On the Air! Plus Bio and CV

Welcome to my new Blog, featuring current artworks and projects, as well as an archive of artworks from 2005-2009.

Since things have been super busy as of late this will be a great way for you to check out what I've been working on. Hope everyone is doing well and hope to see you soon!

Below is an artist Bio and C/V of past shows.

Cheers,

Peter


Bio:

'Foucault's procedure connects his work with the Surrealist lineage of automatism, the chance-enamored strategies of Fluxus and oddities on the fringes of art such as Harold Cohen's computer-generated drawings.'

-Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle


Peter Foucault is a multi-media artist who creates self-perpetuating systems responding to elements of chance. This investigation has led to the incorporation of robotics, biological medium, and climatic factors such as the wind and rain.

In his current body of work Foucault has created a series of Drawing-Projects that produce complex abstract compositions, and videos that reference the act of drawing. At the root of these projects is a constant tension between control and the loss of control. His work is concept driven, and often utilizes objects that reference printmaking and multiplicities.

Foucault has participated in numerous exhibitions nationwide, with recent solo shows at The SFMOMA Café, The Richmond Art Center (Richmond, CA), Blankspace Gallery (Oakland, CA), and a two-person show at Micaela Gallery (San Francisco, CA). His work has been in group shows at the Smithsonian Institutes’ Freer and Sackler Gallery, The Portland Art Center, Works San Jose, and Mission 17 (San Francisco, CA). In 2007-2008 his artwork was included in the Art Now Fair Miami Beach, the Bridge Art Fair New York and Miami Beach (through Micaela Gallery, San Francisco), and Drawing-Projects have been installed at The NASA Aimes Research Center, and the Zero1 Art and Technology Fair in San Jose, CA. Recent reviews of Foucault’s work have appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle, The SF Weekly (Pick of the Week), ArtWeek, Wired Magazine, Stretcher Magazine, and Artnet Magazine. In April 2009 his drawing Four Square Squared was featured on the Cover of California Home and Design Magazine. Foucault’s work is represented by the Micaela Gallery and the SFMOMA Artists Gallery. He lives and works in Oakland, CA.


Artist CV:

Solo Exhibitions

2009

Translations, SFMOMA Café, San Francisco, CA

2008

External Influences, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA

2007

Outside Forces, Blankspace Gallery, Oakland, CA
Draw!, Frankee Uno Salon and Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2006

Outline, Print Zero Studios, Seattle, WA

2005

Overdrawn, Crucible Steel Gallery, CELLspace, San Francisco, CA

2004

Publish or Perish, Installation at the Design Pavilion, San Francisco, CA
Drawn In, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
In The West, Still Lights Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Generations, Still Lights Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2001

Automatic Response, the Nation Gallery, Seattle, WA

Group Exhibitions

2009

Tangible Technology, Design Guild SF, San Francisco, CA
Re:source (2 person show). Foster City Art Gallery, Foster City, CA

2008

Bridge Art Fair (with Micaela Gallery), Miami Beach, FL
The Weather Reconnaissance, The Garage, San Francisco, CA
Zero 1, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, CA
Yuri’s Night 2008, NASA Aimes Research Center, Mountain View, CA
Bridge Art Fair, (with Micaela Gallery), New York, NY
Printzero Studios Print Exchange#6, COCA, Seattle, WA
Compass, Micaela Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2007

Art Now Fair, (with Micaela Gallery), Miami, FL
The Drawing Project (2 person show), a.Muse Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Gun Show, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
Tall Tales (2 person show), Micaela Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Printzero Studios Print Exchange#5, Sev Shoon Art Center, Seattle, WA
Artists Go Lightly, Temporary Autonomous Museum, San Francisco, CA
Salon D’Ete, Micaela Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Mission Creek Music and Arts Festival, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
Body of Work, Works San Jose, CA
Yuri’s Night Bay Area 2007, NASA Aimes Research Center, Mountain
View, CA
Novus + Neos (New work + New artists), Micaela Gallery, San Francisco, CA
FREEDM, Noise Pop Festival opening exhibition@ Mezzanine, San
Francisco, CA

2006

Anti/Social, Mission 17 Gallery, juried show, San Francisco, CA
Mind Strata: The Collision Point, Works San Jose, CA
Printzero Studios Print Exchange#4, University of Florida
Printzero Studios Print Exchange#4, Sev Shoon Art Center, Seattle, WA
Printzero Studios Print Exchange#4, Basil Howard Gallery, Portland, OR
The Grotesque Sublime, Kitchen Distribution Gallery, Buffalo, NY
The Art of Tea, Cricket Engine Gallery, juried show, Oakland, CA
Empirical Nostalgia, Million Fishes Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Boredom: I Learned it by Watching You, Portland Art Center, OR
Mind Strata: Office Dreams, 2001 Broadway, Oakland, CA
Art SF 5th Anniversary Show, ArtSF Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Rundgang, Staedelschule Academy of Art, Frankfurt, Germany

