Franconia Boat Tower

28’ x 8’ x9’

Douglas fir, steel, four vintage boats

2015

2015 FSP/Jerome Fellow

Artist Statement

My aim is to develop a sculptural site with a hybridic combination of Midwestern found boats in dry dock as a potential public art. I am particularly interested in creating and curating a sculptural boat tower site within the often-hidden oculi of prairie of cornfield pathways and using them as pivotal axis points for asymmetrical viewing.

Pete Driessen

Born: Hopkins, MN, USA, 1961

Resides: Minneapolis, MN, USA

Education

MFA, Vermont College of Fine Art, 1998

BFA, University of St. Thomas, 1985