Bridge
drawing, ink on paper 72" x 44"
Confluence 2
ink, blown ink, and collaged antique USGS maps on paper, 50" x 38", 2017
Doomsday Machine 2
ink, blown ink, and collaged antique USGS maps on paper, 44" x 30", 2017
Isotope 3
ink on wood panel, 48" x 39", 2017
Isotope 4
ink on wood panel, 48" x 40", 2017
Staccato Series 2
ink on paper, 24" x 18", 2017
Subdivision 1
ink on alupoly, 42" x 48", 2017
Subdivision 2
ink on alupoly, 24" x 72", 2017
Tempest 1
ink on paper, 22" x 30", 2017
Afterglow 1
ink, blown ink and collaged antique USGS maps on paper 22 " x 30"
Afterglow 2
Watercolor, gouache and graphite on paper 22 " x 30"
Bellows
ink, blown ink and collaged antique USGS maps on paper 45" x 58"
Elixer
ink, blown ink and collaged antique USGS maps on paper 58" x 45"
Ellipse 1
ink, blown ink and collaged antique USGS maps on paper 22" x 30"
Parallax 1
collaged antique USGS maps, and hand drawing on Japanese rice paper 16 " x 16"
Torrent 1
ink, blown ink and collaged antique USGS maps on paper 22.5 " x 30"
Torrent_Series 3
ink, blown ink and collaged antique USGS maps on paper 22.5 " x 30"
Tropoplasm
collaged antique USGS maps, and hand drawing on Japanese rice paper 37" x 25"
Whip 4
drawing and blown ink on paper 12" x 34"
Peter Foucault is a San Francisco Bay Area artist who lives and works in Sacramento and Oakland, CA. He received his BFA in Printmaking and BA in Art History from the University of Washington in 2000, and his MFA in printmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2005. Foucault creates works on paper, videos, and installations that are fueled by his love of drawing and mark making. He has created a series of Drawing-Projects, which utilize systems he’s developed that produce complex abstract compositions. At the root of these projects is a constant tension between control and the loss of control. Viewer interactivity plays an integral part in Foucault’s drawing installations, large-scale artworks in which participants influence the outcome of a drawing that is created by a small robot over the duration of an event or exhibition. Foucault’s work is concept driven, and often utilizes objects that reference printmaking and multiplicities.
Foucault has participated in numerous exhibitions nationwide including the SFMOMA Café, Richmond Art Center, the Getty Museum and Getty Villa, Oakland Museum of California, Torrance Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Marine Contemporary, Smithsonian Institutes’ Freer and Sackler Gallery, Kit Schulte Contemporary (Berlin, Germany), The University of Salford (Manchester, England), and The Orange County Center for Contemporary Art to name a few. His work can be found in the permanent collections of The National Archive, Washington DC, The Floodgate Fund, Palo Alto, CA The Getty Institute, Los Angeles, CA and David Kiehl, Curator of Prints at the Whitney Museum. Foucault has presented lectures at Stanford University, City College, San Francisco University and the SETI Institute.
Foucault’s work has been reviewed in People Magazine, KQED Arts, the San Francisco Chronicle, the SF Weekly (Pick of the Week), ArtWeek, Wired Magazine, KTVU Fox News, ABC 7 News, CBS Bay Area News, and Artnet Magazine. His work was also featured on the Cover of California Home and Design Magazine.
In addition to his own practice, Foucault is the Co-Founder of the Mobile Arts Platform (MAP), a Bay Area based art-making and curatorial team that creates interactive “pop-up” mobile exhibitions directly engaging the public. The MAP project was included in the American Association of Museums 2012 annual reports’ “Trends Watch”.
