Pete Driessen/Visual Artist
Love’s Torment/New Works in Process
Pete Driessen will present Love’s Torment and portions from several new bodies of artwork for Art-A-Whirl 2011 at Casket Arts, Minneapolis, MN, USA, on May 20-22, 2011. The new works in process by American artist Pete Driessen (Born 1961, Hopkins, MN) directly or indirectly illuminate transition and transformation and their proximity to divorce. Addressing border zones of pain and fear, parenting and uncoupling, and gender and masculinity the large scale paintings reflect the ordering and filtering out of discrete fragments of life and represent them with obvious, awkward and suggestive symbols.
Vulnerability, victimization, and deception are often tied very closely together in our partnerships with pain, shame and torment. Multiple triangulating levels of marital reality are inserted in the paintings, as the disintegrating fragile and organic family system contrasts with an artificially forced, single parent system. Themes of sexuality and betrayal, freedom and loneliness, grief and loss are all illuminated via a chunky-clunky, polychromatic painting technique.
Also included in the studio exhibition will be two paintings from Self Portrait with Roof Rake Series, twenty paintings from the recent Nauticalia Tentacalus series, and two recent mixed media ship fleets. In tandem will be the release of two new limited editions artist statements: A Random List of Nearly 200 Emotional & Confused Thoughts That Go Thru a Deceived & Betrayed Artist's Mind
When Going Thru a Difficult Divorce, and Artist Discovery Request Letter that rewrites the official oppositional attorney divorce request letter from an artist daddy-mom point of view.
Opening: Friday May 20, 6-10pm
Hours: Friday, May 20, 6-10 pm; Saturday May 21, 12-8 pm; Sunday, May 22, 12-5pm
Address: 681 17th Avenue Northeast, Suite 117, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Directions: Casket Arts is just north of downtown Minneapolis, east of I-94W, west of I-35W, and accessible from the Broadway Avenue, Lowry Avenue, University Avenue, and Central Avenue corridors. Casket Arts is on 17th Avenue Northeast between Madison & Jefferson Streets. On & off site parking is readily available. MTC bus service is one block away. Casket Arts has handicap access via loading dock.
Cost: Free & Open to the Public
For a list of Casket Arts Building Artists/Events/Activities: www.casketarts.com
See the artist/artwork at the following upcoming venues:
Constellation Back Yard Art Excursion/TuckUnder 2, TuckUnder Projects, Minneapolis, MN. May 28-30, 2011. 8 am-5 pm, or by appointment. http://constellationmpls.wordpress.com/, or www.tuckunder.org.
Dock Boy/Personal Gilligan/Mississippi Megalops/Northern Spark Fest on the Jonathon Paddleford, Harriet Island, St. Paul, MN. June 3-4, 2011, 8 pm-5 am. www.NorthernSpark.org, www.worksprogress.org, or http://northernspark.org/projects/telling-stories.html.
The Healing Arts, Phipps Center for the Arts/Hudson Hospital Healing Arts Center, Hudson, WI, May 18-July 30, 2011. Opening Friday, May 20, 2011, 6-8 pm. http://www.thephipps.org/events/healing_arts
From This Place, Waseca Art Center, Waseca, MN. June 18-July 30. Opening Friday, June 18, 2011, 6-8 pm. http://www.wasecaartscouncil.org/.
El Milagro/The Miracle, Grupo Sopa Del Corazon, Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, MN, August 3-Sept. 30, Opening August 20, 2011, 6-9 pm. www.intermediaarts.org.
Drawing Club, Walker Art Center Open Field, Minneapolis, MN. Thursdays throughout the summer. http://blogs.walkerart.org/openfield2011 or www.walkerart.org.
Studio Visit Magazine Volume 15/16, Forthcoming Fall 2011. www.studiovisit.com
Above Image: Pete Driessen © 2010, Nauticalia Tentacalus #3. From Series of 20 Paintings. 11x14 inches. Acrylic/Gloss Acrylic Gel/Iridescent Tinting Medium/Modeling Paste/Unstretched Black Camping Canvas
Hope to see you!
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