Pete Driessen is a Minneapolis based visual
artist and painter whose current artwork blends allegorical
history painting, color theory, and critical theory into a polemic
narrative. These disciplines allow him to develop ideas of pancapitalism
and empire, human rights and injustice, and power and powerlessness.
His sociopolitical paintings and mixed media works utilize both
symbol and metaphor and refer to foreign policy and current
events, art history and iconography, color symbolism and optical
illusion for structure and content.
Grounded in the living web of wholeness
and balance, his rhythmic artwork reflects a seamless array
of scientific, philosophical, and sociopolitical themes such
as animism, synchronicity, torture, genocide, and corporate
responsibility. Pete's paintings question authoritarian dominance
and repressive power structures, and they seek dissident political
alternatives that empower and engage both the mind and the eye
of a spectrum of audiences.
Children of the World March Against Bush
Acrylic Paint/Gloss Acrylic Gel & Iridescent Tinting Mediums/Modeling Paste/Unstretched Canvas
Hybrid (Squirrel)
Acrylic Paint/Gloss Acrylic Gel & Iridescent Tint Mediums/Modeling Paste
