PETER DRAKE

EXHIBITION HISTORY Solo Exhibitions

2012 Linda Warren Projects, Chicago, IL
2009 Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007 District & Co., Santo Domingo, DR
2005 Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL
2002 Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2001 Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
1997 The Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
1996 Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY
1994 The Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1993 Patricia Shea Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1992 Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY
1991 Shea & Bornstein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1989 Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Köln, Germany
Kunst-Station Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
1987 Bruce Velick Gallery, San Francisco, CA Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY
1986 Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1985 Sharpe Gallery, New York, NY
1984 Sharpe Gallery, New York, NY Limbo Lounge, New York, NY
1983 Josef Gallery, New York, NY

Group Exhibitions

2012 Paper!, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ

Awakened, AFA Gallery, New York, NY curated by Alix Sloan

Toylanders, Noyes Museum of Art, Stockton College, NJ curated by Margaret McCann

Summer Exhibition, Flowers Gallery, New York, NY

B 19, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY curated by Laurence Hegarty & Matt Freedman

Toy Stories, WAC Gallery, Westport, CT

2011 Salvaged, Island Weiss Gallery, New York, NY curated by Dina Brodsky & Tun Myaing

B-Side, York College Art Gallery, Jamaica, NY curated by Linnea Paskow & Melanie Vote

Space Invaders, Rose Contemporary, Portland, Maine

Cinematic Bodies, Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL curated by Jamie Adams Monkey Spoon, Kim Foster Gallery, New York, NY curated by Dominick Lombardi fəәˈsäd, Kleio Projects, New York, NY curated by Michael Meadors

Negro y Blanco, District & Co., Santo Domingo, DR

2010 Bandits, Pirates & Outlaws, Lost Coast Culture Machine, Fort Bragg, CA Tethered to My World, TAC, Chicago, IL curated by Phyllis Bramson Remnants, Fuse Gallery, New York, NY

Conceptually Sound, Medialia Gallery, New York, NY

Looks Good on Paper, DFN Gallery, New York, NY

25th Anniversary, The Drawing Center, New York, NY

Surface, Terrence Rogers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

3M, Fish Tank Gallery, New York, NY

Spring Selections, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

2001 Take Heart, MPI, New York, NY

Italianate, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale AZ

2000 Imagined Landscapes: Dream, Consolidated Works, Seattle, WA

Anniversary Exhibition, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

1999 New American Landscapes, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR

Ex-capillary, Alan Sheppard Gallery, New York, NY

1998 Small Works The Sequel, Susan Cummins Gallery, San Francisco, CA

The Liars (III) Frightful Paint, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam

1997 Gallery Group Exhibition, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY
1996 Screen Memories, K&E Gallery, New York, NY

Myth & Magic, California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA

Anniversary Exhibition, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

1995 Bodies Terrestrial, Zoller Gallery, Pennsylvania State University, PA

New Paintings, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR

Gallery Group Exhibition, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY

Elementum, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY

Drawings, K&E Gallery, New York, NY

New York, NY Noir, Allez les Filles Gallery, Columbus, OH

1994 The Seer, O’Hara Gallery, New York, NY Suite, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR Fallen Idylls, I.F.A.E., Art Miami, FL

Group Exhibition, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY

Three From New York, NY Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR

1993 M’ aidez/May Day, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY Twilight Intervals, Pat Shea Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Suite, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR

Paper Trail: The Eidetic Image, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL

Gallery Group Exhibition, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY

1992 John Bowman & Peter Drake, Shea & Bornstein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Paper Houses, David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY

28th Annual Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Univ. of NC, Greensboro, NC

Gallery Group Exhibition, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY

Works on Paper, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY

People, The Gallery Three Zero, New York, NY

1991 A Horse of a Different Color, Scottsdale Cultural Council, Scottsdale, AZ

Water, Trenkmann Gallery, New York, NY

1990 Provocative Images, Gallery on the Green, Canton, CT

The New School Collects: Recent Acquisitions, Parsons Design, New York, NY

The Art of Drawing, Lehman College Art Gallery, New York, NY

Group Show, Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

Group Show, Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island University, New York, NY

Group Show, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY

1989 Invitational, Sozialdienst Katholische Frauen, Stolberg, Germany

Group Show, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY

Group Show, Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

1988 New Figurative Drawing, Midtown Gallery, New York, NY Works on Paper, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY Group Show, Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1987 Black & White: Visual Sonatas, Aion Fine Art, Dallas, TX

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Recent Figurative Prints, Associated American Artists, New York, NY

