ABOUT THE ARTIST

"One demonstration of the way photography became assimilated into the art world is the success of photorealist painting in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It is also called super-realism or hyper-realism and painters like Richard Estes, Denis Peterson, Audrey Flack, and Chuck Close often worked from photographic stills to create paintings that appeared to be photographs." (1)

(1) - From the newly released 248 page book "American Culture in the Twentieth Century: American Culture in the 1980s" by Graham Thompson, Edinburgh University Press (U.K.) 2007

Denis Peterson earned an MFA in Painting at Pratt Institute, where he was awarded a teaching fellowship while restoring 17th century Flemish paintings for museums. His early photorealist paintings were shown throughout New York City, including at the Brooklyn Museum, one of the premier art institutions in the world. After a twenty year departure, Denis returned to photorealism with a more articulated form of the genre he termed hyperrealism as a new school of painting.

Denis paints fulltime at his Long Island art studio and exhibits his controversial new paintings in thematic series. His work is currently represented by the Plus One Gallery in London.