Artist Spotlight Tour with Pete Driessen

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• Saturday, Jan 13, 2024  1pm - 1:45pm

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Artist Spotlight Tour with Pete Driessen
Saturday, January 13 at 1:00 PM
Join us for a tour led by Minneapolis based visual artist Pete Driessen. In his new solo exhibition, "Zumbro Bend: Three Desiring Bodies," Driessen has installed three separate site-specific works, each a different abstracted fork in the river ecosystem. Titled after the South Fork Zumbro River that winds around the Rochester Art Center, the artist illuminates meandering sociopolitical variants on the river as creative life force, terrain erosion and deposition, land extraction and water channeling.

Pete Driessen is a Minneapolis based multipractice visual artist, sculptor and cultural producer who creates site-specific conceptual initiatives, found object installations, interdisciplinary sculpture projects, and participatory public art that explore the visceral connections of social, spatial and material dynamics. Driessen received his MFA in Visual Studies from Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, VT, and his exhibit record includes national and regional exhibitions at a range of venues. Driessen has been awarded several grants, including a 2022 MSAB Creative Opportunity grant for his Migratory Wing/Prairie Wildflower Bed project; a 2019 Forecast Public Art Midcareer Project grant for his Roundhouse/Pivotal Turntable Tactics; a 2017 Soap Factory/ReThinking Public Space in Minnesota grant for his Trestle Support Systems project; a 2015 Jerome Fellowship at Franconia Sculpture Park for his Franconia Boat Tower sculpture; a 2014 MRAC Next Step grant for his Silverwood Park project; and three past MSAB Artist Initiative grants. Driessen extends his artistic practice via curation, collaboration, and community activity, most recently working with his partner on an ongoing alternative textile collaboration. He directs and curates a hybridic, nondescript ether-based gallery known as TuckUnder Projects specializing in emerging and midcareer artists focusing on conceptual arts practice, curatorial projects, and institutional critique.