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Denis Peterson (born New York, 1944) Denis Peterson Data is an American hyperrealist Painting whose Photorealism worksLinda Chase, Photorealism at the Millennium: The Not-So-Innocent Eye: Photorealism in Context. Harry N. Abrams, Inc. New York, 2002. Robert Bechtle: A Retrospective by Michael Auping, Janet Bishop, Charles Ray, and Jonathan Weinberg. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, (2005). .Battock, Gregory. Preface to Photorealism. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, New York, 1980. pp. 8–10. have been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Butler Institute of American Art,
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"In the immediate wake of Photorealism, a new generation of Hyperrealist artists like Denis Peterson leveraged advancements in high-resolution photography to achieve heightened levels of detail, further complicating the notion of realism by mixing the seemingly objective with the artificial and subjective. Today, Photorealist tendencies continue to influence a diverse array of contemporary artists, including Richard Prince, Andreas Gursky, Jeff Koons and Kehinde Wiley."Sotheby's - Legacy of Photorealism [3]
"Peterson is widely acknowledged as the pioneer and primary architect of Hyperrealism,Thompson, Graham: American Culture in the 1980s (Twentieth Century American Culture) Edinburgh University Press, 2007 Rik Rawling, "Keep it Hyper Real" Word Press] Plus One Gallery - NY Through the Eyes of Denis Peterson which was founded on the aesthetic principles of Photorealism. His work Dust to Dust is designated in art historical timelines as a hallmark painting bringing about the initial emergence of the Hyperrealism movement worldwide."Art: The Whole Story, 2010 Thames & Hudson Publishing Author Graham Thompson wrote, "One demonstration of the way photography became assimilated into the art world is the success of photorealist painting. 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." Denis Peterson distinguished hyperrealism from photorealism making meticulous changes to a work's depth of field, color, and composition in order to emphasize a socially conscious message about contemporary culture, consumerism and politics.G. Lipovetsky, Hypermodern Times, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2005
Peterson has often utilized the hyperrealism painting style as a phenomenological vehicle for social change. Interview FOXTV - Real Talk with Brenda Blackman In his work "Dust to Dust", Peterson asserts that a man of negligible social status who inhabits the lowest stratum of society is just as worthy of having his portrait painted as any titled individual or famous person, and, more importantly, just as deserving of having his humanity recognized.Stephen Farthing: From Cave Painting to Street Art- 40,000 Years of Creativity, Rizzoli Publishing 2010 figurative art images in compressed space and incorporeal landscapes of social decadence are visual commentaries on the aftermath of genocides, , and cultural divides.Chris Rywalt, "NYC Art" "Because of a combination of the theme of the work and his technical abilities, Peterson's paintings have a timeless symbolic meaning rather than the mere appearance of a photograph. While hyper-real in definition, they are also breaking from the structures of photography as being an acceptable simulation of reality and instead, creating a sense of loss from "personalization and interaction."Joshua Rose, "Beyond Perception", American Art Collector magazine, November 2008 pp. 154–158
"Originally, his floor-to-ceiling sized paintings centered around a single figure, with his monochromatic subjects characteristically cropped to appear as enlarged black and white photographs. Later, he developed a diverse number of original painting series, such as multiple phone booths in New York City. Although not a professional photographer, he has relied on his own camera shots to maintain a consistency of composition and subject matter as reliable reference studies. Several years ago, Denis utilized photorealism as a visual medium through which to portray the unthinkable: genocides. As with his controversial painting series on homelessness, his work centered on the indefatigable human spirit rather than on political and economic crucibles. More recently, he has been painting urbanscapes of gargantuan commercial billboards overlooking crowds of people scurrying about below, often unaware of what social messages loom above."Didi Menendez, "Denis Peterson", Poets and Artists magazine, December 2009 pp. 13–19
Visually disturbing subjects of this iconoclastic artist have been statuesque figures and stoic faces painted in an eerily and deafening hyper-reality. His subjects are universally depicted with an internalized calm in the face of the surrounding horrors of deadly disease, impending torture, terrorizing fear, and irrational hatred. Commentary by Fergal Keane, Special Correspondent BBC
Thematically, Peterson's hyper-realist works are presented in series. Many of his provocative paintings have confronted the human condition.Jean Baudrillard, "The Procession of Simulacra", in Media and Cultural Studies : Keyworks, Durham & Kellner, eds. .Horrocks, Chris and Zoran Jevtic. Baudrillard For Beginners. Cambridge: Icon Books, 1996. pp. 80–84 "This instance of hyperrealism is a performance art. Viewers are deliberately made to notice the amazing amount of time and painstaking effort that went into portraying this. Peterson isn't showing off; he is a radical painter, compelling us with his dedication. The astonishing realism is in the context of reflected light from every other object in the scene. Western artists such as David, da Vinci and Denis Peterson are important in part because of their skill and innovation, but also because they come from cultures that dominate the modern global power scene. Renaissance painters catered to emerging capitalism, the sons in David’s painting Oath of the Horatii symbolize French colonies, and Peterson’s Darfur painting, “Don’t Shed No Tears” provokes America to intervene with her wealth."Ari Siletz, "A Brush Stroke for Every Human Suffering", Media Watch
"Denis Peterson’s hyperrealist paintings are visual statements peppered with underlying socio-economic paradigms. In viewing them, it becomes immediately apparent that techniques and methods are a product of his work, not the other way around. The illusion of reality as a transformational aesthetic is a virtual means to an end."Didi Menendez and Geof Huth, "In Pursuit of USA Today", Poets and Artists magazine - Special Edition, Nov. 2010, pp. 43–46
"People exist, and interact with the world around them. The artist himself/herself exists in Metamodernism, and comments on his/her world. One caveat – the artist is removed from, and he knows about that separation as he/she observes himself/herself observing people and the ordered/disordered socio/economic/political spacetimes they inhabit. Denis Peterson exemplifies this... characteristic of Metamodernism/Popomo, and at the same time his work addresses a sense of loss, pain/angst concerning our position in a culture dominated by corporate America. People are viewed (once again) as individuals, though caught in the overwhelming commodification of everything, some so completely lost, that they are no longer individuals. The images themselves seem to go beyond, past, refer back to photo realism, and photography. I see a connection to Social Realism because it often put a face to its own dogma by showing individuals caught in the social/political/cultural juggernaut. Peterson’s work inhabits these concerns."John Bittinger Klomp, "Denis Peterson - His Metamodernist/Hyperrealist Art"Timotheus Vermeulen & Robin van den Akkera, Journal of Aesthetics & Culture, Vol. 2, 2010
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