Peter Foucault Artwork featured at 2012 Junior League Annual Home Tour event

I am pleased to announce that a selection of my drawings will be featured at the upcoming Junior League Annual Home Tour event through the SFMOMA Artists Gallery. Will be an amazing event, I invite you to please stop by and help support the Junior League!

http://www.jlsf.org/?nd=home_tour

The Junior League of San Francisco, Inc. — celebrating 100 years of serving our community— is pleased to invite you to join in supporting the 18th Annual Home Tour, Gateway to Grandeur, taking place this year in the Presidio Heights neighborhood of San Francisco.

Home Tour Details

The JLSF’s 18th Annual Home Tour is one of the Junior League’s biggest fundraising events which is held every Fall. Each year we feature a different San Francisco neighborhood for the tour. In recent years, the event has raised as much as $250,000 annually for the community.

WHERE: This year we will be featuring the beautiful Presidio Heights neighborhood in San Francisco.

WHEN: The Home Tour will take place on Saturday, September 29^th and Sunday, September 30^th.

PREVIEW GALA: Saturday, September 29^th from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. Format: A Sneak Preview Tour with luxury car service between the homes and an elegant party with a Silent Auction, live entertainment, cocktails and tasty bites.

MAIN EVENT: Home Tour & Marketplace: Sunday, September 30^th from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Format: Walking tours of 5-7 private residences and entrance to an open-air marketplace with food, beverages, live music, and vendors.

VIP EXPERIENCE: Sunday, September 30^th from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Format: Enjoy an exclusive all-day pass to the VIP House with food, wine, live entertainment and luxury car service between the Tour homes.

ATTENDANCE: Guests include community and civic leaders, corporate benefactors, notable VIPs, design aficionados, and other affluent supporters from around the Bay Area and beyond. Total number of attendees for the Preview Gala and the Home Tour are anticipated at approximately 2,500.

HOME TOUR INDIVIDUAL PATRONS: The Home Tour’s fundraising success is made possible by our JLSF volunteers, individual and corporate sponsors, in-kind donors, and ticket sales. As an individual sponsor, you will enjoy a variety of special benefits, as well as the satisfaction of helping some of the Bay Area’s most underserved families. It is through the generous assistance and donations from you that the JLSF is able to make a significant difference in our community over the last 100 years. If you are interested in becoming a Home Tour Patron please contact Patron Chair Emily Wachs at 859-321-0897.

PATRON PARTY: Patrons are invited to attend an exclusive Patron Party in their honor on Thursday, August 23^rd at Z Gallerie. Patrons will also receive an exclusive gift from Vera Bradley as a thank you for their support of the Home Tour. Learn more about the exclusive Patron Party.

HOME TOUR CORPORATE AND IN-KIND SPONSORS: We are very grateful for all of our Corporate and In-Kind Sponsors listed below. The Home Tour’s fundraising success is made possible by our JLSF volunteers, individual and corporate sponsors, in-kind donors, and ticket sales. As a corporate or in-kind sponsor, you will enjoy a variety of special benefits, as well as the satisfaction of helping some of the Bay Area’s most underserved families. It is through the generous assistance and donations from you that the JLSF is able to make a significant difference in our community over the last 100 years. If you are interested in becoming a Home Tour Corporate or In-Kind Sponsor, please contact Home Tour Chair Elizabeth Link at 415-407-6757.

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Peter Foucault/Chris Treggiari MAP Project at the Torrance Museum!

If you are in LA this month (and next) please stop by the Torrance Art Museum and check out the latest Mobile Arts Platform (MAP) installation, a collaborative curatorial and artmaking project I’m working on with Bay Area artist Chris Treggiari. A huge thanks to everyone who stopped by the opening on Sat. Oct 22nd and participated in our interactive artworks!

You can check out pics from the opening at: http://mobileartsplatform.wordpress.com/

The Torrance Art Museum proudly presents Gallery 1:The SubterraneansOpening reception Saturday, September 22nd, 6-9 pm On view until Saturday, November 3rd Come participate in interactive artworks created by the Mobile Arts Platform, featuring collaborations with LA artists Elizabeth DiGiovanni and Pete Ippel Featuring works by the artists who run and operate… Actual Size Autonomie Concord Control Room Durden and Ray Elephant Favorite Goods Foundation for Art Resources JAUS JB Jurve LA Pedestrians LA Road Concerts Latned Astar Materials and Applications Monte Vista Projects Pieter RAID Projects Shorthouse Show Cave Slanguage Summercamp Projectprojects untitled art projects Weekend WPA The Wulf

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SF Weekly “Pick of the Week” review of my show at Red Poppy!

Published on September 5, 2012

It takes a brave artist to relinquish control over the creative act. John Cage did it when he used the I Ching to compose both his music and his art. Yoko Ono, inspired in large part by Cage, took the concept to another extreme in her “Cut Piece” when she allowed audience members to use scissors to slice away her clothes. Oakland artist Peter Foucault continues in this tradition of inviting participation and incorporating chance in his work but with a technological twist. At first glance the pieces in his solo show “I Walk the Line” are impressive simply for their complexity, for the sheer amount of accumulated marks on one sheet of paper. You might think of Sol LeWitt’s “Wall Drawings” or of that Spirograph toy you played with as a kid to create layers and layers of pattern. Some of Foucault’s line drawings were created by specially-designed robots set up in gallery exhibitions and at NASA’s Ames Research Center alike, where the artist gathered as raw material the marks the machines made as they responded to sound or to public interactions. Chance also comes into play in another technique Foucault uses that involves blowing ink with bubbles of beer suspended in them across the paper, generating delicate black streaks. He then builds on that foundation of barely-contained chaos by adding in color and collage elements by hand. Foucault knows when to exert some control over his process but also when to let go. — By Heidi de Vries

http://www.voiceplaces.com/i-walk-the-line-san-francisco-bay-area-3200178-e/

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