Derrick A. Te Paske
Recent works (and a few personal favorites)
In Progress
Curly walnut
Escutcheon pins
Square section vase
Profile
“I have long been interested in classical forms, the ancient, the so-called primitive, and the strange...”
After moving from rural Iowa to New England in the late 1960’s, I worked as an English tutor, a carpenter, a free-lance photographer, an art dealer, and a documentary filmmaker. In the late 1980s, my life took a major turn, and now, after a tenure of 32 years, I am retired as Professor Emeritus of the Communication Arts Department of Framingham State University.
During that early part of my life my photographs were exhibited at the Boston Center for the Arts, the Addison Gallery of American Art, the Institute of Contemporary Art (in its very first photography exhibition, in 1972), and the EXPOSURE gallery in NYC. My documentary productions were screened in venues including the New England Film and Video Festival, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, and PBS. I was a member of the English Institute, the Photographic Resource Center, and the Boston Film/Video Foundation.
Currently, I am a member of the New England Sculptors Association (NESA), the American Association of Woodturners, and the New England Art Center. I have been represented in two Biennials at the Fuller Craft Museum, and since my retirement from academia in 2020, I have participated in 38 juried exhibitions. Highlights included the Newport Art Museum’s Biennial; two years at the Marblehead Art Association’s VARIATIONS; and the Duxbury Art Complex Winter Juried Show (first place for sculpture, 2023 and 2024.
More recently, I have shown work several times with the New England Sculptors Association; the Concord Art Association (CAA) Members Juried 1 (MJ1) show; ArtsWorcester’s 20th Biennial; UNEXPECTED at the Fort Point Assemblage Gallery; 8 VISIONS at the Attleboro Arts Museum; What If…Why Not? at CAA@CANAL; and Finders & Keepers at ArtsWorcester. Also, in the fall of 2024, the Arnold Arboretum; an outdoor exhibition at the Old Frog Pond Farm in Harvard; and three exhibitions at The Art Gallery (TAG) of the New England Art Center in Boston’s SOWA.
My work has appeared three times in American Woodturner magazine and been featured in ARTBEAT (in print and online). I am represented in the international selection 500 Wood Bowls; and the permanent collections of Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Peabody Essex Museum (Audacious: The Fine Art of Wood).
“8 Visions 2023” – Attleboro (MA) Arts Museum
Derrick A. Te Paske