Succinctly Stated, Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA

Monotypes II, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY

Avant Garde In The 80’s, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

Made in New York, NY, Gianfranco Zani Gallery, Turino, Italy

Group Show, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

On Paper, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY

Group Show, Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

1986 Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, UNC Greensboro, NC

Romanticism & Cynicism in Contemporary Art, Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette Univ., Milwaukee, WI

First Impressions, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY

Ten From The Drawing Center, Paine Weber Art Gallery, New York, NY

Senza Paura, Wessel O’Connor Gallery, Rome, Italy

Inaugural Exhibition, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY

Notes From the Underground, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY

57th Between A & D, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY

EL Arte Narrativo, PS 1, Long Island University, New York, NY

Alumni Exhibition, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

New Art, Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, CA

New York, NY/Seattle, Seattle Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA Outline, Cutout, Silhouette, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY Avenue C By The Sea, Tower Gallery, East Hampton, New York, NY East Village Collection, Palladium, New York, NY

Summer Pleasures, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY

1985 New York, NY’s Finest, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

A Brave New World, A New Generation, Charlottenburg Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark

Blue Condition, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC The Discovery of America, Wessel O’Connor Gallery, Rome, Italy Psycho-Pueblo, Galeria Fernando Vijande, Madrid, Spain

The Figure, An Interpretive Study, Tower Gallery, New York, NY

R.E.M., Lamagna Gallery, New York, NY

The Best & The Brightest From the East Village & Soho, Moosart Gallery, Miami, FL

1984 Invitational Group Exhibition, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY

New Work, Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

New York, NY Images / New Directions, The University Art Gallery, SUNY, Albany, NY

East Village Art in Berlin, Zellermayer Galerie, Berlin, Germany

American Drawings From Neo-Classicism To The Avant Garde, Morris Museum, NJ

Nueva Pintura Narrative, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico

Rediscovering Romanticism in New York, NY, New Math Gallery, New York, NY

Neo York, Barbara Art Gallery, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA

Artitude, Limbo Lounge, New York, NY

Fragments, A & P Gallery, New York, NY

1983 SEX!, Sharpe Gallery, New York, NY

Overload, Alternative Museum, New York, NY

1982 Selections Show, Drawing Center, New York, NY

Selections Show, Artist Space, New York, NY

Thirteen on Paper, Center for Art and Performance, Houston, TX

1981 Invitational Print Show, UNC, Chapel Hill, NC Heart Art Show, Forty Walls Gallery, Houston, TX Landscape Installment, 3221 Milan, Houston, TX Insiders/Outsiders, Pirate Gallery, Denver, CO

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

2012 Parker, Tricia, "Paper!" at Phoenix Art Museum Is One Giant Missed Opportunity, Phoenix New
Times, June 21
B19 The Psychic Life of Objects, Catalog, LIU Brooklyn Humanities Gallery
2011 Lombardi, D. Dominick, "From the Perspective of the Curator: MONKEY SPOON, Art Experience NYC, Summer, 2011, Vol 1, No. 3
Kany, Daniel, “Art Review”, Portland Press Herald, July 31
Schroeder, Nicholas, “Rose Contemporary Blasts Off”, The Portland Phoenix, July 6
Bouchard, Sarah, “Space Invaders”, The Bollard, August 9
Rooney, E. Ashley, “100 Artists of the Mid-Atlantic” Shiffer Publishing
2010 Gregg, Gail, “Nothing Like the Real Thing”, ARTnews, Vol. 109 No. 11, December
Dluzen, Robin, Chicago Art Magazine, September 11
Cheney, Alexandra, “All's Fare in Art”, The Wall Street Journal, May 9
2009 Gillman Alicia, “NAU Exhibit Offers Art and Controversy”, Jack Central, November18
Grossman, Dan, “Peter Drake: Memoirs of Suburbia”, Nuvo, September 23
Saetre, Julie, “Artists' Show Spotlights Suburbia”, Indianapolis Star, September 18
Grossman, Dan, Indianapolis Arts Guide, Nuvo, September p.30-31
Genocchio, Benjamin, “Many Views With a Shared Sense of Place”, The New York Times, July 26
Parks, Steve, “Island Landscapes, But Not the Usual”, Newsday, July 3
Hawkins, Margaret, “Peter Drake at Linda Warren Gallery” ARTnews, Vol. 108 No. 5, p. 121 May
Gregor, Alison, “Like Art? You’ll Love Our Condos”, The New York Times, May 10
Pogrebin, Robin, “Parson’s Faculty is Cut Amid Protests by Artists”, The New York Times, April 3
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
2006 "Blanco & Negro", Artes, Republica Dominicana, No. 18, March
Corniel, Zaida, "District & Co. En blanco y negro" Mirada al Arte, Numero 5, February “Contemporary Imaginings: Howard & Judith Tullman Collection”, Catalog, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
Genocchio, Benjamin, “The Place We Call Home”, The New York Times, February 16
Gaynor, Elizabeth, "Memorable Vincent Wolf's Palette", Veranda, April
"I Love the Burbs", Catalog, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
Kuspit, Donald, “Getting Real: The Fall Season in New York”, Art New England, January
Ord Manroe, Candace, "The Artful Life", Traditional Home, March
Plemmons, Chesley, ”Burbs or Bust”, News-Times, Danbury, CT, February 3
RE:D Design, "Subversive Design Issue", Volume 23, Number 5

