Peter Honig is a Berkeley, California artist whose work consists of large-scale studio photographs of assemblages of found objects. His commercial-looking digital photographic prints present the viewer with razor-sharp images of cultural ephemera cobbled together in a manner that recalls a junior high-school science project left too long in the trunk of a car. Honig’s “do-it-yourself” constructions seem to thumb their runny noses at the very notion of a refined sculpture based on craftsmanship. Instead, they offer up gritty little models of states of decay that float, preserved, in a formaldehyde-like sea of light within the generous blank margins of the photographs. As product shots of his imagination, these works unite in a no-man’s land located somewhere between the borders of humor and horror.

Peter Honig, artist, professional photographer, and art educator, was born in Boston, MA and attained his BA in Photography at Hampshire College. He has been living and working in Berkeley, California since 1991.