Peter Foucault art in group show at Axis Gallery

Double Take – Peter Foucault, Erin Kaczkowski, Justin Nunnally, Mirabel Wigon, Danielle Wogulis

December 4th, 2022 – January 1st, 2023

Double Take consists of work exploring a range of strategies from diagrammatic mapping of spatial systems to ambiguously encoded signs, considering different means of storing and recognizing information. The featured artists are new members of Axis Gallery who produce radically different work that share fundamental reflections on human memory and learning. At first glance, the selected works seem to be a reflection on the quotidian. However, upon closer inspection, they are metacognitive exercises that consider the functions of perception, cognition, and memory.

Memory and perception fundamentally differ. Image-making (object-making) is an intentional interpretation of memory. Perception is the act of seeing from one vantage point, while memory is conflated with other associations. Imagination is a “what if” proposition, a suspension of disbelief, a tool from which we can conserve both memory and perception in an object. Through form, material, and our various processes, we are all encoding, marking, and making new associations; a sort of roadmap for the viewer to consider the accumulation of thought and action.

The strategies between works vary, but accumulation of material and the juxtaposition of elements to create an internal perplexity is shared. Danielle’s work explores biological processes and their relation to current events, social systems, and how the body experiences the world around it. Mirabel’s work considers how painted space grapples with multiple sensory stimuli coalescing into, and onto, the flat painted space through a variety of painting languages to explore experience, immersion, and separation with space and place. Erin uses collage and assemblage to explore material, memory, and new associations. Peter uses the print matrix to highlight the liminal space between systems and how two separate systems act upon each other to create new experiences. Justin’s works challenge the viewer to consider perception most directly, confusing our position between object and two-dimensional image to consider human sight and cognition (recognition).

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Double Take – Peter Foucault, Erin Kaczkowski, Justin Nunnally, Mirabel Wigon, Danielle Wogulis

Peter Foucault art at Sac State University Library Gallery

Community Connections

January 25 – February 25, 2022

Community Connections highlights three community-oriented art projects created during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. Featuring artworks specially created for Hello Stranger, Color Us Hopeful, and Art for the Heart, the exhibition celebrates the success of each project to counteract social isolation and initiate artist and community partnerships despite the challenges.

Join for the following events:

Saturday, February 5, 3-5PM 
Exhibition Reception and Community Engagement 
with artists Peter Foucault, Emma Montalbano, Michelle Ott, and Summer Ventis

About the Exhibition

Art for the Heart, a collaborative project focused on connecting communities through art who have been significantly affected by the pandemic.

Over 850 art works created by local artists were delivered to seniors in our community through the Great Plates Delivered program. Exploring ideas of food and community, the unique prints brought an unexpected bit of added connection to seniors during the holiday season. Art for the Heart was organized by the Crocker Art Museum, University Galleries, Sacramento State, the Sacramento Promise Zone, and the Mayor’s Office. Significant funding was provided through the City of Sacramento’s Office of Arts and Culture.

Artist Bios 

Local artists Luis Campos Garcia, Peter Foucault, and Aida Lizalde worked respectively with youth from Sol Collective, the Crocker Art Museum, and the Sojourner Truth African Heritage Museum to envision works of art that would inspire senior recipients; and artist and professor Summer Ventis worked with four printmaking students from Sacramento State to produce a series of prints exploring the connections between community and food. Delivered in conjunction with the Great Plates healthy meals, the uniquely made artworks aim to provide a bit of joy to over 850 households this holiday season.

Special thanks to all our volunteers who assembled the artwork packages and to Paratransit Inc. for assisting in the delivery of the artworks.

Peter Foucault artwork selected for Capital Box Art project in Sacramento

Please stop by the corner of 13th and I Street in Downtown Sac and check out the new box!

https://www.capitolboxart.com

Peter Foucault artwork included in “Art For the Heart” organized by the Crocker Art Museum (And Collaborating Organizations), Winter 2020

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Peter Foucault

Lifeline 2020, Lino cut and screen print, 13″x19″, A collaboration with the Crocker Block By Block Street Team

Art for the Heart is a collaborative project focused on connecting communities through art who have been significantly affected by the pandemic. Over 850 art works created by local artists were delivered to seniors in our community through the Great Plates Delivered program. Exploring ideas of food and community, the unique prints brought an unexpected bit of added connection to seniors during the holiday season. Art for the Heart was organized by the Crocker Art Museum, University Galleries, Sacramento State, the Sacramento Promise Zone, and the Mayor’s Office. Significant funding was provided through the City of Sacramento’s Office of Arts and Culture.

Local artists Luis Campos Garcia, Peter Foucault, and Aida Lizalde worked respectively with youth from Sol Collective, the Crocker Art Museum, and the Sojourner Truth African Heritage Museum to envision works of art that would inspire senior recipients; and artist and professor Summer Ventis worked with four printmaking students from Sacramento State to produce a series of prints exploring the connections between community and food. Delivered in conjunction with the Great Plates healthy meals, the uniquely made artworks aim to provide a bit of joy to over 850 households this holiday season.

Special thanks to all of the volunteers who assembled the artwork packages and to Paratransit Inc. for assisting in the delivery of the artworks.

Peter Foucault “The Power Of Prints” reflection piece included in Un/Equal Freedoms: Expressions for Social Justice

I invite you to check out a powerful new exhibition that opened on May 13th. My reflection piece “The Power of Prints” can be viewed here:

https://crisj.org/artists/art145

Image: Kachiside Madu

Un/Equal Freedoms: Expressions for Social Justice is a multidisciplinary exhibition of art and prose reckoning with the unequal freedoms embedded in our social structures.

