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Ken Peters is an Arizona-based artist whose mixed-media collages examine American’s cultural mythology. His work fuses history, folklore, and Golden Age pop culture—vintage photographs, comic books, mid-century advertising, and film stills—into bold compositions that both celebrate and interrogate the stories we tell ourselves. By layering irony with reverence, Peters exposes the tension between nostalgia and critique, memory and myth.
Raised between Detroit’s industrial grit and the wide horizons of the Southwest, Peters grew up immersed in cowboys, comic books, television, science fiction, and American history. Those cultural touchstones became the raw material of his imagination, shaping an aesthetic vocabulary steeped in Americana, consumer culture, and the enduring allure of the West.
His process blends disparate cultural artifacts into new contexts with irony, critique, and layered meaning while elevating it into singular works of art. The result is a body of work that feels at once familiar and subversive, inviting viewers to question what endures in American culture and why.
A graduate of Arizona State University and Co-Founder of Nocturnal Branding Studio, Peters brings the precision of design and the vision of storytelling into his fine art practice. He lives and works in Cave Creek, Arizona, with his wife and son.