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pete mauney

bio

Pete Mauney was born in Miami, Florida, but spent his childhood moving around the Northeast and in Brazil. Having settled down after living in fourteen places by the age of twenty-three, Pete now lives and works in Tivoli, New York. Pete has a background in film from his studies at NYU and his years as a gaffer and dp, but he graduated twice from Bard College with degrees in photography. By day, Pete is an exhibition printer and digital video editor and by night, he fiddles with LCD screens and early twentieth century medical books.

statement

Pete Mauney works in photography, video and installation and addresses subjects ranging from traditional landscape and portraiture to performative self-portraiture, surveillance and mass media issues. Largely working in a series of distinct projects, Pete has presented his work in varied formats ranging from guerrilla-style installations of photographic stickers to a mock surveillance room outfitted with an interactive bank of monitors and cameras. One on-going project in recent years has been an exploration of family portraiture. Works in this series include two installations of Pete's family portraits on the site of what remains of his grandfather's childhood home in South Dakota and a two channel video piece entitled Family Portrait picturing the rolling wheat fields of the Midwest and the windswept ocean at Cape Cod. Most of Pete's work is conceptual or experiential in nature. The work depicts Pete's interactions with the world such as in a series of his hands touching things and people, and it often requires the viewer's participation. Overall, the work is a wide-reaching exploration of person and place and the interaction between the two.