Representing work by professional and emerging artists, individuals and groups, students and community members, the group offers artistic expressions for social justice, laying bare these unequal freedoms. Themes include:

• Empowering marginalized voices,
• representing forward action,
• Offering a vision for an improved society.

To view the online exhibition follow this link:

https://crisj.org/exhibition

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Thank you Crocker Museum for including me in the article “Happenings: Local Arts Writing And The Poetics of Relation

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Please check out the article below!

https://www.crockerart.org/oculus/happenings-local-arts-writing-and-the-poetics-of-relation

Peter Foucault artwork in Verge Center for the Arts Art Auction 2020

Please check out this years Verge Art Auction! A screen print from my recent series Biosphere is included. Help support an amazing organization and some very talented local artists!

THE 2020 VERGE ART AUCTION

OCTOBER 26, 2020 – NOVEMBER 21, 2020

VIRTUAL EVENT: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21 AT 6:30 PM

Spotlighting emerging and established artists, the Verge Art Auction is a one-of-a-kind event that celebrates Sacramento talents and California’s unique contemporary arts scene.

Past auctions have been lively, fast-paced events where artists and art lovers could mix and mingle with good drinks, good music, and good company. This year, with the safety of our friends and family in mind, we’re turning our auction into a virtual event you won’t want to miss!Support VergeView Auction Items

By supporting the Verge Art Auction, you are playing a key role in helping Verge shape the landscape of the Sacramento art scene. This year’s auction will be a testament to the vitality, community, and strength of our region. When you purchase, 10% of that sale will go toward the Black Artists Fund – an initiative spearheaded by Sacramento Black creatives to address inequity in arts funding. To top it off, when you purchase a piece by an AYP Residency alum, a portion of your sale will go back to our friends at the Ali Youssefi Project.

Find your way to support the 2020 Verge Art Auction, and help secure the future for Verge. Click the button below to find new and exciting avenues for getting on board!

We are so lucky to have one of the best, most nurturing community of supporters in town! Thank you for supporting the 2020 Verge Art Auction!

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Ravel Rasmussen Properties | Denise & Donald Timmons

Councilmember Steve Hansen | Gwenna & Dan Howard | Ginny & Phil Cunningham | Gloria Naify

Darrene Hackler & Chris Hoene

Beers Books | Honey | Gail Counts Miller | Elizabeth Fry Moulds | Samantha & Ali Nadimi | The Glenn Sorensen Family

New Biosphere screen prints available

Here are some new screen prints titled ‘Biosphere 1-3″, multi-color screen prints on paper, 13″x19″ paper size, edition of 10 each

Peter Foucault art in SFAI Alumni exhibition in the Diego Rivera Gallery

Hello,

I am excited to announce that I have a large scale drawing (Subdivision 4) included in the SFAI alumni exhibition Echos: From There to Here. If you are in the North Bay Area of SF please stop by and check it out!

 

It is with great pleasure and enthusiasm that San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) faculty, Timothy Berry and Jeremy Morgan, present ECHOES: From There to Here ALUMNI EXHIBITION Erin Dengerink, The Cave, 2018 Indigo on Yupo SAVE THE DATE Thursday, November 14 | 5pm Diego Rivera Gallery SFAI—Chestnut Street Campus Please join us on Thursday, November 14 for the opening of ECHOES: From There to Here, featuring select works by SFAI Alumni. LEARN MORE & RSVP

ABOUT THE SHOW This exhibition is reflective of SFAI’s desire to recognize the wider community of artists who have and will work both within the physicality of this unique architectural environment and with its spirit of place. The artwork included inECHOES: From There to Here accentuates a breadth of vision and concerns, underscoring the significance of art in general and the importance of studio practice as indicative of a lifetime commitment to art and creativity. We are now witness to the artists work as gifts through action and manifestation, to the culture of society, and to the wider world. In so doing, we too are mindful of the profound importance of both creative thought and action. FEATURED ARTISTS Zeina Barakeh, Maria Theresa Barbist, Amy Bark, Jerry Ross Barrish, Barry Beach, Fred X Brownstein, Ruth Chase, Patricia Crowley, Beth Davilla Waldman, Maria Dawn, Erin Dengerink, Selvaggio Dordetti, Edward Drew, Kevin Dudley, Peter Foucault, Erlin Adones Geffrard, Dave Getz, Theresa Gooby, Josie Grant, Marc Daniel Hirsch, Paula Izydorek, Jeff Key, Daniel Konhauser, JJ L’Heureux, Rocky McCorkle, Lisa Mccutcheon, Flicka McGurrin, Dana Morrison, Flo Pizzarello, Hugh Pocock, Karen Redgreene, Erik Ritter, Michal Sagar, Irys Schenker, Jesse Eric Schmidt, Craig Schwanfelder, Merle Temkin, Linda Trunzo, Blu Voelker, Ingrid Wells, Aaron Wilder, Holly Wong, Antoinette Wysocki, and Rochelle Youk.ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS SFAI’s Exhibitions and Public Programs are made possible by the generosity of donors and sponsors, including the Harker Fund of The San Francisco Foundation, Institute of Museums and Library Services, Grants for the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, Creative Work Fund, Koret Foundation, Pirkle Jones Fund, Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, and Fort Point Beer Company. Ongoing support is provided by the McBean Distinguished Lecture and Residency Fund, The Buck Fund, and the Visiting Artist Fund of the SFAI Endowment.

Peter Foucault artwork in Root Division Art Auction Thursday October 24th

If you are in SF tomorrow night I invite you to please stop by Root Division and check out their annual art auction. I will have my drawing “Doomsday Machine #6” available to bid on. Come out and support a great organization!