New York Painter to Give Public Lecture

October 16, 2007

New York painter Peter Drake will give a free public lecture, “Breakdown, Decay as Metaphor,” at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, October 25, in the Palmer Lipcon Auditorium, Palmer Museum of Art. The Penn State School of Visual Arts’ John M. Anderson Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series sponors Drake’s lecture.

Drake’s works have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe and are included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of Art in New York, Phoenix Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and the Achenback Collection in San Francisco, among others. Recently his work was highlighted in an article titled “Back to the Burbs,” by Edward Gomez, in the May 2007 issue of Arts & Antiques Magazine.

Born in Garden City, Long Island, Drake earned a B.F.A. at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. He was a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Award and was chosen to be Artist in Residence at the Kunst Station Sankt Peter in Cologne, Germany. In 2006, he was awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. Drake lives and works in Manhattan and currently teaches art at the Parsons School of Design. For more information, go to www.peterdrakeartist.com.

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Mortar..........Scimitar .......... Shrapnel .......... Warhorse

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