Bio

Paul Druecke's work was included in the 2014 Whitney Biennial. A co-authored discussion of his work is in Blackwell and Wiley's Anthology, Companion to Public Art (2016).

Druecke's influential “Social Event Archive” (1997-2007) was exhibited at Milwaukee Art Museum in 2017. The project foreshadowed social media’s now-familiar blurring of personal and public history. Andrew Goldstein, writing on Artspace.com, says, “A Social Event Archive is viewed as having prefigured social sites like Instagram by inviting people to give him personal snapshots that he then displayed.” David Robbins writes, “... Paul Druecke is fascinated by the collective mind. The platform he’s invented employs both pictorial and structural means to present it.”

Druecke's site-specific sculptures have been commissioned by Marlborough Contemporary—“96th Street Aperture” (NYC 2014); Lynden Sculpture Garden—“Garden Path” (Milwaukee 2014); The Suburban—“Angelique Roy's Passage” in conjunction with the Terrain Biennial (Milwaukee 2015); and Sculpture Milwaukee—“Shoreline Repast” (Milwaukee 2017). Since 2018 Druecke has directed and produced Milwaukee Kitchen in collaboration with poets, artists and neighbors near and far. The made-for-youtube cooking program is described by Matt Wild for Milwaukee Record as, “the antidote for modern cooking shows (and everything else).”

Druecke received a Greater Milwaukee Foundation Mary L. Nohl Fellowship for Individual Artists in 2010. Druecke has published two books with Green Gallery Press, Life and Death on the Bluffs (2014), and The Last Days of John Budgen Jr. (2010). His work has been featured in Camera Austria and InterReview, and written about in Artforum, Art in America, Artnet.com, and Metropolis.com. In addition to his work with public inscription, Druecke's projects have solicited strangers door to door, christened a park and courtyard, rolled out the red carpet, appropriated the role of benefactor, initiated a Board of Directors, and created two Memorial Reading Rooms. Paul Druecke lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.