This week we check out Rene Ricard's big,»80s - style canvases peppered with seemingly arbitrary images and nearly nonsensical inscriptions; Nadia Khawaja's carpal tunnel - inducing rhythmic,
abstract pen drawings; and Peter Blake's cheery, butterfly - covered prints.
Not exact matches
Il Lee Il Lee
draws with ballpoint
pens, creating
abstract forms through hours of mark making with these inexpensive tools that are modified to adjust ink flow.
Excerpt — «Ballpoint
Pen Drawing Since 1950,» features work by nearly a dozen artists created with the humble ballpoint
pen... Here you have ballpoint masters like Il Lee, whose
abstract «BL - 120» (2011) uses the
pen's minute hatching capabilities, as well as the shininess of its ink, to full effect... — Martha Schwendener full article: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/07/nyregion/a-review-of-extreme-
drawing-at-the-aldrich-contemporary-art-museum.html
One of the most restless artistic minds of the postwar American scene, he experimented endlessly, producing
abstract films and found - art assemblages, intricate felt -
pen and blobby inkblot
drawings, punk - scene photos and playful performances.
In the 1970s, he developed his style into a series of more formal
abstract pen - and - ink
drawings, etchings and mezzotints.
In
drawings done as a student, we can see Schönebeck developing his form, from pleasant landscape - based
pen marks to
abstract fields - edgier riffs on Tachisme, the then - popular European version of Ab - Ex.
NYC - based Chilean artist Pablo Tauler uses just a ballpoint
pen for his meticulously
drawn illustrations on display at Norte Maar, which turn ethereal scenes and
abstract forms into bold, large - scale works of art.