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Don Driver

b.1930

Taranaki Polytechnic

Driver Don - PS Handle With Care

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PS Handle With Care

Don Driver’s art is like one massive bulimic hurl filled with half-digested bits of 20th century art history: Kenneth Noland’s Colour Field paintings, Picasso’s Primitivism and wit, Kurt Schwitters’s Dada constructions, Robert Rauschenberg’s Pop art Combines, Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades – the list goes on. Driver’s achievement has been to meld all these influences, perfectly balanced and working together, to create something distinctly his own.

Essay

Dimensions: 916x1246mm

Don Driver - La Guardia No 2

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La Guardia No 2

1966, a year after passing through New York’s La Guardia airport, Don Driver makes La Guardia. On that visit to New York, Driver glimpsed a rebellious spirit emerging amongst his generation.

Essay

Dimensions: 923x1230mm