PPL Trailer, Encino Demo
Social Sculpture, Dimensions Variable, 2017
PPL Trailer, Encino
Social Sculpture, Dimensions Variable, 2017
Trail Tales
Social Sculpture, Dimensions Variable, 2023
About the Show
For over a decade Peter Foucault has been creating community based, social practice projects that utilize mobile structures created by the artist to directly engage audiences in public spaces. Participants are invited to share their voice and ideas around issues that impact their lives and neighborhoods. A selection of these “Social Sculptures” will be on view at Axis Gallery in January 2024 and a month-long participatory project will be set up in the gallery inviting visitors to contribute. In addition the exhibition will feature documentation of previous mobile projects and collaborations.
About the Artist
Peter Foucault creates works on paper, videos, and installations that are fueled by his love of drawing and mark making. In addition to his own practice, he is the Co-Founder of the Mobile Arts Platform (MAP), an artmaking and curatorial team that creates interactive exhibitions that directly engage the public. Foucault creates large scale Public Art installations that are interactive and explore Social Practice avenues. Through these projects and through his work with MAP he has both contributed to and expanded the field of Social Practice. It is his aim to create projects that are easily accessible to diverse audiences and age groups.
Foucault has participated in exhibitions at venues such as the Getty Museum and Getty Villa, Oakland Museum of California,Torrance Art Museum, California Museum, San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 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. He has received funding from the California Arts Council, Creative Work Fund, Wattis Family Foundation, the City of San Jose Public Art Program, the City of Oakland’s Cultural Funding Program, US Bank, the Seattle Center Foundation, Puffin Foundation and the Zellerbach Family Foundation. Foucault’s work has been reviewed in People Magazine, KQED Arts, The San Francisco Chronicle, The SF Weekly, ArtWeek, Wired Magazine, KTVU Fox News, ABC 7 News, CBS Bay Area News, and Artnet Magazine.