BIOGRAPHY:
SELECTED RECENT SOLO AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009
Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
My Long Island, Islip Museum of Art, Islip, NY
Pink Slip-Ups, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
+ 2, Sloan Fine Art, New York, NY
SPCTCLR VWS, One Brooklyn Bridge Park, NY, Curated by Mary Mihelic
Partisan, Artropolis, Art Chicago, Chicago, IL, Curated by Mary Jane Jacob, SAIC
2008
Chroma, Adelphi University Gallery, Garden City, NY
Dangerous Women, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
HEADSetera, Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn, NY
Indifference and Apocrypha, FUEL Collection, Philadelphia, Pa
2007
District & Co., Santo Domingo, DR (solo)
Right to Print: Segura Publishing, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
Peter Drake & Kim Keever: Surrealist Visions, Samuel Chen Fine Arts Center, CCSU, New Britain, CT
Other, Peter Drake & Riyas Komu, Aicon Gallery, London, England
Normal, Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006
Contemporary Imaginings: The Tullman Collection, Mobile Museum, Mobile, AL
Conversations, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL
Recent Press
2009
Hawkins, Margaret, “Peter Drake at Linda Warren Gallery” ARTnews, Vol. 108 No. 5, May
Gregor, Alison, “Like Art? You’ll Love Our Condos”, The New York Times, May 10
Creative Quarterly, Issue 14, March
Bickley, Taryn, “Style Makers”, Luxe Magazine, Vol. 3, Issue 1, February
2007
Gomez, Edward, “Back To The Burbs”, Art & Antiques Magazine, May
Hubbard, Sue, “Tongue Tied But Still Expressive”, The Independent, London, March 23
Jones, Laura K., Saatchi Gallery Magazine, online, London, March 3,
Kuspit, Donald, “Other”, Catalog, Aicon Gallery, London
Morales, Fran, “Artists Make Political Statements at CCSU”, New Britain Herald, CT, October 23
Namboka, Francesca, "Other: Reflecting on the Universality of the Human Condition", Radio Teental, Paris, April 2
"Normal", Culture Shock, UR Magazine, January
Weinberg, Lauren, "Normal" Review, Time Out, Chicago, Issue 101 February 1
Selected Collections
Achenbach Collection, Carnegie Art Museum, Greenville County Museum, Kirkland & Ellis, Lannan Foundation, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Microsoft Corporation, New School for Social Research Collection, Oakland County Museum, Post-Newsweek Cable, Progressive Collection, Prudential Collection, Readers Digest Collection, RxArt Collection, Stafford Trading Inc., Twin Farms, Weatherspoon Art Gallery
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Peter Drake’s work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout the US and Europe and his works are included in numerous prestigious private collections as well as the collections of the Whitney Museum, the Phoenix Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, L.A., the Achenbach Collection and the L.A. County Art Museum. Individual paintings have been exhibited recently at the Mobile Museum of Art, ASU Art Museum and the Katonah Museum of Art.
American art critic Donald Kuspit writes: “What makes Drake’s paintings convincing--expressively powerful rather than simply illustrationally efficient--is their abstract beauty. They are formally exquisite, and their formal underpinning erupts through their imagery: they instantly read as abstractions, the former gestural, the latter geometrical.”
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 in the current May 2009 ARTnews.
Drake has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a 2006 fellowship in painting from the New York Foundation for the Arts, a National Endowment for the Arts award and was a awarded a year long Artist in Residency at the “Kunst Station Sankt Peter” in Koln, Germany.
Peter Drake lives and works in Manhattan.
EDUCATION:
BFA, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York