June 21 – August 19, 2012
Christian Tomaszewski, Hunting for Pheasants (Anna Politkovskaya), 2008. Pencil/ink-jet print. Installation view at DePaul Art Museum, 2012. Courtesy of the artist and Michael Wiesehöfer Galerie, Cologne, Le Guern Gallery, Warsaw
D-L Alvarez, Ouisch, 2003. Graphite on paper. Courtesy of Derek Eller Gallery, New York
Frank Selby, Bra, 2010. Graphite on mylar. Collection of Beth Rudin DeWoody
Emily Prince, American servicemen and women who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan (but Not Including the Wounded, nor the Iraqis nor the Afghans), Executed January 2004 – October 2010. 424 Individual Drawings, Hand drawn pencil on color coded vellum. Installation view at DePaul Art Museum, 2012. Courtesy of the artist and Kent Fine Arts
Emily Prince, American servicemen and women who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan (but Not Including the Wounded, nor the Iraqis nor the Afghans) (detail), Executed January 2004 – October 2010. 424 Individual Drawings, Hand drawn pencil on color coded vellum. Courtesy of the artist and Kent Fine Arts
This group exhibition focused on a growing trend within drawing: the meticulous translation of images from photographs and photo-based media. Concentrating on instances of social and political transformation, the artists featured in the exhibition present a novel approach to the drawn medium. In their hands, drawing as rote translation signals a desire for agency coupled with a sense of the distance between “reality out there”; and our attempts to comprehend or transform it.
Artists: D-L Alvarez, Andrea Bowers, Fernando Bryce, Sam Durant, Richard Forster, Ewan Gibbs, Karl Haendel, Emily Prince, Frank Selby, Paul Sietsema, Mary Temple, and Christian Tomaszewski
Drawn from Photography is organized by The Drawing Center, New York, and curated by Claire Gilman.