Peter Stanick

Peter Stanick explains, "the internet and working with digital images has a direct, even immediate influence on my way of thinking." To Stanick, who grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and trained as a painter, it became clear to him years ago that the future was in the digital world through the world wide web, and that he could and wanted to use the infinite world of images to be found there for his artistic ends.

Already inspired during his art studies by Pop artists like Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann and Roy Lichtenstein, Stanick looked for the possibility to not only digitally edit or enhance existing images in color or form, but to create a visual language that was digital from the outset. Today he has succeeded in making his work exist first digitally, in the online world before existing in the form of a painting or as a LUMAS produced photographic series. The sources of his inspiration are websites. To begin he searches above all for formally exciting images; images that attract him in their composition. The result is often that Stanick simplifies, appropriates the images for his own purposes in order to emphasize them for our perception as observers. This creative "cleaning process" of existing and found images does not...

Peter Stanick was born in Pittsburgh on May 27, 1953. He received a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 1975 and a MFA from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1977. Stanick?s first solo exhibition was at Mendelson Gallery in Pittsburgh in 1981. Stanick is included in the public collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Osaka Museum of Art, the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, the Continental Corporation, Westinghouse and Metropol in Pittsburgh, Novestra in Stockholm, and Spectrum in Tampa. Stanick lives and works in Florida.,