist Peter Nagy was one of the few intellectuals of the notoriously anti-intellectual East Village scene of the mid-1980s in New York City. With Canadian artist Alan Becher, he cofounded Nature Morte, which along with Meyer Vaisman's International With Monument was one of the few galleries at that time that specialized in conceptualist, Post-Modernist work.
His own art -- graphic museum floor plans marked with corporate logos -- perfectly articulated the period's awareness of the corporate capture of culture. Then, after a few shows in SoHo, which were notable for applying a kind of black-and-white Ben-Day "cancer" to Pop imagery, Nagy grew his hair long and moved to India.
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