Sid Garrison & Drawing of Another Kind 2007
2007
•••Drawings of Another Kind•••
Janice Caswell, Alison Foshee, Adam Fowler, David Gista, Debra Greene, Tanja Rector, Dianne Romaine,
Robert Strati and Ellen Ziegler.
“Drawings of Another Kind” is a group show featuring artists who use unusual methods to create drawings. Artists burn, cut, sew, employ software, and other unconventional drawing practices.
Janice Caswell’s drawings are mental maps, an investigation of the mind's peculiar ways of organizing memories. She uses color coded pins to trace the edges of recalled experience, plotting the movement of bodies and consciousness through time and space. Alison Foshee uses ready made materials such as staples to draw botanical images. By meticulously puncturing the paper with staples, Foshee is in pursuit of perfecting movement and the constant aesthetic surprise when the rhythm of the pattern falters. Adam Fowler draws loops in graphite and charcoal. He then cuts out the space between his lines as if fashioning a doily. Reassembled with pins, a multitude of web tangles onto the paper. David Gista’s figurative drawings are about strangers’ encounters and faded memories. Applied with trace of smoke, figures float elusively onto the paper. Robert Strati chooses Adobe Illustrator as a drawing tool. Inspired by experimental music and his continuous interest in points and lines in space, Strati draws with squares, lines, elipses and other diagrammatic symbols, all evoking different conceptual realities, such as architecture, musical notation or astronomy. Debra Greene wraps object with thread or shreds her mail. The cast of a random object is reminiscent of a rubbing imitating the pencil strokes. Yards and yards of paper are linked to one another meticulously looped creating a physical memory of time passing by. Tanja Rector’s drawing is the celebration of women’s traditions, sewing and quilting. A large strip of paper descending from the ceiling is an avalanche of flower shaped doilies. A large mound of cut outs is left untouched on the floor; others are sewn back onto the paper. The paper is left blank with the intent to represent inexpressibility and silence. Ellen Ziegler draws with an electrode/stylus which discharges 4000 volts at the tip of her fingers. The tension between the required precision and the paper is anything but relaxing. The outcome are magnificent imageries of surreal creatures floating between the piercing light and the paper. Dianne Romaine’s rice drawings are about noticing the subtle and reducing materials to the essential. Tiny white grains of rice are poking through the paper to calling the viewer for closer inspection and revealing an extraordinary world of individuality.
Janice Caswell, Alison Foshee, Adam Fowler, David Gista, Debra Greene, Tanja Rector, Dianne Romaine,
Robert Strati and Ellen Ziegler.
“Drawings of Another Kind” is a group show featuring artists who use unusual methods to create drawings. Artists burn, cut, sew, employ software, and other unconventional drawing practices.
Janice Caswell’s drawings are mental maps, an investigation of the mind's peculiar ways of organizing memories. She uses color coded pins to trace the edges of recalled experience, plotting the movement of bodies and consciousness through time and space. Alison Foshee uses ready made materials such as staples to draw botanical images. By meticulously puncturing the paper with staples, Foshee is in pursuit of perfecting movement and the constant aesthetic surprise when the rhythm of the pattern falters. Adam Fowler draws loops in graphite and charcoal. He then cuts out the space between his lines as if fashioning a doily. Reassembled with pins, a multitude of web tangles onto the paper. David Gista’s figurative drawings are about strangers’ encounters and faded memories. Applied with trace of smoke, figures float elusively onto the paper. Robert Strati chooses Adobe Illustrator as a drawing tool. Inspired by experimental music and his continuous interest in points and lines in space, Strati draws with squares, lines, elipses and other diagrammatic symbols, all evoking different conceptual realities, such as architecture, musical notation or astronomy. Debra Greene wraps object with thread or shreds her mail. The cast of a random object is reminiscent of a rubbing imitating the pencil strokes. Yards and yards of paper are linked to one another meticulously looped creating a physical memory of time passing by. Tanja Rector’s drawing is the celebration of women’s traditions, sewing and quilting. A large strip of paper descending from the ceiling is an avalanche of flower shaped doilies. A large mound of cut outs is left untouched on the floor; others are sewn back onto the paper. The paper is left blank with the intent to represent inexpressibility and silence. Ellen Ziegler draws with an electrode/stylus which discharges 4000 volts at the tip of her fingers. The tension between the required precision and the paper is anything but relaxing. The outcome are magnificent imageries of surreal creatures floating between the piercing light and the paper. Dianne Romaine’s rice drawings are about noticing the subtle and reducing materials to the essential. Tiny white grains of rice are poking through the paper to calling the viewer for closer inspection and revealing an extraordinary world of individuality.
