Peter Stanick combines traditional photography with vector based computer rendering to create large scale paintings of a fantasy world inhabited by lingerie models and movie starlets. Each piece is based on a computer model rendered for the web using Flash illustration and then outputted digitally on canvas using UV ink. The resulting image has a cartoon-like playfulness but is delivered with clinical, almost photographic, accuracy. It is with this cutting edge structure that Stanick explores and often lambastes more time-tested, art historical pretensions. Stanick?s work contains an unapologetic voyeuristic charge. Viewers encounter lithe, well contoured females in various stages of undress engaging in everything from poolside tanning to dinner preparations to laundry.

In Fridge a brunette in underwear and stockings explores the contents of an icebox that appears to hold little more than beer and whip cream. There remains in these vignettes, however, an engagement with the male gaze that the female subjects of Fragonard or Ingres where never able to muster. These women seem happy to include us, as well as Stanick (who makes a few obvious cameos), in their activities. It is hard to know whether these exchanges simply poke fun at art-world stuffiness or are the concessions that such a digitally aided process demands. … Read More