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]]> By: pete driessen http://blogs.walkerart.org/visualarts/2007/11/19/mmaa-museum/#comment-9396 pete driessen Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:22:22 +0000 http://blogs.walkerart.org/visualarts/2007/11/19/mmaa-museum/#comment-9396 Matt, This address didn't seem to post on the second to last line of my 1st comment: www.myartspace.com. Sorry, not so good with html. Thanks, pete Matt,
This address didn’t seem to post on the second to last line of my 1st comment: http://www.myartspace.com.
Sorry, not so good with html.
Thanks,
pete

]]> By: pete driessen http://blogs.walkerart.org/visualarts/2007/11/19/mmaa-museum/#comment-9348 pete driessen Sat, 01 Dec 2007 17:49:37 +0000 http://blogs.walkerart.org/visualarts/2007/11/19/mmaa-museum/#comment-9348 Matt, Thank you for wanting to see more of my artwork from the MMAA Biennial 3D-II and the positive mention on the Walker Blog. Just a few correctional clarifications: The title of my work is actually "Untitled(Dreamtime Resistance)-White Fleet." The image you posted is "Untitled(Dreamtime Resistance)-White Fleet-Section 1". I had to break up the fleet in order to photograph them. The imagery reflects Australian Aboriginal Dreamtime, not African colonialism. The ships are a statement about the Bush empire. It was a curatorial decision to not put up my artist statement--perhaps this would have made it more clear. Though I respect and enjoy her work, I am not influenced by Kara Walker. I am more influenced by the Critical Art Ensemble, Rirkrit T., and Sub Rosa, and long list of tormented painters and artists that changes daily. You can also view my new fleet of ships at the following exhibition: Nuestra Frida opens Tonite! December 1, 7-11pm, thru January 5, The Casket Building, Minneapolis, MN. (Two Dos Fridas ships with Unibrow Tweezer Cargo) Several ship images can also be viewed online at . Search Driessen. Then click on the head portfolio. Then click on the sailboat portfolio. Let the images and music load. Thanks again, pete d. Matt,
Thank you for wanting to see more of my artwork from the MMAA Biennial 3D-II and the positive mention on the Walker Blog. Just a few correctional clarifications:

The title of my work is actually “Untitled(Dreamtime Resistance)-White Fleet.” The image you posted is “Untitled(Dreamtime Resistance)-White Fleet-Section 1″. I had to break up the fleet in order to photograph them.

The imagery reflects Australian Aboriginal Dreamtime, not African colonialism. The ships are a statement about the Bush empire. It was a curatorial decision to not put up my artist statement–perhaps this would have made it more clear.

Though I respect and enjoy her work, I am not influenced by Kara Walker. I am more influenced by the Critical Art Ensemble, Rirkrit T., and Sub Rosa, and long list of tormented painters and artists that changes daily.

You can also view my new fleet of ships at the following exhibition:

Nuestra Frida opens Tonite! December 1, 7-11pm, thru January 5, The Casket Building, Minneapolis, MN.
(Two Dos Fridas ships with Unibrow Tweezer Cargo)

Several ship images can also be viewed online at .
Search Driessen. Then click on the head portfolio. Then click on the sailboat portfolio. Let the images and music load.

Thanks again, pete d.

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