Passuntino

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			Peter Passuntino



	Title: Night Time Unicyclist (1983-1984) oil on canvas - 60"H x 64"W



	Title: Oarsman (1984) oil on canvas - 86"H x 69"W Biography:

Peter Passuntino was born in Chicago in 1936. He studied at the school of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1954 to 1958 and in Paris in from 1963 to 1965. He lives and works in New York City and is one of the original Rhino Horn artists, explaining that "there is a figurative group and an alternative. There is a need for this group to show together and pool our energies and accomplishments". At eighteen Peter was already in a selected group show at the Carnegie Institute and at nineteen, a one man show at the Artists Guild in Chicago, the beginning of a long and valued career. Peter states that his goal is to discover the underlying roots of things in his world and transfer them into a painting language. The environment and figures blend together in unusual combinations. Often the environment is almost surreal and the figures seem quite realistic.

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