Not exact matches
Highlights from Michelle Grabner's crowd - pleasing selection include Dawoud Bey's presidential portrait photography (Barack Obama, 2008), Karl Haendel's Theme Time Drawings,
pencil drawings of various subjects arranged in shaped frames
across a massive section of wall, and works by Donelle Woolford, the fictional young black female
artist «created» by Joe Scanlan and played by various actors whose Joke Painting (detumescence)(2013) investigates the notion of authenticity.
The exhibition will focus on the
artist's «gang drawings,» made from fistfuls («gangs») of colored
pencils swept
across the page, spanning from the 1960s to the present.
His expressionistic mark - making in colored
pencil — a prominent feature of the paintings on display — detail the
artist's hand
across his canvases and lend a noticeably more intimate impression.
Artists such as Clare E. Rojas, Chris Johanson, Shara Hughes, and David X. Levine — a self - taught
artist whose colored
pencil on paper works are among the most hard - won objects that I have ever come
across - all have very different aesthetic points of view, but all construct images that draw energy from the space in between knowing and naivete.
Most of the sketches — which include works in
pencil, pastel, and watercolor from
across the
artist's long career — are published here for the first time.
On top of this base coat of paint the
artist measured out and marked with
pencil rectangular bands
across the width of the canvas, into which she painted alternating duck - egg blue and pale peach «salmon - brick» colours using a different type of acrylic, Liquitex, which gives a translucent and tempera - like finish.