They invite you to see and savor every micro-millimeter of acrylic, every ghostly
trace of graphite, every matte expanse of gouache, every rough edge and smooth contour... comparisons and contrasts happen organically.
Gouache and watercolor with
traces of graphite on ivory wove paper, 18 ⅛ x 15 inches.
Gouache and watercolor with
traces of graphite on ivory wove paper, 18 1/8 x 15 inches (46 x 38 cm).
Not exact matches
Tracing with
graphite paper is one way
of doing this or, if you are too lazy to go looking for the
graphite paper up in your craft closet, a simple Typography Transfer tutorial can be found HERE.
She is on a search for its origins; painting as practical magic, the prosaic made ecstatic, and self - portrait in its most basic sense as a
trace of its author... The non-traditional materials Strobert employs — powdered
graphite, pumice, papier - mâché and glitter among others — all have visual signatures as distinctive as the bulbous shine
of oil paint or the transparent skeins
of gouache.
Motifs glide in and out;
graphite lines
trace the contours
of unknown plants and body parts, accented by strokes
of green, yellow, orange, and red crayon drifting like blossom petals across the surface... the drawings in this show suggest that Gorky's aesthetic is invested in the cultivation
of visual ideas that transcend the individual artwork, a process that is occasionally frozen in paint.»
The surfaces
of these wooden works are variously inscribed with watercolor, enamel, and acrylic paint, lacquer, oil, colored pencil, and
graphite — materials that they share with the drawings that
trace the evolution
of individual pieces.
Aschheim, who shares the gallery with political art from the Nixon era by Louis Kruger, uses ink,
graphite, and gesso on Mylar for layers
of sheer white with
traces of black.
The project also includes twenty - four large - scale charcoal and
graphite drawings evoking
traces of explosion and connoting volcanic ashes.
In conjunction with these paintings, the artist has created a body
of watercolor and
graphite drawings on vellum
tracing paper, realized on process drawings that the artist's studio uses to transfer government documents to linen for the oil paintings.
Salzwedel utilizes materials such as
graphite or watercolors to draw on mylar or
tracing paper, which he then encases in layers
of resin, a difficult medium that he has learned to work with over the years.
Taking
graphite to stone, Seiden
traces over naturally occurring marble veins, building layer upon layer
of marks until the marble has been adorned with a second skin, cloaking one
of art's most elevated materials with arguably the most basic.
Other works on display include Seher Shah's
graphite on paper drawings, Brutalist
Traces (2015 - 16),
of the modernist architecture
of New Delhi; artist Gauri Gill's notebooks entitled «1984» (2005, 2009, 2014), from which are also displayed several photographs
of the people and interior spaces
of the «Widows Colony» in Tilak Vihar, where families affected by the anti-Sikh riots
of 1984 were provided housing by the state; and a series
of streetscape photographs by Pablo Bartholomew, including Man Asleep in Front
of Political Graffiti, Calcutta (1978) which embodies how, in South Asia, history inflects the everyday.
Carrillo constructed sculptures incorporating slide viewers
of astrological images and test tubes
of graphite and gunpowder and created paintings
of constellations formed by
traced outlines
of Orozco's hands.
Her devotion to extremely minimalist gestures and frugal appliance
of ink and
graphite on paper almost startle the viewer, shrouding autobiographical
traces from the artist's ephemeral lines and stark juxtapositions.
She
traces the curves
of the glaciers and icebergs with charcoal, ink and
graphite both to remember and to emphasize the preternatural architecture.
These
graphite drawings, gouaches, and inked storyboards — the majority
of which have never been shown before — broadly
trace the evolution
of Tom's exquisite draftsmanship and compositions from his earliest extant erotic works, executed just after serving in the Finnish Army during WWII, through to a complete comic produced in 1972, the year before Tom both earned his first solo exhibition, and retired from his advertising career to devote himself fulltime to his art.