Pete Hocking is a painter, teacher, curator & writer on Cape Cod. His work is concerned with nature, place, poetics, and identity. He's a founding board member of Provincetown Commons, an economic development center for the creative economy. He taught part-time at RI School of Design from 1997- 2022. From 2003-2021 he was full-time faculty in Goddard College’s MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts program. He was director of RISD’s Office of Public Engagement (2007-11), and Associate Dean of the College & Director of the Swearer Center for Public Service at Brown University (1992-2005).
“Hocking remains a bit of a magician when it comes to depicting the Outer Cape landscape through precisely measured and perfectly articulated tracts of paint. Step in close and his canvases dissolve; step back and take in the relaxing balm of the scene. ‘I don’t want to be blinded by things over which I have no control,’ says Hocking in a press release. ‘I want to live in radical amazement of what’s before me. I want my paintings to be instigated by joy.’”
