Ephemera and Rarities 1980-ongoing

We will continue to add to this page as we sift through Paul Druecke Art Studio’s formidable, and a little shy of well-organized, physical and digital inventories.

Untitled c. 1981
16 x 12”
acrylic on canvas
One of the earliest pieces in Druecke’s possession. For most of its forty-year existence, the painting was lost in boxes within boxes. There is a hint of foreshadowing, perhaps, in tenuous balance, poise on the verge of unraveling. The sense of space and surface may even prove inspirational for a new series still in development.

Garden Path: Behind the scenes, day one of painting the 12 x 80’ mural everyone is feeling optimistic. Foreground: Stephanie Lane Gage, Background: Paul Druecke 2014

Night School @ Riverwest Public House, 2012

Poster, designed by Peter Railand, for an interactive discussion coordinated by Night School at the Riverwest Public House, Milwaukee’s only Co-op bar.

beg you teach 2020
8.5 x 5.5”
one color printing on cardstock
Edition of 10, published by ASW
Chapbook consisting of seven poems, six of which were read at Woodland Pattern’s 2020 Marathon fundraiser.

Earl’s Schloss 2009
4 x 12”
4-color bumper sticker
Produced for the Dark Fair at Koelnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany, the bumper sticker took on a life of its own with guerilla interventions during the run of the fair.

Alphabet Illustrations 2000 - 2001
Install dimensions: variable individual works approx. 12 x 10”
Mixed media on Watercolor Paper, Detail views of A, E, F, M, O, and U

A series of 26 drawings based on illustrations from the 1983 American Heritage Dictionary.
Exhibited at Darling Hall, Milwaukee, WI

Throwing out First Pitch 2016
The Friends of Blue Dress Park nominated Druecke to throw out the pitch for a Milwaukee Brewer’s Game based on his work as a conceptual artist and in particular, Blue Dress Park. Certainly, one of the more surreal moments in a career that often plays to fantastic and implausible.

TNT Backyard Test c.2006
Not long after returning from Houston, friends stop by to help Druecke research a potential project using simultaneous camera flashes to over-expose pics taken on those same cameras, which was enjoyable but not successful and ultimately irrelevant with the advent of smart phone cameras. With: Ariana Huggett, Cat Pham, Chris Niver, Didier Leplae, Eric Hau, Jennifer MIkulay, John Reipenhoff, Kiki Anderson, Lara Hau, Michael Mikulay, Santiago Cucullu, Scott Reeder, Seth Goodman, and Xav Leplae.