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Peter Nagy

Peter Nagy (Born 1959) is active/lives in Indiana, New York.  Peter Nagy is 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 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 decade. The postwar baby boom, which peaked in 1959, led to an outpouring of art-school grads in the e   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1978 characters.]  Artist bio

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