2005

AAF Contemporary Art Fair, New York, NY
Postcards from the Edge, Benefit for Visual Aids, Robert Miller Gallery, NY
Paper Cuts-Again, Fetterly Gallery, juried show, Vallejo, CA
MFA Show, SFAI, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA
Third Annual Juried Show, Galeria Galou, Brooklyn, NY
California Black and White, Cabrillo Gallery juried show, Aptos, CA
Artist Book Show, Walter McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute
Say What!, ArtSf Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2004

AD-HOC, Crucible Steel Gallery, Cell Space, San Francisco, CA
Art Out Loud, ARTSF Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Snap to Grid, Los Angles Center for Digital Art, Los Angles, CA
Skyways of Tomorrow, Oakland Airport, NASA design collaboration
CCA+SFAI, Play Space Gallery juried show, California College of Art
Out Source, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
New Natures, Swissnex, Gallery of the Swiss Consulate, San Francisco, CA
Off-Site, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Small Works, Swell Gallery at the San Francisco Art Institute

2003

Autofocus, Freer and Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian Institute, juried show, Washington, DC
Fats Famous, Swell Gallery at the San Francisco Art Institute, juried show
Gene Carnival, Swell Gallery at the San Francisco Art Institute
Sign:Language, Swell Gallery at the San Francisco Art Institute

Programs and Grants

2004

Board of Trustees, Student Representative, San Francisco Art Institute
NASA Space Program teaching grant, San Francisco Art Institute
Collaborative project with RIGO 04, San Francisco Art Institute
Inclusion of work in the Education Panel of Southern Graphics,Rutgers
University

2001-03 Teaching Grant, University of Hawaii, Manoa
2002 Independent study, George Pompidou Center, Paris France
2000 Merit award, University of Washington

Gallery Representation

SFMOMA Artists Gallery
Micaela Gallery, San Francisco

Collections

The Getty Institute, Artist Books Collection, Los Angeles, CA

Published Material, Reviews

2009

California Home and Design, Cover image and “The Reign of Spain”,
Mikhael, Romain, March/April 2009

2007

Artnet.com, “Miami Post Mortem”, Ben Davis, 12/24/07
SF Gaurdian, “Pick of the Week: The Magari Project and The Drawing
Project, Amy Hough, 11/28/07
The San Francisco Chronicle, “Foucault’s Robots”, Kenneth Baker, 9/29/07
Stretcher Magazine, “Tall Tales”, Stephanie Ellis, October 2007
SF Weekly, “Pick of the Week”, Ping Pong in the Garage, Traci Vogel,8/22/07
Wired Magazine Online, “Robots Offer Lesson in Abstract Expressionism”,
Rob Beschizza, 4/17/07
Crave.com, “Gadget Report from Yuris Night @ NASA”, Donald Bell, 4/16/07
Ubergizmo.com, “Drawing Robots Draw People”, 4/16/07
ArtBusiness.com, “Draw!”, Alan Bamberger, 2/24/07

2006

ArtSpan Open Studios Catalog, “Home Grown Galleries”, Amee LeDuc, 10/06
Elle Decore Magazine, Conrad Drapery Advertisment, August 2006

2005

Portland Art.net, “Boredom I Learned it by Watching You”, Jeff Jahn4/21/06
Artweek, “Papercuts (again)”, Jordan Essoe, November 2005
ArtBusiness.com, “Overdrawn”, Alan Bamberger, 8/3/05
Block Magazine, “Thirteen Artists, One Galeria Galou”, Rachel Hyman,
6/24/05
The Cabrillo Voice, “Black and White, an exciting exhibition comes to
Cabrillo", Elana Abeles, 4/13/05
Register-Pajaronian, “Seeing things in Black and White”, Richard Bennett,
3/18/05

2002

Television interview on Fox Cable Network, Honolulu, Hawaii

2001

Bricolage Magazine, Issue 18, 2001, University of Washington Press

1999

The Stranger, The Stranger Suggests, August 19 issue


Curatorial Projects

2007

The Gun Show, Root Division, San Francisco, CA, November 2007
I Walked Through Seven Sad Forests, Ping Pong Gallery @ the Garage: Part
of the Garage Biennale 2007, August 2007

Lectures

2007

Visiting Artist, Root Division, San Francisco, CA

2004

Visiting Artist, Napa Valley College, CA
SFAI representative, College Preview Day, Los Angles, CA
SFAI representative, College Preview Day, Austin, TX

Education

2000

BFA - Printmaking University of Washington
BA - Art History University of Washington

2001-03

Graduate Studies University of Hawaii, Manoa

2005

MFA - Printmaking San Francisco Art Institute