Peter Wegner is an American artist whose work centers on color.

He draws inspiration from common cultural artifacts. Paint chips, maps and billboards have all inspired significant bodies of work.

His method is informed by a strong conceptual grounding, allowing him to move freely across and between a wide range of disciplines: painting, sculpture, installation, collage, artist's books and photography.

Typically, Wegner directly engages the architecture of the site. Monument to Change, permanently installed on the Stanford University campus, runs the 50-foot length of a courtyard wall. He describes it as "a perpetual painting at the scale of architecture." A similar spirit infuses Wegner's vast installations of stacked colored paper. He assembles these from meticulous sequences of hundreds of thousands of sheets, often working with closely variegated hues. 

All of his works shares a quality of paradox. It's readily apparent in his photographic series Buildings Made of Sky, with its inverted cityscapes and *buildings* created out of thin air.

Wegner's artwork has been widely exhibited in the United States and internationally, including solo presentations at Lever House, The Bohen Foundation, and Museum der bildenden Kunste.

Permanent museum collections include The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Yale University Art Gallery, The San Jose Museum of Art, The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, The J. Paul Getty Museum, The University of Colorado Art Museum, The UNC Ackland Art Museum, and The Henry Art Gallery at UW. Significant private collections include Collezione Panza, Varese IT; Lever House, NY, NY; and Sammlung Rosenkranz, Berlin DE.

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