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  • From the series "End Game"
  • Peggy Preheim

Images—Peggy Preheim

Born in 1963 in Yankton, South Dakota, Peggy Preheim spent her first five years in neighboring Freeman and then moved to Sioux Falls. After graduating from high school, she attended the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. In 1984, she moved to New York City, and then in 2000 moved to Paris where she lived for four years. Her first solo exhibition was at Tim Nye's Thread Waxing Space in New York City in 1995. Since 1996 she has been showing with the Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York City. In 2008, Harry Philbrick, Director of the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut, organized a survey show of Preheim's work, accompanied by a publication entitled Little Black Book. The show then traveled to the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma and to the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art in Ithaca, New York.

End Game, 2009

The title of my new work "End Game" weaves together drawing and collage, which consist primarily of Mexican and American currencies. The Aztec calendar stone appearing on the one peso note shows a god surrounded by four glyphs that may symbolize four prior eras now extinguished and thus carrying a rather apocalyptic mood that resonates with some aspects of today's realities. The figure in End Game 101 addresses the viewer with the challenge to reflect on this enigmatic possibility. In Borderline, the front and obverse appear simultaneously within each note indicating both internal and external opposition. A drawn star between the notes suggests that Texas—the Lone Star State—has a special relevance for this situation. Cut the Knife depicts my grandmother on the Great Plains, superimposed on the Aztec calendar stone, and the barn's pointed roof—like a sundial—measures mythical time. My having received these banknotes some time ago adds personal history and in this way generates a variation beyond my earlier geometric drawings. [End Page 112]


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End Game 101, 2009
pencil and banknote on paper
22 x 30 1/4 inches
Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York

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Ground 0, 2009
pencil and banknote on paper
22 x 30 1/4 inches
Courtesy Jarla Partilager

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Borderline, 2009
pencil and banknotes on paper
22 x 30 1/4 inches
Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York

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Near Miss 2, 2009
pencil, banknote, and banknote fragment on paper
22 x 30 1/4 inches
Courtesy Jarla Partilager

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Now Man, 2009
pencil on paper with banknote and banknote fragments
22 1/2 x 30 inches
Courtesy Jarla Partilager

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