Peter Drake, is an artist who has shown consistently for 30 years and whose work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout the US and Europe. His works are included in the collections of The Whitney Museum, The Phoenix Museum of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, L.A., The Achenbach Collection and the L.A. County Art Museum among others.
Articles and reviews of Peter Drake’s work have appeared in Art in America, Art New England, Flash Art, Interview Magazine, The New York Times, Art & Antiques, Time Out, and ARTnews.
Although predominately a painter, Drake recently has expanded his art into video and animation saying, “ In effect I have always thought of my work cinematically, I set the stage and then fill it with props and actors so with video it feels like I’m still painting, just in time and space.”
Videos are viewable at:
http://vimeo.com/peterdrake
_www.peterdrakeartist.com
_www.peterdrakeart.blogspot.com
Peter Drake lives and works in Manhattan.
Toy Stories Group show curated by Helen Klisser During, Westport Arts Center WAC Gallery Westport, CT Jan. 27 - March 18, 2012 http://www.westportartscenter.org
B Side Group show curated by Linnea Paskow & Melanie Vote York College Gallery of Art Oct 6 - Dec. 31, 2011 Space Invaders
Rose Contemporary Curated by Virginia Rose and John Nickle July 1 - August 27, 2011 www.rosecontemporary.com
Cinematic Bodies
Zolla / Lieberman Gallery Curated by Jamie Adams Opening: May 13, 4:30-8 pm May 20 - August 25, 2011 www.zollaliebermangallery.com Monkey Spoon
Kim Foster Gallery Curated by D. Dominick Lombardi June 9 - July 29, 2011 Opens: Thursday June 9 6-8pm www.kimfostergallery.com
RECENT :
Exit Art OUTER SPACE BENEFIT AUCTION Wednesday, May 18, 7:30-9:30PM EXIT ART 475 10th Ave at 36th Street NYC, NY www.exitart.org
"Single Fare 2: Please Swipe Again" A Show of Small Works on Used MetroCards Sloan Fine Art www.sloanfineart.com Opening Reception: Thursday, March 17th, 5 to 9 pm Exhibition: March 18 to 26, 2011
Tethered to My World Contemporary Figure Painting:Location, Chicago
TAC / The Highland Park Art Center Arranged by Phyllis Bramson September 3 – October 1 Opening: Sept. 11, 6-p pm http://www.theartcenterhp.org Remnants
Fuse Gallery Curated by Michelle Doll & Lisa Lebofsky June 23rd – July 3rd Opening: June 23rd, 7-10 pm http://www.fusegallerynyc.com First Growth First Green Gallery *One-night Only Benefit June 25 @ 6pm 35 East 1st Street firststreetgreen@gmail.com Conceptually Sound
JUST OFF Curated by Peter Drake & Alix Sloan Sloan Fine Art Feb 24 - Mar 20 http://www.sloanfineart.com Looks Good On Paper DFN Gallery Feb 3 - Mar 6, 2010
private(dis)play New York Academy of Art January 26 – February 28, 2010 **WHITE GLOVE NIGHT** Mar 1, 6pm
Right to Print:Segura Publishing Company NAU Art Museum October 20 - December 19, 2009
Gone to the Dogs* Denise Bibro Gallery Oct 8 – Nov 7, 2009 *new video being shown Take Home a Nude ® Sotheby's Art Auction & Party! New York Academy of Art One night only Oct 7, 2009 Memoirs from Suburbia Evan Lurie Gallery Sept 19 – Oct 24, 2009 Reconfigured & Relocated DFN Gallery Sept 9 – Oct 3, 2009
My Long Island Islip Museum of Art June 24 - Sept 6, 2009 Reception July 26, 1-4pm + 2 Sloan Fine Art Opens June 20, 4-6pm June 20 - July 18, 2009
Parsons Pink Slips George Adams Gallery Opens June 6, 4-6pm June 4 - July 2, 2009
spctclr vws Opens May 15, 7-10pm One Brooklyn Bridge Park @ 360 Furman Street May 16 - June 7, 2009 Sat-Sun 12-6
ARTnews May 2009 Review
Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago
Artist Statement
My recent body of work is based on a collection of lead soldiers my father assembled over the course of his life. I was surprised when I inherited them to see how many depicted Arab and North African soldiers. There were Zouaves, Saracens, Mamaluks and Ottoman Turks. I was struck by how often children’s toys have been used to depict another culture as enemy combatants, that even in child’s play the other could take on a menacing and evil aspect. What was the logic for creating this terrain? Tens of thousands of children playing with tens of thousands of toys, training for who knows what?
This past summer I began the process of teaching myself the basics of After Effects software so I could animate my paintings. In effect I have always thought of my work cinematically, I set the stage and then fill it with props and actors. In the past the challenge was always to find the one frame that completely embodied the narrative. In the video animations I’m working with tens of thousands of frames. Strangely it feels like I’m still painting, just in time and space.
With combinations of stop motion, live action and digital effects I bring the toys to life. By placing the figures in settings that are both familiar and unexpected I hope to highlight some of the consequences of the history of conflict epitomized by these lead toys. Severed heads roll across barren stages, mutant horsemen gallop in slow motion down Manhattan streets, political buzzwords dribble out of flaccid guns. This is not a critique of any one conflict but rather a reflection of a military adventurism that has marked the history of the world.
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