Selected Recent Press

2023:

Regan, Sheila. Minnesota Artist Pete Driessen’s Healing art is inspired by shuttered Fergus Falls mental hospital. In Artscape, Arts & Culture, MinnPost. March 14, 2023. (Online News Column/Images)

2022:

Garrett, Blaine (Publisher/Curator). White, Russ (Ed). MPLSART SketchBook Project 2021, p. 40. Mplsart.com, Minneapolis, MN. (Limited Edition Book)

2021:

Bright, Emily. A night of music and spoken word and fiber art in St. Anthony. In Boreal/Arts+Culture/Your Access to the Arrowhead/Minnesota Public Radio News. January 07, 2021. Online News.

Bright, Emily. Art Hounds. A night of music and spoken word and fiber art in St. Anthony. MPR News Radio. January 07, 2021. Audio Link

2020:

Driessen, Pete & Melanie Pankau. Interview: A Quiet Index with artist Melanie Pankau and TuckUnder Pavilion director and artist Pete Driessen. December 2020. (Self-Published. Curator/Artist Interview)

2019:

Forecast Public Art. Forecast grantee Pete Driessen’s monumental and participatory sculptures echo 1875 rail architecture at historic site. Forecast Public Art. In Forecast News blog. December 19, 2019.

Dickinson, Sheila. From the Personal to the Collective: Driessen’s Designs as Site-Specific Art. In Roundhouse: Pivotal Turntable Tactics/Sheila Dickinson, Pete Driessen, Susan Smith-Grier. Pete Driessen, Publisher. Northern Pacific Center, Brainerd, MN, Oct. 5, 2019 (Limited Edition Catalog Essay)

Driessen, Pete. 44 Doors of the Roundhouse Turntable. In Roundhouse: Pivotal Turntable Tactics/Sheila Dickinson, Pete Driessen, Susan Smith-Grier. Pete Driessen, Publisher. Northern Pacific Center, Brainerd, MN, Oct. 5, 2019 (Limited Edition Catalog Essay)

Smith-Grier, Susan. The Roundhouse Convergence of Time and Space. In Roundhouse: Pivotal Turntable Tactics/Sheila Dickinson, Pete Driessen, Susan Smith-Grier. Pete Driessen, Publisher. Northern Pacific Center, Brainerd, MN, Oct. 5, 2019 (Limited Edition Catalog Essay)

White, Russ. Questions & Answers: What is your job as an artist? InStudio Magazine, March 2019, pp. 18-20.

2018:

Drakulic, Kate. Interview w/Pete Driessen. InStudio Magazine, 2018, pp. 40-43.

2017:

Dickinson, Sheila. Trestle Support Systems/Entrepreneur of the Multitude. Pete Driessen Publisher. Northern Pacific Center, Brainerd, MN, Oct. 29, 2017 (Limited Edition Catalog Essay)

Dickinson, Sheila. Trestle Support Systems/Entrepreneur of the Multitude. A Critical Response to the Exhibition and Rethinking Public Space Project, Trestle Support Systems… In The Soap Factory Tumblr, December 13, 2017.

Driessen, Pete. The Gist of Ist/A (Non)Fictional Gallery Exhibition Review….In Fiction NonFiction/Story Telling in Art Criticism. Paenhuysen, An, Ed. Node Center for Curatorial Studies, Berlin, Germany. Pp. 12-13, 2017.

Hurley, Ned. Exhibit Overview: Trestle Support Systems. Soap Factory Podcast. 2017. (Podcast Interview)

2016:

Matula, Shelby. Come Sail Away on Franconia’s Boat Tower. FSP Spotlight. Franconia Blog. December 4, 2015.

2015:

LeFevre, Camille. Artists of the Year. Pete Driessen/Art. In City Pages. Wednesday, December 23-29, 2015, p. 18, Vol. 35, No. 1829.

2012:

Czarniecki Hill, Katie. MAKING IT: Drawing Club with Pete Driessen, Adam Erickson, Lisa Bergh, Andrew Nordin, and Noah Harmon. In Walker News. Aug 7, 2012. Online.

2011:

Driessen, Pete. The Transformative Misfit Gilligan. Mississippi Megalops Long Statement. Northern Spark Festival, June 4, 2011. (Self-published Artist Statement)

Horton, Ashley Briggs. Artist Blurs the Lines in Fulton. In Southwest Minneapolis Patch, October 19, 2011. (Interview/Photos)

McGraw, Michael. Local Artist Interviews-Pete Driessen, Thursday, October 20, 2011. (Web Interview)

Press download link coming soon.

Image: Money Bag-Dirivitive Swap. From Money Bag Series of mixed media paintings and Limited Edition Money Bag Book, 2014.