10/23/2026
In memory of Peter Nagy (1959 - 2026)
"Born in 1959 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Peter graduated from New York’s Parsons School of Design in 1981 with a degree in communication design. He wasn’t particularly interested in the sloppy, emotionally driven painting that was market dominant during the early 1980s. The artists at Nature Morte, among them fellow Parsons classmates Joel Otterson and Steven Parrino, favored a more conceptual approach, looking to the Pictures Generation that included artists Louise Lawler, Richard Prince, Sherrie Levine, and Barbara Kruger as role models. Like the Pictures Generation, the artists of Nature Morte were keenly interested in media, corporate and consumer culture, mass communication, packaging, and advertising—the barrage of information while scrutinizing assumptions about authenticity, originality, and its impact on society at large. Peter’s own work as a practicing artist—primarily consisting of black-and-white collages, laminated Xeroxes of diagrammatic compositions—was rooted in these imperatives, always engaged by an insatiable critique on the transmission of information, matched only by his profound knowledge of art and art history. And to the question itself: What is history?"
Written by Arthur Solway in "Peter Nagy, 1959–2026: A Remembrance" for Art Asia Pacific Magazine (Link to full article in bio), Oct. 23, 2026
1. Polaroid of Peter Nagy in 1989
2-3. Peter Nagy, Industrial Culture, 1987, Magnesium etching, 8 plates, Edition on 8
30 x 30 inches, each, Published by Carl Solway Gallery
3-4. Peter Nagy, Industrial Culture, 1987 (detail)
5. Peter Nagy, Four Cancer Logos, 1988, Original woodcut on Arches 88 paper, Edition of 30, 44 x 44 inches
6. Peter Nagy, Planet History (Musee d’ Orsay), 1987, Photostat laminate on plexiglas, Edition of 7, 34 x 42 inches
8-9. Peter Nagy, Zero Gravity Persuasions, 1989, Acrylic on aluminum (diptych), 60 x 120 x 3 inches