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2005 Brem, Alisa, “Gallery of the Week: Claire Oliver”, The Columbia Spectator, April 26
Chapin, Katherine, "Visitors from the East", Catalog, Billy Shire Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA Gehring, Kristin, “On the Scene”, Chicago Journal, December 7
Hinkel, Joanne, "All an Art Lover Wants for Christmas", Centerstage, Chicago,
December 15
“The Other Main Stream”, Catalog, Arizona State University Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
2004 Costello, Kevin, “New Frontiers in Art”, Sarasota Herald Tribune, October 31
Curry, Robert S., “Tauromaquia: The Art of Bullfighting”, Shade Magazine, August-September "datebook", Metro/AZ, Summer
2003 Camper, Fred, "Living in the Moment," Chicago Reader, September 19
"The Burbs: The Influence of Suburban Iconography on Pictorial Art", Catalog, DFN Gallery
2001 Ellertson, Karen, "Motion Pictures," Portland Mercury, August 9
2000 Fahey, Anna, "Eyes Wide Open," Seattle Weekly, October 26
1999 Duford, Daniel, "Highway Sublime," Willamette Week, August 4
1995 Hall, Jacqueline, "A Brooding Kind of Mood," Columbus Dispatch, Sunday, March 19
Kohen, Helen, "Talent in the Dark: Artist Shine with Paintings of Night" The Miami Herald, Saturday January 21
1994 Swayer, Ted, "Art Damage: Dream Logic, Bedtime Stories with Peter Drake..." Paperback Jukebox, March 16-31
1993 Brumer, Andy, Review, "Peter Drake," ArtScene, (CA), December
1992 Johnson, Ken, "Peter Drake at Curt Marcus," Art In America, Vol. 80 No. 12, p. 114, December
1991 McKenna, Kristine, "The Chaos and Beauty of Peter Drakes Universe," Art Reviews
Los Angeles Times, May 28
"Contemporary American Oil Painting," Jilin Fine Art Pub., Changchun, China
"Fresh Faces for Summer" New York Magazine
1990 Atkins, Robert, "Scene and Heard," The Village Voice, May 29
Atkins, Robert, "Nudity is the Art of the Matter," Newsday, April 17
Marzulli, John, "A Beastly Pix," New York Daily News, April 18
Visco, Stacianne K., "Peter Drake's 'The Braid': The Controversial Drawing Moved," The Pioneer, April 25
Zimmer, William, "The Public and the Private In Robust Dialog," The New York Times,
October 28
"No Nudes is Good News to Some" New York Post, April 18
1989 Karscholdgen, Von Ines, "Zwischen Strafe Und Vergebung," Kolnische Rundschau, December 15
Larson, Kay "Fresh Faces for Summer" New York Magazine
Rohrig, Johannes, "The Coincidence of Opposites" catalog of Kunst Station Sankt Peter
1988 Nochlin, Linda, "New Landscapes," Interview Magazine, April
"Seeing the Figure," ARTnews, May

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1987 Brenson, Michael, "Art: The Ink Drawings of Peter Drake in Show," The New York Times, February 20
1986 "Alternatives, Oh, Oh...Oh, No...It's Eight Artists From Soho." Statesman, July 14
Bridson, Susan "Color, Detail, Theme, Court Attention at Gallery," The Village Times, July 24
Cone, Michele, Flash Art, p.66-67, April, 1986
Harrison, Helen A., Review, "Urban Anxieties Reflected In Paintings From East Village," New York Times, August 17
Larson, Kay, "In the Blink of an Eye," New York Magazine, October 20
Lipsow, Karen, Review, "A touch of the Bizarre at Stony Brook," Newsday, July 18
McKenna, Kristine, Review, Los Angeles Times, February 21 "Peter Drake Solo," California Magazine, March
Windrow, Pat, "Enough with the Avant Garde," The Village Herald, July 16
1985 Brenson, Michael, "Notes From the Underground," The New York Times, January
Cotter, Holland, "57th Between A & D," Arts Magazine, April
Harrison, Helen A., Review, The New York Times, July 21
Kohn, Michael, "Romantic Vision," Flash Art, January
Levin, Kim, "Show and Tell," The Village Voice, April
1984 Brennon, Mark, "Political Topics in Art at Borgenicht," Manhattan Arts, June
Brenson, Michael, Review, The New York Times, January 4
Glueck, Grace, Review, The New York Times, June
Levin, Kim, The Village Voice, June 12
McCormick, Carlo, "East Village '84," Art in America, Summer
1983 Valmer, Suzanne, "Drawings and Prints, As the Twain Meet," Arts Magazine, February
1982 Larson, Kay, "Stripped Affinities," New York Magazine, November

