Peter Drake at FUEL Collection, Philadelphia
Indifference & Apocrypha
A group show curated by Katerina Lydon-Warner
The FUEL Collection
249 Arch Street
Philadelphia, PA
www.fuelcollection.com
Opening reception with artists Friday April 4, 6-9 pm
Exhibition: April 1-25, 2008
Artists include:
Angelou Guingon, Peter Drake, Adela Leibowitz, Catherine Tafur, Rene Smith, Megan McGinnis, daniel Baltzer, Kendrick Mar, Steven Skinner, John Zoller, Ikeda Koosuke, Scott Sjobakken, Ali Cabbar, Lizabeth Eva Rossof, Chris Mateer, Maria Adela Diaz and Tattfoo Tan.
Life Sized Lead Soldiers
"This new body of work is based on a collection of lead soldiers my father assembled over the course of his life. I was surprised when I inherited them to see how many depicted Arab and North African soldiers. There were Zouaves, Saracenes, Mamaluks and Ottoman Turks. It struck me as strange that we had been demonizing certain cultures forever. That even in child's play the exotic could take on a menacing and evil aspect and that so much animosity could be embedded in a child's toy." - Peter Drake