April 19–May 18, 2024
Installation Views
Works
Steve Turner is pleased to present Going to all the wrong places, a solo exhibition by Chicago-based Peter Frederiksen that features embroidered works depicting people at the edge of a precipice. His colorful embroideries highlight an instant in time, right before or right after an action. One shows a foot at the starting line for a footrace and another presents feet at the edge of a cliff. In the title work, the fingers of someone who is not visible are desperately clinging to the top edge of a building. The works are inspired by the Golden Age of animation and they elicit both nostalgia and a sense of foreboding.
Peter Frederiksen (b. 1987, Chicago), attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2006-2008) and has had solo exhibitions at UNION Gallery, London (2020); Galleri Urbane, Dallas (2020, 2021, 2023); Massey Klein Gallery, New York (2022); Moosey, Norwich (2023) and at The Flat, Milan (2023). This is his first exhibition with Steve Turner.
Born 1987, Downers Grove, Illinois
Lives and works in Chicago
Education
2008
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
Solo Exhibitions
2024
Going to all the wrong places, Steve Turner, Los Angeles
2023
I Tried To Warn You, Galleri Urbane, Dallas
Left To My Now Devices, Moosey, Norwich, England
Coward! The Flat, Milan
2022
NO NO NO NO NO, Massey Klein Gallery, New York
2021
Human Cannon Ball, Galleri Urbane, Dallas
2020
In Stitches, Galleri Urbane, Dallas
THAT’S WHAT YOU THINK! UNION Gallery, London
Found Myself In Another Situation, Chicago Athletic Association, Chicago
2018
Peter Frederiksen: New Embroideries, Cabinet Shop, Chicago
2010
Strapped: A Down and Out Festival, The Inconvenience, Chicago
Two-Person & Group Exhibitions
2024
twentyfour, UNION GALLERY, London
2023
History of the Humanity, The Flat, Milan
“Chicago Style” Hold The Ketchup, All Star Press, Chicago
Not Just Another Pretty Face 2023, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Be Still, Life, Stolen Space, London
UNI[2]ON, UNION Gallery, London
A Very Special Episode, Gallery1988, Los Angeles
If velocity is the soul of wit, then gravity is the voice of reason, Hunt Gallery, Toronto ArtVerona (with The Flat – Massimo Carasi)
Art Rotterdam (with The Flat – Massimo Carasi)
2022
Tense Anxieties: Peter Frederiksen + Tomasz Kręcicki, PostmastersROMA, Rome
Go Figure! Daniel Raphael Gallery, London
Intersections, Galleri Urbane, Dallas
TEXT-ile, Haverkampf Leistenschneider, Berlin
2021
Textile Narration, Galerie Les Drapiers, Liège, Belgium
Issue #149, NAP Gallery, Digital
RIPE, Galleri Urbane, Dallas
Noises from the closet, The Flat, Milan
MULTIVERSE, Daniel Raphael Gallery, London
Holding Hands, UNION Gallery, London
2020
Summer Collective, Galleri Urbane, Dallas
Grounded, Daniel Raphael Gallery, London
Not Just Another Pretty Face COVID-19, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
History of the Humanity, The Flat, Milan
“Chicago Style” Hold The Ketchup, All Star Press, Chicago
Not Just Another Pretty Face 2023, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
89th Exhibition of the Members, Arts Club of Chicago
2019
Not Just Another Pretty Face 7, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Flower Show: Andrea Donadio and Peter Frederiksen, Cabinet Shop, Chicago
2018
Gift Edit, Galleri Urbane, Dallas
Bread & Butter, Galleri Urbane, Dallas
88th Exhibition of the Members, Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago
2014
LP Cult Classic, Aquanaut, Chicago
2012
Good Clean Fun, Studio 115/114B, Chicago
2010
Mischief Night POD Show: Peter Frederiksen and Dylan Jones, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
2009
Co-Paintings, Cute Puppies: John Henley and Peter Frederiksen, Spoke, Chicago
Bibliography
2023
Adam Hencz. “Stitching Stories: Interview with Textile Artist Peter Frederiksen,” The Artlander, February 24
2022
Anna Schneider. “Artist Spotlight: Peter Frederiksen,” Booooooom, November 29
Dom Carter. “IPeter Frederiksen ‘draws with a sewing machine’ to create stunning embroidery artwork,” Creative Boom, September 20
Liz Gorney. “Sabotage, suspicions, and violence: embroidering the dark side of cartoons with Peter Frederiksen,” It’s Nice That, February 10
2020
Anna Meinecke. “DOUBLE TAP #16 Peter Frederiksen,” Gallery Talk, July 29
2019
Dorothé Swinkels. “Cartoons vormen inspiratie voor borduurwerk Peter Frederiksen,” Textiel Plus, November 26
Katie Wells. “Cartoon-Like Abstract Embroidery by Peter Frederiksen,” The Fiber Studio, April 11
2009
Ariel Pittma. “Peter Frederiksen: Embroideries at the Compound,” Chicago Now, July 15