Peter Cain

Quick Facts

Full Name	Peter Cain
Occupation	Figure Skater
Date Of Birth	Nov 20, 1958(1958-11-20)
Age	66
Date Of Death	January 5, 1997, New York, NY
Birthplace	Sydney
Country	Australia
Birth City	New South Wales
Horoscope	Capricorn

Peter Cain Biography

Peter Cain is one of the most popular and richest Figure Skater who was born on November 20, 1958 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Cain studied at New York’s Parsons School of Design from 1977–1980 and the School of Visual Arts from 1980-1982. His early paintings derived their subjects from advertisements for rare and vintage automobiles, 1960s “muscle cars,” high end sports coupes, and luxury sedans. He often began by collaging the source material to produce a distorted, abbreviated version of the car’s original form. He then used these collages as studies for his paintings. In Pathfinder, included in the 1993 Whitney Biennial (1992–93, oil on linen), Cain merged the front fender and headlights of a black SUV with the rear third of the vehicle. The car’s hood, front doors and cab have completely disappeared, and the newly transmogrified Pathfinder has then been tipped up on its trunk against a solid white ground. Writing on a similar painting, critic Jerry Saltz said that the car paintings “cleverly question the nature of intelligence by presenting the image of a ‘thing’ that is knowable and unclassifiable in a painting that is like a filmstrip of a painting all collapsed and run together in to a single dense frame.”

Peter Cain (1959 in Orange, New Jersey – January 5, 1997 in New York, New York) was an artist who is best known for his meticulously executed paintings and drawings of surreal and aberrant versions of automobiles. His style has been said to combine aspects of Surrealism, Photorealism, and the art of James Rosenquist. He is of the same generation of painters who came to prominence in the 1990s such as Elizabeth Peyton, John Currin, Peter Doig, and Karen Kilimnik. He died at age thirty seven of a cerebral hemorrhage having completed sixty-three paintings over the course of his short career. He was represented by the Matthew Marks Gallery in New York during his lifetime.

Peter Cain Net Worth

Peter Cain is one of the richest Figure Skater from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Peter Cain 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Peter Cain was included both the 1993 and 1995 Whitney Biennial, as well as the 2017 Whitney exhibition Fast Forward: Painting from the 1980s. His work has been the subject of several gallery exhibitions, including:

In 1996, Cain turned his attention from cars to Los Angeles gas stations and convenience stores a year before his death. These landscapes are void of any human presence; Cain even erased logos and type from the numerous signs which inhabit such places. The face that greets Los Angeles car culture is eerily blank, and what can be understood as foliage is rendered in micro-faceted and hallucinogenic masses of green paint. The gas stations are spare in painterly incident, but redolent of narrative possibilities. When the Los Angeles paintings had their posthumous premier at the Matthew Marks Gallery in 1997, critics praised them for challenging the conventional wisdom that painting’s capacity to express genuine emotion was long gone. Peter Schjeldahl lamented, “I had trouble with Cain’s car pictures while being enchanted by the promise of his painterly gifts and ambition. Now we see the beginning of the promise’s fulfillment in the same instant as its end: an exceptional talent nipped in mid-blossoming, just short of full bloom. ”

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Peter Ranked on the list of most popular Figure Skater. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. Peter Cain celebrates birthday on November 20 of every year.