AWARDS/GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS

2006 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting
Confluence, Arts India, Artist Residency, New York, NY
1997 Haystack Program, PSU,
1989-90 Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Visiting Artist Residency, Koln, Germany
1987 National Endowment For The Arts

COMMISIONS

Eaton, Cleveland, OH Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago, IL
MTA Arts for Transit, Finalist, LIRR Various Private Collections

CURATED EXHIBITIONS

2011 Iconomancy, Wilkinson Gallery, New York, NY
I’ve Got a Secret, The Forbes Galleries, New York, NY Uncovered, Eden Rock Gallery, St. Barths
2010 Just Off, Sloan Fine Art, New York, NY

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2007 Normal, Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006 Uprising, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Space, New York, NY
2005 Primed, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
2003 The Burbs, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
Space Invaders, FishTank Gallery, New York, NY
1985-89 The Drawing Center, New York, NY, Artist Curator, Responsible for interviewing artists, portfolio reviews and initial selections for group exhibitions.

PUBLICATIONS, ESSAYS, EXHIBITION CATALOGS AUTHORED

2006 Low, Dishonest Times, In Conversation, Laurence Hegarty, Cynthia Broan Gallery
Uprising, Catalog Essay, LMCC / Parsons The New School For Design
2005 Primed, Catalog Essay, Parsons The New School
Stories, Amy Bennett, Catalog Essay, Linda Warren Gallery
2003 The Burbs, Catalog Essay, DFN Gallery
Articulation and Iconography, Bryan LeBoeuf, Catalog Essay, FishTank Gallery
Ceramics Art and Perception, Referencing, Susan Budge, Issue 53
Reconstruction, Space Invaders, Catalog Essay, FishTank Gallery
2001 Manchildren, Mark Mennin, Catalog Essay, Howard Yezerski Gallery
1987-88 Flash Art Magazine, NY Staff Critic, Two Exhibition Reviews Monthly
1986 Flash Art Magazine, Published Interview with Ross Bleckner

LECTURES / PANEL DISSCUSSIONS / INTERVIEWS

2011 Gorkysgrandaughter.com Interview by Chris Joy & Zachery Keeting ionly.com.cn Interview by Song Shuan, Beijing, China
College Art Association Conference, New York, NY
2010 NYC: State of the Art Conference
New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
2008 Adelphi University, Garden City, NY
2007 Penn State University, University Park, PA
Samuel Chen Fine Arts Center, CCSU, New Britain, CT Lake Placid Center for the Arts, Lake Placid, NY College Art Association Conference, New York, NY Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2006 Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
New York Academy of Art, New York, NY Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
2005 University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY
New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
1998 School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
1997 Haystack Program, Portland State University, Cannon Beach OR
1990 CW Post Long Island University, Brookville, NY
1987 Greenville County Museum, Greenville, SC Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
1983 Drew University, Madison, NJ
1986 Stonybrook College, Stonybrook, NY

EDUCATION BFA, 1979, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York

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COLLECTIONS

Achenbach Collection, San Francisco, CA Arthur Anderson
Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA
Centro Cultural Arte Comtemporaneo, Polanco, Mexico
Coopers & Lybrand Collection
Dennos Museum Center, Traverse City, MI Fredrick R. Weisman Collection, Los Angeles, CA Greenville County Museum, SC
Isla Center for the Arts, Guam
Kirkland & Ellis, San Francisco, CA Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers Univ., NJ LA County Museum, Los Angeles, CA
McCrory Collection, New York, NY Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
New School for Social Research Collection, New York, NY Oakland County Museum, Oakland, CA
Phoenix Museum of Art, AZ
Post-Newsweek Cable, New York, NY Progressive Collection
Prudential Collection
Readers Digest Collection, NY RxArt Collection
Stafford Trading Inc., Chicago, IL Twin Farms, VT
University Art Museum, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ Weatherspoon Art Gallery, UNC Greensboro, NC
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

WEBSITES

www.peterdrakeartist.com www.peterdrakeart.blogspot.com www.vimeo.com/peterdrake

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