Peter Frederiksen American, b. 1987

His works siphon the humour, fear, haphazardness and sadness out of these cartoons in order to produce his own artistic language. A piano dangling precariously from a fraying rope, waiting to fall on an unsuspecting victim, or a note in a song rigged to explode. His works depict the tension before a moment of inevitable release. He uses mid-century cartoon aesthetics to capture the rising tensions between two parties, which culminate in an isolated snapshot image, that is void of context: the anxious moment before the eventual release of tension.