FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
"Drawing Revealed"
Curated
by Susan English and Jaanika Peerna
Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY Jan. 19th – Feb17th.
Opening
Reception: Jan.19th 5-7 pm
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Garrison
Art Center is proud to present, “Drawing Revealed”, an exhibition where the
simple practice of drawing is explored closely from many points of view. In addition to the
drawings exhibited, there will be a 30 minute documentary video of artists in
their studios sharing their work and thoughts on drawing directed and produced by the curators. The exhibition runs from Jan. 19th –
Feb17th. Opening reception is held on Jan. 19th 5-7pm .7pm.
Participating artists: Laura Battle, Nancy Bauch, Jaq Belcher, Ula Einstein, Alexis Elton,
Thomas Huber, Ken Landauer, Jeesoo
Lee, Charlotte Schulz, Craig Shannon, Stan Stroh
Traditionally, drawing has been a preliminary
process in the development of fully realized art works—a visual thinking
process, a tool for mapping out ideas. More recently, drawing is seen not only
as a means to end, but also as a legitimate end in itself. Both sides of
drawing are the subjectsubject of the exhibition "Drawing
Revealed".
In addition to the drawings exhibited, there will
be a 30 minute documentary video of artists in their studios sharing their work
and thoughts on drawing,
directed by Jaanika Peerna and edited
by Michael Enright.
Ken Landauer's thinking process is
revealed through his group of line drawingspreliminary
drawings for a public art piece reveal his thinking process; they.
His
group of line drawings shows us a
fluid stream of ideas that are playful and expansive. He believes drawing is a
space where he can "explore the impossible –something that is not limited
by budget, time or gravity." Nancy Bauch, a ceramicist, considers a
table in her studio covered with intricately arranged found objects to be her
"sketchbook". It is her constantly evolving source of inspiration for
her work. Ula Einstein, on the other hand, who draws with
thread, fire and wire, says that her drawing it is not preliminary. It is part of an
ongoing dialogue with materials. Jeesoo
Lee e, also uses unconventional
materials to draw; she creates
smallcreates small scale three dimensional drawings
using thread and tiny strips of paper.
Charlotte Schulz, who started out as a
painter, takes the idea of a finished drawing to an extreme, creating highly
detailed, fantastical narrative spaces with charcoal. Laura Battle, also a
painter who has shifted to drawing, creates work through a rigorous physical
and mental practice, using only graphite on gray paper. She weaves a dense
network of geometric lines that ultimately transcend their geometry. Alexis Elton's elegant strands of
pearls are studies for a site-specific piece she will create in New Mexico. Thomas Huber's wall installation of
sketches, notations, doodles and scraps relates to his working process of layeringing
and collaging collaginge in his paintings. For Craig Shannon, drawing is the constant
practice of jotting down both what he sees and abstract visual ideas; both
of which inform his finished drawings.abstract visual
ideaswhat he imagines.
Both of these inform the finished drawings he makes
is his studio. In Stan
Stroh's large-scale drawings of potential sculptures the energy and quality
of the marks suggest for him materials like rope or rubber
that he might use to build the sculpture. Jaq
Belcher's drawing tool is a sharp metal blade; —she cuts
hundreds of similar shapes into a paper in a meditative manner. Light and shadow are essential ingredients
of her works.
Inside of this wide
range of mediums media and
ideas the artists share similar ideas about the nature of drawing –
—it
is direct, unencumbered, fluid and essential to their artistic practice.
Practice .